Anticipating the third issue of the Freerange Journal, check out the first Teaser, which tackles the Trickster in contemporary culture and practice. Free downloadable file
available here!
You should know about the
Freerangers by now, their publishing arm, the
Freerange Press recently brought you Gerald Melling's latest word-crafting, Tsunami Box (sample and purchase
here at a dicounted rate), and they also maintain a highly collaborative and international
blog which serves as the testing ground for Freeranging ideas about the "complexity of the city."
This teaser introduces their next thread of investigation, the Trickster:
"From the ancient Greek Odysseus to Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, we grew up on stories of subversive characters that sprinkle chaos into our ordered society. The stories of our wise and brutal ancestors tell us tales of events from long before we laid our bare feet upon the earth. Folklore, mythology and religion are filled with brilliant forces of light and dark, played out by a myriad of colourful characters including that of the trickster. Most cultures still have these characters, both real and fictional. They are the mischievous rule breakers, artful swindlers, punks and independent outlaws. They hold an important purpose: to push boundaries, to enter realms others are afraid of, to stir the waters, provoke thought and discussion, to speak truth to power."
A sample of the deftly crafted Teaser, designed by Lord Shaker.
Four projects are offered in this tasty morsel of a pdf, Hana Bojangles's "Living in a Tricksta's Paradise" does a fantastic job of setting the scene across history and culture with a roll-call of tricksters, followed by Warwick McCallum's visual entrée "Slipping the Trap of Appetite", and Federico Monsalve's hearty "My kid could do that": a clever critique of contemporary art and youthful perception. For dessert, Toby Huddlestone presents "No_12_internal_subversion", a glimpse of which is below.
This photograph was taken on the 8th May 2010 by Gina Moss at Charles Plimmer Park in Wellington, as part of Toby’s collaboration with Wellington artist Sarah Jane Parton on his project Protest Apathy.
Check it out, have a read, offer feedback, thoughts, tricks and tirades to the
Freerange Project here.