The Toe Rag - Issue 3 - Dream Work
The Toe Rag is a quarterly arts and culture magazine focused on non-profit and independent arts in London. Launched in December 2023, it was created to place artists, artistic spaces, and communities in dialogue with one another.
The publication hopes to foster a vibrant ecosystem that uplifts and celebrates the creative brilliance of the city, while critically examining culture and the systems in which it is embedded. Regarding print as an invaluable medium for the dissemination of ideas and democratisation of information, The Toe Rag prioritises slower, more thoughtful creation over efficiency of output, opening up new possibilities for rest and play, togetherness and joyful curiosity. As a registered C.I.C. (Community Interest Company) with non-profit status, we are firmly rooted in our commitment to serving the community.
Summer Issue, June 2024
Dream Work
Issue 3 is themed around DREAM WORK. This issue explores how we dream alone, but also collectively: as organisms in entangled environments, and as social beings. In psychoanalytic terms, the dream-work is the passage between our conscious and unconscious thoughts, feelings and desires. Yet dreaming is also a form of collective political work that we do in our waking hours, to bring new worlds into existence and refuse others. For this issue, we have welcomed contributions that explore the oneiric reveries, subconscious desires and hallucinatory visions of the city. What happens to the dreams that fail, that decay, that dissipate under the conditions we find ourselves living in?
FEATURING:
Nour Ben Saïd,Jacob Barnes, Ilana Blumberg, Jip Boxstart, Bertie Brandes, Hector Campbell, Irina Costin, Lu Rose Cunningham, Ben Ditto, Will Ferreira Dyke, Monique Fei, Isabella Greenwood, Miles Greenberg, Athen Kardashian, Laila Majid, Isabel MacCarthy, Aram Masharqa, Vee Matsumari, Louis Blue Newby, Max Peston, Bart Price, Georgina Quach, Oisín Roberts, Sebastián Sánchez-Schilling, Dean Sameshima, Rosa Sittig-Bell, Ella Slater, Phyllis Stein, Adam Stamp, Jay Temperance, Katy Trame, Evie Ward, Robert Wilson, Henry Woodland, Alfred Yatlong Yeung & Bea Ysolda.