‘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 …

The next event 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, …

… of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our 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 anarchist and feminist groups)—are in many ways intertwined. Behind …

… 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 …

Artpool Art Research Centre is one of four archives participating in the international research project 'Curating the Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives',  and will host a meeting of archivists from Scotland and Ireland in person and an online workshop with leading experts from Denmark, Germany, and Netherlands during 24-25 October 2024.   …