Hive Magazine call for submissions: deadline Oct 14th

LAST CHANCE TO SEND WORK TO HIVE MAGAZINE, for Issue 00: the construction issue
Deadline for written work is 5pm, Monday, October 14th.

The limited edition print of Hive Magazine, Issue 00 will be available in December. We are looking for insightful essays and articles reflecting on the theme of CONSTRUCTION, in relationship to Canadian visual art, music and arts culture.

Issue 00 will be a bagged special edition before we launch our full print run of Issue 1 in the Spring. Texts, photo essays and illustration work are all eligible content, so email us at [email protected] with what you have in mind. For more on Hive Magazine go to: www.hivezine.com


SOME TOPIC SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE:

-Self-portraiture: the constructed self (also: send in your self portraits!)
-Photography: the setup photo vs. the "natural" one, possibly referencing Jeff Wall.
-Canadian music practices and the structures within the industry, such as Much Music or HMV
-Bad porn, good porn, art
-The end of punk: how noise music is as punk as it gets: talk to labels such as alien8 (Montreal) and their artists
-Where do the boundaries of performance art blur with dance?
-Take a look at indie music in a select province or city, or discuss new music movements and how it is changing Canada.
-Canadian identity constructed through culture, (language, ethnicity, trend, styles, influences)
-Do Western social constructs re-inforce racism in Canada? Is there an good way of eradicating racism without erasing cultural identities?
-The biogenetic influence on art, and building the perfect work. (ie. Eduardo Kac). How this bio-tech influences art as well as food and vice versa
-David Cronenberg, his obsessions with the body and the posthuman idea…
-"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do… they confuse reality with illusion." (David Cronenberg). Censorship in Canada, how it was created and who maintains it
-Building a collection of Canadian art


ALSO CONSIDER ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ON:
MUSIC, GALLERIES, FASHION, DANCE AND THEATRE….

email us: [email protected]
www.hivezine.com