Issue #12

Mid-Winter to Summer 1996

Dollars and Sensibility

Cover of Issue #12

Money is loaded with anger, pride, shame, and fear. In response, people talk differently. Some fast talk, some sweet talk, some back talk, some freeze. This journal is the product of the voices that kept talking, under pressure. Guest Editors Alice Naude and Annie Rachelle Lanzillotto put out a call for participants and received an overwhelming number of responses. Each played a role in nudging and shaping the journal towards its eventual form. They are a very real response to the economic condition of this country, a cultural obsession with income, and the devaluation of art. 

Editorial team

Annie Lanzillotto Alice Naude Scotty Heron

Illustrator

Andrew Perret

Ad Layout

Julie Atlas Muz

Copy Editor

Bridget Burns Lara Gerstein Hope Hall Nehara Kalev Kristin Stuart Valdez

Articles

Redemption

It's the nature of money to change hands. Look down the streets, every coupla feet, somebody's pockets are ringing. Money is everywhere you look. Garbage is money. Ice is money....

It Topples Fast

The translation of cash in French, is "liquide" or "espece" (liquid or species). It's liquid. You cannot grasp it. All the different coins! I take a long time to pay...

Bank Account

Oh, Macy's having a sale. Cuisinart $99.99 only. Cuisinart, cuisinart. Oh that's what my mother wants. She writes me a letter everyday. "Do you mind very much if I ask...

Silver Spoon

I am a privileged American artist. For the past three years I have had control of about $160,000 in an investment portfolio. Managed by a broker, the money is in...

The Tides That Blind

When my Russian cousin came to visit me during a record-breaking heat wave several years ago, it didn't deter her from wanting to explore the city with the voracious appetite...

Dance, Mind-Sets, and a New Day

The mind-set of the dance community, like all actively functioning communities, is split down the middle, separating the richness mind-set from the poverty mind-set. One company's approach and one dancer's...

Posing Poor

There have always been writers like myself who benefit for a time, perhaps an entire writing career from a so called unearned income. In the end there are a conundrum...

quotes from the damaged

“I know you think I’m upper class…” “She’s making politically correct dance…” “Now, you know the difference between a real nigger and a nigger with class.” “Oh, he’s going to...