Pro Helvetia launches online magazine "V/A - Various Artists"

V/A - Various Artists is editorially independent and is aimed at internationally active artists and cultural practitioners, writes Pro Helvetia in a press release. The magazine is dedicated to their experiences, perspectives and practices with selected articles. V/A aims to provide a forum for authors and artists working in different scenes, countries and environments - decentralized, networked and surprising.

International cultural exchange and transdisciplinary or artistic collaborations are not only the subject of contributions and articles at V/A. Instead, the magazine would like to build up its own network of international publishing partners. To this end, it is working with independent magazines and platforms around the world that take articles and publish them in other languages or formats. This should not only increase the reach of each individual article, but also the chance that the articles will find a dedicated readership.

For the first contributions, for example, the Lebanese platform Raseef22the magazine for French-speaking Switzerland La Couleur des Jours or the Danish-American print magazine Viscose be won.  V/A - Various Artists itself publishes all articles in English and refers to the translations in the partner publications. Around 75 articles per year are planned. The Staaacks agency is responsible for the editorial work and the web design was developed by Hammer.