Date of Premiere Issue : Spring 2003
Editors : Marc-A Valli, Lachlan Blackley, Sebastian Campos, Samuel Baker, Inca Starzinksky
Contributing Editors : Victor Cheung, Catherine Hall, Carah von Funk & Lisa Shimamura, Patrick Sundkvist, Andrew Thomas
Design : Sebastian Campos (Afficionado), Samuel Baker, Inca Starzinsky
Publisher : Rudolf van Wezel
Dimensions : 11 11/16" x 9"
Frequency : 4 issues per year
Country of Origin : London, United Kingdom
Website : www.bispublishers.nl & www.magmabooks.com
Statement
Product Information
Magazines are not like books. Magazines have no titles. Magazines have no authors. Magazines are not dedicated to anyone in particular.
Magazines are loosely assembled. They are put together like a bunch of flowers - with images, articles and subjects picked up more or less at random. Magazines can be confusing. Magazines are unreliable. Magazines are packed with lies, with contradictions, with delusions of grandeur.
Magazines are containers, places you fill with things, with weapons, with bullets, with thoughts, with flights of fancy.
Magazines are spontaneous gestures, improvised gatherings, surprise parties. Magazines are always a bit of a criminal act, born out of motive and opportunity. Vicious, compulsive, addictive. Magazines are twisted fairy tales.
Magazines are convivial, chatty., their culture is an almost oral culture, distracted, forgetful, feverish, full of gossip, rumours, legends. Magazines do not know how to mind their own business. Magazines have eyes. Magazines like to stare at you. Magazines like to flirt. Magazines like to undress. Magazines are seductive, promiscuous.
Magazines are not disciplined, they don't like to stand neatly spine-out on a shelf. Magazines love to lie down and spread themselves.
Magazines can be found piled up on coffee tables in the waiting rooms of doctors, dentists and hairdressers. Magazines are sold alongside books, cigarettes, lottery tickets, soft drinks, vegetables, chocolates, packets of crisps...Magazines contain no valuable vitamins or minerals., they are not edible, they're often tasteless. Magazines are inflammable. Magazines can cause fires. Magazines grow freely in the urban wilderness. They gather in messy and colourful clusters on metallic hedges known as newstands.
But,
a new magazine is a delicate species. It can become extinct within a year. A new magazine is a wilful creature. A new magazine is a new pair of eyes, a new texture, a new accent, a new scent. A new magazine is a vague promise, a half remembered dream, a deja-vu. A new magazine is an unexpected short-cut, a deviation, a different walk. A new magazine is a blind date, a rendez-vous. A new magazine is what you were waiting for. A new magazine is what you're looking at. A new magazine is what you're going to make out of it.
Marc-A Valli