A ZINE IS NOT A D.I.Y. BOOKLET
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| [IMAGINE] ZINECULTURE |
| A zinedepo zineculture workshop |
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
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you will be asked to make 4 pages (to be published on A5 format) in any medium u like (writing, photo,draw,collage etc.) based on the following: |
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1. [imagine] |
2. to dig |
3. (execute/print) |
4. copy this! |
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zineculture often operates outside the mainstream, and therefore the call to 'imagine' on the first page suggests that to imagine a different world is a first crucial step towards actualizing it. It is a reference to a poem of Yoko Ono welcome (or not): the cover of the zine is the first thing you'll see, it is often a good indication of its content, some zines are inviting, others are hermetic or even sectarian, in many zines there is hardly a difference between the cover and the other pages, many zines do not have a clear beginning and end and appear to be parts of a larger interconnected system |
how-to act (or not) steps towards: instruction: because zines are all about being active and self organizing and encouraging others to do so too, the second page contains some kind of description or representation of what steps to take (or not) |
the outcome (or faillure): the drawing/text/artwork/pictures: the third page shows the result of the activity while or after it is executed or performed, it shows you that there is another world out there how marginal or unsuccesful it may be |
connecting/ (or not) community building: zines are more than diy booklets, they organize their community by taking care of their own distribution; for example by sharing links to other zines, but there are also zines that are distributed (anonymous or not) randomly in public spaces, or use an algorithmic instruction like "copy this!" or like in mail art; "add & pass!" (ray johnson): the nature of the distribution is part of the identity of that specific (sub)culture |
| example 1 |
| example 2 |
| example 3 |
| example 4 |
NOTE
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Think about using (at least 2) different media or languages for different pages. For example write the instruction on page 2 in programming language and execute it in poetry on page 3, or use drawing for page 1 and photography for page 2 |
REFERENCES INSTRUCTION BASED ART
ORIGINS OF ZINECULTURE
| your wikipedia guide to the origins of zineculture is as good as any |
| fanzines self-publishing diy cultures, pamphlets, manifestos, scrapbooks, samizdat, mailart and fluxus, situationism and neoism,, penpals, small press and underground comics, punkzines, harlem rennaissance, |
| 90's categories of factsheet 5 |
| quirky, medley, books, recordings, catalogs & stuff, sex, film, fringe, self-publishing, music, punkzines, grrrlz, perzines, humor, spirituality, queerzines, politics, art, letters, comix |
LINKS
Go to the Collection (under construction)
| marc van elburg homepage zinedepo facebook motel spatie homepage |
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the Paradogmatic Wall of the Segregated Herd