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26 June 2009
Ampersand is now the ANZAC distributor of New York art and
culture journal Cabinet
Magazine. This is
an incredible honour, as Cabinet may well be the best publication in the
universe. Cabinet has had minor distribution in Australia
and New Zealand up till now. From this month it is
available in all good bookstores and major galleries in
both countries.
Ampersand will be holding a launch event on Saturday the
4th July at Black&Blue Gallery, Redfern, Sydney. There
will be presentations by local contributors, readings,
slideshows, video screenings and free beer!
Cabinet Magazine
Please contact distributionatampersandmagazine.com.au for
info.
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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.
Yelling At Stars
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.
KesselsKramer
And Sprego, an incredible Tokyo-based artist and
print-maker.
The Embassy
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.
As An
Aside
We are in the throes of pulling together our second issue,
Janus Faces. We believe it will be a spring 2009 issue,
unless it rains money tomorrow.
Ampersand is proud to be featuring the work of the
following writers and artists in Janus Faces:
Dr Chris Mackie on Janus.
Lisa Pryor on traveling through the Siamese cities El Paso
and Juarez.
Stephan Balleux oil paintings.
Suzannah Biernoff on the Great War pastel portraits of
Henry Tonks.
Polly Dedman collage.
Eddie Sharp on the Glenrowan animatronic museum.
Emily Hunt janitors.
Chris Flynn interviews Nikola Tesla.
Fran Barret sketches.
Eytan Massiah on Batman and Two Face.
Briohny Doyle on On the Beach.
Bob Log III answers Oxford Men’s College Entrance Exam
Questions 1957-1967.
And more to come.
Double Portrait -
Heidi Yardley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
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General Guidelines for Writers:
The bulk of Ampersand’s content is non-fiction: reportage,
commentary, criticism, essays and interviews. We welcome
satire and true stories. We only sporadically print fiction
and poetry.
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.
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 to Alice - aliceatampersandmagazine.com.au
(+61) 0415923164
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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 31 Theodore St, Balmain NSW Australia
2041 and in the hearts and minds of those who doubt it is
the meek who shall inherit the earth.
This project has been assisted by the Australian
Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body.