Inside:
Psychedelia often gets caught up in a cartoonish, clownish stereotype - a flower-powered, Scobby-doo'd version of something that has long lost its original meaning. Elastic, is a brand new magazine of psychedelic art and literature that, through working with artists and writers already working in the psychedelic register, presents something which broadens out the congealed definitions of psychedla into something much wider and ... wall-less.
Issue one is themed around dying and includes articles and stories that are inspired by the infinitude of grief, the obliteration of the self through sex and childbirth, the weirdness of aging, the horrors of life in Gaza and Ukraine, and more. Visuals and the written word merge, colour and shape meld, and as they do, the realm of the psychedelic, shackled by a narrow definition, expands, broadens and blooms
Expect:
publishing art and writing that bending time, genre and perspective, Elastic conjures a truly expansive vision of psychedelic culture, bringing together a vast body of contemporary psychedelic work and paying tribute to an overlooked archive.
Size: 241 x 218mm
Pages: 176
