Artist Brief – Capricious #11 – The Fashion Issue
Guest Editor, JOFF
As we approach the production of our 11th issue of Capricious, it seems like an appropriate time for a little retrospective viewing on our behalf. As far as we are concerned, we have always been far from addressing “fashion” as most of us know it. Fashion photography has received a lot of space within mainstream printed media and even though we love fashion, we have always made a clear point of not being a fashion magazine.
Fashion photography is dictated within certain parameters wherein the Capricious mindset cannot have its freedom to flourish. We aim to showcase emerging artists whose work falls within the space between fashion photography and fine art photography. However, when we take a step outside of what we typically understand to be the definition of “fashion,” we may reframe it as a whimsical phenomenon that touches and seduces our hearts by creating the illusion of an alternate world. In that sense, “fashion” actually comes very close to the thoughts and visions we represent in the pages of Capricious.
Here, we are interested in fashion as the illusion or dream, which touches our hearts, as the representation of the body and all it’s forms and interpretations, and as the composition of the elements that create that image.
Capricious #11: “The Fashion Issue” will present work of selected photographers who address fashion not as we know it to be represented within the strict rules of editorial fashion photography, but as the larger phenomena of fashion.
**PLEASE NOTE: Credits for clothing design, models, stylists etc. will NOT be included – in keeping with the notion that the selected work is not for fashion advertisement.
We want you to submit 6-12 photographs (more will not be viewed). We accept all formats and all colors. Email your submission (images should be approximately 8x10 inches @ 72 dpi) to: submit@capriciousmagazine.com
Not all submissions will be guaranteed a spot in the coming issue yet capricious will consider your submission for future issues. Please make sure you have model (or any other legally necessary) releases for all submitted work. Capricious has the right to use published material in promotional matters.
Deadline: JULY 5, 2010
Capricious mailing: 302 Bedford Ave #114, Brooklyn, NY 11211
For further questions, please email submit@capriciousmagazine.com
2010/04/30
Capricious #11 Call for Submissions
2009/12/15
Grand Opening of the CAPRICIOUS
bookshop & X-Mas Gathering, NY
Click on the image below to see details
2009/10/23
Capricious, P.P.O.W Gallery New York
Capricious @ P.P.O.W. Gallery
Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards
Curated by Capricious & Tammy Rae Carland
Arists: Becca Albee / Arielle Falk / Jason Hanasik / K8 Hardy / Desiree Holman / Whitney Hubbs / Ace Lehner Stephanie Leibowitz / Elizabeth Moy
October 29 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 29, 6-8pm
@ P.P.O.W. Gallery
511 West 25th Street, Room 301, NY, NY 10001
P•P•O•W Gallery, in conjunction with Dotty Attie's exhibition, will present Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards in Gallery 2 curated by Capricious and artist Tammy Rae Carland. This exhibition is inspired by the forthcoming "Feminist Issue" of Capricious Magazine based on an open call for work about feminist feelings.
Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, compulsive hope, political depression, retooling trauma, femme euphoria, shameless shame, and feelings that have no names are all contending with one another in this issue of the magazine. The selection gives the personal, political, social and emotional equal weight and emphasizes a generational lens on hope, humor and limitless self-invention.
For complete press release visit www.ppowgallery.com
Image by Whitney Hubbs.
2009/10/16
Capricious #10
The Feminist issue
Capricious #10 - The Feminist Issue - "Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards." This special volume is curated by photographer Tammy Rae Carland.
Release date: End of November
Carland's focus from the beginning was to insist that the possibilities that exist in a dialogue on feelings inflame the specter of feminism. By simply asking artists/photographers what the world of feelings looks like, we received a lot of work that holds potential for transformative ideas and experience.
Empathetic vision, relentless loss, identity melancholia, compulsive hope, political depression, pin-prick humor, retooling trauma, shameless shame and feelings that have no names are all contending with one another in this issue of the magazine. The editorial selection gives the personal, political, social and emotional equal weight and emphasizes a generational lens on hope, humor and limitless self-invention.
Artists to be featured in this issue are: Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Basje Boer, Samantha Cohn, Judith Erwes & Paul Bower, K8 Hardy, Jason Hanasik, Jeanine Oleson, Pawel Jaszczuk, Jason Kalogiros, Morgan Levy, Andrea Longacre-white, Simone Lueck, Erin Jane Nelson, and Diana Scherer.
Printed using alternative energy in Winnipeg
Capricious #10 is 197mm x 270mm, full color, with perforated pages (perfect for pulling out and pinning on a wall).
www.becapricious.com
2009/09/30
2009/09/02
Captive Lives Western Spectacle,
by Melanie Bonajo, NY
CAPTIVE LIVES WESTERN SPECTACLE
Melanie Bonajo
September 11 - October 31, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, September 11th, 7pm until 10pm
Capricious Space
103 Broadway (btw Bedford and Berry)
www.becapricious.com
In this exhibition, Melanie Bonajo explores the inhuman characteristics of relationships and prejudices among humans and animals. She investigates the affinity and association between the human and animal worlds - the proximity and expanse between their realms, and potential outcomes of a great imbalance of power.
Deeply concerned with their state, Bonajo takes photographs of depressed animals. She explores the notion that the way we confiscate animals from their local landscapes and move them around – treating them solely as inanimate forms, instead of living beings - is an act of violence.
Through these acts, Bonajo believes captured animals become more human than we typically think. That is, these (manmade) violent processes illustrate the oppression that is innate in humans in order to suppress some sort of Other within them. Bonajo holds that we are we living in the twilight of the mammalian era, with zoos as keepers of relics of the past. We may wonder: will this end include the death of humanity or only a small part of it?
In Bonajo’s forecast, animals will start to re-appear in people's lives as ghosts. Their spirits will be revived at night in dreams. Due to an increased sense of loss, people will sanctify animals in the future like that of pre-modern animistic believers. Through technological means of instant and invisible communication through space and time, humans will try to cross ancient animal territories to heal the past.
For this presentation, Bonajo’s images (all produced without digital manipulation), video and installations depict vignettes of human attempts at animal healing and the merging of man and machine. Captive Lives Western Spectacle warns of a future in which mammals no longer exist and have permanently moved their existence into the sphere of archetypes.
image:Horse, 2009, by Melanie Bonajo
2009/05/26
We Belong Together : Yale MFA Photography 2009
CAPRICIOUS SPACE PRESENTS:
WE BELONG TOGETHER : YALE PHOTOGRAPHY MFA 2009
May 29, 2009 – July 5, 2009
Opening: Friday, May 29th, 7pm to 10pm
Capricious Space is proud to present WE BELONG TOGETHER : YALE MFA PHOTOGRAPHY 2009. Participants are George Awde, Dru Donovan, David La Spina, Justin Leonard, Catharine Maloney, Caitlin Price, Colin Smith, Elaine Stocki and Ka-Man Tse. With the artists approaching their work from starkly different backgrounds and points of view, the result is a mélange of subjects and perspectives. The common denominator, however, is a refreshingly fundamental one: the artists' love of photography. Nine images, one by each artist, will be presented at Capricious Space and three other exhibitions of the class’ work will be shown over the coming months at locations in New Haven, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
www.capriciousspace.com
Capricious Space is located at 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11211
2009/05/12
Capricious Things
Capricious Art Artket
Artists selling their wares
Sat May 16th: 10 am-6pm Sun May 17th 11am-6pm
103 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Capricious Magazine NEW website - by Shim Co.
2009/05/05
I Have a Room With Everything
Book Launch for Melanie Bonajo's
"I Have A Room With Everything"
at Capricious Space on Sunday, May 10, 2009 from 4-7pm
103 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.becapricious.com
2009/03/31
CEREMONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS, NY
Amber Ibarreche
"CEREMONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS"
April3 - May 2, 2009
Opening Reception:
Friday April 3rd, 7 pm to 10 pm
See the Sunset in Williamsburg
Capricious Space
103 Broadway (btw Bedford & Berry, in Brooklyn)
*Beverages provided by Red Stripe!
www.capriciousspace.com
2009/03/04
DOSSIER magazine, USA
DOSSIER is a new bi-annual arts and culture journal incorporating fashion, photography, creative writing, art, music and culinary pursuits. 
On Dossier's website there is a visual space which is guest curated every month.
Right now, Sophie Mörner (Capricious magazine) is invited to show the work of some artists such as Melanie Bonajo, Macho Mel aka Militia Shimkovitz, Katherine Wolkoff, Samantha Cohn, and Julia Gillard.
Dossier
2008/10/11
What Makes You So Special..?
Exhibition What Makes You So Special..?
A group show curated by BY MARK JACOBSON
featuring:Jonathan Owen Black, Holger Homann, Hyers & Mebane, Jacob Sutton
From October 16 to November 8, 2008, Capricious Space, 103 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Opening: October 16th 6-9pm at Capricious Space
Capricious
Photo credit: Jonathan Owen Black
