Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Andy Campbell is the Director of Digital Media for One to One Development Trust, a UK arts/media charity whose pioneering digital fiction project Dreaming Methods has been online for 15 years. Dreaming Methods houses over 30 works of collaborative electronic literature and experimental narrative games, including new episodes of the award-winning series Inanimate Alice in association with The Bradfield Company, and #PRISOM with Australian digital artist Mez Breeze which made the shortlist for the Western Australia Premier Book Awards 2014 for Best Digital Narrative.
