Sein und Werden

A journal of experimental art and literature

  • Verschränkung

    Spring/Summer 2026 Verschränkung – an entanglement of heart strings, the intertwined helices of the DNA molecule, the cyclical nature of the ouroboros… Verschränkung – the astronomical and the microcosmic, temporal interconnectivity, a tangled lexicography, the intersection of artificial intelligence and pure creativity… Verschränkung – the scaling of walls, the breaking of barriers, the weft and… Continue reading

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  • The Vitruvian Man

    Autumn/Winter 2025 The Vitruvian Man is the portal to greatness, articulation and beauty. He is the bluest blue of obscurity, a disembodied theorem, a medical marvel. Suspended between invention and evolution, aspiration and inspiration, he is the ugly truth, the flaws of perfection that unite us. Download The Vitruvian Man issue of Sein und Werden. Continue reading

  • The future of Sein und Werden

    Sein und Werden is changing. Change is afoot. A foot is quite a useful thing that dangles off the end of a leg. I’ve had too much coffee. I think I need some more. Due to various vagaries beyond my control (kinda) the appearance of Sein und Werden will be changing. As I am no… Continue reading

  • Blue Stingers Instead of Wings by Juliet Cook

    Review by Rachel Kendall Cracked allure of concussive gore (The age of Vicissitude) Cover art by Chad Horn. One might call Juliet Cook a confessional poet. Her subject of the self – as a female artist in an ever more turbulent society – has long been the connective tissue of her poetry. I came across… Continue reading

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  • Blue Stingers Instead of Wings

    by Juliet Cook Now available from Pure Sleeze Press (I love that name!), the new poetry collection by the marvellous doll-headed, utensil-handed poet Juliet Cook. A regular to Sein und Werden from the beginning, every one of her poems is a literary striptease. Review coming soon. Blue Stingers Instead of Wings | Pure Sleeze Press… Continue reading

  • The Re:formation

    Sein und Werden spring/summer 2025 issue Now live, featuring work from previous and new contributors, the Re:formation issue. With reformatted, rejuvenated and recapitulated art, poetry and text from various sources across the creative sphere (biblical, textual, poetical, lyrical, self-reformational, pictorial and televisual), the Re:formation issue is a smorgasbord of delights. Try a tasty morsel or… Continue reading

  • Ask Now The Beasts – Exhibition pictures

    Tara Sellios’ exhibition is in full swing up until January 2026 at the Fitchburg Art Museum, MA. More information can be found here: PR: Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts | Fitchburg Art Museum Welcome to the church of the Apocalypse… Continue reading

  • Spring/Summer 2025 guidelines

    The Re:Formation Submissions are now invited for the next issue of Sein und Werden, which will be a collection of works that in some way re-visualise a previous work. Some examples of this could be: Unless your contribution is taken from a well-known source please send in the original with your submission (especially if the… Continue reading

  • Ask Now the Beasts

    A solo exhibition by Tara Sellios Tara Sellios’ image, Abundatia, in the 2023 Animal,Vegetable, Mineral issue is a mesmerising display of bones, flowers, and other organic materials in a work of art not unlike a Dutch vanitas or sacrificial altarpiece. Seeing this artwork on a screen, however, does not do it the justice it deserves,… Continue reading

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  • Mutants and Hybrids by Rachel Rodman

    Rachel Rodman has contributed many of her wildly experimental works of fiction to Sein und Werden in the past, and it is with great delight that I can share the news of her new collection, Mutants and Hybrids, available through Underland Press here. From the website: Some say the art of storytelling lies in the… Continue reading

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