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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Edinburgh
The Happy Hypocrite (Issues 1 - 6) : For and About Experimental Art Writing
The Happy Hypocrite is a semi-annual journal founded and edited by Fusco, which provides a platform for research through interdisciplinary writing. It has influenced the formation of new cross-genre writing journals, academic programmes, and art writing residency opportunities.
Artists, critics, designers, writers and theorists collaborate in each publication to experiment with ideas and written form. Dissemination of emerging and established practitioners is key to the ethos of the journal: each issue is accompanied by pedagogic and performance-based events, at venues including: Cabinet (New York); CCA (Glasgow); Motto (Berlin); Palais de Toyko (Paris); Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam); Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam); Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Cambridge) ; Institute of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies; Kunstuniversitat (Linz); University of Ulster (Belfast), Royal College of Art (London) and The Showroom (London).
The Happy Hypocrite is published by Book Works (London). Fifteen new works are commissioned per issue from a combination of open submission and invited work, and themed around a distinct writing methodology. The journal has an international editorial advisory board of fifteen members including: Iwona Blaswick, Liam Gillick, Albert Mobilio and Sukhdev Sandhu.
The Happy Hypocrite is funded by Arts Council England and Book Works, in conjunction with different supporters for each issue, including: Die Keure (Bruges); The Elephant Trust; University of East London; University of London; The Great Books Foundation (Chicago); Grunt Gallery (Vancouver); Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery.
Included here are issues 1-6, presented as a group to show the progression of The Happy Hypocrite as an ongoing project.
1: ISBN 978 1 906012 01 4 (2008)
2: ISBN 978 1 906012 10 6 (2008)
3: ISBN 978 1 906012 11 3 (2009)
4: ISBN 978 1 906012 51 1 (2009)
5: ISBN 978 1 906012 24 3 (2010)
6: ISBN 978 1 906012 50 2 (2013)
