Thursday 8 January 2015

Verfreundungseffekt vol. II

Just to let you know, Jen has completed work on the second volume of her and Joe's Anglo-German arts journal, Verfreundungseffekt... it looks amazing and has work from Jen in there, as well as an essay by Lindsay & illustrations by myself.

There's a launch on the 29th Jan 2015 at the White Building in Hackney, i'll pass you over for the details...


While the British Museum is exploring Germany’s cultural history in its current exhibition Germany: memories of a nation and Germany’s depiction in the media as a cold economic powerhouse strengthens, Verfreundungseffekt is a more contemporary, ethnographic and personal record of British and American people’s interest in German culture and German people’s interest in British and American culture compared to academicised, analysed and popularised accounts of these countries’ histories, cultures and relations. The volumes are edited by Jen Calleja (The Quietus’ new columnist for literature in translation, a writer,  literary translator from German, and member of punk bands Sauna Youth, Monotony and Feature) and designed by Joe Hales (graphic designer and lecturer at Kingston University), and self-published by the pair under the moniker Bathysphere Editions. Contributors include poet Sam Riviere (whose second collection is forthcoming with Faber & Faber) illustrator Katie Scott (winner of The Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year 2014 for Animalium), the prominent German writer Uwe Johnson, Die Zeit columnist Eric Jarosinski, editor of the journal New Books in German Charlotte Ryland, and Lindsay Corstorphine and Richard Phoenix of the band Sauna Youth. The volume includes brand new translations of poetry, fiction and theatre; short fiction and poetry; illustration; photography; essays; interviews; reviews; and covers topics as far-ranging as feminist approaches to art and Iraqi cultural trauma, to wrestling politicians and The Simpsons. Launch event on Thursday 29th January 2015: https://www.facebook.com/events/733857403363936/Preorder link: http://bathysphere.bigcartel.com/
While the British Museum is exploring Germany’s cultural history in its current exhibition Germany: memories of a nation and Germany’s depiction in the media as a cold economic powerhouse strengthens, Verfreundungseffekt is a more contemporary, ethnographic and personal record of British and American people’s interest in German culture and German people’s interest in British and American culture compared to academicised, analysed and popularised accounts of these countries’ histories, cultures and relations.The volumes are edited by Jen Calleja (The Quietus’ new columnist for literature in translation, a writer,  literary translator from German, and member of punk bands Sauna Youth, Monotony and Feature) and designed by Joe Hales (graphic designer and lecturer at Kingston University), and self-published by the pair under the moniker Bathysphere Editions.
Contributors include poet Sam Riviere (whose second collection is forthcoming with Faber & Faber) illustrator Katie Scott (winner of The Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year 2014 for Animalium), the prominent German writer Uwe Johnson, Die Zeit columnist Eric Jarosinski, editor of the journal New Books in German Charlotte Ryland, and Lindsay Corstorphine and Richard Phoenix of the band Sauna Youth.

The volume includes brand new translations of poetry, fiction and theatre; short fiction and poetry; illustration; photography; essays; interviews; reviews; and covers topics as far-ranging as feminist approaches to art and Iraqi cultural trauma, to wrestling politicians and The Simpsons.

Launch event on Thursday 29th January 2015: https://www.facebook.com/events/733857403363936/

Preorder link: http://bathysphere.bigcartel.com/
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