 NEW YORK—November 1, 2016— Cultural Counsel is pleased to announce the launch of its publishing platform, Affidavit. In keeping with Cultural Counsel’s mission to advance the conversation surrounding contemporary art, design, and architecture through collaboration and experimentation, Affidavit will present innovative and eclectic writing ranging in tone and form. Affidavit will take the form of an online archive ( affidavit.culturalcounsel.com) and a biweekly newsletter delivered directly to influential cultural figures, as well as a variety of print projects. Affidavit takes a middle route between in-depth essays and short-form arts journalism. It is designed to be engaging and precise, grounded in the moment as it moves from topic to topic. Launching at a time of unprecedented competition amongst art publications, both in print and online, Affidavit proposes light and refreshing conversation undergirded by trenchant rigor. “I started Cultural Counsel with projects like Affidavit in mind,” says Cultural Counsel President Adam Abdalla. “The idea was always not simply to act as intermediary, but to use our position to promote exciting, unexpected cultural developments. This is our way of adding to the most vibrant moment of art publishing in recent history.” Editorial Director Hunter Braithwaite adds, “ Affidavit gives writers a platform without the normal prompts and constraints of arts journalism, and provides readers with a moment of reflection.” Affidavit launches with four distinct voices:
- “You missed nothing” wouldn’t be a bad phrase to describe Bill Berkson’s life, if you were addressing Bill himself, who was born in 1939, in Manhattan, and died suddenly in San Francisco, from a heart attack, on June 16th. – Claudia La Rocco, Epigraph/Epilogue
- Our subject matter hadn’t changed in what seemed like forever, perhaps never changed, indeed was changeless, was right this minute manifesting the flexible logic and potent negative glamour of the true changeling—anything to get an edge. – David Hunt, Proof of Life
- This artificial aging may be about repealing time’s inexorable law. Maybe if new things can be made old, old things can be made young. Then we never have to die. – Mark Flood, Reprographic Death and Nate Lowman
- A deeper dig into the mythical power of the triangle might unearth the reasons why threesomes persevere throughout history, but in the meantime, it’s apparent that rectangular beds are insufficient for 21st-century relationships, platonic or otherwise. – Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Collaborative Consummation
Over the coming months, Affidavit will publish writing by Donald Judd, Ruba Katrib, Thomas Lawson, Jim Lewis, Gean Moreno, Terence Riley, and others. Readers can subscribe to Affidavit’s mailing list by visiting affidavit.culturalcounsel.com.
ABOUT CULTURAL COUNSEL
Cultural Counsel is a New York-based consultancy focused on communications, strategic partnerships, and the development of public programming in the worlds of contemporary art, design, and architecture. Through our valued relationships with artists, writers, curators, patrons, and creative professionals, we facilitate significant contributions to the cultural dialogue.
Communications is at the core of Cultural Counsel, but our vision is to catalyze something greater. The firm’s understanding of these specialized fields, as well as the worlds of fashion, hospitality, and real-estate development, allows us to promote projects to the public with a refined sense of context, and to facilitate seamless collaborations among an international clientele. Established in 2015 by Adam Abdalla.
ABOUT HUNTER BRAITHWAITE
Hunter Braithwaite was the founding editor of the Miami Rail, the sister publication of the Brooklyn Rail. He has contributed widely to contemporary art publications, and recently published Flooded Penthouse, a collaborative artist book with Margaux Ogden. He has lectured at the School of Visual Arts MFA Program in Art Writing, and has been a contributing editor at Modern Painters.
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