Full Bleed, an annual print and online journal of art and
design, seeks submissions for its fourth issue, forthcoming in Spring 2020. We
publish criticism, belle lettres, artwork, design, illustration, fiction,
poetry, and graphic essays. All contributors will receive modest honoraria for
their work.
For Issue Four, we are especially interested in submissions
that critique, investigate, or rely on archives of various kinds. We seek new
writing about artists working with, playing with, re-contextualizing, or
elevating archival materials; art or design projects responsive to historical
documents; and essays, fictions, and poetry related to the work of archiving.
We would be excited to see submissions that critique the construction of
narrative through objects and historical documents, or that concern private
collecting, hoarding, simplifying, tidying, and the distinction between these
activities. When does archiving become obsessive and pathological? What drives
people to collect and organize certain objects? We would also welcome work that
takes up digital archiving as a subject for rumination, that introduces us to
intriguing new archives under development, or that dwells on the ethics and
politics of archival practices. Are archives inherently conservative, limited,
or futile? Are they treasure troves, haunted houses, or primers in the mistakes
we don’t want to make again? What use are they in particular to artists and
designers now?
