Introduction

Mašta, magazine for creative activism

Welcome!
Mašta means 'imagination'. It also means ´whatever´. Growing from input, actions and creations, we publish a sparkling magazine to tickle your imagination and inspire you to act. The magazine exists of different forms of creative expression, images, articles, art, discussion, sharing of ideas and experiences. We wish to be inspired by creative acts of others. You are warmly invited to give your contribution!


The theme of the next issue will be:

Mašta #4: Designer Me
Identify yourself

 Stereotype this. I am a dadaist life-artist, a collage of ready-made identities. I am the master of remix. A bit local, a hint subcultural, a trace global. Always subversive. Today, I am my own Designer Me.

Consume the style. Is identity fit for consumption? Is it that simple?
I don't buy it.

Newsflash: Terrorism, us versus them, humanitarian intervention. Do you believe in the culture of clashes? If another world is possible, so is another way of life.

I belong to no one. I dissolve, your expectations delude.

Street art craves for individuality, requests signs of personality from the impersonal public space. Reclaim public space, make it more suitable for your way of life.

Who will you be in the next five minutes?

deadline for submissions: 1st May 2008



The Memory Game
(PDF - 6.6 MB)


Download Mašta #3
(PDF - 9 MB)


Download Mašta #2
(PDF - 4.5 MB)


OUT NOW! - Mašta #3: Drive

Mašta #3 is about inspiration, your drive. What makes your world go round?
Not like cars drive, but like what is your drive. It includes passion,
inspiration, motivation, energy, dreams. Whatever keeps one going. A bit
like oil, but cheaper.

Does it ring the bells of creativity?
Does it start your brain storming?

So don't be shy, break the borders and express yourself!


Contribute now!
Post your poems, photo's, columns, ideas, articles, video's, essays, images, concepts, or whatever imagination on our interactive forum or send it to

If you like some inspiration, check the topics-link. Here you find some ideas that might get you started.

Loesje

Recent posts

Passport - Identify me

Identification papers are needed to cross borders. In Dutch, identificationpapers are, if translated literally, identitypapers. The translation is a bit weird. I see identity as something unique and me, and the governement makes it something standard and machinelike. Is the number the only thing that matters?

This piece of plastic should show you my identity, who I am and what I'm all about, I don't believe it. I want a card or booklet that shows my identity, that when identification is needed I can really show them me. That I'm fun, but grumpy in the mornings, that green is my favourite colour and that I like to eat icecream in winters. What I study is more relevant for who I am than what my adress is.

In the upcoming magazine I want to take the chance to have people experiment with the idea of a passport. Design one that would be unique and individual, what would it look like, how would you use it. Tell me the stories of bordercrossings and travelling.
Feel invited to act and think about this thing that is a passport. Send in your material before may 1st. It can be anything; pictures of artwork you did, an action report, a story, or a video we can place online.

All passengers please board now

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Urban Repair Squad Video - DIY Bike Lane

The Toronto Group Urban Repair Squad which painted several kilometers
of bike lanes in 2007 released a video as part of the Creative Activism Exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Fun.

More Info:
http://urbanrepairs.blogspot.com/
http://www.torontofreegallery.org/

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room with a view

An old, desolated factory in Berlin is taken over by street artists. Decorated to create a nice place, an accidental museum, for which the entrance fee is limited to a small act of climbing.

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