CrashTest

IN VITRO

**CRASH TEST is, amongst many other things, a magazine dedicated to experimental / alternative writing. One of our first projects was dedicated to multilingual writing. Read more about it here: TLAONGUE

**The next CRASH TEST publication was dedicated to the language of Communication in experimental Poetry/writing. Read more about it here: No LoG

 
**An exciting online project known as Zswound has been created by CrashTest and is currently in progress.  If you are interested in distorted, hybrid and polymorfluous zswounds, we will see you there.   The list of contributors is quite amazing. Check it out.

**A polymorphous project was undertaken with  UberTrashung, a bizarre on-site mag-installation.

**Latest project: Atroxhity, a tribute to JGBallard’s AtocityExhibition.

IN VIVO

**April-May 2007: presentation and installation of UberTrashung (see above). 

**A brief review is available here in DAZIBAO (Agence Régionale du Livre PACA): It tells you nothing really except that we do things and that many other guys do the same.  CrashTest has also been featured or referenced on the following sites: Selby’s list, Poetic Invention, Maintenants Synapse, Paolo Albani’s site,  CIPM links, etc.

**April 2006, CRASH TEST was present at “06 en scène” (presentation of multilingual poetry + performance). The press release said the following: “Poésie(s), Art Action, Performance ” réunira de nombreux poètes, artistes, théoriciens et cinéastes à l’occasion de lectures, de projections vidéo, de performances, de discussions dans un ” dispositif installé pour l’action ” d’Olivier Garcin : Revue de poésie(s). Le programme établi couvre largement les avant-gardes et les émergences les plus pointues opérant dans le département. Ainsi de Fluxus (1962) à Crash Test (2006) en passant par les opérateurs du Garage 103 (1975), du Jardin littéraire (1986), d’ averse.com (1996), de Espace à vendre (2004) et des mouvances intermédiaires, imprécises mais réelles : ” étonnances ” et ” hétéroclicitées ” du domaine poétique. Le programme est ” établi ” mais l’esprit du lieu est ” l’ouverture “.”

SIDE PROJECTS

** CrashTest is currently involved in the FLUX (an online mag dedicated to poetry, prose, criticism, installation(s) and research) and its dark side: FLUXISHARE (a post-debordian experimental drift) .

** CrashTest has participated in a collective reading of Raymond Federman’s Alaqueuleuleu.

All those wonderful comments from those wonderful people:

“True genius and first mythographer of the twenty-first century”
J.G. Ballard

“A magazine of great beauty, great difficulty and maniacally exquisite insight”
Norman Mailer

“I think it is marvellous.”
Anonymous

“A delightful magazine from one of the best writers in contemporary fiction”
The Times

“Fizzing with energy, bubbling with warmth, salty, satirical and very, very strange”
Daily Mail

“A new magazine to cherish because it is so splendidly itself”
Financial Times

“It should be read by anyone who enjoys the very best of contemporary writing”
Evening Standard

“Utterly irreverant and wildly improper but also genuinely truthful”
Salman Rushdie

“Makes its counterparts look like apologetic throat-clearings”
Adam Thorpe

“Inventive and absorbing”
Sunday Times

“A dream of a magazine evolving almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of culture”
New York Times Book Review

“No trace of strain, no whiff of midnight oil, it is obviously the product of much loving labour”
Observer

“It can make the commonplace seem mystical or surreal”
Independant on Sunday

“Enchanting, compact and understated, this is a gorgeous collection”
Time out

“This is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated poetry that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wideboys and psychos”
The Herald

“This magazine gives the lie to any cosy notions of a classless society”
Independent on Sunday

“The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent”
Sunday Times

“A starburst of verbal energy, a vernacular spectacular, the poetry we hear is retched from the gullet”
Scotland on Sunday

“Through the twilight realms of David Lynch”
Vogue

“One of the finest magazines in many years”
Observer

“Subtle and ingenious”
Sunday Telegraph

“Bold and resonant”
Independent on Sunday

“Entire and unstoppable, with memorable intensity”
The times

“There issn’t anything remotely like this in contemporary literature”
New York Times

“A master in perfect command of his medium”
Washington Post Book World

“This magazine has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious”
New York Times

[H]ommag[e] à Tristan Tzara

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Tristan Tzara
(Sept manifestes Dada)