The brief to create our zines was simple. - Groups of about four, and your zine can be on anything you so will. Zines being commonly known as a creative and design based type of publication, it seemed quite daunting for a Contemporary Art History student as I feel my skills are more research based. We were told too collaborate with other courses and combine skills to create an overall zine, however this was difficult as the task in hand was so design based. It is this problem that lead myself and three other Contemporary Art History students to get together to create our own group.
We felt that together as a group it would be sensible to work upon our strengths and search for ideas where we were already familiar. It was from this we discussing how we would have liked to carry on our latest unit within university; our latest unit being to create an exhibition proposal on whatever exhibition you so desired. We all had very different exhibition proposals so we brain stormed on how these topics could be connected.
The topics in hand were as follows. - Graffiti/Wallpaper
- Death Row
- Clothing as a form of memory and identity
- Maritime Ceramics
Originally we discussed how Zines could be compared to exhibition guides, so we then discussed creating guides for each individual exhibition to be then put together in a little collection of exhibition guides. Looking through zines created by other people there is examples of small exhibitions either advertised or reviewed, from this we felt a strong link.
After out visit to Salford Zine Library however we felt that our idea was perhaps too close to being an exhibition guide rather than a zine itself. When looking at zines you see designs and text and images all mixed together to create a mind boggling publication.
After discussing our visit to Salford Zine Library the notion of Surrealism was raised, how we saw a connection between artists like Dali, Magritte and Miro and the work that we saw in zines. Often in zines there are images which appear to have no connection to one another, this we also see in surrealist paintings.
Combining the idea of surrealism with our exhibition proposals was to be how we came upon our final idea which I shall discuss later.
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