Running until March 31st, 2024, Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is a superb exhibition dedicated to the five decades of artists’ zines produced in North America.
As someone who has been heavily involved in ‘zine culture – from my first punk fanzine to a ground breaking anti-racist football comic fanzine,- I was excited to learn more about self published American writers and artists.
The museum described the exhibition:
Since the 1970s, zines—short for “fanzines,” magazines, or self-published booklets of texts and images, usually made with a copy machine—have given a voice and visibility to many operating outside of mainstream culture.
Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media.
This canon-expanding exhibition documents zines’ relationship to various subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk and street culture to conceptual, queer, and feminist art.
It also examines zines’ intersections with other mediums, including collage, craft, film, drawing, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video.
Featuring over one thousand zines and artworks by over one hundred artists, Copy Machine Manifestos demonstrates the importance of zines to artistic production and its reception across North America.
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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
November 17, 2023–March 31, 2024
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Upcoming Events
Pints and Prints: Copy Machine Manifestos
March 8, 2024
7–9 pm
Grab a brew and create your own art prints inspired by Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.
Teen Night: Radical Manifestos, vol. 1
March 29, 2024
5–7:30 pm
Zines connect people—and so will our second 2024 Teen Night, a teen-led program centred on art and activism.
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