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Call for submission for itch 9: Before/After:a small book of predictions, outcomes, and paradigm shifts

Once again, itch invites you to contribute your words, images and ideas to our upcoming issue:

itch 9, Before/After: a small book of predictions, outcomes, and paradigm shifts.

Please find the call for submissions below. The deadline is December 1st. As always, feel free to contact us at submit@itchjournal.org if you have any questions.


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yours truly,
team itch

Taisha Paggett, Sara Wolf, Meg Wolfe



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: itch 9

Before/After: a small book of predictions, outcomes, and paradigm shifts


Poised on the political razor's edge of the looming election, the soundtrack for change is running—but, for better or for worse? As we sit on the cusp of this, one of the most important—and symbolically loaded—U.S. presidential elections... and begin drafting yet another list of resolutions as yet another new year approaches... and witness a baby boom big enough to transform the demographics of our local dance population, we can't help but consider those moments in ours lives in which we hover on Big Decisions that, once made, have the capacity to radically change the compasses we use to locate ourselves—for better or for worse. This, in turn, reminds us of making art: the initial brilliance of an idea, the dread we encounter when we can't figure out what the hell we were thinking, artist's blocks, unforeseen circumstances, production nightmares, getting out of our own way... and what happens when the work is finished, when we are left with the reality of what we created / exposed / elected / capsized / deconstructed / demolished / uprooted?


We the people of this After Christ/After Common era, post-9/11, post-tsunami, post-Katrina, pre-apocalypse (you think?) live on a timeline of events. itch 9 is on everything having to do with Befores and Afters. For this issue, we're interested in hearing about those events, decisions, and moments in life and art-making that have constructed (or will construct) a 'before' and 'after' in your sense of how you live, move through, and have a voice in your world.


We encourage submissions in a range of forms and tones: narrative, poetical, ruminative, theoretical, and visual; pre- and post- charts, scores, and project photographs—on such possible tangents as: mental/emotional renewal; create your own adventure stories; "the transition"; presidential elections; private or public/natural (or not) disasters; unforeseen acts of god(desses) or foreseeable consequences; the fashionable and the not; flights of fancy vs. Important Work; break-ups, break-throughs, breakfasts, and break-outs; tectonic shifts in your artistic/political/social/spiritual/conceptual practice; "giving birth" to… ; resolutions, predictions, hopes and wishes; temporality: past, present, and future; and (make your own) timelines.


And, since we're looking ahead, humor us: send us your IN/OUT, HOT/NOT lists.



*For our rolling dialogue section, please submit your responses to issue 8: Pornocracy*


(As we ruminate on these ideas, here is a toast to the now, the unknown, and the unknowable...)



D E A D L I N E: DECEMBER 1, 2008


send submissions, questions, and provocations as attached, uncompressed word files to
submit@itchjournal.org


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