Since last week, Portuguese magazine Obscena is all over Lisbon. Celebrating two years of publications, three exhibitions in different points of the Portuguese capital will tell the history of the magazine.
In one of them, the showcases of Fábrica Features, in the Benetton building, in Chiado, an installation draws the public’s attention to all numbers of the magazine. Buying any item at the store, the consumer gets a cd-rom with all editions edited in PDF. The same to buyers in Livraria Trama, where the walls have been covered with graphic images published in the magazine over the years, since the beginning of February.
In collaboration with FNAC Viseu and Palácio de Gelo, a photography exhibition shows some of the works published in the magazine over the years. Both initiatives will go on until February 2008.
Travelling installations will also celebrate the anniversary of the magazine in theaters, galleries and libraries of Almada, Aveiro, Braga, Bragança, Coimbra, Covilhã, Faro, Matosinhos, Montemor-o-novo and Vila do Conde.
Closing the celebrations, on February 23, the latest edition of Obscena reaches the newsstands and the web. It brings interviews com Slavoj Zizek, Hans-Thies Lehmann and Paul Ardenne, a balance of the last two years of activities, besides a reflection about the way pornography might help bring back pleasure to the performing arts.
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