I was recently asked to write this feature for the Skinny about a new exhibition which opens at Tate Liverpool this week (Friday February 28). It was a last-minute commission, and it would have been nice to have spoken to more people involved in the exhibition, but it was good to have an excuse to read more Raymond Williams as his books Culture and Society and the Long Revolution, along with his essay Culture is Ordinary, which concern the development of culture and social change, were among the best things I read last year.
Keywords: Art Culture and Society in 1980s Britain
In 1976, a book was published which offered a new way of understanding and using
language, defining and interpreting familiar and inter-related words such as culture, art,
revolution, family and society. Written by cultural theorist Raymond Williams, Keywords is
a social, historical and cultural guide to the evolution and meaning of everyday words we
often take for granted.
Taking Keywords as its starting point, a new exhibition at Tate Liverpool continues the
conversation Williams sparked around language more than three decades ago. Artworks
from the 1980s, the decade in which the book's ideas found particular resonance among
a generation of artists responding to upheavals in society, are juxtaposed with a selection
of words from the book in a specially-designed exhibition space by artists Luca Frei and
Will Holder. Aiming to enhance the visual and conceptual legibility of the artworks, the
installation will encourage visitors to ponder the complex and often charged relationship
between what they see and the language which can be used to describe it.
“The impetus of the exhibition came from conversations we had about the book with artists
making work in the 1980s, who said that at the time they were beginning to be influenced
by the growing field of cultural studies and by books such as Keywords as much as by art
history,” explains Gavin Delahunty, Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool and
curator of Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain. “Keywords is a good read
and an easy, not over-academic way for people to engage with key ideas about culture
and society. It is one individual's attempt to unpack complex words and what they meant
for him and his time, which provides a tool and filter for people to understand the world
around them.”
The exhibition uses artwork and language to present a very complex and diverse moment
in both British history and British art. “It was an extraordinary decade where there were
so many shifts in culture and society that continue to have an impact today,” explains
Delahunty. It was also a confusing time. On the one hand was the affluence of the City of
London, but elsewhere in the country miners' strikes, the Liverpool riots and the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament were taking place. “A whole raft of social issues were bubbling
to the fore,” says Delahunty. “The old histories were being dissolved and disintegrated,
creating a fragmented moment which we have tried to capture in the exhibition.”
Keywords also aims to showcase the work and ideas of artists who did not necessarily
receive widespread recognition at the time but reflected the increasing plurality of voices
in the art world. Through provocative and challenging visual and performative acts these
artists helped change not just ideas around what belonged in the art gallery, but the
vocabulary which was used to describe it. “In the 1980s one of the huge changes was that
new voices were starting to be introduced into the art world, often drawn from what had
previously been seen as marginalised communities,” explains Delahunty. “Artists were
immersed within powerful new movements based around Second Wave feminism, race,
sexuality and ethnicity and wanted to point out the historical and social imbalance, which
wasn't representative of the diversity of the UK.”
To help the audience engage with the work and messages on display the curators
went through the whole of Keywords and chose thirteen words to show alongside
the artworks, looking for both their frequency and their resonance today. Among the
words chosen was 'materialism', which Delahunty points out “was associated with the
1980s catchphrase 'greed is good', but is also a word that is in people's conversation
at the moment and is linked to our understanding of the world and morality”. Another
is 'criticism', which Delahunty links to the critical approach artists used to protest gender
stereotypes and the invisibility of black and female artists in the 1980s. One word which
was quickly agreed on was 'liberation', which Delahunty says is related to the development
of identity politics. “A whole generation of artists were making art addressing questions
of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, against a backdrop of the horrors of the British colonial
past,” he explains. “There was a whole new generation of artists who were touched by
that.”
The energy of the 1980s and the desire for artists to tell their stories comes across
strongly in the exhibition in a series of very powerful visual statements. The curators
asked artists active in the 1980s which artworks they considered to be game-changing
at the time. Although several of the artists they came up with are not household names,
and some of the artworks in the exhibition haven't been on display in decades, they
have had an enduring influence in the art world. These include work by socialist feminist
artists such as Rose Finn-Kelcey, as well as Helen Chadwick's provocative 'Carcass', last
shown in 1986; this is a work which Delahunty says has “stimulated and inspired so many
artists”. Displaying 'Carcass' is a logistical feat, comprising a column filled with food waste
which will transform into a living sculpture as nature takes its course over the lifespan
of the exhibition. Another key work is Sunil Gupta's 'London Gay Switchboard', which is
grounded in the near-hysteria of the 1980s AIDS climate. The work, initially shown on a
slide projector but now updated to a digital format, depicts the central information point which helped thousands of men and
women access expert information on the virus. “It had a huge impact,” explains Delahunty.
“It shows the day-to-day aspects of the work at the gay switchboard as well as people going
out socialising. It demonstrates how, in a time of confusion and fear people still had time
to hang out and be friends and get on with life.” If one work sums up the exhibition, it
is Donald Rodney's multimedia sculpture 'Visceral Canker', which uses coats of arms
depicting aspects of slavery, bloodlines and former colonies to speak of Britain's colonial
past.
The keywords incorporated into the show do not directly correlate with or illustrate the
artworks, but rather provide a 'jumping-off point' and stimulus for thought and discussion.
They ask questions such as 'could you apply the word 'violence' to this artwork, or are they
worlds apart?' As Delahunty explains, “the exhibition is more about slippages of language
and how it changes over time, just as artworks evolve over time.” He adds: “We live in a
world with a strong desire to contain life within language, but artworks can't be reduced
to single words. They are complex, nuanced and textured and constantly changing and
mutating.”
This is very much in the spirit of what Raymond Williams intended to show with the
publication of Keywords; he hoped that the book would provide a starting point for ongoing
discussions and prompt further collections of words and meanings. The exhibition at Tate
Liverpool perfectly demonstrates this potential. Keywords has been reprinted to coincide
with the exhibition, and is as relevant today as ever as language continues to evolve to
meet new times and new contexts. As Delahunty says, “The book is so open-ended it still
allows the freedom to have conversations about what words are, how we use them and
how we make sense of them in everyday situations.”
For more information visit www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/keywords-art-culture-and-society-1980s-britain.
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Sunday, 5 May 2013
Victoria Baths Fanzine Fair, today (12-4pm): what's on, stallholders, times!
Running order:
1pm - Film screening, Helpyourself Manchester, cinema space (off the sports hall)
- Talk by Karren Ablaze! (superintendent's flat)
1.30pm - Choir performance, Ordsall Acapella Singers, in the Gala Pool
2pm - Musical Tour of Victoria Baths by David Carden
2.30pm - Talk by John Mather on the Pools of Greater Manchester (subject of his hand drawn Pictorial Guide)
3pm - Film screening, Helpyourself Manchester, cinema space (off the sports hall)
- Choir performance, Ordsall Acapella Singers, in the Gala Pool
3.30pm - Reading by David Hartley (superintendent's flat)
Helpyourself Manchester (1pm and 3pm) tells the unsung story of Manchester's DIY music promoters, followed by a Q and A with the directors, Castles Built in Sand collective. Additionally, there will be an exhibition of original gig fliers featured in the film.
Manchester-based illustrator and zinester David Carden will give a lively musical tour inspired by the history of Victoria Baths (2pm), with songs about the ladies pool, channel swimmer Sunny Lowry, a couple meeting in the Baths and the building's beautiful stained glass, and will also be on hand to draw your portrait in five minutes (for a small fee!).
See original artwork and hear from John Mather about his Pictorial Guide to Greater Manchester Public Swimming Pools during his talk at 2.30pm upstairs in the former superintendent's flat.
Listen to readings by Manchester author David Hartley (3.30pm), including from his new book Threshold, and hear Karren Ablaze! read from her recent book the City is Ablaze (1pm), about her experiences of making zines in Manchester and Leeds in the 1980s.
Dip into a hands-on zine-inspired activity with Pool Arts throughout the day, who will be asking for your help to produce VB's very own fabulous fanzine, The Vicky. 'Bring Back Baths' will use team effort, collage, lino printing and on-the-spot reportage from the fair to compile some articles about why public wash baths should be making a comeback! The first issue of The Vicky appeared during 2003 with occasional issues ever since. Bring your old comics, your sense of humour and your glue sticks! Original copies of the early issues will be on sale on the day!
The event will be soundtracked by a choir performance by Ordsall Acapella Singers in the Gala Pool. Guided tours of the building will also be on offer, including a 'behind the scenes' tour.
Also in attendance will be the interactive Left Leg Gallery.
Listen to the Shrieking Violet talking about the event on All FM's Under the Pavement Radio show here:
Read a preview of the event, linked in with a feature on zines and DIY culture, in the Skinny magazine.
Stallholders:
Emily & Anne
LOAF (Catherine Chialton and Jimmy Edmondson)
Kristyna Baczynski
Corridor8
Knives, Forks and Spoons Press
David Carden
John Mather
Salford Illustration Department
Castles Built in Sand
Within Six
Becky Kidner Diary Drawings
Loosely Bound Zine Collective
Young Explorer/Today Zine
Twigs and Apples
Sugar Paper
Laura Brown Word
Tommy Eugene Higson
Knickers for Bonnie
Karoline Rerrie
Vapid Slackers (Vapid Kitten)
David Hartley
Joe List
Megan Price Mr PS
Paul Murray and Kat Smith
Marco Brunello
the modernist
Karren Ablaze!
DNYLNE and Adam Jacques
Lottie Pencheon
For more information visit www.victoriabaths.org.uk/visit/2013/family-friendly-trail, email gill.wright@victoriabaths.org.uk or phone 0161 224 2020.
Facebook event.
Please bring everyone you know!
Friday, 1 June 2012
Three zines and two films from the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention
Thanks to everyone who came another packed and inspiring Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention and browsed and bought fanzines, talked to self-publishers about their work, watched the film, came to the talks and asked questions, studied Melanie Maddison's poster exhibition, made pages for the giant Victoria Baths fanzine and helped sell out Deerly Beloved Bakery's stall of vegan delights!
Visitors and self-publishers of all ages came from all over the country, showing the diversity of the publications encompassed by the term: from an artist's book responding to oranges to poetry and avant garde objects, from a new, alternative guide to Manchester to a zine inspired by growing up in crap towns. One zine named after a cat called Elvis got on the train all by itself at Newcastle and was picked up at the other end in Manchester!
Watch Wild Bees Productions' short film, made throughout the Fanzine Convention, which sums up the day beautifully:
A number of new zines were made on the day, including a giant, collaborative Victoria Baths fanzine compiled by visitors who took part in lino cutting/relief printing, button book binding and collaging workshops in the former superintendent's flat.
Visitors dived into the history of the building and were inspired by its beautiful decorative tiles and stained glass windows, as well as their own feelings about swimming, to each produce a page for the finished zine, which was stitched together at the end of the day.
Photocopied images and memories from the Victoria Baths archive were available to cut and paste. Swimmers associated with the building, such as members of the South Manchester swimming club and channel swimmer Sunny Lowry, who trained at the baths, feature highly, along with old-fashioned signs!
View the Victoria Baths fanzine below as a PDF:
Watch Wild Bees Productions' short film, made throughout the Fanzine Convention, which sums up the day beautifully:
A number of new zines were made on the day, including a giant, collaborative Victoria Baths fanzine compiled by visitors who took part in lino cutting/relief printing, button book binding and collaging workshops in the former superintendent's flat.
View the Victoria Baths fanzine below as a PDF:
Open publication - Free publishing - More archive
Ten year old Louis D. Rogers from South Yorkshire wrote 5 Futuristic Machines, a zine about 'a future space war, but written in the past tense as a history book'. The zine was duplicated using Footprint Workers' Co-operative's risograph machine which had made the journey over from Leeds for the day. The risograph looked like it would be defeated by the stairs, but made it up to the balcony with the help of four strong Future Everything volunteers! Merrick from Footprint demonstrated how the risograph works:
Read 5 Futuristic Machines online:
Ten year old Louis D. Rogers from South Yorkshire wrote 5 Futuristic Machines, a zine about 'a future space war, but written in the past tense as a history book'. The zine was duplicated using Footprint Workers' Co-operative's risograph machine which had made the journey over from Leeds for the day. The risograph looked like it would be defeated by the stairs, but made it up to the balcony with the help of four strong Future Everything volunteers! Merrick from Footprint demonstrated how the risograph works:
Read 5 Futuristic Machines online:
Open publication - Free publishing - More fanzines
Meanwhile, feminist duo Vapid Kitten invited visitors to help make a special edition of the zine at their stall around the balcony area, in a workshop entitled Vapid in a Day!
Contributors on the day were joined by international contributors, who sent their work in via email. View the finished PDF at:
Meanwhile, feminist duo Vapid Kitten invited visitors to help make a special edition of the zine at their stall around the balcony area, in a workshop entitled Vapid in a Day!
Open publication - Free publishing - More kitten
Elsewhere at the Convention, visitors found out more about self-publishers and their motivations with a screening of Salford Zine Library's 2011 film Self-Publishers of the World Take Over in the former committee room.
David started his talk by playing New Hormones band Ludus's brilliantly catchy pop song Breaking the Rules, which he feels epitomises the spirit of City Fun as being
"political yet whimsical, and outsider yet collectivist...the perfect song to accompany a talk about co-operation and an irreverent, amusing, politicised post-punk fanzine run by two gay women". Linder Sterling from Ludus was managed by City Fun's Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll (as Crone Management) and also designed some covers for City Fun.
Elsewhere at the Convention, visitors found out more about self-publishers and their motivations with a screening of Salford Zine Library's 2011 film Self-Publishers of the World Take Over in the former committee room.
Orla Foster and Peter Martin, formerly of Rotherham Zine Library, talked about their new publications inspired by found material and their Closed Caption project.
PhD researcher and writer David Wilkinson brought back memories for Mancunians of a certain age with his talk on post-punk countercultural publication City Fun. He described how publications like City Fun and record labels like New Hormones were "very much the more politicised yet actually more lighthearted underdog to Factory Records in post-punk Manchester".
"political yet whimsical, and outsider yet collectivist...the perfect song to accompany a talk about co-operation and an irreverent, amusing, politicised post-punk fanzine run by two gay women". Linder Sterling from Ludus was managed by City Fun's Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll (as Crone Management) and also designed some covers for City Fun.
Later, Cazz Blase, music reviews editor of Shrieking Violet favourite The F-Word, talked about the significance of zines to the punk and riot grrrl movements.
Visitors flocked to Melanie Maddison's poster exhibition around the balcony of the female pool, comprising 80 posters of inspirational European women taken from the zine Shape & Situate, including some of the makers of the posters!
Technology enthusiasts and zine-makers Chris Watson and Logan Holmes from Sheffield's Shift Space collective piloted the use of an augmented reality app which allowed people to explore the local area and point their smartphones at the building to receive visual and audio content, for example visitors could view how the baths looked in the past, in the exact spot where they were standing, just by holding their phone at eye level.
More photos from the day:
Friday, 18 May 2012
Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention souvenir programme fanzine and timings
Read it online here:
Download and print a copy here.
The Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention will take place on the first floor of Victoria Baths on Saturday 19 May from 10am-5pm. Map, designed by artist Daniel Fogarty (click for larger image):
Timings for the day:
10.30am Guided tour of the building
11am 'Workshop: Alice in apps land: explore your smart phone and your environment', meet in the superintendent's flat (upstairs)
12pm Guided tour of the building
12.30pm Film screening: Self-Publishers of the World Take Over by Salford Zine Library, followed by Q and A, committee room (upstairs)
1.30pm, Talk: Rotherham Zine Library/Closed Caption (title tbc), committee room (upstairs)
2.30pm Talk: David Wilkinson, Pam Ponders Paul Morley's Cat: The Wired and Wonderful World of City Fun, committee room (upstairs)
3.30pm Talk: Cazz Blase, Making a noise: an express ride through the world of punk and riot grrrl fanzines and the UK feminist underground, 1977-2012, committee room (upstairs)
For a map and how to get to Victoria Baths by public transport and car, visit: www.victoriabaths.org.uk/visit/find-us
A free bus will run between Future Everything venues the Museum of Science and Industry, MediaCityUK and Victoria Baths on Saturday.
Timetable (click for larger image):
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention – stallholders
Twigs and Apples is a North West UK-based zine collective, started in 2009. It operates as an open collective and, as such, has a wide range of content, including art, writing, poetry, illustration, film and music reviews, sports writing, vegan recipes, photography, DIY and craft, philosophy and the odd rant. Twigs and Apples is fuelled by biscuits, tea and bicycle rides into the night. http://twigsandapples.tumblr.com
Footprint is small printers based in Leeds. It print booklets, zines, leaflets, stickers, newsletters, fliers, books, CD wallets and that sort of gubbins. It wishes to be straightforward, friendly, responsible and responsive, rather than “aiming to deliver comprehensive multi-platform printing solutions to clients in the voluntary and vocationally-challenged sectors”. Footprint does this as ethically as it can, printing on proper recycled papers, powered by a genuine green electricity tariff and using the least environmentally damaging processes it can find. Footprint also gives a percentage of the money it makes to worthy projects. Footprint is a workers co-operative, which means the business is owned by the workers. As they have no bosses they run it as they want, doing interesting jobs for interesting people.
www.footprinters.co.uk
Shape & Situate is a zine of posters made by artists and DIY creative folk from within Europe, each poster highlighting the (often hidden) history and lives of radical inspirational women and collectives from Europe, as a way of connecting us with the past and the present through a dynamic cultural (re-)articulation of these women’s lives. The zine aims to activate feminist cultural memory, to inspire in the present and to visually bring women’s social and political history to life and into view.
http://remember-who-u-are.blogspot.com
zimZalla is a publishing project intermittently releasing avant objects. Previous releases include a miniature book with accompanying magnifying glass, unique micro texts in medicinal vials and a board game to generate multiple chance readings of a poem text.
http://zimzalla.co.uk
Josh Payne’s zines and books are made to encourage exploration and observation. One zine is called Journeys to mark the journey he went through to come up with a concept; the concept ended up being the actual journey he embarked on. The next publication is an expansion on the first journey and ended becoming a book. This is to encourage people to go out, be observant and explore the world around them to make their own work and is in a note book format consisting of subtle journeys that Josh has been through. The books are called Notes.
www.karlchild.co.uk
Bound Collective is five designers from Manchester who are inspired by design, photography, music, culture and, most importantly, the environment around them, and have created a publication to celebrate this! Bound is not your typical city guide. You won’t find department stores, over-subscribed club nights or chain restaurants as Bound will focus on what makes Manchester unique. Bound wants to present the city’s residents and visitors with an alternative view, focusing on the vibrant locations and independent businesses that are often overlooked.
http://boundcollective.tumblr.com
Lynne Shaw specialises in Artist Books produced using traditional book binding methods, printing and digital imagery. Her books encompass a wide range of themes, including the chronicling of her past, urban degeneration and football. Light hearted projects include breathing new life into images from old books and using vintage Bunty and Judy annuals.
Artist Books: Conceive, make, share and adore... http://fineartartist.tumblr.com
Black Dogs is an art collective formed in 2003 in Leeds. Its output has included formal exhibitions, relational and participatory installations, public events and interventions, publications, video, audio works and records and collaborative learning projects. The membership of the group is notionally fluid and can vary on a project-to-project basis, although in practice the group has a fairly consistent core of ten members currently living and working between Leeds, London, Bradford and Milton Keynes.
www.black-dogs.org
Sugar Paper is a bi-annual craft zine featuring 20 things to make and do, from knitting to recipes, old school crafts to fun things to do with your gang, all peppered with whatever they’re obsessing over at the time!
http://sugarpapergang.blogspot.com
Crow Versus Crow is an interdisciplinary project based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, presenting, to date, limited physical editions, a community radio show and podcast and live music events exploring the intersection between contemporary DIY and non-mainstream music and visual art culture.
http://crowversuscrow.blogspot.co.uk
FAKE is a quarterly independent fashion and visual arts magazine. It gives its readers access to the very latest emerging creative talent, featuring insightful photography, innovative fashion, beautiful illustration, funny and thought-provoking articles, independent venues and businesses, fresh talent, creative projects and much more. Everything within the pages of FAKE is exclusively commissioned for each issue. FAKE isn’t what fake is.
http://thatfakemagazine.com
http://thatfakemagazineblog.tumblr.com
Karoline Rerrie is an illustrator who creates images by hand using drawing, painting, silk screen printing and Japanese Gocco printing. She produces a range of printed multiples including zines and artists’ books. She also co-ordinates the publication of limited edition postcard books, zines and colouring books featuring her artwork and that of other women illustrators.
http://menageriebook.blogspot.co.uk
http://newmagicbook.blogspot.co.uk
Acclaimed freelance illustrator Paul Loudon presents an exciting and unique introspective of his upcoming girl-centric graphic novel Bust-Up. The fanzine includes character profiles, snippets of the action, tips, techniques and curves in all the right places.
Musician and doodler David Carden presents two books inspired by Manchester Art Gallery. Adventures In British Painting is a musical tour of the gallery’s 18th and 19th century collections complete with banjo and ukulele fueled sing-songs. Pea Soup Of The Dead is a musical zombie comic book inspired by the paintings of LS Lowry and Adolphe Valette with a War Of The Worlds-esque soundtrack to boot. David will also be showcasing other projects which he may or may not get round to actually doing. He is after all a very lazy illustrator.
www.paulloudon.com
Nude magazine is an arts and culture publication, which has always been a zine at heart in that the editors, publishers and contributors always without exception wrote about issues and events which were very close to them and which they felt a personal passion for. The publishers, Suzy and Ian, are very happy to watch the resurgence of printed fanzines and hope it’s here to stay.
www.nudemagazine.co.uk
Jo Wilkinson is a Leeds-based illustrator. She makes zines with ideas born from a variety of sources including tissue paper on tangerines, observational drawing in sketchbooks and imaginary stuff found only in her fluffy head. She loves to use collage, found ephemera, letter stamps, drypoint and pop up mechanisms in her work. Even a 1970s typewriter makes a recurring appearance!
Jo makes prints using techniques like drypoint, relief, mono and intaglio processes. She also uses Chine-colle. She is currently working on a new series entitled ‘Noah’s Boats’. http://jowilkinson.co.uk
Silent V is an absurdist science fiction saga set in a constantly shifting, illogical universe. Its fifth issue has just been completed, and will be launched at this year’s Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention.
http://gulagcomics.livejournal.com
www.webcomicsnation.com/bakesale
Young Explorer is a brand new zine about stuff and things by Elizabeth Murray Jones and Steve Carlton. The first ever issue has a ‘Home and Away’ theme and includes bits about being brought up in a rubbish town, day trips, a home appliance-related comic and a couple of bits of enthusiastic waffle about music and that.
http://youngexplorerzine.blogspot.co.uk
Vapid Kitten (Manchester)
Feminist duo Vapid Kitten will be constructing issue 8 of their fanzine (published both in print and for Kindle) throughout the day at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention. Themed 'Collaboration', it aims to include a big mishmash of experiences, words, drawings, collage and poems.
Vapid Kitten will provide some arty equipment and suggestions to get you started and would like to get as many people involved as possible. At the end of the day everyone involved will get a free digital copy of the zine.
www.vapidmedia.co.uk
Shift Space fuses art, education and new technology to explore ways of immersing people in the environment around them. Through the application of art and the power of digital technology, Shift Space brings people together regardless of age, background or ability to form connections with each other and their local landscape engaging in the spaces they occupy, real or virtual, in new and imaginative ways. Shift Space’s zines are examinations of the world through art, digital and print.
www.shift-space.co.uk
Manifesto is an occasional free artists' zine. Founded in 2008, Manifesto is resolutely DIY and non-digital. It has an open submissions policy and loves hand drawn/painted images, handwritten texts, Polaroid photos, printmaking, collage or pretty much anything you can fit into a photocopier. Manifesto also makes screenprints in a shed.
www.manifestoshop.co.uk
UHC,
MMDC & Textbook Studio (Manchester)
Working
in Hotspur House, Ultimate Holding Company, Manchester Municipal Design
Corporation and Textbook Studio work on socially engaged art projects, graphic
design and education, often together.
Expect
a cross section of their hand finished 'zines, booklets, posters, prints and
artist's books, both self initiated and products of other collaborations.
@UHCstudio
@M_M_D_C
@TextbookStudio
Corridor8 (Manchester)
Corridor8 is an annual international journal of contemporary visual arts and writing based in the North of England.
www.corridor8.co.uk
Corridor8 is an annual international journal of contemporary visual arts and writing based in the North of England.
www.corridor8.co.uk
Salford Zine Library was formed in January 2010 and aims to showcase and share creative work in the self-published form. The archive is open to all to contribute. You can visit the Library at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester. http://salfordzinelibrary.blogspot.com
Other Way Up Press is a bookarts/fanzine publisher with work in numerous national collections. It will be presenting a selection of its output to date and will be accompanied on the stall by other artists including Cyprus-based artist Natalie Yiaxi and photographer Cherry Styles.
http://otherwayuppress.wordpress.com
Pomona is an independent publishing company with a roster including Simon Armitage, Barry Hines, Hunter Davies, Ray Gosling, Ian McMillan, Boff Whalley and many more. It was formed by writer Mark Hodkinson whose acclaimed novel The Last Mad Surge Of Youth focuses on the post punk scene of the early 1980s.
www.pomonauk.com
Closed Caption aims to make subversive content through appropriation. This new group, which now replaces Rotherham Zine Library, will make zines that twist found content to create new meaning and revel in the absurdity of social norms.
Closed Caption intend to use the zine library as a resource and are looking at how they can add their collection to existing events and places to create interesting new ways to read zines. They also hope to develop the collection by trading zines with others around the world. http://aclosedcaption.wordpress.com
Deerly Beloved Bakery is proud to be celebrating its first birthday at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention, returning with good food that is cruelty free including vegan cakes, whoopie pies, brownies and savoury pies and pizza slices. Deerly Beloved Bakery specialises in vegan cakes, pastries, biscuits, cupcakes, muffins, breads, salads, starters, mains and desserts. It does not use any animal products. All cakes and bakes are made by hand in small batches using real bourbon vanilla, unrefined non-bone char sugars and margarines free from hydrogenated fats. No artificial preservatives or flavourings are used.
www.deerlybelovedbakery.blogspot.co.uk
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Join the Victoria Baths fanzine-making co-operative! (for one day only)!
We want visitors to the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention to help us make a fanzine all about Victoria Baths!What is a ‘fanzine’? A fanzine is a small, self-published book or magazine dedicated to a subject the people who are making it love. It is usually personal and handmade and contains a mixture of drawings, writing and things like collages and photos.
People write fanzines about all different types of things and we think Victoria Baths deserves its own fanzine!
Victoria Baths is known as ‘Manchester’s water palace’ because of its beautiful decorations such as tiles and stained glass windows. It was very luxurious when it opened in 1906! Although the swimming pools don’t have water in them anymore, and the building is no longer used for swimming, the Baths is still visited by people who have lots of memories of coming here to swim. The Victoria Baths Archive contains thousands of people’s memories of Victoria Baths, as well as photos and other things which help us remember what it was like in the past.So, we need your help making the Victoria Baths fanzine to celebrate this unique building, and we want you to show us what you like best about this fascinating place.
Join in the workshops in the former superintendent's flat to make either your own, individual Victoria Baths fanzine or add to a book that will be displayed in Victoria Baths as one big fanzine for future visitors to see. Between 10am and 3.30pm you can make your page to contribute to the collaborative Victoria Baths handmade book, and then from 3.30pm to 4.30pm we will all pitch in to bind the pages together. We'll need all the help we can get!
Visitors will be able to use:
Be inspired by pictures and memories of the building's past.
Lino cutting and relief printing
Explore simple relief printing and create unique illustrations and repeatable patterns to adorn your own hand-made zine. Looking at the decorative interiors of Victoria Baths as inspiration, use traditional lino and easy quickprint foam to make unique tile-sized blocks to print wherever you want.
Discover the stitches to bind and design your very own book using buttons, thread, soft papers and card. You can decorate your book with embroidered stitches inspired by the architecture of the Victoria Baths.
People with all sorts of different skills and interests form co-operatives and work together to achieve what they cannot achieve alone, helping themselves at the same time as helping each other. Co-operatives are owned and run by their members, and each member has an equal say.
All different types of organisations are run as co-operatives, from food co-operatives to film co-operatives, housing co-operatives to design co-operatives. 2012 is the United Nations' first International Year of Co-operatives, and co-ops across the world are celebrating what makes them unique.
Join the Victoria Baths fanzine-making co-operative upstairs in the former superintendent's flat from 10am-5pm on Saturday 19 May during the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention.
Free, drop-in and children welcome.
If you would be interested in volunteering to help at this workshop please email Natalie.rose.bradbury@googlemail.com.
(Pictures taken from last year's workshops, led by Rebecca Willmott and Lauren Velvick)
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