Cover:
Ref:
FNZTAVRMC-PT#1090
Title + Issue Number
FRAGMENTOS DE HISTÓRIA E EXPLORAÇÃO VISUAL
- Publisher:
- UNCANNY EDITIONS
- Author/s:
- Karen Lacroix
- Month + Year:
- -/2015
- Country:
- Portugal
- City:
- Porto
- Language:
- EN
- Format:
- 30x23 cm
- Typology:
- Artist Book
- Access:
- Restricted
- Aveiro Library Network:
- N/A
- Details:
- This publication is the outcome of a five-month artist residency at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto in 2015 by Canadian illustrator and designer Karen Lacroix (Uncanny Editions). The residency took place specifically within the Scientific and Technical Unit of Visual Arts at the School of Education. The project involved using a variety of printing techniques to investigate, interpret and communicate the history of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, marking its 30th anniversary.
To understand this publication, it is important to appreciate Uncanny Editions’ working methods and their significance to the work they produce. Collage is a fundamental method used throughout the research process, juxtaposing and manipulating elements to reveal relationships and create new meanings.
The Institute comprises seven schools, covering a wide range of disciplines, including engineering, accountancy, management, health sciences, education, music, visual and performing arts, industrial studies and technology. This publication explores that diversity, presenting the results of numerous visits to the different schools, their buildings and their exceptionally rich archives, which often span hundreds of years.
Framed educational biology prints are combined with documented objects, chaotically scattered in boxes, while surrealist centrepieces are reconstructed in the photographic studio with the help of students, technicians and teaching staff. The collaborative nature of the production is also important within Uncanny Editions’ practice. Workshops held during the residency helped generate work documented here, involving the IPP community and reflecting the collective work that takes place daily.
The different sections of the publication were therefore developed to suit the subjects under investigation, making use of the facilities at ESE/IPP. As a result, a variety of materials, formats and printing techniques can be observed, including offset printing, screen printing, RISO printing, cyanotype, letterpress and digital printing.
Finally, this publication is neither chronological nor organised by school or even by discipline. Instead, it is a journey through overlapping meanings and histories — an assemblage of discussions and narratives, bearing traces of the past while proposing continued collaboration and education. Fragments of text establish further connections between images, schools and ideas.
This publication is both a celebration and a way of thinking. It has neither beginning nor end.
- Theme:
- Instituto Politécnico do Porto
- Content Type:
- Design
Cataloguing Status:
- FNZTAVRMC
- RBCIRA
- RBMA
- BESJE
