Farafina Magazine presents a Visual Arts and Literature Event

Farafina Magazine presents...

For more information about the Farafina magazine event and biographies of the featured artists, visit our blog:

http://thefarafinist.blogspot.com/

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New issue of Ctrl+P

The November issue of Ctrl + P is now ready for downloading. Please go to www.ctrlp-artjournal.org and click on Issue No.13. Or download from this link: http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/pdfs/CtrlP_Issue13.pdf

Published are papers presented at the 2008 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) invited-panel “Passing and Peril in the Information Super Highway.” Kóan Jeff Baysa moderated the panel and did an introduction with the same title. The other papers are “Reflections of Contemporary Chinese Society: Representations of Chinese Identity in Cyberspace” by Jiayi Young; “Kenkanryu (The Hate Korean Wave): Images of Hatred and Racism in Japanese Manga” by Mina Cheon; “Self-representations of Malaysian Bloggers” by Roopesh Sitharan; and “How We Have Represented Ourselves as Ctrl+P thus Far” by issue editor Judy Freya Sibayan.

The second part of this issue focuses on the art market and the value of art to contextualize Ctrl+P's decision to advertise the Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York a first with Ctrl+P and a timely opportunity considering the current world financial crisis. Marian Pastor Roces reviews “On (Surplus) Value in Art” a book by Diedrich Diederichsen published by Witte de With. Ana Prvacki talks on her art practice as a form of giving. Varsha Nair offers an image to represent her deep sadness as artist-friends lose themselves in the commerce of art.

The issue also includes a review by Sara Haq and Olivia Altaras, a conversation about the exhibition “Or” by The Readymaids.

To be part of the Ctrl+P mailing list, please email ctrl_p_artjournal@yahoo.com.

Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art
www.ctrlp-artjournal.org

gang re:Publik book launch

Hunting and Gathering- The Happy Hypocrite

The Happy Hypocrite:
Hunting and Gathering, Issue 2
edited by Maria Fusco
OUT NOW


Published by Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London
EC2A 4JB

http://www.bookworks.org.uk


The Happy Hypocrite is a biannual journal led by artists' writings. Informed by a lineage of modern experimental and avant-garde magazines, this journal will provide a greatly needed testing ground for new writing and research-based projects, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published.

Issue 2: Hunting and Gathering (Out Now)
New writing, from commission and open submission, forays into territories of collage and bricolage, interspersed with appropriated and parodic writing. Artists' pages and artists' writings from: ArtstrA/Barbara Reise Archives, Steve Beard, Susanne Clausen, Marie Darrieussecq, Brian Dillon, Andrew Dodds, Thomas Hirschhorn, Gabriel Lester, Jo Melvin, Rashanna Rashied-Walker, Lisa Robertson, Nick Thurston and Lynne Tillman.

Visit http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/home.asp for full subscription information


Reviews for, The Happy Hypocrite: Linguistic Hardcore, Issue 1
'A venue for creativity and polemical "secret" history' — Michael Bracewell, frieze magazine, June-August 2008
'A timely response to the fraying of the edges of art criticism, the boom in artists' writings, the general exhaustion of mainstream literary venues and the artistic bankruptcy of the niche creative writing crowd' — Brian Dillon, Art Review, September 2008
'...persuasive, a chancer to keep an eye on, with the potential to grow into a figure of consequence...' — Rick Poyner, eye magazine, August 2008
'A journal that nods to the history of avant-garde writing' — nought to sixty, Issue 5 /September 2008
'A visually smart intellectual overture' — Art World Magazine, June/July 2008
'Suffused with humour, absurdity and a serious playfulness' — Kit Hammonds, September-October 2008
'Great work' — Grafik Magazine, August 2008


Forthcoming issues
Issue 3: Volatile Dispersal — Speed and Reading (Spring/Summer 2009)
Presenting: mail art, spam, grammatical glitches and pragmatic punctuation, in collision with distributive structures and amphetamine-fuelled prose. Contains: effervescent and evaporating data, from commission and open submission.

Issue 4: A Rather Large Weapon (Autumn/Winter 2009)
Systematic illuminations of factories and the progressive darkening of machines, smiles, old files, manifestos, polemics, and other short-lived rants.

Book Works will launch The Happy Hypocrite: Hunting and Gathering, issue 2, on 11 November 2008, as part of Existential Territories, a new series of talks and events, organised by Jeremy Akerman and Gavin Everal. For more information contact: gavin@bookworks.org.uk

Participá en el Premio 10 Años de Bola de Nieve

Bola de Nieve cumple 10 años y lo festeja con buenísimas novedades!

Del 07 al 28 de octubre entrá a www.boladenieve.org.ar, navegá los perfiles de artista y elegí tus 3 páginas favoritas. Ya hay más de 900 artistas en la red, muchas nuevas incorporaciones y perfiles puestos a punto para la ocasión. Además, con tu voto participás en el sorteo por 3 iPod Nano.

+ info en: www.boladenieve.org.ar/premio

Reenviá para que todos puedan participar!

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Premio 10 Años de Bola de Nieve
07 a 28 de octubre
01 a 23 de noviembre

www.boladenieve.org.ar/premio
premio@fundacionstart.org.ar
(+ 5411) 4953-2696/6772

White Fungus to be Media Partner to Colophon 2009

White Fungus is happy to announce it will be a media partner to Colophon 2009 – Second Edition, an international symposium on independent magazine publishing to be held in Luxembourg next March 13-15 in 2009. A biennial festival, the inaugural Colophon was held in 2007 and co-founded by leading Luxembourg independent publisher Mike Koedinger and Jeremy Leslie, Executive Creative Director at John Brown and author of influential publishing tomb Mag Culture.

Colophon 2009 is produced by Koedinger in collaboration with Casino Luxembog – Forum d’art contemporain. The international event will include exhibitions, talks, workshops, events and one-off publications, with more magazines, more attendees and a far more expansive programme than Colophon 2007. The symposium will be accompanied by a book, the second We Love Magazines, which explores the world’s independent magazine culture and contains the most comprehensive directory ever compiled on international pop culture magazines and the shops where you can buy them.

The opening exhibition for Colophon 2009 is BEYOND KIOSK - Modes of Multiplication curatated by Christoph Keller. A discussion between Keller and Mudam curator Chritophe Gallois will kick things off.

Check out Colophon 2009’s website here: http://blog.colophon2009.com/

Also, check out the White Fungus interview on the site here: http://www.colophon2009.com/archive/?mag_id=2282

http://whitefungusnews.blogspot.com/

A Commonplace Book

A commonplace book is a book of memorabilia, a scrapbook filled with recipes, quotes, letters, poems, legal formulas and so on. Originally the book was a memory aid and orators would “go” to metaphorical “places” to gather their arguments. They were places to which one could return for future reference. The commonplace book became a precursor to the modern reference book. This book takes ‘the commonplace’ – the ordinary and the everyday as well as the insignificant and references these moments within a commonplace book; as a way to recall and to make the insignificant significant.

http://www.index.org.nz/attrium.html

Canary Annual '07

The Canary Annual ‘07: A Momentum of Activity
The Sunset Years: Canary Gallery September 2005 - September 2006
Published November 2007 by Canary Gallery
ISBN 0-473-10397-4
Edited by Paula Booker and Rachel O’Neill
Designed by Hannah Ngaei

NZ $20 available from info@canarygallery.com
and Parsons Fine Art Books, Auckland, NZ


This second annual publication by Canary Gallery celebrates the momentum of activity Canary inspired, and continues to motivate, in its immediate Auckland environs and beyond.
The quiet after-life of the space that closed in 2006 is disturbed enthusiastically by those who have contributed to the Annual ’07, enlivening once more the network of artists, contributors, audience and supporters that make the Canary call heard even now.

Writing featured in the Annual '07 is not restricted to the chronology of shows at Canary, or indeed the artists and works that showed there. The Annual ’07 expands outwards from the gallery and its limitations, be they financial, social, spatial or geographic.

Nick Austin’s series of photographs pay homage to sites of potential pause or activity, while a pagework by J. A. Wallace illustrates his recent drawing experiments based on the perfect explosion. The Canary Gallery Minder Survey provides a behind-the-scenes insight into the day of an anonymous gallery sitter.

Laura Preston looks at the relationship between the works of Finn Ferrier and Gordon Matta-Clark, and the future-focused time capsule project by Fiona Connor, Finn Ferrier, Chris Fitz and Ben Tankard is also documented. ‘Which Craft?’ by James Robertson will have you knitting your brow as he tries to untangle craft practices presented in the Canary exhibition program.

Harold Grieves expands on the synthetic taste of original flavor, while Frances Loeffler observes on photographer Courtney Lucas. The work of Susie Pratt inspires Rachel O’Neill to argue for phenomenological forthrightness, while Paula Booker has contributed an arcade archaeology.

www.canarygallery.com/writing.htm

Canary Annual '05

The Canary Annual ‘05: Conversation, Critique and Community
The Golden Age: Canary Gallery March 2004 - September 2005

Published October 2005 by Canary Gallery (2nd edition Nov 2007)
ISBN 978-0-473-12923-1
Edited by Paula Booker
Designed by Shane Fairhall

NZ $20 available from info@canarygallery.com
and Parsons Fine Art Books, Auckland, NZ

Subjects covered include:
• Melbourne artist-run-initiative Dudespace
• Water Features, public sculpture and Ben Tankard's grand splish splashery
• Kah-Bee Chow likens the Ship of Fools installation by Andrew Barber and Paula Booker to the endeavors of the ambitious and foolhardy Howard Hughes
• A transcript from Spark 04 Artist-run space panel discussion at WINTEC
• The work of Ryan Moore is discussed
• Pageworks by Fiona Connor, Damen Joe and Finn Ferrier
• James Robertson and Paula Booker discuss the ballistic artwork of JA Wallace
• A photographic chronology of all Canary's shows to date.
• ...and more

www.canarygallery.com/writing.htm

reunited siblings

Reunited siblings is a collective of poets and artists who is combining the art of spoken word with the impact of fine art to create a new experience. Their aim is to bring together, art siblings that have been divided for so long by fusing such disciplines on various platforms and to create ways and means to make a living from their arts. Having said that, they have successfully launched three poetry and fine art anthologies; where they fuse the written word and fine art, and hosted numerous events in and around Jozi, this time bringing the word to life and adding yet another perspective with live performances from the featured wordsmiths. They have started relationships with siblings internationally, either featuring in the anthologies or by working on certain projects.

Members: Wesley (Creative Director), Ricky (Editor in Chief), Denis (Multimedia Director)

www.reunitedsiblings.co.za

NKA

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art is a triennial journal which serves as a platform for critical writing on contemporary African and African diaspora art and visual culture as they intersect with discourses on internationalism and globalization in the arts. It also promotes contemporary African and African diaspora artists and strengthen their presence on a global level.

http://www.nkajournal.org

ZX

ZX is published annually by the Manukau School of Visual Arts, in Auckland New Zealand. In 2006 we established an editorial board for ZX and we are grateful to its members for the effort they have put into reviewing, and commenting upon, contributions.

Y3k Newsletter

Y3k Newsletter (& Y2kgallery.blogspot.com) is an open vessel for varied contributions. It is a growing entity with a folded A4 page (or in other words 4 A5 pages) being added each month (mostly photocopied). It is a free form exercise in printed matter, open to various contributors, but with on going image conversations, and boxed features from Evergreen and Matt Hinkley. The web component does much the same with content on current exhibitions, artist pages and meandering discourse. it is free from various Gallerias monthly.

www.y2kgallery.blogspot.com

White Fungus

Based in Wellington, New Zealand, White Fungus is a biannual print publication of experimental arts from throughout the Asia / Pacific region. Featuring articles on art and new music, poetry, literature, comics and political satire, each issue of White Fungus is teeming with interdisciplinary content. Produced in Wellington, the publication is international in its focus and contains regular contributions from Germany, Australia, the US, China, Taiwan and Singapore. White Fungus is distributed by Disticor in North America. It is distributed independently throughout New Zealand and Australia, Asia and Europe. For more information or to subscribe checkout

www.whitefungus.com

un Magazine

From 2004-2006 un Magazine published seven issues of Volume 1, establishing itself as a significant part of Melbourne’s art community. By supporting and encouraging critical dialogue in the local art community, un Magazine’s continuing intention has been to develop a new approach to visual art discourse and publishing.

In March 2008 un Magazine relaunched with a new edition. Volume 2, Issue 1 extends and explores the creative possibilities of visual art writing. Edited by Rosemary Forde, the edition is a compendium of critical and crafted approaches, including responses to exhibitions in 2007-08, features, essays, fiction, and text-based artworks. Issue 2.1 offers innovative ways to engage with art practice through different forms of writing, as well as creating in-depth discussion around contemporary art works.

Volume 2, issue 2 will be released in November 2008. Back issues are downloadable from the website

www.unmagazine.org

The Reader

The Reader is a monthly publication co-edited by Tahi Moore and Kate Newby and printed and distributed though the gallery Gambia Castle that is based in Auckland, NZ. The Idea with the Reader is to have it act as a somewhat informal platform for a variety of people, local and international to contribute to.

Each month the title of the Reader is decided and named by an invited person and then this title is given to the 3-5 contributors to loosely inform the writing submitted. Previous titles have been “ Discreet and Popular”(Kate Newby), “You know when you really want to do something and then you get distracted and you’re doing something else and then you can’t be bothered with that first thing anymore” (Tahi Moore), and “Slow Connection” (Nick Austin).

For information regarding the Reader please contact; reader@gambiacastle.net
www.gambiacastle.net

The National Grid

The National Grid is a graphic design magazine operating loosely in the shadowy areas between academia and professional practice, and between art and design. The first issue was published in March 2006. The National Grid is produced twice a year, is independently published in New Zealand and is distributed internationally.

The National Grid was initially set up to provide a platform and point of distribution for certain sorts of projects and writing that were considered to be untenable within our peculiar national context. The hope was—and still is—that New Zealand graphic design might achieve a greater sense of literacy. In this sense it has been important for The National Grid to operate within a broader international context—while always trying to maintain a sort of girl-next-door status at home.

Jonty Valentine and Luke Wood (editors)

www.thenationalgrid.co.nz

The John Dory Report

Handmade in Christchurch, New Zealand. Latest issue features drawings by James Oram, photographs by Miranda Parkes, reviews by Harold Grieves and Shannon O'Brien, plus features on Tao Wells, Black Boned Angel and Rob Hood.

The Happy Hypocrite

The Happy Hypocrite
For and About Experimental Art Writing
Edited by Maria Fusco (2008)

The Happy Hypocrite is a biannual journal led by artists’ writings. Informed by a lineage of modern experimental and avant-garde magazines, such as: Bananas, Documents, The Fox, Merlin and Tracks, this journal aspires to unpack the methodology of such key journals, whilst providing a brand new approach to art writing. It will provide somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realised or published.

www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/forth.asp