13 Sep 2012

Prism of Reality // Issue Number 1 // Hard Release

PRISM OF REALITY is pleased to announce the HARD RELEASE of its inaugural issue.

A Prism of Reality: a self-evident visuality, a metaphor that declares the truth of the image it produces. A prism of reality clarifies nothing; yet it emphasizes, insists, actualizes its metaphors. PRISM OF REALITY is a new artist-run arts journal that treats culture as de facto and absolute, itself constitutive of reality. In these pages, we twist the self-actualizing rhetoric of the New Right into a renewed radical politic. We aim to raise the stakes of art and art discourse. These are our materials, our gestures, our cinemas, our utopias; our metaphors. Prism of Reality is distributed internationally in print and online, and is released every nine months.

Issue 1 features

MEGHANN McCRORY and MICHAEL PARKER on WHY UTOPIA NOW?;

MATT SIEGLE on GESTURE PERFORMANCE;

JAMES BENNING in conversation with CHIARA GIOVANDO and TRAVIS DIEHL on the films of KEN JACOBS;

and GEORGIA KENNEDY on our MATERIAL CONDITIONS //

plus reviews by TRAVIS DIEHL;

AMY HOWDEN-CHAPMAN; STEVE KADO; and JON RUTZMOSER of work by THE WOOSTER GROUP;

GEORGE HERMS; SIMON FUJIWARA; and ROBERTO CUOGHI //

with a HAND-SILKSCREENED COVER image photographed by IAN JAMES.


Please join us in Los Angeles, California on September 15th to celebrate the beginning of the work to come. Print copies will be available for purchase.