Volume. zingmagazine is about volume. Loud, thick, soft, not slick: quantity. When is there not enough? ADD of the ’90s. Never enough and how to discern. We are all screening something, or is it surfing something. All the TV channels changed today—I woke up to the Fox family network drone of cartoons rather than Quincy, M.E. on A&E (and yes there really is a difference). Among other things, I guess our president won’t be expelled thanks to that oh so rational Senate. Old school is the new new. Volkswagen has brought back the bug—Drivers wanted. “Blue Monday” is now top 10 of the viewer’s choice on MTV, something it never was as a New Order single. And how can we forget about Limp Bizkit’s reintroduction of “Faith”. A new definition of Pop. Forget any of this representing what happens to be the parameter of the times—no way. We know its all up to the pollsters: USA vote. So another issue of zingmagazine, another set of “curatorial crossings”—screen what you want, or float with us on the net. This time we experience (Géraldine just told me about experience being misspelled, and put that accent in her name) people, Virgil Thomson to be exact, screening phone calls. And we all know zingmagazine is very good at screening. Excuses. Unisys’s annual report gets the cover this time, my favorite, Marguerite Duras, gets the last word: “Yes, one always forgets. An affair. A story. As in ‘writing a story,’ a love story, in a novel. But there’s a crucial difference that makes it into a book.”

—Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Devon Dikeou
editor/publisher
1999

Klaus Biesenbach is a curator at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. He is also the founding director of Kunstwerke, Berlin and organizer of the first Berlin Biennale. For “Criss Cross” he was assisted by Alnna Heiss, Executive Director of PS1; Larissa Harris, Programs Associate; and Josette Lamoureaux, Programs Associate.

John Connelly is a curator living and working in New York City. His writing has appeared in Flash Art International, Art International, and The Thing. He is currently collaborating on the upcoming Cheap Cream, an on-line “store” for art and commerce.

Luis Macias: This three-nippled brain artist lives and works in the most beautiful and fashionable island in the Mediterranean Sea: Mallorca. When asked about his domestic mood, he answered, “What I hate most is to bend down in order to get my slippers under the bed.”

orfi: the organization for the returning of fashion interest (aka orfi) operates out of a sub-level of Hotel of the Rising Star, a retail outlet at 13 Prince St where their clothes and shoes are sold. Other warez can be seen and purchased at www.sens.org

Gavin Wade is an artist and independent curator based in London. Over the last two years he has curated a series of rough and smooth group shows in London, a space oddity aboard the HMS Plymouth for the Tate Gallery Liverpool, and a brief semi-collaborative excursion to Stockholm. These have been Learn to Paint & Build, Multi=Slot, Low Maintenance, High Precision, EXIT, Kling Klang, Semi-Detached and the concept show, 2in1(x4+1) at One in The Other. He is currently developing a collaborative plan/construct show for Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, and is co-curating In the Midst of Things, a major international exhibition and symposium revolving around the integration of art, architecture and design, set in the historic precedent of Bourneville, the “model village and factory within a garden” in Birmingham, England, Summer 1999; while also tinkering away with other secret projects such as the development of a Super Sci-Fi Shelf.

Brandon Ballangee is a mad scientist creating transmutable organisms in his Queens, New York based laboratory. Influenced and mutated by low-level radiation, Ballangee, when not believing himself to be Godzilla or Doc Frankenstein, executes drawings based on species of amphibians indigenous to nuclear reactors or nuclear waste sites within the United States. Brandon Ballangee has previously exhibited at 76 Varick, with Kenny Schachter, Exit Art, Pierogi 2000’s flat files, and with Holland Tunnel Arts Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

Elizabeth Cohen is an artist living and working in Brooklyn and Rochester, NY. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Franklin Furnace and The New Museum in NY, The Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and the Bonner Kunstverein in Germany. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Rochester.

Thomas Rayfiel’s book, Colony Girl, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux this fall.