Acido
Surtido is a publication on art and design
distributed for free in the whole country.
The first issue of Acido Surtido was published
in 2001, as an answer to the lack of action
and the downhearted feelings that was threatening
the national cultural production in those
days. Trying to take over collective construction
common places, Acido Surtido opens itself
to other voices, getting together in order
to share. A kind of generosity is underlying:
those who offer the place, those who give
their work, those who receive it and make
its sense. There are some other principles.
Avoiding commercialization and production
paraphernalia that could make its cooperation
spirit strange and move towards massive circulation.
Betting on the quality of its contents secretly
hoping to achieve fulfillment. In a nut shell:
find the difficult balance between a high
level publication and a self-produced fanzine.
Our publication is a printed 65 cm x 95 cm sheet
of paper, created by different collaborators around
the same topic which is a conceptual frame to trigger
ideas. Not only the summoning topic/concept but
also the participants are unique for each issue
and define its personality. Everybody who would
like to take part in the challenge must show in
a printed 16 cm x 23,5 cm space, freely using graphic
and textual resources, their particular approach
to the topic.
The proposed Acido Surtido develops around two
complementary strategies: on one side, each author
receives a space equivalent to materialize, with
free use of textual and graphical resources, their
particular approach on the subject, the other side,
however is reserved for the deployment of a single
job as a poster, but it is a process of collective
creation.
Our collaborators come from different disciplines,
but they are mostly linked to visual arts: designers,
photographers, illustrators, fine arts artists.
However, throughout our issues there has been a
heterogeneous universe which also includes writers
and poets together with other collaborators who
could have hardly had the opportunity to develop
project-like experiences.
Like an avant-garde "exquisite cadaver",
the summoned authors work in an independent way:
nobody knows who the other participants are or
what the other works are going to be like. At this
stage, editors must personally follow each collaborator’s
work and the integration of each work within the
publication according to the most convenient criteria.
The final printed work is a kind of finding. In
that moment, every collaborator meets each other
and faces their works. In this way, Acido Surtido
aims to find a gathering place to reflect before
new readings and meanings that comprehend and surpass
the works involved.
With an analytic, cartographic spirit, the reader
can draw new territories and relationships, recognize
coincidences, recurrences or contradictions among
the proposals in each edition.
Acido Surtido is free of charge for its readers
and participants. It does not count on advertising
spaces or sponsors of any kind whatsoever. Its
production is supported by the editors only, thanks
to invaluable fostering of design companies and
studios that work disinterestedly.
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