Maintenant 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art

In MAINTENANT 18, contemporary dada writers and artists from around the world redistribute a wealth of new ideas, to shape public opinion using the theme of PLUTOCRAZY. “Timely and relevant.” —Tribe LA Magazine.  “Proof that dada is not dead.” —MADJAN Magazine (Serbia)

Creativity is the currency here and the amount has no limit. In nearly 250 pages of full color art and incisive writing, MAINTENANT 18 separates Merch and State by forging a non-monetary vision which exposes strategies to achieve socio-political and economic equality and serves against the military-industrialist complex linking warfare with capitalism, shining a light through every crack for “we the people.” Features the work of artist and writers from around the world, including cover art by Molly Crabapple.

A fascinating collection of contemporary dada art and writing from around the world that proves dada continues to be a pertinent artistic response to the madness of modern society. As author Richard Loranger (Mammal) notes: “Three Rooms Press, which has been producing Maintenant since 2008, calls this a journal, but it’s more like a series of pageants, or more to the point, anti-pageants, glorious protest parades that fill the streets with punk and jazz and graffiti and wry ire, pausing before the grandstand only to burn flags, fling mirrors, and enact human realness. And what better time for it!”

The Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and often eye-opening) perspective. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Heide Hatry, Avelino de Araujo, Pawel Kuczynski, Inas Al-Soqi, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Syporca Whandal, and Kazunori Murakami; past writers have included Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, Harry E. Northup, Malik Crumpler, Maw Shein Win, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Exene Cervenka, Alice Bag, Mike Watt, Bibbe Hanson and more. 

Complete list of contributors to Maintenant 18:
Derek Adams, Jamika Ajalon, Youssef Alaoui, Linda J. Albertano, Austin Alexis, Joel Allegretti, Maureen Alsop, Santiago Amaya, allison anne, Wayne Atherton, Liz Axelrod, Mahnaz Badihian, David Barnes, Amy Barone, Vittore Baroni, Anthony Bartolla, Gedley Belchior Braga, Regina Lafay Bellamy, C. Mehrl Bennett, Volodymyr Bilyk, Mark Blickley, Jill Blocker, Bob Branaman, Anaïs Bucher, Imanol Buisan, Fork Burke, Mary Campbell, Billy Cancel, Angela Caporaso, Peter Carlaftes, Nick Cash, Mutes César, Neeli Cherkovski, Lynette Clennell, Terese Coe, Giuseppe Colarusso, Chuck Connelly, Jack Cooper, Andrei Cordrescu, Lars Crosby, Malik Crumpler, Rafeal Cruz, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Tchello D’Barros, Wer Da, Steve Dalachinsky, Lillian Davies, Allison A. Davis, Holly Day, Avelino De Araujo, Laine Derr, Dario Roberto Dioli, Rachel Dixon, Sam Dodson, Pete Dolack, Gabriel Don, Carol Dorf, Paul Dorn, Sophie Dunér, Nicole Eisenman, Alejandro Escude, Salvatore Esposito, Massimo Fantuzzi, Jeff Farr, Becky Fawcett, Rich Ferguson, Luc Fierens, Maria Filek, Kathleen Florence, Giovanni Fontana, Michael C. Ford, Robert C. Ford, Dorothy Friedman, Thomas Fucaloro, Ignacio Galilea, Sandra Gea, Michael Georg Bregel, Kat Georges, Christian Georgescu, Mimi German, Robert Gibbons, Gordon Gilbert, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Go, Gemma Goette, S.A. Griffin, Fausto Grossi, Egon Guenther, Genco Gulan, Janet Hamill, Bibbe Hansen, Jesper Hasseltoft, Heide Hatry, Robert Hieger, Karen Hildebrand, Mark Hoefer, Bob Holman, Matthew Hupert, Annaliese Jakimides, Marta Janik, Ruud Janssen, Mathais Jansson, Lisa Marie Järlborn, Jerry Johnson, Boni Joi, Colleen Surprise Jones, Milana Juventa, Jerry Kamstra, Suzi Kaplan Olmsted, Marina Kazakova, Linda Kleinbub, Dr. C. Kleinhans, Doug Knott, Ron Kolm, Daniel Kolm, Mark Kostabi, Eleni Kourti, Paweł Kuczyński, Bénédicte Kusendila, D.L. Lang, Wang Lan, Gary Lawless, David Lawton, Serge Lecomte, Jane LeCroy, Sarah Legow, Margaret Leonard, Patricia Leonard, Linda Lerner, Misa Levey, Alexander Limarev, Jon Longhi, Richard Loranger, Mina Loy, Maria Magnetic, Sara Maino, Gio Makyo, Jaan Malin, Sophie Malleret, Robyn Mallery, Jessica Manack, Fred Marchant, Elena Marini, Sofie Matonis, Malak Mattar, Norm Mattox, Bronwyn Mauldin, Jesse McCloskey, Prince McNally, Philip Meersman, Sharon Mesmer, Charles Mingus III, Lois Kagan Mingus, Andriana Minou, Richard Modiano, Mike M. Mollett, Thurston Moore, Luiz Morgadinho, Aleksandar Mrdjen, Carli Munoz, Larry Myers, Uche Nduka, James B. Nicola, Gerald Nicosia, Harry E. Northup, Irina Tall Novikova, Anna O’Meara, Valery Oisteanu, Ruth Oisteanu, Marc Olmsted, Jane Ormerod, Yuko Otomo, Bibiana Padilla-Maltos, Csaba Pal, Ersébet Palásti, Gay Pasley, Giorgia Pavlidou, Puma Perl, Robert Petrick, Raymond Pettibon, Charles Plymell, Kai Pohl, Renaat Ramon, Nicca Ray, Sabine Remy, Mado Reznik, Travis Richardson, Wes Rickert, Walter Robinson, Benjamin Robinson, Edel Rodriguez, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Martina Salisbury, Phil Scalia, William Seaton, Beatriz Seelaender, Jack Seiei, Silvio Severino, Sheree Shatsky, Susan Shup, Bertholdus Sibum, Angela Sloan, Phil Demise Smith, Marina Solé, J. R. Solonche, Orchid Spangiafora, Marilyn Stablein, Gerd Stern, Eva Helene Stern***, Richard Stone, W. K. Stratton, Belinda Subraman, Neal Skooter Taylor, Fred Tomaselli, Zev Torres, John J. Trause, Uzomah Ugwu, Miss Unity, Nico Vassilakis, Jimmy Vega, Bart Verburg, Maggs Vibo, Benito Villa, Lynnea Villanova, Voxx Voltair, Barranca Vos, Matina Voussou, Silvia Wagensberg, Anne Waldman, George Wallace, Scott Wannberg, Carl Watson, Mike Watt, Poul Weile, Ingrid Wendt, Michael Whalen, Ben White, Allison Whittenberg, A. D. Winans, Francine Witte, Yaryan, Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis, Larry Zdeb, Elzbieta Zdunek, Nina Zivancevic, Joanie HF Zosike

Peter Carlaftes is a New York City-based author, editor, publisher, and playwright. His books include the poetry collections Life in the Past Lane, Drunkyard Dog and I Fold With the Hand I Was Dealt; the play collections Triumph for Rent and Teatrophy, and the humor title A Year on Facebook. He is co-founder and acquisitions editor of Three Rooms Press (New York), for whom he has edited multiple anthologies including the Have a NYC: New York Short Stories series, the annual Maintenant Dada Art and Writing Journal, and The Faking of The President: 17 Stories of White House Noir. He lives in Manhattan.

Kat Georges is a New York City-based poet, playwright, publisher, and graphic designer. Her books include two poetry collections, Awe and Other Words Like Wow and Our Lady of the Hunger, and the play collection Three Somebodies: Plays about Notorious Dissidents. Her poetry and prose work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Love Love Magazine (Paris), the anthology Arriving at a Shoreline, Signs of Life: San Francisco Short Stories, and numerous regional and international journals and magazines. She is co-founder, editor and creative director at Three Rooms Press (New York). She lives in Manhattan.