outro

outro (other, in Portuguese) is a Lisbon-based platform for investigation and artistic creation directed by Silvio Vieira. Founded in 2018 by Joao Leao, Patricia Moreira, Silvio Vieira and Sofia Fialho. outro started in 2017 as an informal club, reading on the subjects of biology, philosophy, and social sciences while also signing its own texts and materials. The body of work that started building from there was later indexed in what would become the matrix for the first two projects: the website outro.pt and the play Trees let go of their fairest branches. outro.pt went public in November 2017 and we consider it our first home. Born from the will to share what we were thinking, the goal was to create a platform that was close to our (present and future) audience through a blog, illustrations, an etymology dictionary, and something like a library, with excerpts from other artists and thinkers (the blog and the dictionary are only available in Portuguese). Trees let go of their fair...