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We are busily compiling material for the next Version of Evidence on "Isms".
If you are interested in submitting a piece for consideration, please read the guidelines here and below for more information.

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Now available: Version 3 - images that move - buy
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EXTENSION TO DEADLINES for Versions 4 and 5.
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Call for submissions:
Version 4: isms

“[ev’ryone‘s talking ‘bout] Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism, This-ism, That-ism”.

If an ‘ism’ identifies a group, an idea, a belief, a system, from what did this develop…what can be cited as the first ‘ism’? Is it logical to assume that the first ‘isms’ came about when humans developed a consciousness? Is art a consciousness of experience, engagement and disengagement, centring around ideas of difference and sameness; common or specific highlights within experience? Maybe it is only possible for an ism to be ascribed to a group…thus, a consciousness of group difference, perhaps separating smaller masses from homogenous mass. Must we assume that the unnamed is predominant, and that the ism represents dissent from this larger entity, in effect.. Can isms ever be individualised?

As an organising principle of difference…’isms can also be defined by silent mass – undefined mass even, but that which is not capturing the specialty or particularities of assumed smaller ‘niche’ groups… Isms’ function are generally viral by nature i.e., they are more often than not ascribed with a doctrine of sorts, that map out the geographies of those defining factors.

Isms suggest a stance, a belief, a standard, a radical viewpoint and a movement from a fixed point to point of fluidity, flux and growth …they are defined by the silent other and the vociferous others..Isms are defined by sharp turns in the road and cul-de-sacs. Isms organise within a re-thinking of chaos.

Isms also suggest repeated behaviours that specify experience as niche, but within it – an ubiquity… having it’s own determinants, criteria and characteristics. Social movements such as libertarianism, feminism, Marxism, futurism, idealism etc differentiated between backdrop and foreground, becoming active agents of change to specified status quo’s.

Are isms ever anything other than retrospective. Isms record time and place; development and advancement through experience.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: mid-night, Sunday 8th August 2010

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Call for submissions:
Version 5: on pouring milk

[the] Evidence is interested in texts and images relating to poetic practices (though not poetry per se) and performative documentation as well as proposals relating to ideas of... fluidity, haphazardness, speculation, ordering of things, streams of consciousness, points between an idea or action, movement, servicing, accommodating and sharing…, actions lacking intention, privacy, "open thinking", speculation of nature in context of the everyday, movement short-circuited by a chance occurrence, predictable actions made unpredictable, inherent radical tendencies or tendencies of radical inheritance, incident and day-dreaming.

Works can be in progress, ideas not yet realised and wildcards.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: mid-night, Sunday 3rd October 2010

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Guidline:

[the] Evidence is interested in the widest, lateral response to themes and invites written, and image based work that speculates on subjects from a variety of perspectives. We are generally not interested in creative writing or poetry, unless it is part of/transpires from an artistic practice or performative work. Please note that all written work will be subject to sub-editing.

Images subject to copyright, MUST be cleared by the contributor before we print. It is expected that authors and/or artists will confirm, in writing to the editor, that they have permission for us to use the image(s).

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Currently in production are Versions 4 and 5: Isms and On pouring milk. Publishing dates will be September and October, 2010.

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