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A Public Space
A Public Space is a nonprofit quarterly English-language literary magazine based in Brooklyn, New York. First published in April 2006, "A Public Space" publishes fiction, poetry, essays and art. The magazine's Focus portfolios have examined the writing of a different country each issue, covering the literature of Japan, Russia, and Peru in Issues 1-3.
History and profile.
The magazine was founded in 2005 by Brigid Hughes, former Executive Editor of "The Paris Review"
in public space’ could be re-defined. He decided to address the passer-by without using the existing language of the art world. His interventions are made by re-contextualizing existing signs or objects, adding them to a location in an unexpected way and by doing so questioning ‘normality’. The work is often about the functionality of materials and objects, or about rules and regulations and the way people behave in the public domain. Before he makes a work he visits and photographs an unlimited number of locations