MANY OF THEM [ issue ] #11 [ title ] MANY OF THEM DEMANDS: WE MUST BE ILLEGIBLE! – 25,00 € / ORDER NOW
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“MANY OF THEM DEMANDS: WE MUST BE ILLEGIBLE!”
In our previous volume, the scholar JACK HALBERSTAM proposed the illegibility as a way to resist the dominant order that demands everyone be legible in terms of binary systems. Instead, he demands we should enter into a murkier, fugitive state. Inspired by his vision, this concept guides Issue #11 of MANY OF THEM, leading us to explore new undetermined spaces and images that deny exactitude and that refuse to pin embodiment to instantly recognizable shapes. During a time when, especially in popular culture, visibility is often misunderstood as participation but in reality constitutes an exploitative condition, MANY OF THEM envisions silence and invisibility as a much more threatening and interesting position to take up.
Infinite images result from trying to encapsulate this notion: the hybrid, the interspecies, the blur, the fantasy, the dream. Its exploration takes up a variety of themes around image-making, character-building, labor, AI, artistry, and the everyday that demonstrate that to be capable of radical change requires refusing to be perfectly accounted for by existing languages or images. The opaque and the obscure are the provisional and the not-yet-arrived. As the artist PIPPA GARNER declares of our collective future, “Life on Earth won’t be called human, it will probably have a new name.” In this way, the illegibility becomes an opportunity to reroute habitual thinking or form a window onto awe-inspiring and imminent patterns of reality.
Plus, in this issue multiple interviews and fashion stories were created in collaboration with,
JORDAN WOLFSON, BLOMMERS/SCHUMM, EUN-ME AHN, MCKENZIE WARK, RAPHAEL BLISS, TAKASHI HOMMA, DIEGO MARCON, ALESSIO BOLZONI, THOMAS LOHR, TORSO, ANTHEA HAMILTON, ANTONIO MACARRO, PETER FUNCH, DEA KULUMBEGASHVILI, ARI VERSLUIS, PIPPA GARNER, GRANT JAMES-THOMAS, P. STAFF, and PUPPIES PUPPIES.
520 pages, 275 x 195 x 27 mm, softcover, printed in Spain, 2024.
Cover 1, BALENCIAGA by GRANT JAMES-THOMAS. Photography, GRANT JAMES-THOMAS. Styling, LARA MCGRATH. Talents, CATHY WOLF and NURS ONDASSYNULY at IMG, KORY HARVEY, COURTNEY GRIFFITHS, ETHAN ROBERTS-WATTS, LAURA THOMAS, and LINTON WASHINGTON WHYTE. Production, ARLAA WORLD. Casting Direction, SHAHRIYAR GHOBADPOUR. Creative Consulting, ASHLEY MUNNS. Movement Direction, YILING ZHAO. Hair and Makeup, SHARON ROBINSON. Prosthetics Designer, DANNY MARIE ELIAS. Prosthetics Artists, VENICE MARSHALL and KIRSTIE STANWAY. Set Design, HANNAH KNOWLES. Research, @PROJ3CKT and FREDDIE BELL. Light Design, SEBASTIAN HAAS. Post-production, KUSHTRIM KUNUSHEVCI and Still Artists. Photography Assistant, JOSEPH WHEELER. Styling Assistant, HAMISH GORDON. SFX Assistants, DYLAN TAYLOR and JESSICA SHALOM. Special Thanks, A&J Future Fitness, The Magic Cottage, HELEN LANGFORD, OLIVER GABE, LINDA, JEN, and DAVID. This image was shot in July of 2024 in Wales, United Kingdom.
Cover 2, SAINT LAURENT by ANTHONY VACCARELLO by TAKASHI HOMMA. Photography, TAKASHI HOMMA. Styling, MEGUMI YOSHIDA. Talent, YUKA MANNAMI at Donna Models. Photography Assistants, REINA KUBOTA and SOUTA KASAHARA. This image was shot in July of 2024 in Tokyo, Japan.
Cover 3, CELINE by HEDI SLIMANE by RAPHAEL BLISS. Photography, RAPHAEL BLISS. Styling, HAMISH WIRGMAN. Talents, PIP BLISS. Production, FARAGO PROJECTS. Casting Direction, NICO CARMANDAYE. Hair, TASOS CONSTANTINOU. Makeup, IGA WASYLCZUK. Set Design, PHOEBE SHAKESPEARE. Location Manager, JEVGENIJ SULIAK. Photography Assistant, LUKE FULLALOVE. Styling Assistants, ROBYN VALENTINE and LOUIE SAHOTA SINGH. Casting Assistant, TAMILA SULEYMANOVA. This image was shot in July of 2024 in London, UK.
Cover 4, VAQUERA by TORSO. Photography, TORSO. Styling, JUAN CORRALES. Talent, OLIVIA PETRONELLA PALERMO at Next Models. Production, DIVISION. Casting Direction, SIMONE SCHOFER. Hair, JOSEPH PUJALTE. Makeup, MASAÉ ITO. Nail Artist, CAM TRAN. Light Direction, PAUL JEDWAB. Digital Operator, ANTOINE BERNARD. Photography Production, MORGANE TAYEAU. Post-production, INK. Styling Assistant, PABLO LEFEBVRE. Makeup Assistant, MORGANE NICOL. This image was shot in September of 2024 in Paris, France.
Cover 5, ALAÏA by THOMAS LOHR. Photography, THOMAS LOHR. Styling, MEGUMI YOSHIDA. Talent, YUKA MANNAMI at Donna Models. Photography Assistants, REINA KUBOTA and SOUTA KASAHARA. This image was shot in July of 2024 in London, UK.