THE PLACEHOLDER ISSUE, 2023
Creative consulting for Current Obsession on the launch of The Placeholder Issue and their new membership collaboration platform.
"With its #8 Placeholder Issue, Current Obsession introduces our new method of publishing — time-based magazines to be filled chapter by chapter throughout one year.
The readers will experience an ‘object in flux’ — a magazine in development. To illustrate that, we have reversed the publishing process. Instead of receiving a finished ‘product’ at once, the readers collect content chapter by chapter, completing the issue at the end of 2023. The placeholder for the ‘empty’ magazine is formalised as a custom spine. The spine, created in collaboration with Delphine Lejeune, is designed to hold the chapters as they arrive. This allows for content to be rearranged and additional materials included; readers will end up with a completely individual and unique issue.
The reversal also applies to the way magazine content is developed: as a result of site-specific, in-depth, sensorial activations — Q&A’s, workshops, performances, and readings, in which the contributors and the audience shape the outcome collectively." Current Obsession
THE PLACEHOLDER ISSUE, 2023
Creative consulting for Current Obsession on the launch of The Placeholder Issue and their new membership collaboration platform.
"With its #8 Placeholder Issue, Current Obsession introduces our new method of publishing — time-based magazines to be filled chapter by chapter throughout one year.
The readers will experience an ‘object in flux’ — a magazine in development. To illustrate that, we have reversed the publishing process. Instead of receiving a finished ‘product’ at once, the readers collect content chapter by chapter, completing the issue at the end of 2023. The placeholder for the ‘empty’ magazine is formalised as a custom spine. The spine, created in collaboration with Delphine Lejeune, is designed to hold the chapters as they arrive. This allows for content to be rearranged and additional materials included; readers will end up with a completely individual and unique issue.
The reversal also applies to the way magazine content is developed: as a result of site-specific, in-depth, sensorial activations — Q&A’s, workshops, performances, and readings, in which the contributors and the audience shape the outcome collectively." Current Obsession