Revista Revistã

2021

Publishing experiment made in collaboration with Sara Vera. Revista Revistã is a collection of pieces on topics that pique our curiosity. It’s driven purely by the desire to gather the thoughts of people we know who we think are doing cool things.

All three versions were printed using risography.

#3: Axes and measures

On Twitter, we read that someone used to get confused about whether it was the sun that revolved around the Earth or the Earth around the sun. We had to read it twice, even though we knew the correct answer. We’ve been thinking about different points of reference. What if we could shift the axis of our body to alter its movement, or use haircuts as a measure of time?

We’ve been thinking about axes and measures.

For the third issue of Revista Revistã, we wanted to know the ways in which these two words have taken on—or could take on—new meanings, and just how broad their definitions can become.

#2: Public transportation

It’s quite unusual that public transportation is a place we don’t really consider a place. It’s a space where we don’t usually pay much attention to others—it’s just a means of getting to a destination. But if we paid a little more attention, we’d realize there are many stories to be told.

We want to hear stories, anecdotes, and both unfortunate and fortunate events that you’ve witnessed while riding public transportation. These can be things that happened to you, but also to someone else. It could even be something you read in the WhatsApp conversation of the stranger sitting next to you. Or what you heard when you left your headphones at home and spent the ride guessing which stop each person on the bus would get off at.

#1: Dreams

It’s hard to talk about dreams as if you hadn’t actually experienced them. The moment it happens in your head, you’re living it; you’re present.

Laura thought she was able to recount her dream while she was living it, and she wondered if one could say that dreams are lived…

More than dreams, we want to talk about the things that happen at a specific moment: the instant we open our eyes. In that state where one is awake and asleep at the same time, where the boundaries between dream and reality become a little blurred, perhaps for just two seconds.

We want to know what goes through your minds at that precise moment. Go to sleep with a notebook and a pen by your side, and wake up to try to record (text or image) whatever you want, before the details start to fade away when you step into the shower.