‘zine’

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 …

… art.   The finissage of the exhibition will feature the launch of a special issue of the magazine and excerpts from a documentary film currently in production.  With the help of Vigo's friends and colleagues, Artpool has published the latest, 61 st issue of Commonpress, an art magazine launched in the 1970s, which pays tribute to the Argentine artist. In response to our call for mail art, twenty-eight participants from thirteen countries sent in their works, which we are presenting …

… unclear legal issues, nude photos of beauty queen candidates sold to Western European erotic magazines and a likewise disrobed sculpture of Csilla Molnár.  In other words, in Hungary, the first “product” to be marketed with state backing in the period before the regime change was the female body, not independently of the objectives of party politics. In her lecture, Ágnes Eperjesi discusses the ways in which the transformation of mass culture, triggered by the period’s changing …

… conference; we can read about Syrian women's periodicals from the 1920s, the “unofficial” art magazines of the 1970s, and – in an essay authored by our colleague Magdolna Gucsa – about a German-language anti-Nazi newspaper, with Emil Szittya as its editor.   This special issue is available at the following link:  https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/issue/25780/info /  

… of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. This intense period seems to have come to an end in the 2000s with the rise of the internet. Subcultural discourse has largely moved online 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 …