The sixth issue of The Happy Hypocrite challenges the restraining notions found in art and writing about who and what can and cannot speak. What can and cannot be said or thought. In part a response to Kafka - to that which we don’t know has damaged us – freedom is presented as an important and urgent concept, and a complicated word, in which and beside which hypocrisy also resides. (Hypocrisy can be construed as a freedom). The Happy Hypocrite offers its pages to ingenious fictional, nonfictional, and visual responses to the various meanings of ‘freedom’.

The Happy Hypocrite is a biannual journal focusing on experimental writing. Informed by a lineage of such modern avant-garde magazines as Bananas, Documents, The Fox, Merlin and Tracks, The Happy Hypocrite aspires to unpack the methodology of such key journals while providing a new approach to art writing. It provides a testing ground for new writing and research-based projects, acting as a place for artists, writers and theorists to express experimental ideas that might not otherwise be realized or published.