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
Janus
6 – Polly
Dedman
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PERFORMANCE SPACE AND AMPERSAND MAGAZINE PRESENTS
YELLING AT STARS
DVD LAUNCH
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.
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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commentary, criticism, essays and interviews. We welcome
satire and true stories. We only sporadically print fiction
and poetry.
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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.
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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
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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,
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