Caesura is pleased to announce the release of our inaugural print issue: ART & FREEDOM. Please join us to celebrate at de boer gallery in Boyle Heights from 6-9pm on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021. This issue of Caesura looks back on Surrealism not as an answer to the current crisis of art, but as one of the last movements to raise it as a question for life. The legacy of Surrealism is undoubtedly problematic: its novel techniques and strange effects have been repeatedly hypostatized and deployed in the production, both high and low, of culture industry kitsch. Still something remains of its original drive: to pierce the veil of appearance for a glimpse at the underlying forms that constitute subjective experience. For the concrete, as Marx says, “is concrete by virtue of being the concentration of many determinations.” Surrealism — more real than reality itself. The magazine will be for sale at the launch event for $20 (PayPal, Venmo, and cash accepted). Angeleno poet Carlos Lara of No Materialism will be reading from his contributions to the issue. RSVP at https://caesuramag.org/events/issue-1-release-la