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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
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
CaptureTheFade_ReleaseForm
PDF
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.
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!
.
Ampersand
will also
be appearing on the Gleebooks book stand at the Sydney
Writers’ Festival.
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PRESS:
Stack
The Thousands
Two Thousand photos of the Sydney launch
Throw Shapes
A.S.Patric.Ink
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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).
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
Janus
6 – Polly
Dedman
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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.
Double Portrait - Heidi Yardley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
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