Making Art x Inspiring Change
Prize vulnerability. Be delusional. Learn the function of your art.
According to Jerry Saltz:
Art has been carried into war; made to protect us, curse a neighbor, kill someone; been an aid in getting pregnant or preventing pregnancy.
So, will your creations cast curses or protect the vulnerable? Rewire brains with beauty or inject them mind-shifting disturbance?
Saltz's HOW TO BE AN ARTIST guide may be meant for visual artists but, truly, it will find a home in the hearts of anyone who wishes to create, no matter the medium. One of the grooviest things about this guide is the creative exercises placed throughout, like this one:
Exercise: Build a Life Totem Using any material on any surface, make or draw or render a four-foot-tall totem pole of your life. From this totem, we should be able to know something about you other than what you look like or how many siblings you have. Include anything you want: words, letters, maps, photos, objects, signs. This should take no longer than a week. After a week, it’s finished. Period. Now show it to someone who does not know you well. Tell them only, “This is a totem pole of my life till now.” That’s all. It doesn’t matter if they like it. Ask them to tell you what it means about your life. No clues. Listen to what they tell you.
Ghost photography from an earlier time, scars bearing witness to violence and the badgered toes of beauty. Just some of the photo stories featured here giving rise to new vision.
What will you do with a box cutter and your childhood dictionary? The sacrilege and beauty of transforming old books into works of art.
Seeking books from the unbeaten path? Art curator Hans Ulrich-Obrist discusses his 10 favorite books.
Need inspiration for a new hobby or questionable creative undertaking? Look no further than TED Talks, of course.
1. We’re still accepting submissions for our final --hence, tirade. issue of the year! Any theme goes for this one! Deadline to submit is Friday, Dec. 7, and guidelines can be found HERE.
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3. Oh, boy! And our CYBER WEEK SALE ends Friday, 11/30. We’ve received several requests during the year for the Revenge anthology as well as for Jackie Wang’s The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming. Both are back in stock and will begin shipping next week, along with the just released Meditations of the Nameless Infinite by Matthew Burnside. Get ‘em fast! We won’t get more back in stock until next year!
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