Offbeat, a visual manifest of Démodérnism. The unclassic, the unmodern, the classic, the modern, the avant-garde the après-garde in a detached, multilingual and poetic form.
It's presented in a video-poetry format, fimed in a modern villa in Cascais, Portugal, in the spring of 2027.
It comprises a referential account of authors who's work has shaped cultural modernity, using takes showing different imagery, from modern architecture, classic sculpture, nature and light, in order to juxtapose styles, in consonance with the Demodern manifesto itself.
The project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, Cultural Resilience - Literature as a force for social justice.
Author
Manuel de Sousa
Manuel de Sousa is a writer, music selector, musician and visual artist living between in Barcelona and Lisbon. He has collaborated with his articles and photos in cultural magazines, as well as in academic blogs and international talks about cultural studies.
As a visual artist, he has taken part in group exhibitions in his native Caracas, London, Rome and Barcelona.
As a poet in English, he has been featured in the New River Press Year Book 2019, Rough times Retrograde Prescription online magazine in 2020 and in La Rivista Literary Magazine in 2021.
As a poet in Portuguese, he has been featured in Hyperion Magazine in 2023, and in two anthologies by Chiado Books in 2024
His images have recently been published in the Brussels Art Vue photo compilation book, Iavpoa Art 2nd International Photography Biennale 2021, exhibited at Millepiani Gallery in Rome in 2022, and more recently, pubished in Hyperion Magazine, Le Journal Decadente, both in 2023, and in Love Love Magazine in 2024.
Currently, he is working on a book of unpublished written material, talks, photography, other types of visual arts, playing one off dj sets and making concept music.
