Maintenant 15: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art

by Peter Carlaftes (editor), Kat Georges (editor)

The 2021 edition of the world’s premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art considers humankind past and present with a collection of contemporary dada art and writing driven by the theme “HUMANITY: THE REBOOT.” More than 250 creators from 33 countries establish that social protest can be creatively acheived via risk-taking art. The premier journal gathering the work of internationally-renowned contemporary Dada artists and writers, Maintenant 15 offers compelling proof that Dada continue to serve as a catalyst to creators more than a century later.

The annual MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers work of contemporary Dada artists and writers from around the world. The new issue features cover art by renowned Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, whose work has been featured on the covers of TIME, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, and more.

Past issues of MAINTENANT include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Walter Robinson, Raymond Pettibon, Nicole Eisenmann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Kazunori Murakami; writers include Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock.

MAINTENANT 15: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges; ART: Folk & Outsider Art ; ISBN 978-1-953103-06-2 trade paper; 275 pages; $25.00 Publication date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Complete list of contributors to Maintenant 15 (in alphabetical order):

Derek Adams • Alexey Adonin • Jamika Ajalon • Youssef Alaoui • Linda J. Albertano • Austin Alexis • Joel Allegretti • Santiago Amaya • Elizabeth Ashe • Gaëlle Audic • Liz Axelrod • Mahnaz Badihian • Amy Barone • Vittore Baroni • Amy Bassin • Regina Lafay Bellamy • John M. Bennett • C. Mehrl Bennett • Volodymyr Bilyk • József Bíró • Mark Blickley • Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier • Clemente Botelho • John Bowman • Jeff Boynton • Gedley Belchior Braga • Bob Branaman • philipkevinbrehse • Kathy Bruce • Imanol Buisan • Fork Burke • Irene Caesar • Billy Cancel • Peter Carlaftes • Virginia Carroll • Mona Jean Cedar • Robert Cenedella • Mutes César • Leanne Chabalko • Sarah M. Chen • Ross Cisneros • Lynette Clennell • Andrei Codrescu • Chuck Connelly • Roger Conover • Anthony Cox • Lars Crosby • Tchello d’Barros • Steve Dalachinsky • Zoë Darling • Allison Davis • Holly Day • Avelino de Araujo • Quỳnh Iris de Prelle • Laylah DeLautréamont • Bart Dewolf • Peter Dizozza • Sam Dodson • Bruce Louis Dodson • Carol Dorf • Robert Duncan • Jeff Farr • Amoye Favour • Rich Ferguson • Kathleen Florence • Gioivanni Fontana • Texas Fontanella • Robert C. Ford • Kofi Fosu Forson • Abigail A. Frankfurt • Barbara Friedman • Thomas Fucaloro • Joanna Fuhrman • Ignacio Galilea • Sandra Gea • Kat Georges • Christian Georgescu • Robert Gibbons • Gordon Gilbert • Mark Glista • Benjamin Goluboff • S. A. Griffin • Fausto Grossi • Meghan Grupposo • Egon Guenther • Genco Gulan • Elancharan Gunasekaran • John S. Hall • Janet Hamill • Bibbe Hansen • David Hargreaves • Nour Hassan • Heide Hatry • Aimee Herman • Karen Hildebrand • Jack Hirschman • Mark Hoefer • Lawrence Holzworth • Mane Hovhannisyan • Joël Hubaut • Heikki Huotari • Matthew Hupert • Ayushi Jain • Annaliese Jakimides • Marta Janik • Ruud Janssen • Mathias Jansson • Debra Jenks • Jerry Johnson • Boni Joi • Milana Juventa • Jerry Kamstra • Allan Kausch • Marina Kazakova • Donna Joy Kerness • Rose Knapp • Doug Knott • Ron Kolm • Mark Kostabi • Eleni Kourti • Paweł Kuczyński • Anatoly Kudryavitsky • Béné Kusendila • David Lawton • Serge Lecomte • Jane LeCroy • Patricia Leonard • Linda Lerner • Adam Li • Alexander Limarev • Laurinda Lind • Goran Lišnjić • Yvonne Litschel • Richard Loranger • Sarah Maino • Jaan Malin • Sophie Malleret • Bibiana Padilla Maltos • Giovanni Mangiante • Mary Manspeaker • Phil Marcade • Fred Marchant • Eliette Markhbein • Sara Cahill Marron • Malak Mattar • Bronwyn Mauldin • Ellyn Maybe • John Mazzei • Jesse McCloskey • Philip Meersman • R. S. Mengert • Lawrence Miles • Lois Kagan Mingus • Charles Mingus III • Richard Modiano • Mike M. Mollett • Thurston Moore • Tim Murphy • Alexander Nderitu • Gerald Nicosia • Anna O’Meara • Valery Oisteanu • Ruth Oisteanu • Marc Olmsted • Suzi Kaplan Olmsted • Jane Ormerod • Yuko Otomo • Csaba Pál • Lisa Panepinto • Gay Pasley • John S. Paul • Paulo • Giorgia Pavlidou • Ernst Perdriel • Puma Perl • Raymond Pettibon • Alex Andy Phuong • Charles Plymell • Leslie Prosterman • Lauren Purje • Renaat Ramon • Nicca Ray • C. R. Resetarits • Mado Reznik • Wes Rickert • Benjamin Robinson • Bruce Robinson • Aliah Rosenthal • Alison Ross • Bradley Rubenstein • Mashaal Sajid • Ralph Salisbury • Martina Salisbury • Aram Saroyan • Phil Scalia • Jack Seiei • Silvio Severino • Craig Shannon • Susan Shup • Bertholdus Sibum • Denise Silk-Martelli • Angela Sloan • Valerie Sofranko • Orchid Spangiafora • Dd. Spungin • Laurie Steelink • Samantha Steiner • J. J. Steinfeld • Christi...

248 pages, Paperback

Published July 13, 2021

About the author

PETER CARLAFTES is a New York-based performance artist, playwright, fiction author, actor, and poet. He is co-director and acquisitions editor for Three Rooms Press, a fierce, independent publisher inspired by Dada, punk and passion. Most recently, he edited the anthology THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: Nineteen Tales of White House Noir. He is co-editor of the annual Dada writing and art journal, MAINTENANT: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art and several editions of the short story collection, HAVE A NYC. Additionally, Carlaftes is the author of A YEAR ON FACEBOOK (humor), DRUNKYARD DOG, I FOLD WITH THE HAND I WAS DEALT (poetry), TRIUMPH FOR RENT: Three Plays, and TEATROPHY: Three More Plays.He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including his comic solo performance piece, “Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well,” as well as “Barefoot in the Park” and Stephen Adly Guirgis' “Den of Thieves.” He lives in New York City.