Touching Common Place
Soraia Gomes Teixeira
The starting point of this exercise is trying to understand the place that the body and touch occupy in social and human relationships: how this connection evolves growing up and how this contact conditions intimacy and the way we relate to each other or the others. Social, ideological, geographic, or technological factors structure these contacts, but that is not all. Design can also act as a mediator of these processes and its contribution can both encourage and compromise the establishment of these connections. Here, design serves as a tool to test touch and commonplace: from a set of objects designed to encourage the approximation between bodies, the reactions and behaviors that emerge from the unusual proximity are observed and recorded.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
texts: Soraia Gomes Teixeira
edition and design: Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota
language: Portuguese with English translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-4655-6
Maio 2023
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Agenda:
5–7 Outubro 2023
etceteras: festival feminista
de design e edição – Feira do Livro
Casa Comum, Porto
14 Outubro 2023 17:00h–18:30h
Apresentação na STET
Rua Actor António Cardoso, 12 A
1900-011 Lisboa (Arroios)
25–26 de Novembro 2023
Sprint Milano Art Book Fair
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Vai Vem x Soraia Gomes Teixeira
Livraria Térmita
Porto 7 de Junho de 2023
Vai Vem x Marta Ramos
Vai Vem x Paulo Mariz
Biblioteca Prática,
Porto 30 de Novembro de 2022
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STET – livros & fotografias
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1900-011 Lisboa
A Dance Between Two Stones and a Shadow
Marta Ramos
This dance contains many stories: those of empathy, mystery, affection, fantasy. It is imagination that guides each step, each movement, each fragment of the choreography. The shapes of the stones and the shadow are as volatile and multiple as the landscapes that host them, and the sounds that accompany them. It is the absence and emptiness that give us signs of what might be there. Time is that of the page, or rather that of the spectator flipping through it. In each dance is the opportunity to find a new story. The one we want to contemplate and listen to.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
texts: Marta Ramos, Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota (eds.)
edition and design: Margarida Antunes, Pedro Mota
language: Portuguese with English translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-3976-3
November 2022
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Each Eye Reflects Its Own Rainbow
Paulo Mariz
Right eye. Rainbow. On this map, photographs and drawings lead us through different physical states, shapes, and places — both real and imaginary, natural or artificial. These images expose the fragility of human perception faced with the inability to understand or mean what you see. Even if, not knowing it, what we are looking at can be so familiar to us. Movement, colour, temperature, transparency, light, water. Rainbow. Left eye.
format: 112 x 178mm
pages: 100
texts: Paulo Mariz, Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota (eds.)
edition and design: Margarida Antunes e Pedro Mota
language: Portuguese with English translation
translation: Hugo Pinto Santos
ISBN: 978-989-33-3980-0
November 2022
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A tradução para inglês dos livros foi possível com apoio do programa
Shuttle da Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M., S.A.
A tradução para inglês dos livros foi possível com apoio do programa Shuttle da Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M., S.A.
