Exit Strata

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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What is ‘Exit Strata’? Exit Strata is an international creators community based in New York City. We publish a hybrid literary and arts print journal and maintain a robust online blogazine, focused on empowering creative agency across disciplinary boundaries. This project was born out of our desire to produce a magazine — one that both honors the tradition of the literary magazine as well as parodies everything a magazine has come to represent, culturally. This project is absurd, necessarily, and is also predicated on harmonious tension.We strive to give equal attention to art and literature, often merging the two through collaboration between artists and writers… and also in recognizing the ultimately fuzzy boundaries between these (and all) creative “disciplines.” But to understand Exit Strata as merely a magazine would hurt its feelings. Exit Strata is a strategy, a process, a community, a creative approach to living life and leaving a trail behind you. Any publications associated with Exit Strata (or its varied eXsT sTraTum) are most accurately described as documentation; of an archive of the production of eXsT which can be replicated in two dimensions. But the sTraTa could never be confined to two dimensions, nor to the timespace limitations of the page, quietly growing in a chrysalis of 0′s and 1′s, and presented to you here on this interweb playground, which will provide a constant stream of content, a place for meeting, discovering, and sharing. More than anything we want to stress that Exit Strata is a creators community, a network, and a platform for mutual expression, appreciation, collaboration, dialogue, interdisciplinary exploration — and a place where we celebrate the growing relationship between digital and print media. It is, ultimately, an exercise in the self-actualization of a viable cooperative for growing value. We are committed to providing a space for artists of all disciplines to stretch their wings, expand their reach, go beyond their comfort zone, reach a new, shared audience, and self-publish/promote in a range of media. Our print magazine is always in direct dialogue with our online publication, both of which are seen as a document of community process and experimentation more than “product” — in print, we focus on explorations of the page, and intentionally address the imagination landscape of that particular form of “information”: how typography, layout, mixing of media, and design vocabularies play a role in the expression and receipt of both creative and apparently “empirical” content. All community members and contributors are invited to play and participate in collaboratory process both in the interest of building connections and co-creating work as well as in the collective production of content for each issue. This includes collaboration with offsite contributors via correspondence and other forms of digital connection, but focuses on coming together in shared space for salon-type charettes wherein all participants engage in a variety of disciplinary experimentation, eschewing labels that delimit our forms or concepts of craft-identity. Our <a href="exitstrata.com" target="_blank">online home</a> (the eXsT weB) offers exclusive online content from artists, filmmakers, musicians, performers, and writers, as well as in depth profiles of the <a href="http://www.exitstrata.com/category/awesome_creators/">Awesome Creators</a> who make up our global community, across a wide range of disciplines. We seek to explore the processes that inform and facilitate creative production, valuating and documenting models for further dialogue, exploration, and co-collaborative discovery on and offline. Exit Strata: Print! No. 1 closed submissions in October 2011, and hit the presses in Spring 2012. Submissions for Print! No. 2 have now closed. Look for this next issue in stores and online by November 2012. Rolling submissions for future issues and pitches for online participation and guest blogging are always welcome. See <a href="http://www.exitstrata.com/submissions" target="_blank">submissions</a> page for guidelines.) If you are an audio, filmic, or other performer/creator/polymath who feels they would best be suited for webcontent or otherwise wishes to contact our staff (accolades and financial backing are particularly welcome!) you can do so at: <a href="mailto:editors@exitstrata.com">editors@exitstrata.com</a> ONWARD! We’re excited you’re here - ExSt Exquisite Editorial Corps -   Benjamin Wiessner: Benjamin Wiessner appreciates a well-placed em dash. He still listens to that song by Petey Pablo and he believes in the untapped culinary power of country ham. He values sensible footwear. He always keeps a tent in his trunk.  He was raised to witness the emancipatory power of storytelling. These are all source texts for his aesthetics. D.A. Wright: D.A. Wright is a fictionist who should not be trusted with industrial machinery. He spends long hours in the dark thinking about the collective unconscious and is prone to tirades on the great accident of humanity. He is the author of <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/arbitrary-nonsense-d-a-wright/1110738973" target="_blank">Arbitrary Nonsense</a> and is currently working on his second novel The Last Days of Lawrence X. Polk. Lynne DeSilva-Johnson: Lynne DeSilva-Johnson prefers to be described in the universal language we’ve only begun to (re-)learn. In lay English she can be called Poet, Educator, Philosopher, Alchemist, Friend, Artist, Writer, Healer, Conduit, Rogue, Free Spirit, Instigator and occasionally Curmudgeon. Her students think she is Eccentric, and she likes that very much indeed. She can be found at <a title="The Trouble With Bartleby" href="http://thetroublewithbartleby.net/" target="_blank">The Trouble with Bartleby</a>, via <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/onlywhatican" target="_blank">@onlywhatican</a>, and lurking in the cobwebbed corners of the mental universe.

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