GUEST EDITING THE NEXT EDITION OF SLUICE MAGAZINE

Its been six years since I was the first guest-editor on Sluice Magazine and this time we wanted to journey through my residency on the Isle of Coll focussing on death, grief and healing - through the Sluice Film Festival where I hoped to show the work I’d been making on Coll and enable me to talk to artists there about the theme for the magazine. I was being wildly optimistic about the time it’d take me to turn anything created in an R&D environment into something polished enough to screen at a film festival - but I was still able instead to take a film of Tim Knights - a filmmaker and dear friend who died suddenly in 2024.

We did have time to talk to artists and filmmakers at Seyðisfjörður - and we’ve decided to open this edition up to an open call.

Send us your ideas - they don’t need to be polished or formal - we just want a big range - no more than a paragraph/100 words - pitch to me.

Send your ideas to the link below by midnight on 18 June.

The previous edition of Sluice magazine looked at world-building, and as with all things under the sun which sucumb to entropy and ruin this is reflected in artist-led activity. 

For the next edition of Sluice, we’re inviting artists, writers and thinkers to engage with the theme of death in all its complexity: personal, political, cultural, environmental, symbolic. These ideas could include (but not be limited to) some of the following:

Death as metaphor
Death as spectacle

Death as injustice
Death as ritual, rupture, memory, material
Death as part of life
Endings that are also beginnings

Contributions can be new or existing. Experimental, intimate, collective, abstract or direct.

Sluice magazine is primarily concerned with artist and curator-led culture. The magazine takes this as a starting point to explore a subject from as many angles as possible, from cultural production from around the world.

Send brief outline of ideas or projects or angles you think may be of interest to the email below.

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