Co-zines

Starting during the zine month of July 2020, and still continuing, I invited friends and family to co-produce zines, sharing and combining ideas, images, words by post, email or video. I suggested they could do as little or as much as they liked. Zines are small leaflets/magazines printed cheaply in small quantities to share with a few people. Each collaborative one starts with a conversation about what interests us and develops from there. It can be descriptive or social comment. It can be images with or without words.

So far we have created stories, a poem + score + subsequent piano recording, an origami house and some others. The outcomes are various; some people, though initially anxious, have continued to be creative, others have shared the result proudly. One zine took an hour in total because she has dementia, another is ongoing call and response that may run for a long time before the photos and collages are collated into a zine.

@lemsford

Pointers

AA2A artist in residence at Chesterfield College 2013

Conversations with over 100 students and staff, reflecting on their work processes and aspirations. This critical dialogue about their own arts practice revealed some surprises and pointed out interesting contradictions. It led to a handbooklet of advice on how to survive significant issues; an instruction manual for all creative people.

That is The Point

http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4309377-what-s-the-point