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01/05/2014

Vende-se | Augusto Brázio

Vende-se Augusto Brázio 180 pages | 90 photographs 16 cm x 23 cm Offset and Silkscreen Ghost, 2014   In 2013, with dwindling assignments from the newspapers and magazines for which he worked, Augusto Brázio, a freelance photographer, began to wander the streets of Lisbon. He soon discovered innumerable stores with closed shutters. In the centre of Lisbon and surrounding suburbs, in Porto, the Algarve and all over Northern Portugal, thousands of stores had closed. Some still had a “Back soon!” sign on the door while others had clearly been abandoned. http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_21.html

26/11/2013

Grace and John | Patrícia Almeida


Grace and John
Patrícia Almeida
40 pp | Offset
17,5 cm x 27,5 cm
Ghost, 2013

 

“GRACE: John, I don’t feel confortable like this.
JOHN: Yeah, I know. I know it’s hard to stay here. I know you are afraid. I know you don’t trust me much. I know you don’t believe in us, together.
GRACE: It’s almost twelve.
JOHN: When it’s twelve, I am going to say something important. Are you ready?”

“GRACE AND JOHN” comes from the collaboration between the photographer Patrícia Almeida and the performers Cláudia Dias and António Pedro Lopes at the time they were rehearsing the play “Where Does the Light Go when it’s Off” by the Portuguese choreographer João Fiadeiro. Through daily rehearsals, the performers started to create two characters, Grace and John, whose relationship is ambiguous and flexible: wife and husband? lovers? brother and sister? simples friends? This ambiguity gives birth to unexpected and slightly absurd dialogues.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_17.html

01/07/2013

SECALHARIDADE | João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio


SECALHARIDADE
João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio
Set of 3 books in Portuguese:
SECALHARIDADE – 12 pp | 20,5 cm x 31,5 cm
O JOGO DAS PERGUNTAS – 28 pp | 17,7 cm x 31,5 cm
O ENCONTRO É UMA FERIDA – 16 pp | 12,5 cm x 20,5 cm
Risograph | stapled
Ghost, 2013

 

O encontro só é mesmo encontro quando a sua aparição acidental é percebida como oferta, aceite e retríbuída. Dessa implicação recíproca emerge um meio, um ambiente mínimo cuja duração se irá, aos poucos, desenhando, marcando e inscrevendo como paisagem comum. O encontro, então, só se efectua – só termina de emergir e começa a acontecer – se for reparado e consecutivamente contra-efectuado – isto é, assistido, manuseado, cuidado, (re)feito a cada vez in-terminável.
João Fiadeiro/Fernanda Eugénio in O Encontro é uma Ferida

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_12.html

01/07/2013

Relations on Paper | Paula Caspão


Relations on Paper
Paula Caspão
64 pp | Offset
14,2 cm x 19,7 cm
Ghost, 2013

 

What kinds of relations do we generate when we think, write and talk about/through/with a performance, a live encounter, any artistic object or a book, which we intend to continue – giving it other lives – in other mediums?

If artistic and documentary productions cannot be considered as separate activities and positions, how can we practise the idea of an extended collaboration between artistic work, performance, reception, documentation and edition, in a permanent process of public engagement in the activation of common places of investigation?
These issues certainly imply a critical discussion about the temporality of the live event, often simplistically opposed to the temporality of written discourse, thought, and document. How many temporalities resonate in a performance, in an installation, in a live encounter, in the writing (and reading) of a book? Which pasts does the live touch; what presents does it find in which pasts; what futures does it build in which presents… and what (mean-)whiles, (mis-)encounters, “inter(in)animations” can a book – or any other written surface or audio file – generate?

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_9.html

30/06/2013

SECALHARIDADE (Books and Silkscreen) | João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio


SECALHARIDADE (Books and Silkscreen)
João Fiadeiro & Fernanda Eugénio
Design: Marco Balesteros
Silkcreen | leporello 7 pages
150 cm x 35 cm (one piece)
30 copies | Numbered and signed
Ghost, 2013

 

João Fiadeiro has distanced himself from choreographic creation, working with the Sciences of Complex Systems, Neuroscience and Anthropology to question different ways of “how to live together”. This led him to the anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio, herself drawn to the performing arts by her growing concern about the omnipresence of relativist interpretivism in the Social Sciences. Their encounter is embodied in the Conference-Performance “Secalharidade” (Mayhapness), presented at Culturgest venue, in Lisbon, in June 2012, in the framework of the festival Alkantara.

During this Conference-Performance, Fiadeiro and Eugenio create a written dialogue in real time in front of the audience. The result of this dialogue is then presented in the shape of a banner that is reproduced in this special edition.

The special edition comes with the books ‘O ENCONTRO É UMA FERIDA’ and ‘O JOGO DAS PERGUNTAS’, books that are sustaining Fiadeiro and Eugenio’s artistic research. Both books are in Portuguese.

(Books: http://stet-livros-fotografias.com/livros/secalharidade-joao-fiadeiro-fernanda-eugenio/?lang=en)

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_16.html

01/06/2013

Lohos (Troop) | Petros Efstathiadis


Lohos (Troop)
Petros Efstathiadis
9 photos | Offset
10 cm x 15 cm
Ghost, 2013

 

It has been a turbulent time for Greece. In 2010, as politicians discussed austerity measures with EU officials, the televisions showed scenes of rioting in the streets of Athens. Suddenly university students were being labeled as terrorists, as many were seen in YouTube videos hurling Molotov cocktails. Greece was a spectacle for the medias around the world: petrol bombs everywhere, Athens was on fire.

Reacting to those images, Petros Efstathiadis sets up a parallel and ironical universe made of that sudden “peur du Grec”. In the series ‘Lohos’ (Troop), he styles models as rebels impersonated by local inhabitants of his small hometown. They are rebels without a name or face, performing potential heroes or unknown soldiers who haven’t chosen their side, like a small troop in the middle of the battlefield.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_8.html

01/12/2012

The Candidate | António Júlio Duarte


The Candidate
António Júlio Duarte
20 pp | colour
37 cm x 30 cm
Ghost, 2012

 

Macau was the last remaining European colony in China when the Portuguese transferred back the Sovereignty over Macau to China on the 20th of December 1999. The government in Macau is now headed by a chief executive, who is appointed by the People’s Republic of China’s central government after selection by an election committee, whose members are nominated by local corporate bodies.
In June 2009 Fernando Chui Sai On declared himself the sole candidate for Macau’s chief executive election. He was nominated by 286 members of the 300-member election committee, most with direct ties to Beijing. On election day, the 26th of July 2009, 282 committee members voted for Chui (14 blank, 4 abstention).

António Júlio Duarte followed Fernando Chui Sai On when he was leading his campaign in the streets of Macau in July 2009.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_7.html

01/12/2012

Bad Liver and a Broken Heart | São Trindade

Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
São Trindade
28 unbound pages | Riso
27 cm x 20 cm
Ghost, 2012

 

The origin of this work of self-fiction can be found in one of São Trindade’s sketchbooks, this one entirely devoted to the subject of loss or decadence. With references to the aesthetics of crime scenes and nightlife photographed by Weegee in New York in the 1930 and 1940’s, the device is simple: in a “real décor,” São Trindade’s body, abandonned and unconscious, is photographed. The body is always the same but differently ‘prepared’ and ‘composed’ with new dresses, new gestures, new signs of a recent activity or a different personality. Each image has its particular story and each space is a sounding board for each of these performative states of body.

‘Bad Liver and a Broken Heart’ is the first book of the Portuguese visual artist São Trindade (1960).

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_6.html

01/11/2012

I Fear Nothing | Patrícia Almeida & David-Alexandre Guéniot


I Fear Nothing
Patrícia Almeida & David-Alexandre Guéniot
24 pp | colour photocopy
19 x 26 cm
Ghost, 2012

 

‘I Fear Nothing‘ is a collection of photographs of posters from the demonstration held on October 15 2011, which led to the occupation of the Parliament staircase in Lisbon.

On October 15, the Spanish indignados movement called for a day of global protest. The movement had got its second wind in September, with the “Occupy Wall Street” mass demonstrations in New York. In Lisbon, the protest named “October 15, Democracy goes out!” began with a march across the city. But at 6.30 pm, the protesters invaded the staircase of the Parliament and used it as an amphitheatre to organize a general assembly, the speakers mounted atop a truck addressing the protesters and citizens sitting on the staircase, with the Parliament as their setting. A few hours later, as only a few protesters were still camping in front of the stairs meanwhile recaptured by the police, the empty streets were full of posters that had been held during the demonstration.

http://www.ghost.pt/crbst_4.html