Thursday, 31 May 2012
best revenge's big queer spectacle
Sunday, 3 June 2012
15:00 until 19:00 San francisco, CA
"BEST REVENGE: A BEAUTIFUL FUCK YOU"
To kick off the month of June and the National Queer Arts Festival in grand, rebellious, queer, spectacular style
On Sunday, June 3rd, BEST REVENGE will emerge from the street corners, alleyways, living rooms, fire escapes, and back rooms of the Mission District. Over thirty artists from the San Francisco Bay Area, the east and west coast and everywhere in between, Mexico, London, Canada, and Istanbul will converge in/on four distinct venues to present their work on radical queer resistance and self determination.
Beginning at the (de)Appropriation Wall on Valencia Street between 23rd and 24th, BEST REVENGE will take its audience through the streets, en masse, through the Mission District, to experience visual art, performance, installation, and ritual. Queer collective houses will be turned into galleries; fire escapes will act as stages for a line-up of music, brilliant drag, and performance; the OPEN stretches of the Valencia and 24th Street Corridors (courtesy of Sunday Streets) will act as stages for spontaneous, surprise performance and public intervention/interruption; and, at the end of the evening, audience and artists will converge in the back gallery of Alley Cat books for an illustrious display of glittery rebellion and visual art installations.
SUNDAY June 3rd: 3pm-7pm
STARTING at the (de)Appropriation Wall: Valencia St between 23rd and 24th
ENDING at Alley Cat Books: 3036 24th St
For location updates and more information leading up to and on the day of, visit bestrevenge2012.wordpress.com and twitter.com/bestrevenge2012
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The milestones spread across the landscape of the LGBTQ rights movement are undoubtedly worthy of acknowledgement. There is merit to the embrace of the agitation and evolution stirred by the Compton Cafeteria and Stonewall riots, ActUP, and Queer Nation, just as the repeal of DADT and the shifts in policy and public opinion of DOMA are noteworthy marks of progress.
However, recording queer liberation by our ability to confirm and be accepted by the dominant society ignores the fact that many of us are too queer, too perverted, too much, too poor, too brown, or too loud to “pass.”
What must we surrender if we’re expected to measure our achievements by how well we fit into a straight, capitalist, racist, classist society?
How do we build a future based on self-determination and mutual aid?
How do we create rituals to validate and celebrate our individual and collective accomplishments?
How are we already engaged in these processes?
Let's explore, discuss, and witness.
Curated by Caitlin Sweet and Lex Non Scripta ♥, BEST REVENGE features these magic makers (and more):
Malic Amalya, Micah Bazant, Sarah (sass) Biscarra-Dilley, Craig Calderwood, Rocket Caleshu, carmen, Finley Coyl, Dia Dear, Leah DeVun, Ariel Durrant, Larisa Escobedo, Fat Transfer, Jaye Lee Fishel, Johnny Forever, Claire Forsyth, Jason Fritz, Elitrea Frye, Naomi Rincon Gallardo, Max Garnet, Joolie Geldner, Ariel Goldberg, Nicki Green, Rik Haber, Nina Höchtl, LOVEWARZ!, Marilyn McNeal, Gabby Miller, Lex Non Scripta, Adee Roberson, Coral Short, Julz Simpson, Caitlin Sweet, Safak Sule, Dorothy Wang, Max Yuristy
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The curators of BEST REVENGE believe that part of creating and sustaining community is recognizing and attempting to address the persistent economic inequalities in the art/world, ie., we want to offer each of our artists a stipend for all their time, energy, hard work, and fabulousness. Donations at all levels are appreciated at www.indiegogo.com/bestrevenge, as is any assistance in publicizing the campaign.
BEST REVENGE is part of the 15th Annual National Queer Arts Festival and is sponsored in part by the Queer Cultural Center
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help lambeth women's project
From my inbox...
Today the Lambeth Women's Project (London, UK) has been given 2 weeks to leave it's home of over 3 decades. Eviction is set for 15th June.
www.lambethwomensproject.org/
Stockwell Primary School, who have been managing the property for little over a year who have also been obstructive wherever possible during this time. LWP has been delivering vital services to and for young women and girls (ages 0 - 90) in Lambeth for nearly 35 years.
After years of negotiation regarding the use of the space that LWP have been operating from SPS are reneging on agreements made and are behaving unreasonably on the eviction notice they have served on LWP. LWP suspects that the School is motivated by the desire to have a refurbished listed building for their sole use.
The deeper issues at stake relate the cessation of vital services being provided to young girls and young women in an area of extensive poverty and deprivation and which targets young girls and women across racial class and dissability lines.
Come and picket and come and occupy come and help LWP stay where it belongs.
We are holding a public meeting to plan actions. Bring banners, placards etc. We want to use the building as much as possible over the next two weeks and fill it with music, meetings, talks, food and lots of people. We are not going anywhere, this is our building in our community, we must make this clear.
Come and picket and come and occupy come and help LWP stay where it belongs.
If you would like to help in some way please get in touch. We need leaflets and banners. We would like there to be a demonstration in Windrush Square on Monday and/or Tuesday. If you can help with this let us know.
For now please email nazmiaijamal@gmail.com if you want to know about the demos or the meeting next Sunday. I will try and find out what you need to know if I don't know it. See more
Today the Lambeth Women's Project (London, UK) has been given 2 weeks to leave it's home of over 3 decades. Eviction is set for 15th June.
www.lambethwomensproject.org/
Stockwell Primary School, who have been managing the property for little over a year who have also been obstructive wherever possible during this time. LWP has been delivering vital services to and for young women and girls (ages 0 - 90) in Lambeth for nearly 35 years.
After years of negotiation regarding the use of the space that LWP have been operating from SPS are reneging on agreements made and are behaving unreasonably on the eviction notice they have served on LWP. LWP suspects that the School is motivated by the desire to have a refurbished listed building for their sole use.
The deeper issues at stake relate the cessation of vital services being provided to young girls and young women in an area of extensive poverty and deprivation and which targets young girls and women across racial class and dissability lines.
Come and picket and come and occupy come and help LWP stay where it belongs.
We are holding a public meeting to plan actions. Bring banners, placards etc. We want to use the building as much as possible over the next two weeks and fill it with music, meetings, talks, food and lots of people. We are not going anywhere, this is our building in our community, we must make this clear.
Come and picket and come and occupy come and help LWP stay where it belongs.
If you would like to help in some way please get in touch. We need leaflets and banners. We would like there to be a demonstration in Windrush Square on Monday and/or Tuesday. If you can help with this let us know.
For now please email nazmiaijamal@gmail.com if you want to know about the demos or the meeting next Sunday. I will try and find out what you need to know if I don't know it. See more
marinaomi interview with alison bechdel
What a joy!
Follow the link to read MariNaomi's partially illustrated interview with Alison Bechdel. What a treat. http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-alison-bechdel/
It makes me wanna get back into connecting and talking with people about their art and their work more. I had a dream last night after reading this, about making new issues of Colouring Outside The Lines, but doing the interviews in person. I'm so inspired and enthusiastic at the moment, and itching to reconnect with that part of my brain that reading this interview reminded me of.
doris saledo exhibition in london
Doris Saledo’s exhibition of site-specific works at White Cube, Mason’s Yard (London, UK) until June 30th.
http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/doris_salcedo_masons_yard_2012/
Really wish I could get down to see this in person.
http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/doris_salcedo_masons_yard_2012/
Really wish I could get down to see this in person.
Friday, 25 May 2012
s&s at Victoria Baths Zine Convention
Victoria Baths Zine Convention (Manchester, UK) 19th May, 2012.
Brilliant building, brilliant event, brilliant people.
The exhibition, 'Posters Of Inspirational European Women: Taken From The Zine, Shape & Situate' was displayed at the Victoria Baths Zine Convention, Manchester, UK on Saturday.
The posters from issues 1 to 3 of Shape & Situate zine were exhibited for the first time all together, all 80 or so of them!
Huge thanks to all the artists for your amazing work. The posters, the exhibition, and the zines were all REALLY well received on the day, and there was a lot of interest in them. Your work is amazing, thank you!
Thanks too to all the amazing people who came to say 'hi' on the day. It was so great to see so many friends and familiar faces. I love zine events for that; the chance to catch up with people across the country by attending events like this is brilliant. Really great to see so many amazing stallholders again too (noteably Footprint, Black Dogs, Sugar Paper, Twigs & Apples, and Karoline Rerrie).
The Victoria Baths is such a wonderful venue, it was a treat to be in there exhibiting and exploring. http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/
Thanks so much to Natalie for organising the day - it was a credit to you.
Thanks so much too to Amy for getting up at stupid o'clock with me to drive over and put the posters up before the doors opened. And thanks to Rose for being ace all day long.
Such a treat of a day, thanks to everyone there for making it so great.
The last copies of issue 2 of the zine that I had have now sold out following the event. If you're still wanting a copy, check the links on the right of this blog for places that may still have issues in stock.
Some photos from the event:
(p.s. Natalie interviewed me about the project, and it can be read online here: http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/shape-situate-posters-of-inspirational.html)
Monday, 7 May 2012
shape & situate mini-exhibition at ante, in shipley, may 5th&6th. what a weekend!
"It’s a familiar format: a bookfair, some anti-art, a gig, and hands on workshops. But in truth Ante (from the Latin ‘before’) is more than that. It’s about the person we were until we became buried by work (or increasingly, ‘no work’), by shopping, debts,... television and the all the worries and stresses and strains of modern life. So, if like us, you keep promising yourself that you’ll make time to rediscover that lost self, to be more creative, spend more time with friends, meet more people, experience life more fully, but can never quite make it happen, Ante is for you. Ante – or more to the point May Day – is when we collectively say to hell with shopping, with work, with debt, with worrying and with tv! It’s a day when we remind ourselves that a life always promised for tomorrow is a life robbed of today." (Ante blurb, taken from their site (www.ante-art.co.uk))
I took the posters from 'Shape & Situate: Posters Of Inspirational European Women' zine on a trip to Shipley this weekend for the Ante art event, to appear in a mini version of the full exhibition (the posters on the wall were accompanied by a folder [on my zine stall] full of the rest of the posters featured in all 3 issues of the zine).
Thank you to all the contributors to the zine for making the exhibition so great with your amazing work, you're terrific - the A3 posters looked really great in the space. Thank you too to all the amazing people I met on the day, and special thanks to Nick for inviting me to be a part of it all in the first place. Posi vibes all round! It's been a very special weekend indeed, congratulations and thank you to all the organisers.
I have fallen in love with the art work of Ricky Adam, and Lindsey/Pivo of Caged Bird Club as a direct result of this event! It was a treat hanging out with them both (it's so rare you see amazing artwork exhibited and then get a chance to properly talk to the folk that created it).
Above 3 images are of Pivo's work as part of the Caged Bird Club display.
There was so much great work and people there this weekend (besides the above), showcasing so many different projects and skills. Even the work shown by people not personally in attendance (such as Seth Tobocman) struck me.
Hopefully without gushing too much, there was such an overall great uplifting atmosphere of support and creativity.
It was great to see again Cath and James from Footprint, Sarah and Nick of The Print Project, Craig from Salford Zine Library, Rachael & Alice from the Museum Of Lies, and the crew from Knit A Bear Face.
But more than that there were so many people attending the event who came up to me to talk about the Shape & Situate project and exhibition. In particular there was a noticable amount of women from a generation older than myself who wanted to excitedly talk about the women depicted in the posters, wanted to know more, and who were keen to share tales of what the women on the walls and in the zine meant to them. Speaking to these women as they came up to the zine table I had out on the Saturday felt like such an important connective part of the Shape & Situate project that I'd never fully encountered before, yet it's something that's had the greatest impact on me; to speak to women about the women in the posters, and to see what they have meant to them was really powerful, and has made me even more aware of the potential power of visual and artistic social history projects.
The blurb (at the top of this post) that 'advertised' the Ante event is something that really did come true this weekend at the event for me, and I'm so grateful to have been part of something so great and something that has really re-charged me and my brain and my desire to do 'stuff'.
More photos from the weekend can be found on the ANTE flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1952523@N23/pool/
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
the f word feature S&S interview
The interview I gave to Natalie over at The Shrieking Violet blog about the Shape & Situate poster exhibition that'll be hung at the Manchester Victoria Baths Zine event on May 19th has been featured in The F Word's weekly roundup of links, which is nice!
See here (5 links from the bottom): http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/04/weekly_round-up_70
In other news, I'm all set for hanging a mini-version of the exhibition, plus having a stall for Shape & Situate zines (plus others) at this weekend's Ante Art Festival in Shipley. It looks like it's going to be really great.
Facebook event here:http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/220690814699812/
Website here: http://www.ante-art.co.uk/
See here (5 links from the bottom): http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/04/weekly_round-up_70
In other news, I'm all set for hanging a mini-version of the exhibition, plus having a stall for Shape & Situate zines (plus others) at this weekend's Ante Art Festival in Shipley. It looks like it's going to be really great.
Facebook event here:http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/220690814699812/
Website here: http://www.ante-art.co.uk/
Sunday, 29 April 2012
nice zines and kusama pyjamas
I know I probably shouldn't get as geekily excited about these things as I do, but I just spotted that Shape & Situate zine has been blogged about on two Tumblr sites, both of which look like really great sites, 'Nice Zines', and 'Kusama Pyjamas'. Both are new to me, but look like they're worth following!
S&S on 'Nice Zines' http://nicezines.tumblr.com/post/21969316545/shape-situate-is-a-zine-of-posters-made-by
S&S on 'Kusama Pjyamas' http://kusamapyjamas.tumblr.com/post/21641006131/shape-situate-is-a-zine-of-posters-made-by
S&S on 'Nice Zines' http://nicezines.tumblr.com/post/21969316545/shape-situate-is-a-zine-of-posters-made-by
S&S on 'Kusama Pjyamas' http://kusamapyjamas.tumblr.com/post/21641006131/shape-situate-is-a-zine-of-posters-made-by
Friday, 27 April 2012
ana benaroya interview on pikaland
Evergreen Jim & Tulip: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough is the brainchild of Ana Benaroya, and it's the latest zine to be produced by Pikabooks.
I interviewed Ana about the zine and her other art work over at Pikaland.
You can read the interview here: http://pikaland.com/2012/04/27/pikabooks-evergreen-jim-tulip
You can get a copy of Ana’s limited edition zine, Evergreen Jim & Tulip: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough over at Pikabooks: http://www.pikabooks.com/product?product_id=19
I interviewed Ana about the zine and her other art work over at Pikaland.
You can read the interview here: http://pikaland.com/2012/04/27/pikabooks-evergreen-jim-tulip
You can get a copy of Ana’s limited edition zine, Evergreen Jim & Tulip: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough over at Pikabooks: http://www.pikabooks.com/product?product_id=19
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
zine review
I've just spotted a really nice, and unexpected, review of Shape & Situate zine over at One Minute Zine Reviews.
It can be read here: http://zinereviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/zine-review-shape-situate-3.html
It can be read here: http://zinereviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/zine-review-shape-situate-3.html
Monday, 23 April 2012
interview online about forthcoming exhibition
Natalie Bradbury (of The Shrieking Violet zine) has featured an interview with me ahead of the exhibition 'Posters of Inspirational European Women: Taken from the zine Shape & Situate' which will appear as part of the Victoria Baths Zine Convention that she is organising in May in Manchester, UK.
You can read the interview online here: http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/shape-situate-posters-of-inspirational.html
Thanks Natalie!
You can read the interview online here: http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/shape-situate-posters-of-inspirational.html
Thanks Natalie!
cendrine rovini interview on pikaland
My interview with French artist Cendrine Rovini is up online over at Pikaland: http://pikaland.com/2012/04/19/interview-cendrine-rovini
Friday, 13 April 2012
queercore oral history
Just read this seriously rad oral history of Queercore that was just published online, 'Queer to the Core' by Adam Rathe (4.12.2012)
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I feel all giddy inside reading this, cuz I'm so grateful this all happened - it sure as hell changed my life!
http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/04/12/history-queer-core-gay-punk-GB-JONES?page=0,0
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I feel all giddy inside reading this, cuz I'm so grateful this all happened - it sure as hell changed my life!
http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/04/12/history-queer-core-gay-punk-GB-JONES?page=0,0
Thursday, 5 April 2012
music and liberation exhibition tour
From my inbox from Deborah Withers:
Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970-1989 will show how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and 1980s.
It brings together for the first time a diverse collection of women’s cultural heritage to inspire and inform contemporary audiences about the politics of music making.
The exhibition is touring the UK Sept 2012-Jan 2013 at the following venues and dates:
Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff 4 – 24 September
Bureau Gallery, Manchester, 27 September – 25 October
Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, 29 October – 26 November
Space Station Sixty-Five, London 30 Nov – 15 Jan 2013
For further information about the project, and how to get involved, please contact:
Project Coordinator: Dr. Deborah Withers
Email: exhibition@hammeronpress.net
http://womensliberationmusicarchive.wordpress.com/music-liberation-exhibition
Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970-1989 will show how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and 1980s.
It brings together for the first time a diverse collection of women’s cultural heritage to inspire and inform contemporary audiences about the politics of music making.
The exhibition is touring the UK Sept 2012-Jan 2013 at the following venues and dates:
Butetown History & Arts Centre, Cardiff 4 – 24 September
Bureau Gallery, Manchester, 27 September – 25 October
Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, 29 October – 26 November
Space Station Sixty-Five, London 30 Nov – 15 Jan 2013
For further information about the project, and how to get involved, please contact:
Project Coordinator: Dr. Deborah Withers
Email: exhibition@hammeronpress.net
http://womensliberationmusicarchive.wordpress.com/music-liberation-exhibition
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
topo copy's shelf library
Photos taken from the Topo Copy facebook page, featuring Shape & Situate zine at Topo Copy - The Shelf library @ DOK! in Gent, Belgium. It looks like a really neat little space. http://www.topocopy.org/
ante-art in may
Plans are brewing over at Ante-art for their May Day extravaganza (5 and 6 May 2012) at the Kirkgate Centre, Shipley (BD18 3HE)
Shape & Situate is going to be there with zines and a mini version of the exhibition. Keep your eyes peeled on the ante website for more news of the events and the ante-Art factory: http://www.ante-art.co.uk/
Ante takes the idea of art and scrapes off the dogma, the commercialism and the elitism. Ante explores and celebrates the use of art and print as an expression of free will and a megaphone for those whose collective voices struggle to be heard.
Ante is Shipley's May Day celebration, taking place at the Kirkgate Centre on the 5-6th May. Saturday starts with a small press, zine and print fair followed by a benefit gig. Sunday is an ante-Art factory - dress for mess and produce your own £25million masterpiece. Ante-exhibition all weekend. Ante is a grant free, staff-free event.
In many respects, Ante is a reflection of all those Bradford May Days that have gone before – an unfunded demonstration of collective effort. It’s a familiar format: a bookfair, some anti-art, a gig and hands on workshops. But in truth Ante (from the Latin ‘before’) is more than that. It’s about the person we were until we became buried by work (or increasingly, ‘no work’), by shopping, debts, television and the all the worries and stresses and strains of modern life. So, if like us, you keep promising yourself that you’ll make time to rediscover that lost self, to be more creative, spend more time with friends, meet more people, experience life more fully, but can never quite make it happen, Ante is for you. Ante – or more to the point May Day – is when we collectively say to hell with shopping, with work, with debt, with worrying and with tv! It’s a day when we remind ourselves that a life always promised for tomorrow is a life robbed of today.
Shape & Situate is going to be there with zines and a mini version of the exhibition. Keep your eyes peeled on the ante website for more news of the events and the ante-Art factory: http://www.ante-art.co.uk/
Ante takes the idea of art and scrapes off the dogma, the commercialism and the elitism. Ante explores and celebrates the use of art and print as an expression of free will and a megaphone for those whose collective voices struggle to be heard.
Ante is Shipley's May Day celebration, taking place at the Kirkgate Centre on the 5-6th May. Saturday starts with a small press, zine and print fair followed by a benefit gig. Sunday is an ante-Art factory - dress for mess and produce your own £25million masterpiece. Ante-exhibition all weekend. Ante is a grant free, staff-free event.
In many respects, Ante is a reflection of all those Bradford May Days that have gone before – an unfunded demonstration of collective effort. It’s a familiar format: a bookfair, some anti-art, a gig and hands on workshops. But in truth Ante (from the Latin ‘before’) is more than that. It’s about the person we were until we became buried by work (or increasingly, ‘no work’), by shopping, debts, television and the all the worries and stresses and strains of modern life. So, if like us, you keep promising yourself that you’ll make time to rediscover that lost self, to be more creative, spend more time with friends, meet more people, experience life more fully, but can never quite make it happen, Ante is for you. Ante – or more to the point May Day – is when we collectively say to hell with shopping, with work, with debt, with worrying and with tv! It’s a day when we remind ourselves that a life always promised for tomorrow is a life robbed of today.
donate to salford zine library
From my inbox...
Salford Zine Library is looking to move into a new home to give wider access to the 1500+ international zines in their collection.
Craig of Salford Zine Library is currently trying to raise funds for its new home using Sponsume. You can view the pitch here:
http://www.sponsume.com/project/salford-zine-library
Since the exhibition came to a close at Salford Museum and Art Gallery the library has been homeless. I have been desperately seeking a new place for it to reside. Looking for a pleasant and safe environment where people can comfortably read and peruse the archive at their own leisure. After much toing and froing looking for the right spaceI have been offered a permanent room at the Nexus Art Café in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
In its new home the archive will be accessible seven days a week from mid May but as you can see the space needs work. With your help and the skills of master craftsman Andy Yates – a man who says he can drill through anything - we can transform the space into the ideal new home we have long since dreamed of.
Our aim is to raise one thousand pounds by the end of April 2012.
The money raised will go towards the building of shelves, comfy seats to sit down and read, lighting and giving the walls a nice lick of paint.
When the space is clean and safe we can deliver workshops as part of our educational programme and you can read you favourite zines in calm creative comfort.
Salford Zine Library is looking to move into a new home to give wider access to the 1500+ international zines in their collection.
Craig of Salford Zine Library is currently trying to raise funds for its new home using Sponsume. You can view the pitch here:
http://www.sponsume.com/project/salford-zine-library
Since the exhibition came to a close at Salford Museum and Art Gallery the library has been homeless. I have been desperately seeking a new place for it to reside. Looking for a pleasant and safe environment where people can comfortably read and peruse the archive at their own leisure. After much toing and froing looking for the right spaceI have been offered a permanent room at the Nexus Art Café in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
In its new home the archive will be accessible seven days a week from mid May but as you can see the space needs work. With your help and the skills of master craftsman Andy Yates – a man who says he can drill through anything - we can transform the space into the ideal new home we have long since dreamed of.
Our aim is to raise one thousand pounds by the end of April 2012.
The money raised will go towards the building of shelves, comfy seats to sit down and read, lighting and giving the walls a nice lick of paint.
When the space is clean and safe we can deliver workshops as part of our educational programme and you can read you favourite zines in calm creative comfort.
Sunday, 1 April 2012
letterpress printing with the print project
On Saturday I took part in a Letterpress workshop run by the wonderful Sarah and Nick of The Print Project located at the 1 in 12 in Bradford.
I decided to print some letterpressed postcards to turn into bunting for forthcoming zine events, and chose the Univers Bold Condensed (48pt) type.
Sarah and Nick were really great, showing us different types of letterpress printers, before letting us loose on their trays of movable type and their Adana machines.
I learned a great deal and was really excited by the processes and the results that could be achieved. The trays of type were really beautiful to dig though, and set out as forme & lock into the chase for printing.
Here's a few pics (including a couple taken by folk at the 1 in 12 on the day)
Sarah's rundown of the day can be read here
I decided to print some letterpressed postcards to turn into bunting for forthcoming zine events, and chose the Univers Bold Condensed (48pt) type.
Sarah and Nick were really great, showing us different types of letterpress printers, before letting us loose on their trays of movable type and their Adana machines.
I learned a great deal and was really excited by the processes and the results that could be achieved. The trays of type were really beautiful to dig though, and set out as forme & lock into the chase for printing.
Here's a few pics (including a couple taken by folk at the 1 in 12 on the day)
Sarah's rundown of the day can be read here
Thursday, 29 March 2012
essential hues
I'm really pleased to say that I was invited to send copies of Shape & Situate zine over the pond to feature in a small zine library as a backdrop to group art show organised by the ever-great Caroline Paquita in Brooklyn.
Caroline has been collecting publications, zines and comics to create a small zine library for the duration of the show and then plans to donate the whole thing to one of the many more official zine libraries in the New York area afterwards.
The show looks so awesome that I could weep. What I wouldn't give to be there in person. If you ever want to bring it to the UK guys...
More details on the show:
Essential Hues
A collaborative group show featuring Adee Roberson, Anna Luisa, Caitlin Sweet, Caroline Paquita and Sam Lopes.
We live in a world surrounded by color. We lead colorful lives. We make colorful work.
As artists who identify as queers, feminists, people of color, spell-casters and radicals, our work is saturated with the chroma of the vibrant lives and communities we have created and shared over the past decade and across geographic divides. Our histories are entwined, and color embodies the bright hues of the threads of collectivity, sexuality, gender, family, history and magic that bind us together.
Featuring paintings, works on paper, sculpture, textile art, video, and more, Essential Hues is a collaborative installation that will be up from April 13th- May 13th, 2012 at Wayfarer's Studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Full details here: http://carolinepaquita.blogspot.co.uk/p/essential-hues.html
Facebook details here
There may still be time to contribute other zines too, but get your skates on:
Caroline has been collecting publications, zines and comics to create a small zine library for the duration of the show and then plans to donate the whole thing to one of the many more official zine libraries in the New York area afterwards.
The show looks so awesome that I could weep. What I wouldn't give to be there in person. If you ever want to bring it to the UK guys...
More details on the show:
Essential Hues
A collaborative group show featuring Adee Roberson, Anna Luisa, Caitlin Sweet, Caroline Paquita and Sam Lopes.
We live in a world surrounded by color. We lead colorful lives. We make colorful work.
As artists who identify as queers, feminists, people of color, spell-casters and radicals, our work is saturated with the chroma of the vibrant lives and communities we have created and shared over the past decade and across geographic divides. Our histories are entwined, and color embodies the bright hues of the threads of collectivity, sexuality, gender, family, history and magic that bind us together.
Featuring paintings, works on paper, sculpture, textile art, video, and more, Essential Hues is a collaborative installation that will be up from April 13th- May 13th, 2012 at Wayfarer's Studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Full details here: http://carolinepaquita.blogspot.co.uk/p/essential-hues.html
Facebook details here
There may still be time to contribute other zines too, but get your skates on:
Thursday, 22 March 2012
victoria baths
I've been in touch with Natalie over at Victoria Baths Zine Convention 2012 for a little while, organising Shape & Situate's participation at the event in May. And, it's all now confirmed and on the website: http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/p/victoria-baths-fanzine-convention-2012.html
I'll be exhibiting posters from all 3 issues of the zine for the first time, in the wonderfully apt (plus really stunning) location of the balcony around the former women's pool. Plus I'm tabling at the event too. Woo!
I'll be exhibiting posters from all 3 issues of the zine for the first time, in the wonderfully apt (plus really stunning) location of the balcony around the former women's pool. Plus I'm tabling at the event too. Woo!
researching diy cultures (workshop)
From my inbox from Julia Downes...
Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice
11am-1pm, Saturday 8 September 2012
Northumbria University (part of Gender & Subcultures symposium - see attached for more info on this)
Facilitated by Dr. Julia Downes (Durham University)
This is a one-off workshop that focuses on the ethics and dilemmas of doing research in radical DIY cultures. Academic research on DIY feminist cultural activism has increased over the past 20 years. Fanzines (Piano 2002; Schilt & Zobl 2008), music cultures (Taylor 2008; Keenan 2008; Giffort 2011; Downes 2012), films (Kearney 2006), grassroots sports (Finlay 2010), civic spaces (Enke 2007), cyberspace (Mazzarella 2005), and culture jamming (Stasko 2008) have all become popular arenas in which to theorise the construction of feminisms, genders, sexualities, race, ethnicity and class in culture and society. However relatively little methodological and ethical guidance has been published to help researchers at all levels (including undergraduate, postgraduate, early career and established academics) to negotiate the difficulties and dilemmas that confront those doing critical research within these cultures.
This workshop is for activists, academics and activist-academics to discuss their experiences of being involved in research on DIY cultures that they do and do not see as a place of personal belonging. Discussion of set readings, case studies and personal experiences will lead to the collaborative development of a series of practical and constructive recommendations for future practice.
Topics to be discussed include:
· Using established friendships and close-knit networks
· Rethinking insider/outsider dilemmas
· Problems in accessing, working with and representing radical DIY cultures
· Challenges in being critical about DIY cultures
· Dealing with moments of personal and political crisis throughout the research process
Provisional reading list
Jodie Taylor (2011) The Intimate Insider: Negotiating the ethics of friendship when doing insider research. Qualitative Research, 11(3): 3-22
Kath Browne (2003) Negotiations and Fieldworkings: Friendship and Feminist Research. Acme: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies, 2(2): 132-46
Jo Freeman (1972) The Tyranny of Structurelessness. Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 17: 151-65
Keith Halfacree (2004) ‘I Could Only Do Wrong’: Academic Research and DiY Culture (Chapter 6) Duncan Fuller & Rob Kitchin. Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a difference. Pg 68 – 78
How to book a place
There is a maximum of 25 participants
Please email with a brief description of your experience of doing/being involved in a research project on DIY cultures and what you will need to attend julia.downes@durham.ac.uk
Deadline 1 April 2012
Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice
11am-1pm, Saturday 8 September 2012
Northumbria University (part of Gender & Subcultures symposium - see attached for more info on this)
Facilitated by Dr. Julia Downes (Durham University)
This is a one-off workshop that focuses on the ethics and dilemmas of doing research in radical DIY cultures. Academic research on DIY feminist cultural activism has increased over the past 20 years. Fanzines (Piano 2002; Schilt & Zobl 2008), music cultures (Taylor 2008; Keenan 2008; Giffort 2011; Downes 2012), films (Kearney 2006), grassroots sports (Finlay 2010), civic spaces (Enke 2007), cyberspace (Mazzarella 2005), and culture jamming (Stasko 2008) have all become popular arenas in which to theorise the construction of feminisms, genders, sexualities, race, ethnicity and class in culture and society. However relatively little methodological and ethical guidance has been published to help researchers at all levels (including undergraduate, postgraduate, early career and established academics) to negotiate the difficulties and dilemmas that confront those doing critical research within these cultures.
This workshop is for activists, academics and activist-academics to discuss their experiences of being involved in research on DIY cultures that they do and do not see as a place of personal belonging. Discussion of set readings, case studies and personal experiences will lead to the collaborative development of a series of practical and constructive recommendations for future practice.
Topics to be discussed include:
· Using established friendships and close-knit networks
· Rethinking insider/outsider dilemmas
· Problems in accessing, working with and representing radical DIY cultures
· Challenges in being critical about DIY cultures
· Dealing with moments of personal and political crisis throughout the research process
Provisional reading list
Jodie Taylor (2011) The Intimate Insider: Negotiating the ethics of friendship when doing insider research. Qualitative Research, 11(3): 3-22
Kath Browne (2003) Negotiations and Fieldworkings: Friendship and Feminist Research. Acme: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies, 2(2): 132-46
Jo Freeman (1972) The Tyranny of Structurelessness. Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 17: 151-65
Keith Halfacree (2004) ‘I Could Only Do Wrong’: Academic Research and DiY Culture (Chapter 6) Duncan Fuller & Rob Kitchin. Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a difference. Pg 68 – 78
How to book a place
There is a maximum of 25 participants
Please email with a brief description of your experience of doing/being involved in a research project on DIY cultures and what you will need to attend julia.downes@durham.ac.uk
Deadline 1 April 2012
hudson valley brawl video
So much ♥ for Jacinta!
From my inbox...
Dear Arm Wrassling Enthusiasts of the World,
What? You had no idea that Jacinta (aka Magenta Delecta) could brutishly slice a watermelon down the middle with her killer rhymes? You had not a clue that muscular ladies could synchronize dance? You all knew what a talented song-writer Michael Truckpile (aka The Ref) was already, right? We consider ourselves lucky he wrote us into this one. Move over, Kool Moe Dee & Backstreet Boys. There’s a new ticket in town.
The talented & strong ladies of Hudson Valley BRAWL (Broads' Regional Arm Wrestling League) filmed this video at the etsy building in Hudson, NY under the directorial guidance of Rachael Saltzman & Julie Novak.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNZ6YDVaKQk
"Forget the W.W.E. and get ready to BRAWL! Everything you ever wanted to know about the world of ladies arm wrestling is in this wonderfully demented video!" --Jon Wurster, Superchunk
Yours for World Domination,
The BRAWL Collective
(Mariah Bishop, Brandy Walters, Shannon Springer, Michelle Tommasi, Tricia Mazzocca, Amie Worley, Julie Novak, Jacinta Bunnell, Michael Truckpile)
www.hudsonvalleybrawl.com
www.facebook.com/hudsonvalleybrawl
From my inbox...
Dear Arm Wrassling Enthusiasts of the World,
What? You had no idea that Jacinta (aka Magenta Delecta) could brutishly slice a watermelon down the middle with her killer rhymes? You had not a clue that muscular ladies could synchronize dance? You all knew what a talented song-writer Michael Truckpile (aka The Ref) was already, right? We consider ourselves lucky he wrote us into this one. Move over, Kool Moe Dee & Backstreet Boys. There’s a new ticket in town.
The talented & strong ladies of Hudson Valley BRAWL (Broads' Regional Arm Wrestling League) filmed this video at the etsy building in Hudson, NY under the directorial guidance of Rachael Saltzman & Julie Novak.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNZ6YDVaKQk
"Forget the W.W.E. and get ready to BRAWL! Everything you ever wanted to know about the world of ladies arm wrestling is in this wonderfully demented video!" --Jon Wurster, Superchunk
Yours for World Domination,
The BRAWL Collective
(Mariah Bishop, Brandy Walters, Shannon Springer, Michelle Tommasi, Tricia Mazzocca, Amie Worley, Julie Novak, Jacinta Bunnell, Michael Truckpile)
www.hudsonvalleybrawl.com
www.facebook.com/hudsonvalleybrawl
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
getbusy
My real good buddy Ms Em Ledger works damn hard at running her webstore, Getbusy. She does it solo and has built it up from the ground herself. Selling and stocking urban streetware for ladies, women and girls that are often not catered for in this male-dominated field of fashion, Getbusy aims to 'stock a range of awesome brands making forward thinking, sharp and flattering clothing and accessories for women of all shapes and sizes, identities and looks'.
Getbusy's motto is, 'We're passionate about women getting active, getting out there and making shit happen!', how could you not want to go and see what's in stock?! Plus you'll be supporting young women in business too.
http://www.getbusystore.com
Getbusy's motto is, 'We're passionate about women getting active, getting out there and making shit happen!', how could you not want to go and see what's in stock?! Plus you'll be supporting young women in business too.
http://www.getbusystore.com
manchester's modernist heroines
Natalie Bradbury's zine, 'the Shrieking Violet' has recently linked up with two local organisations, Manchester Modernist Society and the Loiterers Resistance Movement, to do a project celebrating ten overlooked North West women from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The zine spans the fields of invention, aviation, media, science, geography, design and architecture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty first.
You can find out more about it here, (with pdf and downloadable versions of the zine available too):
http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/manchesters-modernist-heroines.html
This is the start of an ongoing project; please tell the zine makers about your heroines by adding them directly to a special Modernist Heroines page on the Modernist Society website.
You can find out more about it here, (with pdf and downloadable versions of the zine available too):
http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/manchesters-modernist-heroines.html
This is the start of an ongoing project; please tell the zine makers about your heroines by adding them directly to a special Modernist Heroines page on the Modernist Society website.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
this is an emergency - print portfolio
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461094566/this-is-an-emergency
Merdeith Stern (of Justseeds) is at the helm of this new print project, seeking funding via Kickstarter, it's a print portfolio project which focuses on reproductive rights and gender justice.
In part, Meredith writes:
In response to all the bullying, the legislative measures, and the horrifying statements filling the media, I feel that we need a collection of voices commenting on this situation through visual art. This project will bring together over a dozen voices from people most affected by these issues- women, queer identified, and transgendered artists.
Once the portfolios are completed, over a dozen of the portfolios will be donated to organizations working on these issues. These organizations will be able to utilize these portfolios in several ways. They can reproduce the images for use in their campaigns, display them at their events or in their office, use the images on their website, newsletters or other written materials, or to sell the posters as a fundraiser for their organization.
I am seeking funding for this project in order to pay for the cost of creating these portfolios. $2000 will pay for the printing of the covers, the written materials, and the postage to ship the portfolios to the organizations. All funds above that will be split between the artists and the organizations. There will be 125 portfolios created. This is your opportunity to get a limited edition, one of a kind print collection from over a dozen amazing artists while helping to fund reproductive and gender justice issues.
Watch Meredith's video and read more about the project at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461094566/this-is-an-emergency
Merdeith Stern (of Justseeds) is at the helm of this new print project, seeking funding via Kickstarter, it's a print portfolio project which focuses on reproductive rights and gender justice.
In part, Meredith writes:
In response to all the bullying, the legislative measures, and the horrifying statements filling the media, I feel that we need a collection of voices commenting on this situation through visual art. This project will bring together over a dozen voices from people most affected by these issues- women, queer identified, and transgendered artists.
Once the portfolios are completed, over a dozen of the portfolios will be donated to organizations working on these issues. These organizations will be able to utilize these portfolios in several ways. They can reproduce the images for use in their campaigns, display them at their events or in their office, use the images on their website, newsletters or other written materials, or to sell the posters as a fundraiser for their organization.
I am seeking funding for this project in order to pay for the cost of creating these portfolios. $2000 will pay for the printing of the covers, the written materials, and the postage to ship the portfolios to the organizations. All funds above that will be split between the artists and the organizations. There will be 125 portfolios created. This is your opportunity to get a limited edition, one of a kind print collection from over a dozen amazing artists while helping to fund reproductive and gender justice issues.
Watch Meredith's video and read more about the project at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461094566/this-is-an-emergency
Monday, 19 March 2012
womens library facing closure
The Women's Library in London holds a special part in my heart. I've been given the opportunity, their support, and the space to host a couple of exhibitions there over the years, they home & archive the UK womens comix zine collection that I donated a few years ago, they have a wonderfully unique space for great events and discussion, and not to mention, above all else, all the important resources they house, archive and preserve. It's such an important centre for women's history (in all its forms and shapes) in the UK. It's therefore with extreme sadness that I read the below this week.
From my inbox...
UNISON statement on the Library’s Special Collections
It is with profound regret that UNISON learned yesterday of the University’s Board of Governors’ decision to seek new homes for The Women’s Library and Trades Union Congress Library Collections.
Social justice, the strides towards equality and the campaigns fought by those unwilling to accept injustice lie at the heart of these collections and they have given our students a real opportunity to engage with these movements and personal histories. These special collections truly emphasized the now seemingly lost intention of London Met Uni’s original aims to widen participation and to promote social justice by offering our students these truly unique resources.
The dedicated staff at both Libraries – who were not involved in these decisions in any way, despite seeking input into the reviews that lead to this decision – will now look to the future. We still believe in the value of the stories documented and want to thank everyone who has supported us so far.
http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2012/03/special-collections/
Save the Women’s Library Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/370426752989975/
(not an official group but started but fellow librarians – I think)
Petiton - Save the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University
Target: Secretary of State for Education
Sponsored by: Rudi's Save Our Libraries Campaign
Ugly rumours are circulating that the magnificent, purpose-built, Women's Library at London Metropolitan University may have its opening hours and facilities drastically curtailed, or even be closed altogether. This Library is one of the most magificent specialist libraries in the world, having started life as the Fawcett Library in a poky, cramped, dark basement at Old Castle Street. With money from the Lottery it has become something that previously women - and men - could only have dreamed of. Women have visited from all over not just Britain, but the world. It is a national asset. Whatever the University's problems - which we hope will be resolved - under no circumstances should the Women's Library suffer in any way. Please join, and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pass this onto your friends.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/925/128/986/save-the-womens-library-at-london-metropolitan-university/
There isn’t any information on the Women’s Library web site as yet although they did close unexpectedly for part of Thursday and all day Friday – but that may be a coincidence.
From my inbox...
UNISON statement on the Library’s Special Collections
It is with profound regret that UNISON learned yesterday of the University’s Board of Governors’ decision to seek new homes for The Women’s Library and Trades Union Congress Library Collections.
Social justice, the strides towards equality and the campaigns fought by those unwilling to accept injustice lie at the heart of these collections and they have given our students a real opportunity to engage with these movements and personal histories. These special collections truly emphasized the now seemingly lost intention of London Met Uni’s original aims to widen participation and to promote social justice by offering our students these truly unique resources.
The dedicated staff at both Libraries – who were not involved in these decisions in any way, despite seeking input into the reviews that lead to this decision – will now look to the future. We still believe in the value of the stories documented and want to thank everyone who has supported us so far.
http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2012/03/special-collections/
Save the Women’s Library Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/370426752989975/
(not an official group but started but fellow librarians – I think)
Petiton - Save the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University
Target: Secretary of State for Education
Sponsored by: Rudi's Save Our Libraries Campaign
Ugly rumours are circulating that the magnificent, purpose-built, Women's Library at London Metropolitan University may have its opening hours and facilities drastically curtailed, or even be closed altogether. This Library is one of the most magificent specialist libraries in the world, having started life as the Fawcett Library in a poky, cramped, dark basement at Old Castle Street. With money from the Lottery it has become something that previously women - and men - could only have dreamed of. Women have visited from all over not just Britain, but the world. It is a national asset. Whatever the University's problems - which we hope will be resolved - under no circumstances should the Women's Library suffer in any way. Please join, and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pass this onto your friends.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/925/128/986/save-the-womens-library-at-london-metropolitan-university/
There isn’t any information on the Women’s Library web site as yet although they did close unexpectedly for part of Thursday and all day Friday – but that may be a coincidence.
una buena barba - call out for submissions
The quite wonderful Una Buena Barba magazine based in Spain (who interviewed me about my zines last year) have just put out this neat sounding call-out:
http://unabuenabarba.com/submission.html
It reads:
Buscamos ilustraciones para formar un fanzine sobre ídolos e iconos queer que presentaremos a finales de abril en un evento literario, y más adelante en librerías. Puede ser de la academia o la calle, la copla o la cultura pop, un personaje histórico o ficticio. Lo importante es que sea alguien que haya influido cómo ves la cultura queer o feminista.
Queremos que sea una especie de álbum familiar que represente una gran
variedad de géneros, sexualidades, razas, y profesiones.
ESPECIFICACIONES
- La ilustración ha de ser en blanco y negro.
- No importa la técnica, pero ha de enviarse en formato digital.
- Ha de estar a una resolución de 300ppp
- El tamaño ha de ser como mucho, un A5
Fecha límite: El 8 de Abril de 2012.
¿Y A MÍ QUÉ ME DAS A CAMBIO?
Por desgracia no podemos permitirnos pagar a nadie for sus ilustraciones.
Lo que saquemos de las ventas lo utilizaremos para cubrir los costes de impresión.
Lo que sí os daremos:
-Una copia del fanzine, que enviaremos a vuestro hogar, vuestra oficina, vuestra mazmorra, o donde nos
digáis.
-Una maravillosa chapa de Una Buena Barba.
-La promoción de vuestro trabajo, blog, o página web en nuestras redes sociales, web, y por supuesto en el fanzine.
-La adoración de miles de queers buenorrxs, posiblemente millones, por lo menos cuatro.
Envíanos tu propuesta o pregunta aquí.
Roughly translated, in English:
We seek to form a fanzine illustrations on queer idols and icons that present in late April at a literary event, and later in bookstores. It may be from academia or the street, the song or pop culture, a historical or fictional. The important thing is to be someone who has influenced how you see queer or feminist culture.
We want to make a sort of family album that represents a great variety of genres, sexualities, races and professions.
SPECIFICATIONS
- The picture must be in black and white.
- No matter the technique, but must be sent in digital format.
- It must be a resolution of 300dpi
- The size must be at most a A5
Deadline: On April 8, 2012.
And WHY ME GIVE ME A CHANGE?
Unfortunately we can not afford to pay anyone for their artwork.
What we get out of sales will use it to cover printing costs.
What I would give:
-A copy of the fanzine, we will send to your home, your office, your dungeon, or where we tell.
-A wonderful plate of a Good Beard.
-The promotion of your work, blog, or website on our social networks, web, and of course in the fanzine.
-Worship thousands of queers buenorrxs, possibly millions, at least four.
Send your proposal or question here: arte@unabuenabarba.com
I'm a sucker for a project like this! It's like a queer Shape & Situate :) Yay!
http://unabuenabarba.com/submission.html
It reads:
Buscamos ilustraciones para formar un fanzine sobre ídolos e iconos queer que presentaremos a finales de abril en un evento literario, y más adelante en librerías. Puede ser de la academia o la calle, la copla o la cultura pop, un personaje histórico o ficticio. Lo importante es que sea alguien que haya influido cómo ves la cultura queer o feminista.
Queremos que sea una especie de álbum familiar que represente una gran
variedad de géneros, sexualidades, razas, y profesiones.
ESPECIFICACIONES
- La ilustración ha de ser en blanco y negro.
- No importa la técnica, pero ha de enviarse en formato digital.
- Ha de estar a una resolución de 300ppp
- El tamaño ha de ser como mucho, un A5
Fecha límite: El 8 de Abril de 2012.
¿Y A MÍ QUÉ ME DAS A CAMBIO?
Por desgracia no podemos permitirnos pagar a nadie for sus ilustraciones.
Lo que saquemos de las ventas lo utilizaremos para cubrir los costes de impresión.
Lo que sí os daremos:
-Una copia del fanzine, que enviaremos a vuestro hogar, vuestra oficina, vuestra mazmorra, o donde nos
digáis.
-Una maravillosa chapa de Una Buena Barba.
-La promoción de vuestro trabajo, blog, o página web en nuestras redes sociales, web, y por supuesto en el fanzine.
-La adoración de miles de queers buenorrxs, posiblemente millones, por lo menos cuatro.
Envíanos tu propuesta o pregunta aquí.
Roughly translated, in English:
We seek to form a fanzine illustrations on queer idols and icons that present in late April at a literary event, and later in bookstores. It may be from academia or the street, the song or pop culture, a historical or fictional. The important thing is to be someone who has influenced how you see queer or feminist culture.
We want to make a sort of family album that represents a great variety of genres, sexualities, races and professions.
SPECIFICATIONS
- The picture must be in black and white.
- No matter the technique, but must be sent in digital format.
- It must be a resolution of 300dpi
- The size must be at most a A5
Deadline: On April 8, 2012.
And WHY ME GIVE ME A CHANGE?
Unfortunately we can not afford to pay anyone for their artwork.
What we get out of sales will use it to cover printing costs.
What I would give:
-A copy of the fanzine, we will send to your home, your office, your dungeon, or where we tell.
-A wonderful plate of a Good Beard.
-The promotion of your work, blog, or website on our social networks, web, and of course in the fanzine.
-Worship thousands of queers buenorrxs, possibly millions, at least four.
Send your proposal or question here: arte@unabuenabarba.com
I'm a sucker for a project like this! It's like a queer Shape & Situate :) Yay!
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
poland
From my inbox, from Asia...
http://zinowearchiwum.wordpress.com : A blog about feminist/queer/comix zines and events from poland
www.psiamac.noblogs.org : A zine/graphic/diy festival in Warsaw in May 2012, feel invited, take part!
and if you visit warsaw, please check out the queer/feminist social center
UFA, ul. nowolipki 20 (www.u-f-a.pl) and check our zine archive!
http://zinowearchiwum.wordpress.com : A blog about feminist/queer/comix zines and events from poland
www.psiamac.noblogs.org : A zine/graphic/diy festival in Warsaw in May 2012, feel invited, take part!
and if you visit warsaw, please check out the queer/feminist social center
UFA, ul. nowolipki 20 (www.u-f-a.pl) and check our zine archive!
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
MOMA in a rush for the plane home
I've just got back from a whistlestop trip to New York where I had to go for solely for a 12 hour meeting - grim! Before my flight home I got up extra early and ran to MOMA to check out the Cindy Sherman exhibition currently being held there. Aside from Cindy's work, I saw some other real gems, such as the Sanja Ivekovic exhibition, 'Sweet Violence' which kind of blew me away (in a way that, strangely, Cindy Sherman's exhibition didn't).
A real treat for me too was seeing the work (in the flesh) of so many amazing female artists under one roof, the work of Barbara Kruger, Kara Walker, Lisa Yuskavage, Ellen Gallagher, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas, Ana Medieta, Jenny Holzer, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Cady Noland, Diana Balton, Doris Salcedo, and Andrea Zittel.
Here's some crappy, blurry photos of some of that...
^Louise Bourgeois
^Sarah Lucas
^Ellen Gallagher
^Jenny Holzer
^Barbara Kruger
A real treat for me too was seeing the work (in the flesh) of so many amazing female artists under one roof, the work of Barbara Kruger, Kara Walker, Lisa Yuskavage, Ellen Gallagher, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas, Ana Medieta, Jenny Holzer, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Cady Noland, Diana Balton, Doris Salcedo, and Andrea Zittel.
Here's some crappy, blurry photos of some of that...
^Louise Bourgeois
^Sarah Lucas
^Ellen Gallagher
^Jenny Holzer
^Barbara Kruger
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