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About:
Brand-New-Life is an independent magazine that reimagines publishing as a space for critical inquiry and collective practice across visual art, art criticism, and research.
We approach writing as a practice of articulation—thinking with and alongside artistic approaches and conditions of production. Our work engages deeply with situated critique, institutional and infrastructural analysis, and the politics of publishing. For us publishing is not simply a means of distributing content—it is both subject and method. We are committed to queering common genres and formats of art criticism, academic writing, and practice-oriented research across media. The hyphen in Brand-New-Life becomes a symbol of connection: linking what is often kept apart, forging relations between disciplines, practices, and publics that might otherwise remain separate.
In an era of extractive technologies and inequitable knowledge infrastructures, Brand-New-Life uses the framework of diamond open access to create alternative conditions for writing, reading, and knowing. We work continuously, but publish irregularly and countercyclically—resisting the demand for constant output and the logic of immediacy. Our articles appear when they are ready.
If you value our work, consider becoming a member (student and low-income discounts are available). We are independent, but collaborate with individuals, collectives, institutions, and universities.
Diamond Open Access Policy:
Combining artistic, journalistic and academic approaches Brand-New-Life positions itself at the interface between visual art, art criticism and practice-oriented research. All articles are available for free online.
As a diamond open access journal we are committed to making our output accessible and reusable. All articles are embedded in the data repository Zenodo, ensuring the long term archive of our publishing and giving them a digital object identifier (DOI). They are published using CC-BY-NC-ND License 4.0 International (Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives). The authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions. Images and videos integrated into the contribution are not included in the CC BY-NC-ND License. For any use not permitted by legal copyright exceptions, authorization from the respective copyright holders is required.
Editorial Process:
Our goal is to encourage pointed, thought provoking, and practice-oriented writings about art. To this end, we have developed an editorial process that involves close reading, annotation, discussion and review. We see such an editorial process as a valuable tool for engaging with peers and for further developing art practice, art criticism and practice-oriented research. Our articles are commissioned or submitted and reviewed by two members of the editorial team. The proofreading team copy-edits all texts and translations before publication. Authors are paid for their contributions. There are no costs for the authors.
Contact:
We commission directly our authors, but if you would like us to know your work, you can contact us here:
office@brand-new-life.org
Auf dem Wolf 11
CH-4052 Basel
Editorial Board:
Lucie Kolb, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Lara Kothe, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Pablo Müller, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Barbara Preisig, Zurich University of the Arts
Judith Welter, Zurich University of the Arts
Former Editors and Collaborators:
Ines Kleesattel, Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Anastasia Kubrak, Claire Hoffmann, Alicia Reymond, Luca Beeler, Julia Moritz
Art Direction:
Sabo Day
Code:
FLX Labs
Editions:
Julia Künzi
Font:
LARS (Bold Decisions)
Legal Adviser:
Annatina Menn
Accounting:
Simone Gerber
Brand-New-Life is supported by the B-N-L association and has been supported by Lucerne Open Access Repository (LORY) – Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek, Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung, the UBC Culture Foundation, the Temperatio foundation, the Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel foundation, the Federal Office of Culture FOC, the Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, the Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Funding and Cultural Promotion, the canton of Zug, the municipality of Teufen.
Brand-New-Life constitutes an important and unique voice for art criticism in Switzerland. We combine nuanced coverage of current debates, exhibitions and events with background research on the art world and artistic perspectives. Brand-New-Life relies on multilingualism as well as on the means of online journalism, thereby reaching all those who want to stay current anywhere and anytime, without giving up on quality journalism. Through an advertisement appearing on the home page of Brand-New-Life for six or twelve months you reach a professional, art-loving audience in Switzerland and beyond its borders, while at the same time helping us to establish an innovative debate culture about current art events. We will be happy to provide you with information regarding our rates and terms: office@brand-new-life.org.
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