about

zingmagazine came out of the idea that within certain disciplines, artistic and otherwise, various cross-references occur, both with individuals and the material of their particular interest. Rather than remaining isolated and apart, either through an unaware and uninformed (or aware and informed) malaise, there is a need to commingle arenas.

By establishing a forum of collaborative exchange, zingmagazine examines points of both similar and dissimilar articulations. Like sets and subsets in a mathematical diagram, having similar and opposite properties, parts of the exchange will share epiphanies while others will securely diverge.

But in the examination of these current issues, born out of the curatorial collaborative spirit, zingmagazine reaches for the crossing point, and it is from this “crossing” where fiction meets poetry for lunch, theorists mingle with artists over which they are, and while we all assume new boundaries with an excess of technology in the modern world that we find our inspiration. Likewise, it is from this crossing that the title is honed.

The format of zingmagazine is comprised of rotating curatorial projects. Each curator is invited to create a context of their choosing for each issue. A myriad of different disciplines are explored in each issue from architecture, design, fiction, poetry, drawing, photography, video, music, fashion, as well as a special projects including books, posters, and CDs. Lack of parameters or limits is the impetus, with the idea that the creative impulse, within each of the curators/disciplines, will produce individual projects both of the curators and the participants.

Devon Dikeou
New York, New York
1995

Devon Dikeou (1963-2026) was a conceptual artist, editor/publisher of SoHo-based publication zingmagazine, and co-founder/curator of Dikeou Collection, a contemporary art collection in Denver, Colorado. Among her many accomplishments, she was the 2024/25 Recipient of the Jules Guérin Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and showed work in hundreds of exhibitions over a 30 year career, including in such seminal shows as the New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.” To learn more about her life and work visit devondikeou.com and dikeoucollection.org.