SWIM is not about swimming but art. Each issue is the result of a close collaboration with artists working towards a specific theme.
Issue 04 investigates notions of ‘found’. Found Art – a term originally coined by Marcel Duchamp and epitomised by his famous Fountain sculpture is the departure point for musings on how the act of finding can be incorporated into various works of art and artistic mediums. Moving past the original definition, which refers primarily to found household objects (think Tracey Emin’s My Bed and Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone), the magazine looks at work where the human subject is the found object, where the viewer is required to do the finding as opposed to the artist, and where the very process of searching and finding is the art itself.
