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EDITORIAL<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
06<br />
Dear all,<br />
Please insert here the appropriate new year<br />
greetings and best wishes, an optimistic yet<br />
realistic phrase on how to set projects and<br />
resolutions by aiming high while continuing<br />
to be in the middle of a global pandemic. I am<br />
a poet, yes, but I think this message needs to<br />
adjust individually based on the region and<br />
situation these words find you, so please<br />
imagine I have said just what you wanted to<br />
hear in order to feel inspired and comforted.<br />
Now, getting straight to the point: The<br />
themes of the magazine are often chosen<br />
by the collaborators and correspondents of<br />
the magazine. The theme of UNINHABITED<br />
was chosen by Tremella radio host Solveig<br />
Willum, who is an outdoors enthusiast and<br />
lecturer on the subject, and with whom <strong>Red</strong><br />
<strong>Door</strong> is collaborating this summer to host<br />
the very first Uninhabited International Film<br />
Festival, a series of documentaries, short films,<br />
poetry films and lectures on precisely that:<br />
The uninhabited, undisturbed, untainted<br />
places of our planet...and humanity’s<br />
relationship with nature. This is why it was<br />
the perfect opportunity to focus our eyes on<br />
the landscapes, on the abandoned lands,<br />
on the empty spaces, through the art of<br />
three very different artists, two who focus on<br />
landscapes and one whose art is an entire<br />
world of scenes of the aftermath, homes left<br />
behind in some corner of our own being.<br />
Alan Rankle’s landscapes lean towards<br />
abstraction but are also enchanting scenes<br />
of their own, and I look very much forward to<br />
hosting his exhibition at <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> this spring.<br />
Of Per Adolfsen, you will read more in the<br />
pages of his featured article, and you can<br />
hear his thoughts directly on the podcast.<br />
Before I go on there is something that I need<br />
to mention regarding the choice of artists in<br />
these pages, because I am often speaking of<br />
inclusion. I want to note that I did do research,<br />
and contact artists of other genders, but<br />
sadly did not hear back from any of them. I do<br />
not say this as an excuse, but to encourage<br />
the readers of this magazine to help with the<br />
curation and diversity of the work in these<br />
pages, so that all colors and genders are<br />
represented... and to keep me in check too.<br />
Speaking of goals for 2022, there’s<br />
something I am attempting to push forward<br />
with a group of collaborators of <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong>.<br />
We have in the past spoken of <strong>Red</strong> Press, as<br />
an independent publishing project, mainly of<br />
poetry in translation, which I began with the<br />
poet Lalo Barrubia. There is a series of books<br />
in various languages which we have busily<br />
translated to English, and which I hope to<br />
begin releasing later this year.<br />
Then there’s also Tremella Radio, an<br />
independent radio station of literary and<br />
cultural conversations, wellness, mindfulness<br />
and excellent music... and the physical<br />
gallery on Møllegade, always welcoming<br />
new exhibitions, but which has been forced<br />
to be closed more often than open the past<br />
two years due to the pandemic. If you are<br />
reading this you probably know that I run all<br />
these projects independently, with no private<br />
nor public support, apart from my patreon<br />
subscribers. Here is my official invitation to<br />
you, to join me this year that begins now, and<br />
begin receiving your quarterly subscription<br />
of the magazine:<br />
www.patreon.com/madamneverstop<br />
or simply give a pledge of your support and<br />
help me continue all these projects, which<br />
aim to document, entertain and inform, from<br />
both a local and international standpoint,<br />
with many voices and initiatives.<br />
This paragraph must be the one where I<br />
share my gratitude, my joy and my delight<br />
to be working with the cultural organizers,<br />
collaborators, correspondents and artists<br />
who make of <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> such a beautiful<br />
publication. Special thanks to Frank, Colm<br />
and Magnus in Kultivera, Dominic, Mel and<br />
Aleisa in Litteraturcentrum KVU, Solveig<br />
Willum, Martin Andersen, Tanya Cosio, Mario<br />
Z. Publisi, Brandon Davis, and of course to<br />
my husband Dr. Hansen who is so giving<br />
and willing to help out at every exhibition,<br />
give an ear to every podcast, and provide<br />
the emotional support during the long winter<br />
months and all year round.<br />
To each and everyone of you who since<br />
2009 has accompanied <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Door</strong> Magazine<br />
through its transformations and adventures,<br />
may poetry keep you warm, inspired, alive.<br />
-Madam Neverstop.