Arts of the Working Class, Issue №40

A multi-lingual street journal on poverty and wealth, art and society: Arts of the Working Class is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class, meaning everyone, and it reports everything that belongs to everyone. Everyone who sells this street journal earns money directly. Vendors keep 100% of the sales. Every artist whose work is advertised, designs with us its substance. AWC is published by Paul Sochacki and María Inés Plaza Lazo for the streets of the world

“Synthetics” looks at society’s toxins, addictions, and collective hallucinations—everything that threatens to erase imagination and replace it with disillusionment. Across this issue, our contributors write with embodied experience and critical analysis, as they reflect on Elie Wiesel’s famous quip KEIN MENSCH IST ILLEGAL (nobody is illegal) on our cover.

The issue also includes a monographic inquiry into Mariana Castillo Deball’s Feathered Changes—a site-specific installation at LACMA that investigates cosmologies that refuse to be commodified.

For the Issue №40 Studio Manuel Raeder worked on a re-design primarily using typeface designed by Mariana Castillo Deball.