Good Trouble Issue 21

Renegade activist-arts broadsheet GOOD TROUBLE returns with its third issue, kicking off 2020 with a massive 44 pages of art, protest and creativity, plus a free poster. It’s like three magazines in one!

With a special focus on the climate crisis, a dedicated section includes the likes of Olafur Eliasson, Extinction Rebellion and Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org), as well as the new wave of youth climate activists, Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s augmented-reality art, indigenous leaders, and large-scale photographs of humanity’s effects on the planet by Edward Burtynsky.

The cover is a previously unpublished image from Olafur Eliasson’s Glacier Series (1999/2019), showing the remains of Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier to disappear and lose its status because of global warming.

In a new second section (MORE TROUBLE), we feature radical thinker Douglas Rushkoff, feminist artist Penny Slinger, veteran AIDS awareness activist Avram Finkelstein (ACT-UP, Gran Fury), Jex Blackmore’s Sex Militant project, civil rights photographer Steve Schapiro, author Tim Maughan, an extract from Nathalie Olah’s brilliant book ‘Steal as Much as You Can’, artist Ekene Ijeoma, and poet Sean Bonney (RIP).

Plus radical K-Pop, antifascist black metal, and a brief history of Spiral Tribe, plus all the usual Good Trouble nonsense like a curious recipe for leftover terrine.

There’s also a THIRD section (we know!) with brilliant artwork by the likes of David Shrigley, Heather Philipson, Joan Jonas, SKREI and Sebastian Mejia. It’s called ‘The Waste Land’ and it’s all about our relationship with the planet we live on. Boom.

AND – don’t say we don’t do anything for you, because we’ve thrown in a huge double-sided pull-out glossy poster with Scott King’s ‘Balloon for Britain’, along with an exclusive poster for Gareth Pugh and Carson McColl’s ‘Soul of a Movement’ documentary about queer resistance. Brexit getting you down? Simply apply balloon to wall and gaze twice daily.

All proceeds from the issue will go to Extinction Rebellion.