{As if from the clouds, restless is one of four new zines for 2014.}
zine |ziːn|
noun informal
a magazine, especially a fanzine.
Zines, being many things to all people, are, to me, wonderfully liberating. The briefest of dictionary definitions decrees it so. Sticky define a zine as this:
And of this broad, all-encompassing wholly egalitarian definition, I agree. I, personally, have little interest in a more detailed, fleshed-out definition or zine manifesto outlining what constitutes a zine and what does not constitute a zine. My interest lies in the content of the printed page and not where the resulting content fits in or doesn’t fit in (but then I never was one for rules). My interest is in the actual making of a zine and this is source of my pleasure. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? To me, the message, over means, is where my interest lies; guts over cataloguing, hands down. To me, a zine can be printed in colour, editioned by hand, and folded with a bookbinder’s precision. And this is, of course, exactly what my latest zine, As if from the clouds, restless is. It is a full colour print of an original artists’ book that features the Swiss Alps as I’ve imagined them on one side and my accompanying text on the reverse. It is a way for me to share multiples (100 copies) of a unique-state artwork. It has been guillotined to narrow band and hand-scored and –folded by Louise. Each edition signed and numbered, and given small blue waistband to hold it steady. It is one of four new zines that Louise and I will be taking with us to the indoor fairgrounds of the Sticky Institute’s annual zine fair.
Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer's day is another new title, a pocket sized zine by Louise in the tradition of Lunch, 2013, A beating of winges (I), 2012, Birds that like to display, 2011, and others.
This coming Sunday we invite you to come along to the Melbourne Town Hall and say hello as you peruse our and our neighbours paper wares.
{A slighter smaller Swiss Alps Extension.}
{Sticky Institute Zine Fair}
+ All four new zine titles will be available through our online store in the coming days
+ World's oldest flamingo dies at Adelaide Zoo, leaving its friend as the only flamingo in Australia
Plus,
The State Library of Victoria are offering a tour of part of their zine collection as part of this year’s Festival of the Photocopier on Saturday the 8th February between 2-3pm. Bookings are essential. Meeting on the library steps at 1.45pm.
As they’ve kindly done for the past few years, the State Library of Victoria will be giving a few lucky Sticky fans the chance to tour their mightily impressive zine collection as part of this year’s Festival Of The Photocopier.
As well as being sent huge donations of zines from across the country for decades now, the SLV also receives one copy of every Australian zine stocked with Sticky – meaning their collection of this nation’s zinery is hefty and unparalleled.
The tour takes place on Saturday 8th February between 2-3pm, meeting on the library steps at 1.45pm.
- See more at: http://blog.stickyinstitute.com/?p=1198#sthash.tX6ZYtDh.dpufAs they’ve kindly done for the past few years, the State Library of Victoria will be giving a few lucky Sticky fans the chance to tour their mightily impressive zine collection as part of this year’s Festival Of The Photocopier.
As well as being sent huge donations of zines from across the country for decades now, the SLV also receives one copy of every Australian zine stocked with Sticky – meaning their collection of this nation’s zinery is hefty and unparalleled.
The tour takes place on Saturday 8th February between 2-3pm, meeting on the library steps at 1.45pm.
