Peak Journal is a place for experimental/exploratory conversations between live art and the written word. In a time when traditional arts journalism seems evermore embattled and diminished, it’s crucial to have thoughtful, nuanced writing about the arts, and to acknowledge that criticism itself is a literary art form, one that is far more unruly and fruitful than the thumbs up/thumbs down consumer report that so many reviews are reduced to. It is key as well to gather a rich diversity of voices and viewpoints, and to set them loose with guidance rather than restraint, because who is writing about the art, and how they are allowed to write about that art, is just as important as who is making it.