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26 June 2009

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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.
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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.
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.


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Double Portrait - Heidi Yardley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus

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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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