focas: No 3

Welcome to our third issue of focas, bristling with audacity, intelligence and wit (okay, I will henceforth dispense with the Hello Kitty house style, but I did think it was at least worth a try, given that one of our sections deal with kitsch). This issue, as usual, has three thematic sections: Work/Play, Kitsch and The Singapore Modern; and Bodies & Text, all of which correspond with public forums on the same or related topics...

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... Where historical density is perhaps too rich a presumption for a youthful journal like focas, we are very pleased to discover how much we already seem to matter. I would like to thank the overwhelming number of regional and international, private and institutional friends of the journal who have emailed their words of support for the future of focas.

As mentioned above, this is the last issue of focas to come out under The Necessary Stage. My heartfelt thanks go to Haresh Sharma and Alvin Tan for initiating the journal and for making so many personal and professional sacrifices to make focas happen. 

focas is in the process of setting up as an independent non-profit publishing organisation. We are grateful to have received temporary accommodation at the Substation, where, funding permitting, focas No 4 will be published in August 2002 and focas No 5 in January 2003.

– Lucy Davis (Editor) 

(Source: focas: No 3 introduction)