Please help us create our next and most ambitious installment of the magazine. Proximity isue 007 is themed “A Catalog of Strategies.” The issue will feature a lengthy directory of participatory, collectivist and interventionist projects and initiatives. We are seeking short entries, essays, and texts about alternative, counter, or oppositional practices and projects, created by individuals, groups, collectives, or organizations. We hope this encyclopedic approach will highlight some best practices, some brave failures, and also act as a reference guide for future use. The issue will also feature a map/directory to what we’re calling “An Other Chicago: a cerebral and geographic mapping of radical, DIY, and/or independent spaces; amateur think tanks; projects; free schools; bike repair shops; pirate roasters; gardeners; places for naps, cooking outdoors, and just making it happen. “An Other Chicago” will most likely be a collaborative project, printed separately and inserted into the magazine. Proximity 007’s theme is influenced by The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, Temporary Services' Art & Work, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Actions: What you can do with the City, Superflex's Tools, and the Continental Drift seminars with Brian Holmes. Proximity 007 will be distributed at Version 10, our annual convergence of art activism and dreaming, serving as a supplement to this year’s theme, “Infrastructures and Territories.” 

It takes place April 22- May 2, 2009. We are accepting features, interviews, and reviews now. Pieces will be due around Valentine’s Day. Please read our guidelines. You can also email ed@proximitymagazine.com and/or mairead.case@gmail.com with specific proposals and questions. Thank you! /// USEFUL TIPS FOR SUBMITTING TEXTS FOR THE CATALOG: The Catalog of Strategies Section of Proximity 007 is a contributor-created annotated directory of projects, activities, spaces, places, groups and individuals whose work is aligned within collectivist, participatory and interventionist practices that are loosely connected to social engagement. Using Bert Stabler's Directory and Map from Issue One of Proximity as an inspiration for categorization we hope to create a varied an useful directory that can will compel further research and inspiration. Categories so far: Collective/Cooperative/Ongoing Project Organization One -time Events or Exhibitions Physical Space TV Radio Program Recurring Event or Exhibit Virtual Space Archive Publication/ Publisher make up your own category. Please contribute multiple entries. You can either write your own entry, cite "mission statements" or send us links for our team to conduct the research and writing. Examples: Virtual Space/Publication: where we are now wherewearenow.org Online Magazine creating a platform to deepen and amplify the discourse around an aesthetic and political practices in New York City.  The latest edition (Oct 2009) is called Speculating on Change.  Explicitly tied to difference, change as such is perhaps most clearly measured in terms of chronological time, comparing a “before” to an established “after.” Speculation on change, however, entails projection, prognosis and risk into the future, and corresponds to the fluid, divergent and simultaneous time space continuum of our contemporary existence. Physical Space: The Change You Want to See thechangeyouwanttosee.com The Change You Want to See Gallery and Convergence Stage is home to Williamsburg Coworking and a project of Not an Alternative, a non-profit organization whose mission aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. The multi-purpose venue hosts free and low-cost lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations. The space also houses a production workshop, filming studio and video editing suite for Not An Alternative's Communication Department. During the day it is a collaborative office space (aka coworking) for like minded cultural producers.