GUTMAG is a collaborative art magazine conceived by Sullivan Sweet and produced with a team of editors and participating artists. Structured as both publication and event, the first issue transformed an empty room into a temporary editorial studio. Blank spreads taped to the walls became provisional sites of authorship, where materials circulated freely and contributors layered writing, collage, drawing, photography, and sculpture onto one another’s pages. This improvisational exchange emphasized process as much as product, focusing on the immediacy of making together. The resulting pages were scanned, printed on uncoated stock, and hand-bound in a singer-sewn edition of 100.
From its inception, GUTMAG has foregrounded voices too often pushed to the margins of print culture. Both Issue 1 (Guts) and the forthcoming Issue 2 (Seeing Double) highlight the work of queer and trans artists, situating the magazine within a lineage of independent publishing tied to New York’s queer and punk communities. In this way, GUTMAG is both a record of a single day’s production and a continuation of a tradition where ephemera functions as resistance, visibility, and connection.