RECAPS (Reclaim Culture Art Politics Sexuality) is an online magazine exploring relationships between RECAPS Magazine is a forum for conversation. Lee.
Our mission is to explore what emerges when content is brought together from different historical, geographical, methodological, aesthetic, and political vantage points. The magazine includes work that ranges from the canonical to the provisional, the abstract to the polemical, the timely to the archival. RECAPS explores the relationship between virtual community and embodied activism. The (re)pri
nt section is the most literal example but this line of inquiry structures the entire project. RECAPS attaches the prefix “re” in categorizing the content because the magazine is built on the idea that resistance is a process of repeating ideas, reworking strategies and reimaging what seems possible. “Re” reflects the belief that ideas are collectively produced and an engagement with the political present requires looking backward. RECAPS is edited by Martabel Wasserman with support from an editorial collective that includes Bdy Dbl, Rebecca Lieberman, Colette S, and Christopher J. It features regular design contributions from Rebecca Lieberman and a new logo by Remeike Forbes. As of July 2013, Alice Royer is the Director of Community Outreach. Questions, comments and submissions can be sent to recapsmagazine [at] gmail [dot] com.
Missing our friend, Heather Anne Welch.
I’m starting a club, The Handsome Women’s Club. We’re not strictly against admitting men to the club, but they will be evaluated on a case by case basis by a panel of their peers. There will be no meetings or functions of any kind, no benefits and no dues. There will be some occasional opportunities…
Revisiting this during our hiatus and the passover/easter/equinox season.
1.Put on a pastel silk slip or a clean white sheath. Wear an eye mask and cover yourself in white down comforters and sheets. If you don’t have these things, announce that this is for an art project on Facebook and accept temporary donations. Slather your face in creams. Take melatonin and sleep for…
More from Zackary Drucker on the legendary Flawless Sabrina
The opening titles of Transparent, the critically acclaimed series currently streaming on Amazon Prime, are culled mostly from video clips of bar and bat mitzvah videos from the 1960s to the '90s—ending with the time code "JAN. 1 1994." It’s a nostalgic montage that alludes to a crucial turning poin…
TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT TO WILD CARD [email protected]
RECAPS contributor Julio Salgado with Janet Mock!
Like those cheesy inspirational prints for your office buy way, way, way better.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!
ISSUE 13: WILD CARD
In the spirit of re-thinking our project regularly, it is after many issues with specific themes that we are pleased to announce an open call for submissions. Send art, analysis, essays, fiction, polemics, poetry, posters, gifs, scores, webisodes, mp3s, curated archival material, etc. etc. to [email protected] by Monday October 13.
In the interim, keep us posted on your up-to-the-minute work on the Climate March, solidarity organizing from Ferguson to Gaza, and other current and cultural events for our BLOG section.
Thanks for the shout-out Anonymous! Happy Labor Day!
Getting ready for Labor Day! Stay tuned for a special blogpost later today!
Since Martabel first approached the RECAPS editorial team with the prospect of an online social/art practice platform, we have put ourselves to the challenge of creating working definitions of “community” that will help inform our own practices. Though we are currently scattered across the nation an…
Getting ready for Labor Day! Stay tuned for a history of the holiday in the US later today.
Since Martabel first approached the RECAPS editorial team with the prospect of an online social/art practice platform, we have put ourselves to the challenge of creating working definitions of “community” that will help inform our own practices. Though we are currently scattered across the nation an…
"The drone turns around to look. As if it feels guilt."
Read "Infinite Mirror" by Matias Viegener in our latest issue:
http://recapsmagazine.com/rethink/infinite-mirror-by-matias-viegener/
They are our spooky friends, the drones. You think they’re coming but they’re already here. You know that movie Poltergeist? Back then they still needed to come through our TV sets. Now they’re much smarter. There might be one under your bed right now. Two years ago I decided to prepare myself…
From the archive, Nedya Jaber interviews Sarah Schulman in 2013.
On May Day 2011, the first Palestinian trade union conference for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli occupation was held in Ramallah, aligning labor organizers with the largest Palestinian civic movement, a non-violent resistance strategy that has solidarity the world over…
RECAPS's cover photo
Announcing the newest issue of RECAPS: Rethink Environment, Part II. With pyramids, poems, drones, rocks, trees, succulents, cyborgs and so much more.
http://recapsmagazine.com/
Featuring: Adrienne Adar, Dan Bayles, Claudia Borgna, Katie Brewer Ball, Heather Davis, Óscar Diaz, enn msrv, Martin Eiermann, Kathy Garcia, Maya Gurantz, Kelly Johnson, Local Honey, Rya Kleinpeter, Natalia Leite, Hillary Mushkin, Paul Pescador, Alayna Rasile, Adrienne Rosenberg, Alexandra Roxo, Benjy Russell, Brianna Skellie, Félix Solono Vargas, Boris Torres, Matias Viegener, Phoebe Wang, Marty Windahl, Laurie Weeks
Suzanne Wright.
Reclaim Pride! A poster from our archives by Julio Salgado.
Two Poems by Vanessa Roveto
here is Rosa Luxemburg’s strap-on harnessed onto her body as she makes incendiary notes, britches open slightly to accommodate the thrust of ideas. perhaps, she thinks, the revolt should not wait for an equalized working class, for the false ideolo…
Check out our blog post in honor of (Reclaim) Pride Month, RETHINK LE***AN RAGE with an all star cast of contributors: JD Samson, Ann Cvetkovich, and Carina Finn.
Check out this discussion on alternative publications by Christopher J. Lee that features a fun Q+A with RECAPS.
Get ready for May Day with RECAPS! Check out our special issue from last year.
Cross-generational q***r dialog with Flawless Sabrina and the generous and gorgeous Zackary Drucker.
Zackary Drucker: ?I had known truth?? Flawless Sabrina: I had known truth and he was a drug addict. FS: This stuff is going to be coming in and you are going to need someone to traffic cop.
More earth day love from RECAPS, check out the link to our site in this beautiful piece on Paulette Nenner.
Because humans need special days to remind us to pay attention to issues we should care about all the time, today is the Earth Day, an annual reminder of the fragility of the planet and the necessi...
Day 2! A wild ride from the spiritual to the polemic and back again. An amazing concert by Odeya Nini finished an excellent day of radical workshops, feminist films, map making and more. Thank you everyone who made it possible! Rebecca Lieberman Alexandra Pacheco Kellie Lanham Vanessa Roveto Johanna Breiding Shoghig Halajian Xiaowei Richard Wang Amy von Harrington Bdy Dbl Nick Duran Lisa Tucker, and everyone else on and off Facebook!
TODAY!! We will wind down are happening with lip balm and seed bomb making, an astrology teach-in in the pyramid, feral movement, conversation about landscape, an all star reading, meditations on drones, and an ecosexual love story! Starting today at 1!
Thanks to everyone who came out last night! It was a magical, utopic, adventure in community. Today! Part II: The program is fertile with groovy feelings. Come draw you heart chakra, make yogurt, participate in an experimental movement class, hang out and heel in the pyramid, learn about gendered histories of gardens, smash a pinata, watch four fierce feminist videos, go on a sonic journey and MORE!
*** Paul Pescador's Orange is CANCELED! We wish him well in his flu recovery! Added: Talk about animal law and California agriculture at 7:30. We will move the videos and concert to a slightly earlier time
Tonight at Human Resources!! Learn about water in Palestine, drink beer made by the poppy collective, watch a computer turn into gold, meditate under a copper pyramid, and enjoy the music and projections of the insanely talented Emily Reo.
footage edited and arranged by emily reo // taken from the film 'microcosmos' by claude nuridsany, marie pérennou and jacques perrin. 'wind' from the album 'olive…
Rethink Environment begins TOMORROW at Human Resources LA! There will be three days of performances, teach-ins, screenings, readings, dance parties, crafts, magic and more.
We are pleased to present Issue 11, Rethink Environment: Part One.
With a complete program of events at Human Resources, April 18-20th
http://recapsmagazine.com/
THE RETHINK ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM!
Our first blog post! An interview with Alaska Thunderf**k.
RECAPS: Welcome back to LA! We are so happy to have you here again. How has the scene changed since you left? What is inspiring you about being back? and what would you like to change or influence in this lovely dystopic/utopic urban sprawl?
SEND US YOUR WORK AND PROPOSALS FOR THE RETHINK ENVIRONMENT ISSUE AND EVENT AT HUMAN RESOURCES BY MONDAY, MARCH 17TH. [email protected]
Re-minder! Send your proposals for the Re-think Environment Issue/Exhibition/Happening by March 15th to [email protected]
RE-THINK ENVIRONMENT:
After much re-flecting on how best to mobilize the RECAPS archive and generate new material, we have decided to mark the occasion of our upcoming 11th issue “Rethink Environment,” by hosting a happening with in Los Angeles at Human Resources, between Friday April 18th- Sunday April 20th. 2014. We kindly request your presence virtually and/or physically. We will both re-consider the potential of a such a gathering and broadly re-think the environments in which we do so. The event will both show and generate content for the issue.
SEEKING PROPOSALS AND SUBMISSIONS:
Send us your ruminations on sustainable solutions, utopia and/or dystopic science fiction, essays on radical architecture and rethinking borders, new cartographies, occupations and occupying, erotic encounters in virtual or physical spaces, posters, photographs, polemics, manifestos, videos, mantras, reflections on communing, proposals for performances, readings, rituals, teach-ins, social practice, installations, etc. Please send your submissions to [email protected] by March 15th, 2014.
*Due to the short turn around time, the sooner we are able to start dialogs with interested participants, the more likely we will be able to dream and scheme about making space for the work
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY.
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