Mnemoscape Magazine is a biannual online magazine dedicated to furthering research into contemporary visual culture and art practices that operate at the interstices of political and historical scrutiny, with a special focus on issues of memory, methodology and the archival impulse. Mnemoscape Magazine issue#1 was published in September 2014. Issue#2, titled "In the Presence of Absence", will be published on the 16th of March 2015 and will feature contributions from: Elisabeth Blanchet, Valentina Bonizzi, Ethnographic Terminalia, Alessandra Ferrini, Dalia Khamissy, Juliette Kristensen, Mantas Kvedaravicius, Vincenzo Latronico, Yen Ooi, Flora Pitrolo, Susan Pui San Lok.

Mnemoscape Magazine issue #1
"The Anarchival Impulse"

Table of Contents:

0. The Anarchival Impulse / editorial by Mnemoscape http://bit.ly/1wvYVg3

1. the Archive of Destruction: Pedro Lagoa interviewed by Elisa Adami http://bit.ly/1sN1uyV

2. Anarchaeology Series. A Project by Az.Namusn.Art / article by Alessandra Ferrini http://bit.ly/XpgWCL

3. Watered down modernity. Iconoclastic fluids in Alexander Apóstol’s archival mediations / Alexander Apóstol in conversation with Lisa Blackmore http://bit.ly/1sfHIKa

4. Against Historiographical Positivism: Some Skeptical Reflections about the Archival Fetishism / article by Giulia Bassi http://bit.ly/1xPNLFT

5. Art Criticism 2.0 / article by Paolo Chiasera http://bit.ly/1nxdWAx

6. Showcase: Alessandro Di Pietro, dOCUMENTA (13) Das Begleitbuch / The Guidebook KATALOG / CATALOG 4/3 http://bit.ly/1teWPmu

7. Between the Archive and the Unarchivable / article by Wolfgang Ernst http://bit.ly/1x3HiY8

8. Simon Starling's Show 'Analogue Analogies' at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / exhibition review by Yvonne Bialek http://bit.ly/1ukzGka

9. (An)Archival Experiment through the ICA / article by Lucy Bayley, Ben Cranfield and Anne Massey http://bit.ly/1xvTC4y

10. The Pathological Rhythm of the Archive / article by Eirini Grigoriadou http://bit.ly/1Erh3MW

11. Multiple Signatures of Subtraction / article by Robert Luzar http://bit.ly/1v12FLv

12. Showcase: Emilio Vavarella, The Sicilian Family http://bit.ly/1GNcS1U

13. Returning to the Tabularium / curatorial essay by Alana Kushnir (with showcase by Lawrence Lek, Memory Palace) http://bit.ly/1wRfo2C

14. Retrograde Stairwell / short story by Chris Mason http://bit.ly/1ErmcnX