Dirty Plugging

I remember when we were young, finding our feet in the discursive minefields of passing institutions. Once we had clawed our way through them with a scarred sense of self and more text books in our mind than we could possibly recall; we have to wonder, what now. The lush fields of adulthood are now the high walls of more institutions, but these are far more guarded. But in us are dreams and the desire to see them manifest. Our thoughts, our ideas, our opinions are forced to step back while we labour to keep ourselves from starving. We were the disenfranchised, who raged till we were raw. But we are older now, and hopefully wiser, and we understand the realities that seem impenetrable. Still there is a burning desire to dismantle the castle brick by brick, though we have no tools.

Hence we have decided to create a platform. With Simon Subrosa, http://www.neographis.com/, as the publisher, we are creating a contributor driven online magazine, called Dirtymag. Its agenda is simply to give the creative the space they deserve to do what they must, and that is to be creative. Here there are no censors or corporate soul digesters with totalitarian cultural agendas. Between these pages lie an intellectual and artistic nudist beach, were we can all stand exposed, communally exploring each other’s beauty.

The first Issue goes out on 10.01.10.
You’ll find it at http://www.dirtymag.co.za/