Deadline Extended: Send Submissions Before June 30th
Because we are so busy putting the finishing touches on the first book from OBSOLETE! Press, we have decided to push back issue #6 a few weeks. So- it's not too late to submit your work!
“In Praise of Illness” is the theme of the 6th issue of OBSOLETE!
Because we are so busy putting the finishing touches on the first book from OBSOLETE! Press, we have decided to push back issue #6 a few weeks. So- it's not too late to submit your work!
“In Praise of Illness” is the theme of the 6th issue of OBSOLETE!
The latest edition of the sporadical
newsprint tabloid will explore the connections between art and
illness. Artists and writers are invited to submit fiction, poetry,
essays, photographs, cartoons and other 2D artwork directly or
indirectly addressing the role of physical or mental illness, disease
and disorders in the creative process, in society, technology,
religion, politics, history.....
Every day, new drugs are being
developed and marketed to address issues that, in the past, may have
simply been accepted as aspects of an individuals life. Angst, ennui,
precociousness, apathy, melancholy are all now defined as treatable
disorders. Are the treatments for ADHD, ODD and other conditions
medicating away the symptoms that made Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison who they were? Wired Magazine has for
several years explored the high rate of Asperger's Syndrome among
successful software developers. Is Asperger's a disease, or an
symptom of evolution?
Do physical disorders inspire
creativity, a new way of thinking about physical space? Prosthetic
limbs and artificial organs are changing lives the way eyeglasses did
in the past. Buckminster Fuller often spoke about the fact that he
saw the world as a blur as a child until he went to school and was
fitted with glasses- at which point he saw order in everything.
Medication, self-medication, diagnosed
and undiagnosed conditions, treatment and healing, overcoming and
submitting to illness- learning, creating, living and dying. Share
your experiences in OBSOLETE #6.
Deadline is June 11th, 2012
Submit work (or inquiries) to:
obmag (at) feral-tech.com
or
OBSOLETE!
PO Box 72
Victor, IA 52347
include SASE for original work
