📢✂️Hybrid Narratives an Interview with Marta Janik published in Kolaj Magazine #42✂️📢

Earlier this year, I caught up with my dear friend and collaborator Marta Janik for an insightful interview about humanities place in nature, her sources of inspiration, and her current art practice. Marta is a Flea Circus Ringmaster, Skilled Animator and Collage Artist Extraordinaire based in Warsaw, Poland. I am delighted to say that you can read all about our conversation ‘Hybrid Narratives’ in the new issue of Kolaj Magazine.

Marta also has an upcoming exhibition
”Co robią małpiszony? / What do the cheeky monkeys do?”
Saturday, September 6th,
From: 10am- 6pm with an official opening event at 4pm CEST,
At: Muzeum Karykatury im. Eryka Lipińskiego,
Warsaw, Poland.

Kolaj Magazine Issue #42 also features:
✂️“Little Beasts: Art, Wonder and the Natural World” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
✂️In “Dance to Resist & Rebel,” they report on how the always excellent UK artist Mark Murphy took collage to Glastonbury Festival.
✂️A profile of San Diego, California-based collagist G. E. Vogt‘s collage project that takes on Project 2025, a plan by the current administration to reorganize the American government under an executive power that would enact an authoritarian, white supremacist, Christian nationalist agenda.
✂️They review the book, “Transformation: A Survey of Collage and the Development of Personal Language”, that features thirteen contemporary collage artists. The book presents a multi-year spread of the artist’s work alongside a short Question & Answer piece by each artist as a way to get a sense of the artist’s personal language and process. “Paul Loughney’s thoughtful introduction offers an insightful definition of the medium that goes beyond the typical observations about glue and fragment.”

✂️A whole host of other writings and images from international collage artists doing incredible things.

For more from Kolaj Magazine #42 and the work of the Kolaj Institute CLICK HERE.
For more of the great work of the Marta Janik CLICK HERE.
To find out more about whats happening at the Muzeum Karykatury im. Eryka Lipińskiego CLICK HERE.

Cover Image: “God” (2018) Analogue Collage by Marta Janik.

I am thrilled to have my artwork “Baaad News!” published in MAINTENANT 16 alongside so many other excellent artists. Maintenant is an annual journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art published by Three Rooms Press, New York. Every year the editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges select a relevant theme and open the journal to submissions in response. This years theme was appropriately selected as '“Net Zero”.

Read more about this years journal from the editors below:

“These days you hear a lot about NET ZERO, in reference to steps being taken to combat climate change. NET ZERO refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. At this time, NET ZERO is an ambition lacking absolute definition as corporate energy titans pledge distant adherence without clear or immediate commitments to act. In fact, these so-called “innovative” scions of wealth seem to not even be able to remove the layer of hot air greenhouse gases spewing from the mouths of the pundits and politicos pushing the affirmation of their endlessly pernicious promises. Enter NYET ZERO. With NYET ZERO, MAINTENANT 16 makes an artistic power grab using DADA—in the form of original art, poetry, and writing aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the engine-idle rich on recycled paper. We can change the now with art and thought. Otherwise, the future has NOTENTIAL.

For the first time since debuting in 2008, MAINTENANT 16 includes work from all seven continents on the planet, with more than 240 creators from 34 countries. The MAINTENANT series gathers the work of internationally-renowned contemporary Dada artists and writers. The new issue features cover art by legendary painter Chuck Connelley, recognized as a key figure among the New York-based Neo-expressionist painters – alongside artists such Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat – and collected by major institutions across the United States. Connelly has been portrayed in film by Martin Scorcese (Nick Nolte’s character in New York Stories (1989) was based on Connelly) and he was the subject of an HBO documentary in 2008. A prodigious painter with a passion for his art, he has amassed a vast collection of canvases, many of which have yet to be exhibited.

The annual MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers work of contemporary Dada artists and writers from around the world. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Kazunori Murakami; writers include Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Alice Bag and more.”

To order a copy of this years journal and to learn more about Three Rooms Press click here.