The Awthum Empire

This is an open call to all Austin/Texan artists and writers. I’m currently at Bard’s MFA program and am surprisingly (or perhaps not?) surrounded, even drowned, by either NY or LA artists. While I love the cultural, critical, and creative exchange that takes place, I feel that smaller art communities are underrepresented, that many voices are not being heard, that my love, Austin, needs a brighter light than what I shine.

So, I’m putting together a zine. On July 29th, end of the summer presentations will take place at the Bard College Exhibition Center. Bardians will have gallery space to present their work. At the exhibition, I’d like to offer the proposed zine to students, faculty, and guests.

This will be a DIY affair: photocopied and stapled. I’m terribly busy working on my own collection of poems but I would really like to do this. As a writer in the program, I have free access to photocopiers, so I’d like to acquire as much material as possible.

I’m accepting all pictures, drawings, poems, short stories, and photos of paintings, sculptures, and installations as long as they’re within good taste, at least semi-translatable to black and white, and relevant to the developing tone of the zine.

Please send .doc documents and nice jpegs or links to nice jpegs to mrchristopherperez@yahoo.com

Include your name and any other relevant information.

Thanks,
Christopher Pérez

Oh, and depending on access to media and my time constraints, I might make a CD-R sampler as well.