Between 1980 and 1982, Will Roscoe, Bradley Rose and a small band of friends and collaborators in San Francisco published four issues of Vortex: A Journal of New Vision. In its short existence, Vortex reached out widely to artists, writers, performers, activists, and spiritual explorers whose work challenged the social order and envisioned other, possible futures. The result was a diverse cross-section of West Coast culture and politics on the eve of the Reagan revolution, when, for a short moment, radical faeries and feminists, punks and anarchists, contemporary artists and New Age seekers rubbed shoulders and lit sparks. Twenty-five years later the new vision of Vortex remains fresh and provocative. An artifact of a time when cultural transformation seemed possible, indeed, immanent, the diverse voices preserved in its pages call on us to dream again and to dream larger, to answer darkness with vision.
Bradley Rose and Will Roscoe
1981i
“We call to
readers to join us
in exploring
new possibilities,
new worlds,
new ways of seeing
and feeling...
the New Vision.“
