The fifth issue of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and anti-fascism.
Among the contributors to the fifth issue are Anna Thew, Yehuda Safran,
Peter Gidal Cana Bilir-Meier, David Black, Marjo Liukkonen, Alejandro Pedregal, Peter Hallward,
Minna Henriksson, and Jyrki Siukonen.
It has also two extensive dossiers. One dedicated to Franklin Rosemont is presented by Joe Feinberg and is introducing some unpublished and difficult to find texts parallel with writings of T-Bone Slim and Joe Hill. The other dossier on Robert Linhart is presented by Tevfik Rada, and it includes a translation of a chapter from Linhart's book on productivism, an article against Western bourgeois dissidents, and an interview with him.
Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art is an independent non-profit art journal, published in Helsinki by
Rab-Rab Press under the direction of Sezgin Boynik and Gregoire Rousseau. The aim of "Rab-Rab" is to support the discursive position in art, by publishing writings of artists and as well the non-conventional writings of scholars involved in art practices. The point of departure is the thesis that the convergence between form and politics has a strong transformative effect; it changes both the understanding of artistic inquiry and methodologies of scientific research.
