Our current issue, ‘Dissonant Laws’, was released March 2026.
You can purchase it over on our bandcamp page.
MEANS 5: 76 pages of experimental and grassroots artists exploring the theme of Dissonant Laws.
Dissonance: a lack of harmony, between notes in a given scale, or people in a given society. The word points to a breakdown of ‘common’ sense, a dissolution of the common agreements that provide structure. Agreements, in a democratic context, are bound up in legislation: laws that are followed – or broken – by members of the community.
Dissonant Laws seeks to unpick the relationship between citizens, authority, and rebellious invention. How do laws create or engender artistic resistance? And how do those forms of creative dissent in turn infer new forms of legality? What examples of artistic protest have emerged in response to legislative change?
Expect:
abstract paintings of Dartmoor prison
Academic discussions on the dissonance of platformisation
Feminist responses to digital love
an interview with the enigmatic Wraith Sector
Hostile architecture
The dissonance of punk imagery
reviews of new experimental music albums
and more!
Full colour A5 magazine, high-quality print.
Prior issues:
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