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Now Available — PUBLIC 67: Return to the Body / Reversus est ad Corpus Guest edited by BRIDGET CAUTHERY, JONATHAN OSBORN Embodied methodologies propose a challenge as to how we understand and represent research, knowledge and knowing, where the body, as a source of information, reflection, reification and disruption foregrounds itself as a site of analysis. In this issue, established and […]

Available Now — PUBLIC 66: Access Aesthetics Guest edited by MARY BUNCH, JULIA CHAN, SEAN LEE PUBLIC 66: Access Aesthetics explores access as a transformative political aesthetic, grounded in crip arts, critical access, and disability justice movements. PUBLIC 66: Access Aesthetics includes artistic, academic, literary and conversational contributions that demonstrate how disability and multi-sensorial ways of knowing […]

PUBLIC 65: DEVOTION — NOW AVAILABLE Guest edited by JARRETT EARNEST, PUBLIC 65: DEVOTION: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive contains essays, interviews, reflections, oral histories, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, photographs, and rare ephemera representing excluded and omitted LGBTQ2S+ archival material. Queer people have had to create and maintain archives as alternate repositories due to systematic […]

PUBLIC 64: BEYOND UNSETTLING. NOW AVAILABLE The artworks, conversations, and texts in this issue of PUBLIC offer innovative perspectives in non-consumptive, collaborative, ethical, and accountable, arts-based approaches to undoing colonial dominance. PUBLIC 64: BEYOND UNSETTLING is 264 pages in length, full-colour, with a wrap-around cover by Afuwa. Guest edited by Lean Decter and Carla Taunton. CONTRIBUTORS CHARLES […]

NOW AVAILABLE PUBLIC 63: Creative Ecologies explores alternatives to apocalyptic thinking. The contributions of the artists, writers, and scholars within this 142-page issue investigate how art, philosophy, and decolonizing methodologies help us to connect more intimately—and imaginatively—to the disaster of the present. By cultivating listening through Indigenous and anthropological methods, the newest edition of PUBLIC, guest […]

AVAILABLE NOW Countless magazine covers in North America have responded to the reading public’s capacity for gender-diverse literacy. Gender-diverse representation in narrative forms have spread across all media platforms to become standard or even predictable in their depictions. The expressions of a gender-diverse presence therefore exist within a vast number of communities, more than ever […]

AVAILABLE NOW Guest Edited by SYLVIE FORTIN. Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept, an ethical concern with juridical implications, a sociopolitical practice … or an industry. This publication shifts the focus to speculate on many of its other (often stealth) manifestations. It mobilizes hospitality—as concept, metaphor, performance, and dissidence—to render its pluripotent agency. Its […]

Guest edited by ALEKSANDRA KAMINSKA and DAVID GRONDIN This issue of PUBLIC maps out some of the ways that bodies have been measured and identified based on biometrics ever since the rise of media technologies, from nineteenth century anthropometry to modern day computational science. From case studies and interventions detailing the history and politics of […]

| Summer 2019 | Editors: Meredith Tromble and Patricia Olynyk Human and non-human lives are inextricably linked in a welter of being. The artists and scholars in this issue engage the comedies, tragedies, surprises, and satisfactions of interspecies communication, broadly defined. Energizing our connections with others through conscious communication seems irresistible to humans, as social […]

EDITORS: Rosa Aiello, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Michael Litwack PUBLIC 58 proposes smoke as a pressing figure of our global present that calls forth a capacious counter-archive of knowledge and sociality. Tracking smoke’s figural and material sojourns across the domains of ecology, aesthetics, ethics, and politics, contributors to this issue consider the genres of relationality and forms […]

| Summer 2018 |   Editors: May Chew | Susan Lord | Janine Marchessault   ARCHIVE/COUNTER-ARCHIVES advances conversations regarding the changing nature and political realities of audio and visual heritage in the twenty-first century. Bringing together artists, archivists, and researchers, this issue of PUBLIC argues that the re-thinking of audio-visual heritage preservation is ultimately strategic […]

| Fall 2017 | Editors: Serkan Ozkaya and Robert Fitterman For twenty years, Marcel Duchamp secretly worked on his final art piece, Étant donnés, in his New York City studio. After he died in 1968, the work was installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a closed chamber, wherein a naked woman […]

| Spring 2017 | Editors: Sean O’Brien, Imre Szeman and Eva-Lynn Jagoe DEMOS: WE HAVE NEVER BEEN DEMOCRATIC is based on conversations held and work developed during the 2015 Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency. The residency brought together artists, writers, researchers, and cultural producers who in their work explore the ways in which we […]

| Winter 2016 | Editors: Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton INDIGENOUS ART: NEW MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL convenes leading scholars, curators, and artists from the Indigenous territories in Canada, the United States of America, Australia, and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It brings forth urgent conversations about resistance to colonial modernism, and highlights the historic and ongoing […]

| Spring 2016 | Editors: Peter Dickinson, Kirsty Johnston, and Keren Zaiontz MEGA-EVENT CITIES brings together leading scholars, artists, and activists to examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos. As mega-events circulate from one city to the next, they leave complex (often ruinous) infrastructural […]

| Winter 2015 | Edited by Susan Lord, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, and Zaira Zarza HAVANA highlights two distinct historical moments in the art and cultural politics of Havana: the 1960s, and 50 years later, the post-2010s. At the heart of the issue sits the 12th Havana Biennial, featuring curatorial statements and dossiers comprising […]

| Summer 2015 | Edited by Christine Davis and Scott Lyall Colour is a collection of texts and images that record an attempt to think artistically about colour. Tracing a more than two-year conversation between its editors, this volume is a montage of ideas about art and colour slyly mapped against the format of a […]

| Fall 2014 | Edited by Sarah Blacker, Imre Szeman, and Heather Zwicker The question of why the practice of retreat is important, of why it is different from forms of self-alienation, and of why (what might seem like) passivity could be a positive form of agency, remains open. However, the notion and the act […]

| Spring 2014 | Edited by Paula M. Gardner and Charles Reeve When culture responds to trauma, it seems self-evident that three mechanisms are involved: the event, the trauma it provokes, and the cultural response. But what if that is backwards? What if trauma is itself a cultural production, borne of a need for societies […]

| Fall 2013 | Edited by Christine Davis and Scott MacKenzie This issue brings together an international array of scholars and artists to examine the current political and cultural fascination with material and symbolic representations of “The End.” From the end of Communism to the end of higher education, the end of the environment to […]