Failed States is an editorial project that collects and investigates ideas about places, or more specifically about indeterminate geographies. With an ever-changing research mode and an open approach, the magazine seeks to imagine, occupy and furnish another type of space.
Each issue is dedicated to a different theme explored through innovative contributions from emerging and established writers, artists, directors, photographers and academics.
Dimensions: 27.5x21.5 cm
Number of pages: 186
English language
ISSUE 4 - SOUTH
We are all in the South of something because the South is relative. In this issue, we travel to Chile; Morocco, in the Mississippi delta; on Mount Taranaki at the Rio Grande; in South Dakota, in the Sandwich Islands and we go to the discovery of a street in South London called Rainbow.
• Altiplano: the artist Malena Szlam and the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer explore the Atacama desert.
• Austral Index: Pete Segall catalogs a number of southern locations from SoHo to Yunnan.
• Borderlands: Joanna Pocock travels along the Wall on the border between Mexico and the United States.
• Four car ramps: Paolo Patelli documents the construction of unauthorized motorway ramps in Ard El Lewa, Cairo.
• Land Remains: Jake Silby delves into the Maori mythology, stories and origins of Mount Taranaki.
• Milton of Vivos: Jenny Perlin meets a man preparing for the apocalypse in a bunker in South Dakota.
• Night Wind Remembers: Donal Mosher returns to North Carolina for his father's surgery, dealing with disease, aging and celluloid fantasies.
• Rollercoasting: Frank Watson traverses the coastal landscape of post-Brexit Kent.
• This is Happening, in which Andrea Mason details his South East London neighborhood over two years.
And many other stories.