Zehar
Regional Council of Gipuzkoa -Service of Visual Arts-Arteleku
Zehar is a magazine of art and contemporary culture. The magazine’s aim is to maintain a critical reflective spirit, inspired by the conviction of the need for consolidated stable bases, which enrich the context and a plural environment. Zehar is bi-annual in paper. It has a continuous electronic version which is feed with discussion forums.
Zehar aims to publish the texts in Spanish, Basque and English, and to give priority to the original version.
San Sebastian, Spain
Kristobaldegi 14, 20014
Email: arteleku@gipuzkoa.net
- Category: Art, Culture
- Periodicity: Bi-Annual
- Language: Spanish / English / Basque
- Format: 235 x 165 mm
- Circulation: 7,000
- Web: http://www.zehar.net
Founded in 1989
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...an independent magazine published with public support
What is your magazine about?
Zehar is a magazine of art and contemporary culture. Zehar uses a transitory denomination (through) to define its purpose as a receptive intermediary between the artistic community and society at large. The magazine’s aim is to maintain a critical reflective spirit, inspired by the conviction of the need for consolidated stable bases, which enrich the context and a plural environment. In order to encourage the variety of ideas, we devote each issue to one theme and invite a guest editor to work on it. The paper version has two editions, Basque/Spanish and English/Spanish, but the electronic edition is trilingual (www.zehar.net)
Who’s behind the project? Tell us about the founders, their backgrounds and their motivations!
Zehar is published by Arteleku (www.arteleku.net), a public art centre under the auspices of the Culture Department of the Regional Government of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, and Maider Zilbeti is the editorial director (mzilbeti@gipuzkoa.net)
Which are the key incredients for the success of your magazine?
The first issue of Zehar came out in November 1989 as a newsletter of Arteleku, but the issue 29 of October 1995 marked the beginning of a transition period, and from then on the magazine worked with the idea of the archive as a documentary space. Interviews, texts, photographs gradually make up the working processes and form the archive culture. This culture is based on the collection, re-appropriation and re-mixing that characterises the visual arts but also music. Archive that allows re-interpretation and a re-reading. Archive that question memory while at the same time reactivating it. Archive which transforms the present but also the future.
Tell us about your audience! Who are the readers of your magazine?
Zehar addresses a broad public interested in the wide spectrum of contemporary art and culture.
Is remaining independent important to you? Is it part of the strategy?
Zehar is an independent magazine published with public support.
What’s your relationship with advertisement? Does it influence your content? Do you care about advertising-driven-editorials?
Zehar doesn’t have advertisement.
Which magazines did influence you most? What are you looking for in other magazines?
Zehar is member of MAGNET, a network developed to support critical debate and resource sharing among independent print/web magazines in the field of electronic culture. Building on the strong editorial traditions of each partner, it is building infrastructures and knowledge exchange systems by which distribution, subscription, translation and editorial can be improved among the whole network. Currently, magnet is made up of five magazines (Mute, Springerin, Neural, Zehar _ Magazine) and five affiliate organisations, all of which are creatively engaged with the field of electronic culture. 


E-mail interview from “16.02.2009”. © Colophon2007.com – Mike Koedinger Editions SA (Luxembourg)
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Regional Council of Gipuzkoa -Service of Visual Arts-Arteleku
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