SITE Magazine
Hausammeer Productions
Duesseldorf, Germany
Lindenstraße 121, 40233
Email: contact@sitesite.de
- Category: Art
- Periodicity: Bi-Annual
- Language: German / English
- Format: 210 x 280 mm
- Circulation: 1,300
- Price: 12 €
- Web: http://www.sitesite.de
Founded in 1998
Artist runned 2 dimensions exhibition & distribution project for art and art related stuff, which is complemented by the 3 dimensions space of Sitegalerie.
Exclusive Interview
Site Magazine
What is your magazine about?
Sitemagazine is a magazine founded by artists and sponsored by artists. It’s ambition is to butt in the world of media, publication, interpretation and contextualization.
Who’s behind the project? Tell us about the founders, their backgrounds and their motivations!
The founders Petra Rinck, Sven Lütgen and Ralf Brög are all artists. Our main motivation was and still is to have a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice which goes beyond individual studio practice.
How do you produce one issue? How much time do you spend on it? How big is your team?
An individual issue grows over a pretty long period of time without this would have any stringent structure. When we have decided about an upcoming issue we spend around three months more structural work on it.
Unfortunately our team is still tiny, actuall just two (Petra Rinck and Ralf Brög, Sven Lüttgen left in 2002.). Since issue 11, we invite guest curators who cooperate with us on a magazine or on a section of a magazine. Also we have interns from time to time.
What have been the important steps in the life of your magazine?
Release of the first issue. Sharing editorial and curatorial decision making to the point of having no control. (This was not the case in the early days and for a long time.)
Which are the key ingredients for the success of your magazine?
We don’t mind to spend a ridiculous amount of time and energy to whatever we consider to be important. We do not bullshit.
What are the difficulties you are confronted with? What would be “the” thing to help the magazine to improve?
-Staff
-free stamps
Where do you want the magazine to be in five years?
Being a source of inspiration for a not exclusively art interested audience.
Tell us about your audience! Who are the readers of your magazine?
I guess people who like magazines, people who look for stuff not yet covered by mainstream.
Is remaining independent important to you? Is it part of the strategy?
Not sure. Nothing wrong with a good partner.
What’s your relationship with advertisement? Does it influence your content? Do you care about advertising-driven-editorials?
No.
What do you think of your issue 01, when you look back at it?
It’s beyond criticism.
Magazine favorite(s) that inspired you in your career.
Interview, index, permanent food, John Nixons one page magazine (forgotten the name), FILE...
Do you keep old copies of magazines? If so, what is your favorite in your collection?
We have a little collection of magazines. Hard to pick a favorite as they have very diverse qualities I admire.
How many magazines do you buy / get / read each month? Do you qualify yourself a maniac?
Don’t know, sometimes two sometimes ten. No, I am not a maniac. I just like magazines and I even like it better to publish one.
We are compiling answers from some of the most innovative magazine makers around the world today. Who else should we ask?
-Peter Halley who publishes index.
-John Nixon invented some very nice independent press formats.
-Andy Warhol (talk to Mi magazine from Vienna. They have great links to people with paranormal skills, which they use to get voices from beyond. In SITEmagazine 9/1 we’ve published an interview with Joseph Beuys they have transmitted.
Answered by Ralf Broeg (Co-founder/Co-editor)
Magazine: SITEmagazine
Email: contact@sitesite.de
Date: 13-01-2009
Publisher
Hausammeer Productions
40233, Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone +49 0 211 6989733
Email: contact@sitesite.de
Staff
Founders & directors: Petra Rinck and Ralf Brög...
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