Vol. 6 No. 10 (2016): Critical Documents: constructive memory
Under the title “Critical Documents: Constructive Memory”, the tenth issue of the Revista do Colóquio brings eight proposals between theory, criticism, history and poetic production. Talking about documents is, almost always, the next step when talking about memory. With the document as the thing that holds the memory, the experience of remembering can be a very laborious exercise. We learn, slowly, that collecting objects and storing them in boxes protected from humidity and sun is not enough for a memory to survive. The memory must sprout and spread (sometimes the humidity is welcome and hidden from the sun, the memory has, as a last alternative, to hibernate). [...]