F0NO15 // FE (Print; Magazine)

Description

Edited by Jeff Alessandrelli, Adie B. Steckel, and John Goodhue, Fonograf Editions’ first ever magazine FE builds off the genre-defining work it has released since 2016. FE includes new material from Catherine Bresner • Suzanne Buffam • Arda Collins • Joel Craig • Michael Earl Craig • Corinne Dekkers • Mark Anthony Cayanan • Anaïs Duplan • Claire Donato • Peter Gizzi • Yam Gong (trans. Dorothy Tse and James Shea) • Brandi Katherine Herrera • Emily Hunerwadel • Federico Italiano (trans. Brenda Porster) • Krystal Languell • Nathaniel Mackey • Veronica Martin • Kristi Maxwell • Joyelle McSweeney • Ryan Mills • Alice Notley • Alexis Orgera • Gabriel Palacios • Andre Perry • Justin Phillip Reed • Joshua Pollock • Harper Quinn • Rachelle Rahmé • Megan Savage • Zach Savich • Mary Szybist • Nick Twemlow • Jan Verberkmoes • Jeffrey Yang and CL Young.

E-book available here. 

FE Foreword

Originally published in 1927, Russian painter Kazimir Malevich’s book The Non-Objective World delineates his vision that the best art values, above everything else, the “supremacy of pure feeling.” According to Malevich there are “[t]wo basic types of creation [that] can be distinguished: one, initiated by the conscious mind, serves practical life, so-called, and deals with concrete visual phenomena; the other, stemming from the subconscious or superconscious mind, stands apart from all “practical utility” and treats abstract visual phenomena.”

The cover design for this magazine is indebted to Malevich’s Suprematist artistic vision, one that believed that “the appropriate means of representation is always the one which gives fullest possible expression to feeling as such and which ignores the familiar appearance of objects.”

As editors in putting this issue together Malevich’s maxims became our own. We sought work that seemed to challenge us in multiple ways, ways that we couldn’t have predicted prior to reading. Included herein are novel excerpts and essays, poems, runes and translations. Our hope in including such a wide variety of work is that it speaks to Fonograf’s own multifarious nature. What we like is entirely tempered by what we can hear and see and feel.

Thank you for reading.

–Jeff Alessandrelli, Adie B. Steckel, John Goodhue, Editors