New York City’s umbrella arts and activism outfit Where We Are Now launches their online journal today, adding to their already impressive efforts a public, participatory forum for analysis. The inaugural issue focuses on the aesthetics and politics of intimacy through essays, projects, legal cases, and interdisciplinary research by a select group of artists and cultural practitioners.
Andrea Geyer, from a series entitled “Out of Sorts” (2008), 9 banners for public display
The central question posed by this edition is about the relationship between intimacy and our understandings of the body and social relations, particularly when intimacy is understood geo- and micro-politically. In their working definition, intimacy is frequently considered as
a feeling of rawness, confluence, and proximity. The space of intimacy often feels atemporal, privileging the safety of disclosure and heightened physiological, sexual, or affective response.
Editors Marisa Jahn and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy have compiled submissions on the subject from Claire Barliant, Svetlana Boym, Rene Gabri, Andrea Geyer, Joseph Grima, Ed Halter, Jill Magid, Dave Rankin & Marisa Jahn, and Mary Anne Staniszewski.
The journal’s website is scheduled to go live this evening, at 6:00PM, and submissions are being accepted for their next issue, Speculating on Change, due out in fall, 2009.
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