Editorial of the 1st issue:

What's a !TLAČ?

!TLAČ is a printmaking gesture, a student project, a freshly established intellectual ecosystem and at the same time just an ordinary graphic sheet. The premise of the magazine is not to conquer the quasi-modernist reflection and essentialism of the medium of printmaking. The magazine is founded on the ambition to fill the (by us perceived) ostentatious gap in the field of broader theoretical reflection of printmaking. And through the popularisation of essays and original literary and non-literary forms already existing or directly produced for !TLAČ, wants to promote and defend printmaking as an underestimated subject of (not only) theoretical interest in a subversive, accessible, complex, banal or even provocative way. To search for forms of contemporary printmaking, to ask questions relevant to the field and its development, in an attempt to update and grasp the thinking about printmaking as a medium coming to terms with its position in the 21st century. !TLAČ is the responsibility of the students* of the Graphics 2 studio (AVU Prague) and their friends and colleagues across disciplines.