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A beautifully designed print journal focused on the social and political dimensions of contemporary art and visual culture. Published biannually by Public Access, a Canadian not-for-profit and registered charity.
Join us Friday Oct 17, 5-7pm for the launch of PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion 📣 We'll be in the Fireside Lounge at York University for this year's UAAC. Grab a copy of this amazing new issue (amidst a postal strike!) and refreshments 🍷 Lotsa back issues & books available for purchase!
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Join us Friday Oct 17, 5-7pm for the launch of PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion 📣 We'll be in the Fireside Lounge at York University for this year's UAAC. Grab a copy of this amazing new issue (amidst a postal strike!) and refreshments 🍷 Lotsa back issues & books available for purchase!
Are you in the Edmonton area next week? Come to an epic (and FREE) screening of 5 experimental IMAX films, preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format! www.eventbrite.com/e/outer-worl...
September 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Are you in the Edmonton area next week? Come to an epic (and FREE) screening of 5 experimental IMAX films, preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format! www.eventbrite.com/e/outer-worl...
Just over a month left to submit to issue 73: (Re)Mediating Soils, to be published in Spring 2026. We're looking for articles, artist projects, personal essays, interviews, and poetry about relational approaches to soil-as-media. Read the full call + proposal guidelines at publicjournal.ca/submit
April 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just over a month left to submit to issue 73: (Re)Mediating Soils, to be published in Spring 2026. We're looking for articles, artist projects, personal essays, interviews, and poetry about relational approaches to soil-as-media. Read the full call + proposal guidelines at publicjournal.ca/submit
Just 6 weeks left to send in a proposal for Issue 72: (Searching For Home). This issue will examine various concepts of home through displaced and diasporic perspectives. Propose an article, personal essay, artist project, or short story at publicjournal.ca/submit Deadline: Feb 21st.
January 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Just 6 weeks left to send in a proposal for Issue 72: (Searching For Home). This issue will examine various concepts of home through displaced and diasporic perspectives. Propose an article, personal essay, artist project, or short story at publicjournal.ca/submit Deadline: Feb 21st.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • PUBLIC 72: (Searching For Home) — Seeking essays, articles, poetry, short fiction, and visual art for publication in Fall 2025. See the full details and submit a proposal at: publicjournal.ca/submit
December 4, 2024 at 11:16 PM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • PUBLIC 72: (Searching For Home) — Seeking essays, articles, poetry, short fiction, and visual art for publication in Fall 2025. See the full details and submit a proposal at: publicjournal.ca/submit
📣 Announcing our 30-day donor drive! 🏁 This year, when you give you also get back. From now until Friday December 20th we're offering free subscriptions, books, and artist multiples on a 6-tier scale of giving. Check out all the details and donate at: publicjournal.ca/donate #charity #notforprofit
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
📣 Announcing our 30-day donor drive! 🏁 This year, when you give you also get back. From now until Friday December 20th we're offering free subscriptions, books, and artist multiples on a 6-tier scale of giving. Check out all the details and donate at: publicjournal.ca/donate #charity #notforprofit
Now available for pre-order 💨 70: The Weather ☔️ ed. Joel Ong. This issue investigates the cultural, literary & engineered histories of the weather, focusing not only on the felt effects of climate collapse but also on embodied ways to understand our changing atmosphere. Purchase at publicjournal.ca
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Now available for pre-order 💨 70: The Weather ☔️ ed. Joel Ong. This issue investigates the cultural, literary & engineered histories of the weather, focusing not only on the felt effects of climate collapse but also on embodied ways to understand our changing atmosphere. Purchase at publicjournal.ca
And, here we are—goodbye toxic Twitter-verse. We've switched the scenery but none of the substance. Followers: Rest assured that we'll continue to provide you with updates on our upcoming print journals, most recent online publishing, and insightful and invigorating artist talks and panels.
November 19, 2024 at 11:45 PM
And, here we are—goodbye toxic Twitter-verse. We've switched the scenery but none of the substance. Followers: Rest assured that we'll continue to provide you with updates on our upcoming print journals, most recent online publishing, and insightful and invigorating artist talks and panels.