As such YH485 Press are pleased to have collaborated with London based curatorial initiative gymnasium to realise *periphery. The collaboration is the result of a project gymnasium initiated for the annual Out There Festival in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth for which three local artists were commissioned to produce moving image works responding to their locale. These videos were then displayed outdoors for the duration of the festival on a big-screen situated along the ‘Golden Mile’ seafront in Great Yarmouth. Rather than produce a catalogue relating to these works, gymnasium had in mind a newspaper that would bring together voices from diverse disciplines on one common theme – ‘periphery’.

It is not a theme plucked from thin air. It relates to the geography of Great Yarmouth as a peninsula town on the easterly bulge of the British Isles. More poignantly, and perhaps politically, it relates specifically to YH485 Press as a serious creative endeavour at the edge of the art world.

Interestingly, judging by the encouraging positive response from those invited to contribute, *periphery seems timely. With this publication we hope to have begun an engaging conversation on the matter and propose two questions to proceed with: Why, at this moment, is periphery a theme that artists, curators, geographers, philosophers and cultural theorists alike want to be discussing? And, Why is it a useful concept for thinkers from diverse backgrounds?

(As an alternative mode of dissemination, targeting a broader demographic and one that is not restricted to the artistic or cultural sphere, 50 copies of the publication have been distributed amongst chip stalls in Great Yarmouth to be used as chip wrapping.)

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