CATALOG AND EXHIBITION GUIDEBOOK

The “Megazine” is the CODEX Foundation’s publication for Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, widely available now. Like the Extraction Project itself, this book is many different things at once. Partly a group catalog of extraction-related artwork, each artist or creator’s individual contribution documents their own personal investigations into the extraction question, addressing a specific issue or set of issues under the broader umbrella of the Extraction Project. The project is by no means limited to the visual arts—in these pages you will also find poetry, critical writings, philosophical treatises, manifestos, musical scores, conversations, historical or found photographs, and much more. The words and images collected here can thus be seen as discrete stories and aesthetic investigations that nonetheless make up part of a larger ongoing story in which we are all participants (the reader included).

A number of the submissions printed here offer snapshots of research projects that are ongoing, while others provide merely a small window into a larger body of work. For this reason the reader is encouraged to dig deeper, and to regularly check the Extraction website for the latest updates as the project continues to expand and develop after the printing and distribution of this volume. Our goal is to distribute 5,000 total copies of the publication to all the participating galleries, museums and exhibition spaces, before the beginning of the main Extraction program. Distribution of the Megazine will bring free publicity for participating venues, not to mention the hundreds of artists who have contributed art work to the publication.