Cluster by Brian Lucas
Call for Submissions: Hypnopoeia, Hypnogeography, Hypnoecology: And Other Imagined Futures.
I’m editing a folio for Drunken Boat, the online journal of the arts, and we are announcing a call for works in a variety of media (poems, artworks, essays, photography, translations, architectural blueprints, videos, web work, mixed media, documentary, theatrical production) that respond to the question of how, as poet Leslie Scalapino writes, “the inside and the outside simultaneously create each other.”
And as Brenda Hillman writes, echoing Scalapino’s refusal to distinguish between inside and outside:
“I believe in the profound connection between the inner work we do as artists and the outer work — the writing and social/political activism. I do not think they can be disconnected because I’ve seen too many writers drown in their idea that their solipsistic systems are sufficient and too many ‘spiritual leaders’ crave the mysterious anarchy of art and too many activists get stalled in polemical cliche. Thus, we must all engage in a kind of tripartite practice…”
The prefix “hypno” comes from the Greek hupnos (ὕπνος) meaning sleep and many might think that a hypnotic state is only inner directed. But trance states can point towards the potential for radical change in outward manifestations of larger human consciousness(es) — and we are seeking works that understand “hypno” as central to bringing the writer/artist in conversation with a reader and from there, to the wider social realm. The catastrophic future – the one we seem to be headed towards – hasn’t happened yet and this folio will collect imaginings of what is possible. So dream on….
Send submissions to: http://www.drunkenboat.com/submissions/