Boredom Is Counter-revolutionary

BOREDOM IS COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY:
Launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 10
with the bands Shortpants Romance, The American Devices,
Little Scream and The Great Vowel Shift + more…
Saturday, March 7th @ Lab.Synthese



Four Minutes to Midnight is proud to announce the publication of its tenth issue, featuring the work of over 30 visual artists, poets and writers. We invite you to join us for the launch event, "Boredom is Counter Revolutionary", Saturday, March 7th @ Lab.Synthese (435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200) with the bands Shortpants Romance, The American Devices, Little Scream and The Great Vowel Shift. Things get kicked off at 8pm, with a $5 cover charge, or $13 with a copy of issue 10. The event is BYOB.

"Almost every heartfelt page of 23:56 revolves around issues of textuality, of words and pictures, of sense and shape, of palpable meaning-making."
- dbqp: visualizing poetics, December 2005


“….and Fugue 10… man O man as exquisite as broken glass in the yard at Pelican Bay… TOO FUCKING MUCH!!!”
- FA Nettelbeck, Sewing Memory, December 2008

Four Minutes to Midnight won the Best English-Language Zine award at the inaugural Expozine Awards is 2005, and has since independently published an issue a year, showcasing a wide range of local and international artists in an experimental, collaborative format. Based in the firm belief that the personal is political, the zine explores the possibility for small stories, bad poetry, vast dreams and private pains as a means of advancing social change. Supported by like-minded and expectation-challenging bands, this launch promises to be a special evening with featured artwork on the walls, surprise performances and an atmosphere of collective art-making.

FMTM issue 10 features writing and artwork by:
Hoda and Dima Adra, Caroline Aquin, Ilinca Balaban, Emily Kai Bock, Simon Carrasco, Marilyn de Castro, Kyla Chevrier, Grant Collins, Ian Finch, Jesse Ferguson, Jason Gillingham, Sacha Guney, Alexandra Hall, Erica Ruth Kelly, JP King, Dita Kubin, Kevin Ledo, Tony de Marco, Billy Mavreas, Maria Mavrig, Joshua Mensch, Debbie Millman, F.A. Nettelbeck, Omen, Catherine Rizzetto, Christopher David Ryan, Valerie Sanguin, Hilary Schaenfield, Clare Sheldon-Williams, Louis Sobol, Vincent Tinguely, Visualingual (Maya Drozdz & Michael Stout), Caroline Weaver, and Colin White.

Review of Issue 10 (by design critic Kenneth Fitzgerald): www.ephemeralstates.com/2009/02/four-minutes-to-midnight/