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ISSUE 2, JANUS FACES, HAS HIT THE

PRESSES AND WE’RE GEARING UP

FOR A MARCH RELEASE

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NEWS:

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

Release dates and launches TBA


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Janus 6 – Polly Dedman



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PERFORMANCE SPACE AND AMPERSAND MAGAZINE PRESENTS



YELLING AT STARS
DVD LAUNCH


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Screening and artist talk by the writer, director and performer of
Yelling At Stars, Willoh S. Weiland


May 27 2010
At the Performance Space ClubHouse
Track 12, Carriageworks
245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
NSW
LAT.: 33°53'S
LONG.: 151°10'E
Free


More info at:
ClubHouse


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8 September 2009

EXTRA-CURRICULAR DISTRIBUTION
Ampersand is now the ANZAC distributor of New York art and culture journal Cabinet Magazine and The Believer from McSweeney’s in San Francisco. As you may realise but need validation from the authoritative voice of the internet: this is incredibly excellent.

Ampersand held a launch event on Saturday the 4th July at Black&Blue Gallery, Redfern, Sydney. It was a bloody brilliant night. The photos are on the archive page of this ghastly site.

Cabinet Magazine

The Believer


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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.
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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.


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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, 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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Also,


The Age syndicated article - Gerard Hynes April 09 (pdf)
Brag interview - Alice Gage - March 09 (pdf)
Media Release - Ampersand Magazine Oct 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.


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