Wave Zine #1 - The Out of Office

Wave Zine #1 - The Out of Office

Masseria Wave’s independent editorial project

Independent publication with over 40 international artists’ contributions on the topic of “Out of Office”: the need to reconsider one’s own time and vital space in favour of ever more urgent wellness conditions. Through different artistic languages such as photographs, illustrations, interviews, unpublished work, discovery tales and personal stories, fictional tales, fake ads, photo stories with a futuristic flavour; the zine contents are dedicated to the topics of burnout, going back to the suburbia, and toxic work life. Among the contributors are: Vincenzo Sparagna (Frigidaire, Frigolandia), Princess Julia, Lomography, Leggi Scomodo, Coeval, Ivan Carozzi, and many more. The OUT OF OFFICE issue encapsulates the collective necessity to move away from a poisoned everyday life, marked by exasperated rhythms and ever elevated performances, which cause people to burn out and leave work; this in turn gets people to reconsider decentralised and peripheral places, where time dilates and allows us to reflect on the ways we can experience a new wellness.  The editorial result is an experimental process that sees a collective narration come together in a single project. A portion of the artistic contributions to Wave Zine have been selected among numerous works submitted by the audience and the artists after Masseria Wave promoted an open call on social media.  Wave Zine was born in 2023 from the experience and the work of Masseria Wave’s team, an innovative and inclusive tourism project born and active in Puglia. This is where a historical building was converted in a cultural production hub, thus giving people and artists a chance and a space to research their own sense of freedom, through a programme of events and rendezvous.

• 160 pgs, 29.7 × 21 cm, Paperback , 2024