‘collection display’

As part of the Fanzine Anatomy collection dislplay, Artpool is organizing a free of charge zine-making workshop with the creators of Zabella Zine. The event aims to offer a more personal, creative approach to the themes presented in the collection display, i.e. music, criticism of the system, feminism. During the course of the workshop, participants will not only receive theoretical knowledge but also have the opportunity …

… By the end of the 19th century, museums had long become more than mere showcases for the private collections of privileged collectors, turning into community educational spaces for the general public as well. Likewise, the social and public health museums, emerging at the turn of the century, were not simply aiming at being the latest public spaces, displaying the hidden treasures of the palaces, but rather wished to share a different kind of knowledge connected to the present. All this lead …

… of „Fanzine Anatomy – Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection” will take place on July 2nd at 5 pm. From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the …

Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics from the Artpool Collection From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of …

… and zines that have become widespread in the art world—and which are not presented in this collection display—prioritize aesthetic quality over social and political aspects. In this display we present publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social issues (mainly by …