OEI: No. 80–81: The Zero Alternative: Ernesto de Sousa and Some Other Aesthetic Operators in Portuguese Art and Poetry from the 1960s Onwards
OEI editors Jonas Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg are quick to correct anyone who might see issue 80-81, The Zero Alternative, as an anthological publication. For them, it is “a montage based publication trying, in as material a way as possible, to register, prolong, transform, and reflect upon energies from the work of Ernesto de Sousa and some of his fellow aesthetic operators.” In this celebration of de Sousa, a prominent twentieth-century Portuguese multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator, Magnusson and Grönberg have curated a selection of work by artists, experimental poets, and writers that were apart of de Sousa’s contemporaneous circuit, those that were outside of such a designation but whose work reflects his cultural and political interests, and contemporary artists whose outputs are equally suited to de Sousa’s concerns.
OEI is a Stockholm based magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages between poetry, art, philosophy, film, and documents; critical investigations, editorial enunciations, aesthetic technologies, non-affirmative writing, speculative archaeologies, new ecologies and counter-historiographies.