MANIFESTO

Our world politically and socially is in fragmentation. How can we distinguish between fact and fiction in our media-saturated time? Adam Curtis claims that the human species has become so much a part of the system that surrounds it that we are unable to recognise its form, let alone see beyond it. Many liberal thinkers and artists stopped identifying themselves with the outside world, and have become withdrawn or detached entirely. Despite an overflow of critique, few are contemplating alternative approaches and eventual futures. Invictus means unconquerable: igniting artists, thinkers and readers to take back responsibility.

The basis reached after the industrial and technological revolution and its critical evaluation is no longer sufficient to propel this rapidly globalizing world. There is a fine line and constant symbiosis occurring between creativity and digitization. By merging technological progress with creative endeavor, we continually explore the boundaries of our future. The journey of Art is limitless and presents itself no restrictions.

INVICT/US gathers multidisciplinary work from creative thinkers and artists that dedicate their craft to salvaging deep and complex issues of the 21st century. Their artistic form of journalistic interrogation observes topics through multiple perspectives. John Dos Passos, the American novelist and artist who was active during the first half of the 20th century, said that “Most journalism does not acknowledge that people live at least as much in their heads as they do in the world”. The ethos of the magazine is a subjective form of experimental journalism and art-activism which takes hints from New Journalism and Gonzo Journalism, writing without claims of objectivity.

INVICT/US is a journalistic endeavour whose synoptic eye is cast toward people, places and the things that they create. Our website is kept updated with the freshest selection of articles, artist profiles, interviews and poetry, and we also put out a quarterly print edition which seeks to draw a delicate thread through works, bonding them beneath a shared theme which opens the way for new juxtapositions and discourses between them.