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Take a look inside Issue 2 - Janus Faces :
Snapshots of Janus Faces PDF


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NEWS - PRESS - SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - LINKS - MEDIA CONCERNS - ABOUT US
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NEWS


31 JULY 2010

Ampersand is now stocked all over London. Check out the
& Buy page for more info.

AND

We are curating a slot of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival ‘Magazine’ event on Saturday September 4 at the Cubby. We’re being visited by Michael Heyward (Text Publishing) who will chat about
Scripsi, the Suitcase Royale’s Miles O’Neil, Ampersand contributor Shannon Holopainen, Gavin Pretor Pinney (The Idler / The Cloud Appreciation Society) and some other special brainiacs.

Go the MWF’s blog
here for more info and details about the other journals involved.


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27 JULY 2010


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CAPTURE THE FADE
Photography Competition

GUEST JUDGE
Bill Henson


SUBMISSIONS OPEN: Monday July 26 - Monday August 30 2010

Ampersand is very pleased to invite you to submit to its first annual open photography competition. Whether you are a professional photographer or a dentist who happens to own a camera, we are looking for creative, evocative, humorous and thoughtful photographic responses to the theme, The Fade.

Submissions may or may not be landscapes, portraits, still lifes, wedding photography, glamour shots, theatrical scenes, wildlife, marketing photography, food photography, fashion photography, paparazzi or photojournalism. They may or may not be spontaneous or staged. They may or may not be natural or digitally augmented.

All submissions will appear on the Capture The Fade blog. Mr Henson’s chosen 16 entries will be curated for the Capture The Fade exhibition and published in Ampersand # 3 – The Fade, and the overall winner will be profiled in the issue.

SUBMISSIONS TO
simone@ampersandmagazine.com.au
with the subject heading CAPTURE THE FADE

ENQUIRIES TO
chloe@ampersandmagazine.com.au

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Submit a maximum of four photographs
- All images must be in JPEG format. MAX: 768 x 1024 pixels 1MB per image.
- Files must be named in this order: FIRSTNAME_SURNAME_TITLE.jpg
- One single page containing a max. 200-word description of the photograph(s) AND a max. 100-word biography of yourself.
- Submit a completed and signed copy of the release form, downloadable below. The signed release form must be emailed with all submissions.
-Winners will be contacted by Ampersand for high resolution versions of their photographs. Works will be printed for exhibition at 16 x 20 in. Please ensure that all submitted photographs can be resupplied at this size.

- Only correct and complete submissions will be considered for publication.

CHECKLIST:
- Up to four photographs MAX: 768 x 1024 pixels 1MB per image.
- One page Word document containing description and bio
- Release form signed and completed

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Banga Sings, West Brunswick Winterball 2009

by Warwick Baker
(image appeared in Ampersand # 2 – Janus Faces)

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7 JULY 2010

SUBMIT
TO


THE FADE
AMPERSAND MAGAZINE
ISSUE THREE


THE FADE IS
FADE IN / FADE OUT / LIGHT / DISAPPEARANCE / WHAT COMES INTO BEING / WHAT IS FORGOTTEN / MUSIC / THE MISSING / FOG / SPACE / INVISIBILITY / SHAME / GOVERNMENT COVER-UPS / AGING / CELEBRITY / THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE / THE CHANGE IN SEASON / BREACHING TRUST / THE CRESCENDO / COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUNESS / LOSS OF RELIGION / TIDES / BRAVADO / THE WAYS WE MASK TRUTH / INDIVIDUALITY / INDUSTRIALISATION / LEGACY / TRACES / MEMORIES / LOVE / MONOCHROME / CYCLES OF FASHION / DISPERSED FAMILIES / ANTIQUATED LANGUAGES / GRAVESTONES / TAXIDERMY / SUPERCEDED SUPERHEROS / BUILT IN OBSOLENCENCE / DEMENTIA / PEROCHIAL VALUES / TWILIGHT / IMMORTALITY / DUST / RUST / FUNGUS / ASH / ARCHEOLOGY / THE BELIEF IN ONE’S OWN BULLSHIT / NEUROLOGY / COMPROMISE / NEW TECHNOLOGY / BLINDNESS / LONG-TERM JAIL TERMS / BLEACH / THE MOMENT OF DEATH / KIDNAPPING / DRUG ADDLED MIND / APPEASEMENT / FILM / SHARPIES / PRINT / SUPERSTITION / INNOCENCE

Deadline : 31 August 2010


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE



Email submissions and queries to:

Alice
alice@ampersandmagazine.com.au

- or -

Simone
simone@ampersandmagazine.com.au




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2 June 2010

The Yelling At Stars DVD launch was a lovely night. Sure, Willoh and collaborator Thea started the evening with an extra bang by missing Redfern Station (I’d wager there was a bit of chit chat going on there) and rode the express all the way to Parramatta (ah Melburnites), but to their credit they still managed to arrive on time and after a wee glass of champez to recharge the batteries, treated us with a chat about the naissance of this brilliant project. And it was especially great to see the performance up on the big screen.

Thank you to Georgie Meagher from Performance Space for having us at the ClubHouse, and to Willoh and Thea for coming up from the great southern capital to join us. It was fantastic.


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More photos are
here on the & Archive page.

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On the final, freezing May night of the 2008 Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Willoh S. Weiland performed her work 'Yelling At Stars' to a heavily bundled audience at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. But they may not have been the only beings privy to this astounding work. Because as Willoh spoke, her voice was being sent via a DSCN dish in Florida into deep space. This was Australia's first interstellar message. In equal measure love letter, confessional and SOS, YAS hoped to balance the enormity of speaking to space with the intimacy of a single person's voice.

That was that, until last year when Willoh and I met and we talked about how YAS could live again. Willoh did an extraordinary thing and allowed us here at
Ampersand to take the footage of that night and make it into a DVD, which, thanks to Performance Space, then appeared as a supplement in Janus Faces.

So we are very pleased to announce that YAS will once again be showed to a mass audience, for the first time since the original performance, at Performance Space ClubHouse on May 27.

We do so very dearly hope you can make it.

The night involves a screening of the DVD, and a chat with Willoh and Alice.

More info at:
ClubHouse


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19 May 2010

Our Jazz Andrews is reading at excellent Sydney word night
Penguin Plays Rough. Well bloody done Jazz.


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17 May 2010

We are thrilled that
Ampersand has turned up at Cabinet Magazine’s reading library.

Those of you in New York City: I certainly wouldn’t delay in getting your body over there. Art publishing mecca.

Check it
here

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13 May 2010

Ampersand Magazine will be appearing on the stands at the fantastic new indie publishers meet, Small Room’s ‘A Bridge For Short Attention Spans’, alongside our friends The Lifted Brow, Sleepers, Torpedo and Sticky shop zines.

Wish we could be there in person!


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Ampersand will also be appearing on the Gleebooks book stand at the Sydney Writers’ Festival.


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PRESS:

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The Thousands

Two Thousand photos of the Sydney launch

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14 April 2010

The Janus Faces launch at Bill & George in Redfern was motherflippn great. Thanks to the hard work of the I Can Draw You A Picture crew, who set up a mindbending contortionistic network of cables and projectors and cameras, we had a Chat Roulette lab running in a side room being projected into the main room. It was hosted by Sexy Time – a two-man fortune telling team – and Eduardo Internet, the inventor of the World Wide Web who lives inside a microchip in Silicone Valley that was animated into a man just for the event. Unfortunately SPOD was sick, which was mega crap because he is a living legend. Amongst the plethora of masturbators we were visited by a 12-year-old boy who contended he was born with an AK for a dick, a girl that thought she was on an Australian comedy show, a young man that came out to us and whom was counselled about how to tell his parents, and many others. It was all on.

We had readings by
Ampersand contributor Lisa Pryor and special guest speaker, Cammeray and MCd perfectly by Jess Cook.

The BBQ snags and beers were endless, and one must have cancelled out the other because everyone was very well behaved, aside from the neighbour from over the street who accused the director of Bill & George of being responsible for Redfern’s heroin problem and threw a bottle at Sam Hodge’s head.

Thanks so very much to all who made the night possible and all who attended. It was just splendid and a perfect foray for Janus Faces.

If you weren’t able to make it and would like a copy of the magazine you can purchase it from this website in the ‘Buy Ampersand’ page, or find it at a bookshop or gallery near you (check the ‘Buy’ page for stockists).



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More photos on the ‘Event Archive’ page and here on Facebook.


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2 February 2010

Well if you read the headlines right folks you’d be well aware by now that our hard-won second issue, Janus Faces, is currently being pressed and printed and bound and boxed and shipped, and is expected to hit the shops in March.

THIS IS VERY BLOODY EXCITING


Order your copy in advance here


Janus Faces is a real gem. 22 contributing geniuses – journalists, fiction writers, poets, painters, photographers, designers, craftspeople, academics, theatre makers, scientists, editors, mothers, fathers – have joined to create an incredible issue.

JF also comes with a DVD of Willoh S. Weiland’s ‘Yelling At Stars’ performance from Next Wave Festival 2008 – the first release of the astounding artwork since that cold May night last decade.



Jazz Andrews tells the story of the time he walked into a supermarket and took his clothes off
Warwick Baker photographs
Stephan Balleux pastels and oil paintings
Fran Barrett drawings
Suzannah Biernoff discusses Henry Tonks’ WWI pastel portraits of wounded soldiers
Abhishek Chaudary the final installment of the story of a virginal woman’s loss of innocence
Rose Chong generally lets it rip
Jess Cook digital images
Nick Coyle Morris Larb’s eulogy written by Morris Larb
Polly Dedman drawing and collage
Briohny Doyle on the vision of ourselves at the end of the world
Nicky Forster
gives us a brief history of interstellar messaging
Simon Greiner time travel industry advertisements
James Harney drawings
Shannon Holopainen on the philosophy of fishing
Erik Kessels found photographs
Bob Log III answers an Oxford Men’s College entrance exam question 1957-67
Denis O'Connor takes us through the great Australian tradition of whipcracking
Lisa Pryor travels to the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez
Sprego drawings
Christos Tsiolkas reflects on actor Jack Charles, subject of the documentary Bastardy
Rob Wilson
poetry
Willoh S. Weiland and the Yelling At Stars team get their first public release on our attached DVD




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30 May 2009
While the business management department of Ampersand wages the wages war and drums up funds, we are very happy to announce that our second issue, Janus Faces, has confirmed contributions from:

Willoh S. Weiland, in the form of a DVD supplement of her 2008 Next Wave work ‘Yelling At Stars.’ This is outrageously great as the work has had no previous release after that evening’s performance and transmission.
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Erik Kessels, mastermind of KesselsKramer, an Amsterdam ad agency that is going to get a massive rap at a Carriageworks week-long event mid-June.
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And Sprego, an incredible Tokyo-based artist and print-maker.
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Also
I’d like to give a quiet round of applause to Eddie Sharp for his presentation at Penguin Plays Rough last Saturday night. Eddie gave a talk about his article for Ampersand on ‘Ned Kelly’s Last Stand’, an animatronic museum in Glenrowan. It was excellent.


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15 April 2009
Congratulations to Edition Zero contributor, Gerard Hynes, for having his article syndicated in The Age over the Easter weekend: a perfect place to question the legitimacy of the name of Christ. The article has been added as a pdf in the high-tech ‘media’ section of this page.


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Double Portrait - Heidi Yardley

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Ampersand Submission Guidelines

General Guidelines for Writers:
The bulk of Ampersand’s content is non-fiction: reportage, commentary, criticism, scholarly essays and interviews. We welcome satire and true stories.

Ampersand is an art and culture journal that explores creativity, societal change and the human condition through multi-disciplines . We are interested in the discussion of any subject matter, particularly that which is unfashionable, unorthodox, illuminating or rare. Aesthetically and textually, Ampersand concentrates on bringing together academia and popular culture, seriousness and humour, innovation and tradition. We have a penchant for history and echoes of the past. We enjoy contemporary art that has strong societal contexts. We are political, and interested in the fallout of religion and globalisation. We intertwine it all with absurdity, sex and cheap laughs.

We do not publish unfounded rants, reviews or fashion related matter unless they are striking, contextualised interestingly or humourous.

Ampersand is entirely open to a variety of authorial voices, from academic to idiomatic, from journalistic to idiosyncratic.

Although there is a theme, we do not expect every article and artwork to relate to it. Please use the theme as a guide if you are yet to write an article, but by no means bend an idea or pre-written piece to fit it.

We pride ourselves on excellent editorship, and have pride in our writers for their superior research.

We pay contributors a small amount and we hope to pay them more in the future.

We accept pieces of up to 4000 words.

Our apologies, but we will only reply to successful submitters.

Style: Ampersand uses only Australian spelling.


General Guidelines for Artists:
Ampersand publishes visual art in two primary ways:

We exhibit the work of three artists/groups over six pages in full colour. We welcome all kinds of printable art including painting, photography, collage, illustration, conceptual projects and text-based work.

We commission one artist to do a series of black and white works inspired by the issue’s theme as the introductory page for each article. We pay (a little bit) for these works.

Please send through a brief statement about the work/idea with a few images.


Email submissions to:

Alice - alice@ampersandmagazine.com.au

Simone - simone@ampersandmagazine.com.au


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The Rizzeria :: Sydney
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Brown Council :: Sydney
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Post Presents Post :: Sydney
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Galleries and Curation
Black&Blue Gallery :: Sydney
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Shops
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Contributors’ Blogs
Briohny Doyle :: Writer, Melbourne
Simon Greiner :: Artist and Designer, Sydney
Sprego :: Artist, Tokyo



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For Media and Advertisers

Yes you can sponsor us! Actually that would be super convenient.

You can find info and our rate card in the media kit (PDF) below.

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Also,


The Age syndicated article - Gerard Hynes April 09 (pdf)
Brag interview - Alice Gage - March 09 (pdf)

Snapshots of Edition Zero (pdf)

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About Us

Ampersand is a curiosity journal: ideas unfettered on pages without the distractions of fashion and pretension: a step towards better understanding the world through time travel, landscape architecture, erotic fiction, thunderstorms, literary conventions, fraud, audacity, flunkyism, biology, fiddle music, clubs and societies, out of print books, historical events, mental health, night, etymology and printing and spelling mistakes,.

Without saying this site is under construction, we do believe one day it will be better, and we can only make three pages using this copy of this certain web software.

Ampersand lives at 14 Turner St Redfern NSW 2016 and in the hearts and minds of those who doubt it is the meek who shall inherit the earth.


Editor – Alice Gage
alice@ampersandmagazine.com.au

Co-Editor – Simone Mandl
simone@ampersandmagazine.com.au

Commissioning Editor – Guy Weress
guy@ampersandmagazine.com.au

Assistant Editor – Chloe Cahill
chloe@ampersandmagazine.com.au

Art Director – Michael Inglis
mikieinglis@gmail.com





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