Ramping up for an early start in activity by taking part in the Los Angeles Art Book Fair in January and another event built around Albert Cossery’s Laziness in the Fertile Valley with NYC publishing house New Directions, Middle Eastern project and publication Bidoun will be celebrating their 10th anniversary by digitising their archive, migrating mostly online and scaling back on the quarterly print publications to annual ones.
That’s not say they’re going anywhere, of course, with other publications like Dazed & Confused announcing they’ll be shrinking their print output in 2014 too because it just makes more sense. Bidoun probably just needs a little more help, which is why they’re calling out for contributions and support by joining the Friends of Bidoun community. Best do that and get those back issues while you still can. **
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Post-dramatic ground zero: Ivan Cheng discusses gay vampires, club culture & the queer fiction of his Confidences series in an interview for TLTRPreß’s The Yap
Examining economic disenfranchisement, privileged bodies & new age therapies with PHILTH HAUS’s LYLEX 1.0
sentinel reflects on world-building with memories on the cover art of spools of gossamer, released via unseelie
Colour through nostalgia: talking sampling, slowing down & the dreamlike escapism of internet-native ambient music with ANIMA ahead of Norbergfestival
Hold them in love: notes on Every Ocean Hughes’ One Big Bag, end-of-life care & resisting a ‘slow death’ under neoliberal capitalism
Lagrima plays with embrace & longing on the heartfelt ballad of ‘Raindrops’
Ytem & Escha capture alluring melancholia on the video for ‘Dysmorphia’ with Fauness
Rituals of kinship, discipline & survival with Matthew Lax’s explorations of dog breeding & puppy play kink
Torus reimagines flight & time-warp from a past film on the accelerated IDM of ‘Chroniko VIP’
BABYNYMPH & Diana Starshine share the broken euphoria of ‘Trauma Pop Pt. II’ for REIF’s 02 compilation
Exploring the human, ecological crisis & technological imaginaries at the geodesic dome vivarium of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, with the Terra [Alterities] group show
Loss Across Landscapes: Sonya Merutka writes on the queer kinship & the histories that remain in I tilted over until it becomes horizon
NZIRIA’s ‘Hard Tarantella’ harnesses psychomagic to explore their Neopolitan roots in a hardcore take on ‘musica neomelodica’
An array of cultural milieus, waves & notions of the underground in the sculptural & video work of Ivan Cheng
“I just make it because I want to.” Aircode on laziness, anti-productivity & retroactively aligning with illbient on her debut album Grounded
