๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ artwork by Zinzi Minott ๐
โโBLOODSOUND was a solo exhibition held at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK, FebruaryโMay 2022. As well as the sound sculpture BLOODSOUND, it featured works of prints, moving image, sound, and sculpture expanding from Minottโs durational film work(s) FI DEMโreleased annually on the 22nd June to commemorate the Windrush Generation.
Explore this further in our Issue 011: SLEEP โ out now!
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/perchance-to-dream/ โค๏ธ
OPEN CALL ๐
Be part of our next Supporters Issue! We invite submissions of visual artworks which consider the various elements of Crush: to break, damage, or distort in shape; to subdue; to press together; to have a brief or intense infatuation for someone.
We will consider visual works in mediums applicable to digital presentation, such as moving image works, digital illustration, or photography. You can see the types of work Stillpoint Magazine publishes by reading past open-access issues here. You are welcome to get in touch with Art Director Kate Holford before submitting, should you be unsure whether your work would be suitable for this context. You can email her at [email protected].
You can submit by sending a selection of images or a link to a video, along with a brief description of the work (up to 350 words), and some info about you/your practice, to Kate via [email protected].
Selected works will be featured in our next issue for Supporters, due out in December.
In everything we publish we emphasize the work of those historically marginalized in institutional settings and in publishing. We specifically emphasize the work of emerging artists in our Supporters Issues. Everyone is welcome to submit.
Honorarium: $150
Deadline: 14 November
Follow the link below for more info.
We look forward to hearing from you ๐
https://stillpointmag.org/opportunities/
Inertia and social apathy, a copy of a copy of a copy, detox from pop culture, natureโs irreducibility and strangeness, Sappho and Sisyphus, Hamlet, the invisible made visible, laughter, archives, various remedies. Dream on ๐ญ
Stillpoint Magazine Issue 011: SLEEP out now!
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Dream on... ๐ญ
Issue 011: SLEEP out on October 5th.
From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, a video by Tabita Rezaire.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต envisions a study of information and communication technologies exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestors communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. Overcoming the organism-spirit-device divide, this work explores spiritual connections as communication networks and the possibilities of decolonial technologies.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต investigates the cybernetic spaces where the organic, technological and spiritual worlds connect. How can we use biological or metaphysical systems to fuel technological process of information, control and governance?
Contrary to the Eurocentric-biased thinking, our information super highway might find its roots in African spirituality. Significant research attributes the birth of binary mathematics โ which is the foundation principle of computing sciences โ to African divination systems such as Ifa from the Yoruba people, of West Africa. We have much to recover in terms of connectivity and its potentialities.
As modern science just recently discovered the role of underground fungi networks used by plants to communicate and transfer information, ancient tradition have long known how to communicate with nature and download its knowledge. This study of dynamic networks from artificial, spiritual and biological environments digs into the politics of possibilities, where a techno-consciousness could nurture a mind-body-spirit-technology symbiosis.
This video was published in our Issue 003: FALLOW in December 2019. Continue to watch it here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/the-spaceman-dissolves/
From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, a video by Tabita Rezaire.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต envisions a study of information and communication technologies exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestors communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. Overcoming the organism-spirit-device divide, this work explores spiritual connections as communication networks and the possibilities of decolonial technologies.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต investigates the cybernetic spaces where the organic, technological and spiritual worlds connect. How can we use biological or metaphysical systems to fuel technological process of information, control and governance?
Contrary to the Eurocentric-biased thinking, our information super highway might find its roots in African spirituality. Significant research attributes the birth of binary mathematics โ which is the foundation principle of computing sciences โ to African divination systems such as Ifa from the Yoruba people, of West Africa. We have much to recover in terms of connectivity and its potentialities.
As modern science just recently discovered the role of underground fungi networks used by plants to communicate and transfer information, ancient tradition have long known how to communicate with nature and download its knowledge. This study of dynamic networks from artificial, spiritual and biological environments digs into the politics of possibilities, where a techno-consciousness could nurture a mind-body-spirit-technology symbiosis.
This video was published in our Issue 003: FALLOW in December 2019. Continue to watch it here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/the-spaceman-dissolves/
From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐ (2020), a video by Dagmar Schรผrrer.
The narrator in the moving image work ๐๐๐๐๐๐ is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of an encounter of love and disappointment, by telling about the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise en scรฉne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.
This video was published in our Issue 005: DAZE in September 2020. Continue to watch it here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/anthropocene-crossing/
From our archive: ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, a video by Guerreiro do Divino Amor.
The fourth chapter of the ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ด project explores the idea of a future as a petrified past. In an accelerated geological time, centuries crystallize in a few months in the form of a city. This process is driven by the force of mystical rationalism, who has the power to embalm ideas and social structures so that they last forever.
Both the idea of a future as a petrified past, and that of a long-perpetrated apocalypse, permeate throughout the whole ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ต๐ญ๐ข๐ด project. It explores how the social structures of colonial slavery in Brazil reproduce in a transfigured way throughout the centuries succeeding it. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข specifically explores the cycles that repeat within this: a new civilization is founded but is revealed to be the return of a past that never ended.
This video was published in our Issue 004: APOCALYPSE in April 2020. Continue to watch it here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/ai-and-the-missing-body/
We are growing and hiring both a Magazine Intern and a Nonprofit Manager!
โจMagazine Intern โจ
We seek an administrative and marketing intern. If you have an interest in psychoanalysis, contemporary art, and/or critical social theory, and are looking for a role that can develop your skills in supporting editorial-curatorial activities, we'd love to hear from you.
$15/hour, 20 hours/week for one year, Remote/Gobal. Application deadline August 5, interviews week beginning August 15, and internship start date early September 2022.
โจNonprofit Managerโจ
This new role offers the opportunity for an energized professional to be fully engaged in growing the readership and supporter-subscribers of Stillpoint Magazine during a transitional momento of growth, and the establishment of Stillpoint Magazine as an independent nonprofit organization.
$25-$28/hour, .8 FTE (32 hours per week) + Full Benefits, in Minneapolis, MN (Twin Cities applicants are preferred, but applicants from other parts of the U.S. will also be considered). Deadline July 29, interviews week beginning August 8 and start date September (dependent on notice period of successful candidate).
Please read the full job specifications, what would make you a successful candidate and what you need to send us to enter the selection process here:
https://stillpointmag.org/opportunities/
Today Alicia Valdรฉs, author of ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ต (Routledge, 2022), recommends Robert K. Beshara's essay ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฐ-๐๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ด๐บ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐บ๐ด๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐น๐ช๐ด, published in our Issue 005: Daze. You can read it here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/the-importance-of-freudo-lacanian-psychoanalysis/
From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, a video game by Tabitha Nikolai โ paired with an editorial statement by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon.
๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต is a walking sim and text adventure set in a nameless world-building project that explores queer community in post-apocalyptic setting. As with most sci-fi, itโs more about circumstances of the present than prognostication. We live in cataclysmic and catalytic times.
The game explores feelings of isolation within suburbia and an ambivalence about online connectivity as a mode of circumventing it. The opportunity to socialize in a disembodied way can be highly therapeutic. Nevertheless, neither the architectures of these spaces, nor the actors within them, are inherently benign.
This video game was featured in our Issue 007: DESIRE in April 2021. You are invited to watch the videoin full and download the game for mac or pc here:
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/reckless/
From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ (2019), a video by Nairobi based artist Syowia Kyambi โ paired with fiction by Monica Sanborn. ๐
Kaspaleโs Playground grapples with public memory, parts of which are not (yet) so public. Revisiting Kenyaโs recent history, Syowia Kyambi brings to the fore the many layers of violence that underpinned former President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moiโs twenty-four year rule in Kenya. The work came about as a need to engage with Kenyaโs post-independence era and a desire to dismantle a symbol of fear and oppression. The work investigates the oppressive nature of a regime in which Kyambi grew up, and which informed her sense of self during her most formative years. She selected Nyayo House as a focus as it is a strong symbol not only in her memories but also in todayโs time. Kaspaleโs Playground seeks to publicly claim both the remembering and the telling of this history in ways that are not mediated by a supposed shared national memory. With Moiโs recent passing this history has been white washed and made to appear like a peaceful and unproblematic President. This film is in remembrance of the victims of the Nyayo House torture chambers and honors the power and strength of the mothers involved in the 1992 protest.
This video was featured in our Issue 006: SEIZE in December 2020. Continue watching it in our link below!
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/mother/
Syowia Kyambi, and Kaspale, are also featured elsewhere in Issue 006, as images from Kaspaleโs Archive Intrusion, which are presented alongside Breno Lunaโs extended essay Brazilian Military Police and the Anatomy of a Necrostate.
From our archive: From our archive: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ (2020) by David Petrerka
The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by white police officer Derek Chauvin was an event that sparked a global uprising for Black Lives. Not merely a condemnation of individualized racism, this uprising targets global and local systems that haveโwithout explicitly naming the practiceโoppressed and killed Black people for generations, worldwide.
The burning of Minneapolisโs 3rd precinctโa police department with a long and well-documented history of white supremacist tiesโwas an event that symbolizes the dismantling of white supremacy and the honoring of Black life, while acknowledging the centuries of injustice that now necessitate a swelling up of righteous rage, not only in Minneapolis, but around the world.
This video depicts civil unrest, violent images and explicit language.
It was published in our Isue 005: DAZE in September 2020. Continue watching it via our link below.
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/exit-strategy/
๐ฃ๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ (๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฎ) ๐โ๐จ by Andrea Garcia Vasquez ๐ค
Two bodies move through a landscape of virtual and physical realities sharing their own perceptions and understandings around the behaviours, sources, and variable forms of judgment. How do we navigate our own judgements and allow ourselves to be judged? The motion and meaning of "pivoting" repeats itself throughout the video, implying the many-faceted, multi-layered versions of reality we can constantly be experiencing if we allow ourselves to perceive it that way. The characters go through lists of the different grounds one may judge on as well as the make-up of the material bodies we can base and center these values on. This video was made and inspired by conversations Andrea Garcia Vasquez had with Dimitra Ioanou over a one month period in preparation for our last publication. Some phrases and words come directly from those conversations and a Google Document the two shared while collaboratively discussing judgements. The voices are AI generated and the video footage is an assemblage of found footage, 3D animations made by the artist, and personal video documentation of Florida, where Andrea Garcia Vasquez often goes but does not really enjoy being.
Watch it in full in our issue 010: JUDGE.
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/retracting-plexus/
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐กโ๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ ๐น by Ben Dawson ๐ค
This video takes the allegory of Danteโs Inferno to create interlocking and overlapping queer, alchemical alternatives to the strictures of language and the systems of the inherited world.
View and download the full script from the video to read more through and about the work. Everything avaliable in our Issue 010: JUDGE.
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/transcend-incarceration/
๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธ by Iman Tajik ๐ค
The Dreamers (2020), that are set in a rural Scottish landscape referencing the historic Highland Clearances, explores the notion of the border and questions the value and role of nationality in a time of emergency. The Dreamers series was made during Tajikโs residency at Deveron Arts, Huntly as part of Tajik Bordered Miles project which was a day-long group walk from the centre of Glasgow to Dungavel House immigration removal centre, approximately 26 miles south of the city in June 2021. The flag was raised outside the Dungavel detention centre. An extension of Iman Tajikโs ongoing interest in making work for the public realm, the walk invites participants, both physically and virtually, to pay close attention to immigration detention centres, and the movement of bodies as a natural right of any species.
See the rest of the photo project in our issue 010: JUDGE.
https://stillpointmag.org/articles/coming-out-ahead/
Law and transgression, embodiment and alienation, complex symbiosis, food, data, borders, monsters and poetic montages. What's wrong?
Stillpoint Magazine Issue 010: JUDGE ๐๏ธ out now!
https://stillpointmag.org/issue/010-judge/
