20 Seconds Magazine is launching Issue 8, “The Tide,” with an evening program featuring many of the issue’s editors and collaborators.

Program/Info:

OLVRA live performance (guitar and electronics)

Boalândia (excerpt screening and Q&A with Mathias Reitz Zausinger)

Stefanos Levidis (screening with video introduction by Damian Lentini)

Kwanele (screening with video introduction by the director)

Record selection by Sid Talukdar

20 Seconds Issue 8, “The Tide” will be available for purchase.

Featuring: Daniel Falb, Eric Maltz, Garth Erasmus, Ilona Witkowska, Rewinding Boalândia, Nour Ouayda, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Sokołowsko, Stefanos Levidis, Thandiwe Msebenzi, Zakirah Rabaney

The Tide:

Tides are destructive. Beyond aquatic interventions, they bear the weight of bodies that remain to be seen. They are carriers of invisible and interminable forces. We heed that which has not yet come, that to be, a chronic fear, the disease of chronos. Still, the real disease is myopic. Those familiar with translucent movements felt or heard benefit from their investment and belief in what they know without seeing. They deal in the currency of survival.

This issue of 20 Seconds Magazine looks into the cyclical nature of social and political movements. In order to do so we take inspiration from our often seemingly lunar obtuseness and incapacity to deal with the errors our planet’s inhabitants continue to make.

Still, we rely on our notions of publishing, of speaking and writing resistance, even as governments continue to abuse the activists doing so on the streets. For the artists in 20 Seconds Issue 8, the tide is something to be challenged, of which to be conscious, a malleable energy to be harnessed, in the form of pain, or even trauma.

Daniel Melfi

Editor-in-Chief

*Image from Kwanele by Thandiwe Msebenzi (2022, 6’)