Copy machine manifestos : artists who make zines / Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer ; with contributions by Gwen Allen, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Alexis Salas.
This publication accompanies the exhibition Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, on view at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, November 17, 2023-March 31, 2024; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, May-September, 2024. Artists include: Armstrong, Skot ; Atoe, Osa ; Austin, Bryn ; Azar, Caroline ; Banana, Anna ; Barnes, Gene ; Baumgardner, Lisa ; Bay Area Dadaists ; Baylin, John Jack ; Beckman, Laurel ; Belasco ; Belverio, Glenn ; Benning, Sadie ; Bikceem, Ramdasha ; Blackmass Publishing ; Blake, Nayland ; Bomani, Neta ; Brooks Takahashi, Ginger ; Buchanan, Beverly ; Burns, A. K. ; Carland, Tammy Rae ; Castro, Joel ; Castro, Rick ; Cazazza, Monte ; Chickadel, Charles ; Cianciolo, Susan ; Connor, Anne ; Cruz, Lizania ; Cruz, María José ; Davis, Vaginal ; Destroy All Monsters ; Dinéyazhi', Demian ; Dogmatic, Irene ; Dowd, John ; Dreva, Jerry ; Drucker, Zackary ; Eisenman, Nicole ; El Chino ; Endara, Félix ; Ess, Barbara ; Fateman, Johanna ; Ford, Robert ; Friedman, Ken ; Gaglione, Bill ; Gonzales, Mark ; Gregg, Pam ; Guzmán, Daniel ; Hanna, Kathleen ; Hardy, K8 ; Hassan, Yusuf ; Horn, Stu ; Hosier, Tom ; Houston, Montanna ; Hudson ; Hughes, Every Ocean ; Huh, Kate ; Jacob, Luis ; Jamie, Cameron ; Jenik, Adriene ; Jennings, Tom ; Jocoy, Jim ; Jones, G. B. ; July, Miranda ; Kelley, Mike ; Kern, Richard ; Koh, Terence ; Korine, Harmony ; Kuri, Gabriel ; Labruce, Bruce ; Lafreniere, Steve ; Lambert, Robert ; Lee, Maggie ; Loren, Cary ; LTTR ; Mac, Amos ; Mackay, Xanthra Phillippa ; Mancusi, Tim ; Marcopoulos, Ari ; Martin, Kelly Marie ; McCarthy, Pat ; McGinley, Ryan ; Miyagi, Futoshi ; Morris, Devin N. ; Morrisroe, Mark ; Müller, Ulrike ; Nahmanson, Emily ; Nassar, Jordan ; Niagara ; Nihilson, Deke ; Noxzema, Johnny ; O'Connell, Laurie ; Ortega, Damián ; Ortega, Luis Felipe ; P. Paul ; Parker, Candy ; Pettibon, Raymond ; Phase 2 ; Pirrie Adams, Kathleen ; Portugal, Anuar ; Purnell, Brontez ; Rankin, Jeff ; Roberts-Auli, Cory ; Ross, Mirha-Soleil ; RRD ; Ruiz, Bruno ; Sachs, Tom ; Saveri, Lele ; Schmidlapp, David ; Schneemann, Carolee ; Sepuya, Paul Mpagi ; Shaw, Allyson ; Shaw, Jim ; Stillman, Amy ; Simpson, Linda ; Snider, Greta ; Snow, Dash ; Sorrell, Kwamé ; Splan, Laura ; Stark, Casandra ; Steiner, A. L. ; Swank, Tod ; Tam, Ho ; Templeton, Deanna ; Templeton, Ed ; Terrill, Joey ; Thomsen, Steve ; Toledo, Laureana ; Torres, Sergio ; Treleaven, Scott ; Turner, Tommy ; Uhlenkott, Michael ; Vale, V. ; Vargas, Jack ; Velázquez, Gerardo ; Von Brücker, Jena ; Weston, Frederick ; White, Lynelle ; Williams, Kandis ; Wojnarowicz, David ; World Imitation ; Young, Jean ; Zedd, Nick. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword / Anne Pasternak -- Acknowledgments -- Copy machine manifestos: Artists who make zines / Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer -- Artists' zines: The fanzine as an artistic medium / Gwen Allen -- 1. The correspondence scene, 1969-1980. Zines by artists: Post-pop punk art / Branden W. Joseph -- 2. The punk explosion, 1975-1990. Social media: Photography and zines in the age of xerography / Drew Sawyer -- 3. Queer and feminist undergrounds, 1987-2000. Cool older siblings: Queer zines as queer theory / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- 4. Subcultural topologies, 1990-2010. Friendly specters: Casper and other Mexico City-based artists' zines and projects / Alexis Salas -- 5. Critical promiscuity, 2000-20202. In love and rage: The revolutionary counter-mood of zine culture / Tavia Nyong'o -- 6. A continuing legacy, 2010-2023. The eventfulness of incomplete presence, or no one turned away for lack of future / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Selected artists and collectives / Branden W. Joseph, Drew Sawyer, Imani Williford, and Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez.
Summary:
"The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a[n] ... exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice. Copy Machine Manifestos captures the ... history of artists' zines ... , placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their ... growth over the past five decades. ... [I]llustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. Accompanying a[n] ... exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this ... book, bound as a paperback with a separate jacket, focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970"--Phaidon.
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