In the third issue, themed ‘refuge’:
issue no.3: refuge
In the third issue, themed ‘refuge’:
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issue no.3: refuge
Join us for the launch of issue 3
Friday 3 May, 7–9pm, with readings and performance from 8pm. The Chateau — tucked into the basement of a hotel…
Announcing the limited run Prem Sahib poster
For our first Failed States supporter gift, we are delighted to offer an original poster featuring artwork by Prem Sahib.…
A Dark Dawn by Baneen Mirza
Wealth fuels sprawl. It can also buy a false sense of being away, guarded from reality. In one such fictional…
Jay Simpson
I found a weighty, rectangular stone about one meter long and half a meter tall and thick. Marina saw me…
beach holiday in indonesia by Oscar Gaynor
a grain of sand meets another rolling in a swell: plom plom plom tink plom plom plom whoosh. beaches are…
Euan Macdonald
Volcano, 2008, single-channel projection (still). Originally published in Failed States issue no.1: island, September 2017. Photograph courtesy of the artist…
Jasleen Kaur
A thing that was a thing that was a thing, 2017, porcelain casts of kaolin* rock, each covered in a digital…
Loomings by Sam Williams
This body will become an island. These bones will fracture and erode to sand; and this flesh will float in…
TGI Friday by Paul Clinton
Can one desire foreign islands and ‘the other’ without falling into the trap of exoticism? Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Vendredi (Friday) offers…
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