Grafters’ Quarterly is an English-language newspaper shaping a forum for engaged attitudes and was formed to address the renewal of theorising as an activity of initial discovery by addressing what we perceive to be a lack of rigorous, considered activity adjacent to what is often contemptuously partitioned as ‘theory’. Concerned by this attitude, one particularly prevalent in art, Grafters’ Quart
erly is a space in which participants from differing fields can develop their writing and ideas rigorously without the stylistic restrictions of academia. We feel that writing and striving to create concepts are key to establishing a culture relinquished from the grip of spectacle-production and wary of didactic responsibilities, but from which a public body can also see that such a dynamic in turn enables a consideration of how culture addresses us and that as addressees - which at some stage we all are - performed responses and imagined logics are the fundaments by which attitudes are formed and societies recalibrated. Historically, newspapers have acted as congregators of social conscience, proliferating a vocabulary for current events. We feel it is still a forum with which such sympathy can be practiced through a consideration of the coalesced perspectives and activities of focussed and engaged contributors, the newspaper being open to others without dictating a hyper-rapid mode of address and information relay, but by insisting on a sense of urgency, believing in the persistence of what is presented. The name of the newspaper alludes to this: ‘grafting’ denoting writing, the merging of one plant in another to facilitate continued growth, as well as a more colloquial expression for ‘work’. Founded & Edited by Tora Endestad Bjørkheim & Johnny Herbert. Grafters' Quarterly is kindly supported by Arts Council Norway and Bergen Municipality. Inquiries: [email protected]
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