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AGUIAR (Fernando). ENSAIOS para uma Interacção da Escrita: Performance. Lisboa. 1985. - AGUIAR (Fernando) ENSAIOS para uma Interacção da Escrita: Performance . Diálogo sobre Arte Contemporânea / Dialogue on Contemporary Art. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1985. [8] ff.: il.; 300 mm. Agrafado no canto superior esquerdo. Program and catalog of the performance ”Essays for an Interaction of Writing” by Fernando Aguiar (Lisbon, 1956), presented in the Multipurpose Room of the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on May 11, 1985 - one of the first visual poetry performances held in a prestigious institutional context in Portugal. The event was part of the ”Dialogue on Contemporary Art” cycle of the Foundation's Animation, Artistic Creation and Art Education Service. The notebook, bilingual in Portuguese and English, includes a theoretical text by the author on the nature of performance – dated Lisbon, March 1985 – where he defends the empathic relationship between the operator, the action, and the audience as an essential condition of performance, and the irreproducibility and ephemerality as defining characteristics of the medium. The illustrations document previous performances by the author: a sequence of six photographs of a performance near a well with elements of writing and fire, and a portrait of the performer with arms raised holding a banner with text. The notebook retains the author's personal stamp. An archival document of primary importance for the history of performance and visual poetry in Portugal. Rare and highly valued. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate