Good friends I am please to tell you that a project months in the making is getting closer to launching. We call it Left Art Review. The team creating this new, online publication wants to ask some challenging questions about socially engaged art and its relationship to current politics, especially in light of the rising wave of organized labor and issues of inequality. Left Art Review wants to explore how artists can best support this movement while going beyond merely virtue signaling in order to re-imagine the kind of links that once existed between cultural workers and other working people. Today, Left Art Review launches its Indiegogo fundraising campaign with two amazing premium offers. If you make a tax deductible donation of $50 you will receive a signed, limited edition riso print by Noah Fischer. If you make a donation of $300, a signed, limited edition print by Alfredo Jaar is yours. This support will help with the expenses of designing and hosting the publication, as well as the amazing group of contributors (some listed below). Left Art Review will appear early in the new year. Please consider helping us with this new project, by clicking on this link:
LEFT ART REVIEW PUBLICATION FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
With your generous support, Left Art Review (LAR) will arrive online in early 2024.A gift of any amount is greatly appreciated, and thanks to our friends at Korean Art Forum, wich is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, your donation can be deducted to the fullest extent of the law.
HOWEVER, if you pledge 300 dollars or more, you are entitled to an 8X10-inch, full-color print in an edition limited to 25 examples, signed and numbered by the artist, Alfredo Jaar.
And if you pledge 50 dollars or more, you are entitled to a full-color signed riso print in a limited edition of 75 by artist and activist Noah Fischer. Excerpts from a graphic novel review of Chantel Mouff’s 2022 book Towards a Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects *
(Noah Fischer, signed, limited edition 11" X 17" full-color riso print)
This campaign is scheduled to conclude on January 17th.
LEFT ART REVIEW focuses on the tsunami of recent publications, exhibitions, films, posts, projects and events devoted to the question of art’s relationship to politics. It consists of short reviews, interviews, graphics, and thought pieces written from a left realist perspective in order to critically address the current state of art and politics. Reviews cover publications, exhibitions, films, projects, interventions and installations and events. LEFT ART REVIEW challenges contributors by asking:
What are the real or plausible, short-term or long-term, overt or otherwise, social consequences of this publication, exhibition, post, project or event?
How does it enable or disable the organized political activity that is essential for progressive social change?
How does it compare with past examples of effective or ineffective political art or art writing, and what was key to these past successes or failures?
What is it about its political aim that makes it something more than virtue signaling, tokenism or political posturing?
If the political contribution claimed in response to one of the questions above is “critique,” what makes it something other than the right’s loyal opposition?
Reviews typically run 500 to 2000 words. We also welcome pitches for longer essays and interviews as well as visual, audio and video contributions. LAR’s full editorial mission and call can be found here:
http://leftartreview.org
Among the Anticipated LAR Contributors include:
Blake Stimson
Michael Corris
Alberto López Cuenca
Gregory Sholette
Todd Ayoung (graphic)
Jon Blackwood
Kim Charnley
Michelle Childs
Cardoso Martinez Alma Elena
Tom Holert
Noah Fischer (graphic review plus a limited edition collectable)
Ken Grossinger (interviewed by Gregory Sholette)
Dana Kopel
John Roberts
Noah Simblist
Brett Walace
Your contribution is essential to making LAR happen!
CONTACT: lareditorial@gmail.com