ISSUE 01: STATE(D) VIOLENCE
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Editor’s Note:
The work included in ISSUE 01 was submitted to an open call as well as solicited directly by the Press. The project intentionally highlights numerous artists within the Press’ locale, Buffalo/Western New York, alongside a wider, domestic and international positionality. The only parameter for work was that it be related to the issue of “State Violences.” Contributors were also asked to provide artist’s statements, some of which are present in the ISSUE under hand.
It is our hope that this collection promote future conversations and alterations of art practices against this grievously erroneous notion of an “art for art’s sake” which has, in many ways, contributed to our egregious status-quo, long rampant. Each of these contributors has touched upon a wide array of State promulgated crises, oppressions, and violences in ways that stress the utilization of artistic mediums.
This issue is dedicated to the international students, workers, residents, and citizens, currently detained in the United States or wrongly deported elsewhere, as well as Alaa Abd El-Fattah and his mother, Laila Soueif, in solidarity to their struggle for his freedom and the freedom of all political prisoners across this planet.
--Thom Eichelberger-Young, April 20th, 2025
All work and rights to are reserved by the contributors.
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