usurpzines:

USURP Zine fair Saturday 28th April 2012.  

- We are currently putting together details of how many tables will be available on the day and will keep you updated.

- Tables are free (but limited) and we are looking for applicants to take up these seats!  To apply, please be in touch with your details and web link so we can allocate tables.

- We also have a number of slots for workshop demos.  We are particularly interested in talks on- tips for self publishing and working with printers and screen-print demos.  But if you have any ideas for workshops or talks, please be in touch with a summary.

- We currently have tables assigned to our friends Walrus Zines and Other Asias.  We will be updating the list of contributors with tables over the next month before out progamme is out!

This is our flyer! Please respond email, print and share! Thank you, we are very excited and hope you are too!  

usurpzines:

Last week we attended the Tooting Zine Fair organized by Walrus Zines, Other Asias and the Construction Gallery.  We had an amazing day, met so many exciting people and spread the word about the USURP ZINE FAIR.  

Many thanks to Sofia for giving us permission to promote USURP Zines.

http://tootingzines.tumblr.com/

http://walruszines.blogspot.com/

http://otherasias.webnode.com/

21stcenturyleadership:

The book identifies a set of people the authors call “catalysts”, who tend to be skilled at creating decentralized organizations. The authors list several abilities and behaviors (called “The Catalyst’s Tools”) that “catalysts” have in common, including:

1. Genuine interest in others.
2. Numerous loose connections, rather than a small number of close connections.
3. Skill at social mapping.
4. Desire to help everyone they meet.
5. The ability to help people help themselves by listening and understanding, rather than giving advice (“Meet people where they are”).
6. Emotional Intelligence.
7. Trust in others and in the decentralized network.
8. Inspiration (to others).
9. Tolerance for ambiguity.
10. A hands-off approach. Catalysts do not interfere with, or try to control the behavior of the contributing members of the decentralized organization.
11. Ability to let go. After building up a decentralized organization, catalysts move on, rather than trying to take control.

slumberpartymagazine:

YES!:
Race Riot #2 / $3.78
This zine, the follow up to Evolution of a Race Riot, is a gigantic (118 pages!) comp zine that was first published in 2002 (reprinted & distributed in 2011 with permission of editor Mimi Nguyen). There is so much in here: frustrations over being held up as educator…

girlsgetbusyzine:

The Construciton Gallery will be hosting the first Tooting Zine Fair from 12pm-6pm on 25th February 2012!

Construction Gallery and Cafe
74 – 80 Upper Tooting Road
London SW17 7PB
Nearest Station: Tooting Bec Underground
Contact: tootingzines@gmail.com

(via spx)

unaguerrasinfondo:

‘Meet Me at the Race Riot: People of Color in Zines from 1990 - Today’

Jordan Alam ‘13, Osa Atoe, Mariam Bastani, Daniela Capistrano, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Jamie Varriale Velez

(via )

tootingzines:

Tooting Zine Fair -

Call for Zines, Artists books, Illustrators, Comics, Distros -

The Construction Gallery will be hosting the Tooting’s 1st Zine Fair on Saturday 25th February 2012!

Stalls are FREE but limited. To book a stall please contact tootingzines@gmail.com with…

Other Asias (Hamja) will be present at this zine fair -

welovezines:

BRISTOL RADICAL ZINE FEST
bristolradicalzinefest.wordpress.com

Sunday the 12th of February, from noon til 6pm at Kebele Community Co-Op (14 Robertson Road Bristol BS5 6JY,http://www.kebelecoop.org/)

A day of zines, workshops, tea and vegan cakes. Horay! Followed by yummy Kebele…

hyperallergic:

On the heels of their rally at the Museum of Modern Art last Friday, the following focused and powerful letter arrived in our inbox 15 minutes ago from Occupy Museums.

READ THE LETTER HERE.

precariousworkersbrigade:

How to Find a Better Life?

Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood eds., Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art. Sternberg Press, 216pp, £10.95, ISBN 9781934105313

reviewed by Nina Power, Review 31

The notes at the back of this latest e-flux collection state that one group of contributors, the Precarious Workers Brigade, ‘have a policy of including information on the context in which their work appears.’ To this end, they detail the dates when the piece was written (March - April 2011), the number of people involved in writing it (nine), that their text is also available online for free and is licenced under a Creative Commons licence, how they spent the $750 they were paid for the article (‘collective investment’) and the fact that e-flux journal employed two interns to work on the journal the article appeared in.

How much were these interns paid? $0 an hour. This single line sums it all up: the ‘work’ of the art world, and the increasing tendency of all work, is predicated on the fact that those at the bottom (and increasingly the middle) will do everything for nothing. But why, ask the editors, ‘should so many talented and hyper-qualified artists submit themselves willingly to a field of work … that offers so little in return for such a huge amount of unremunerated labor?’ Why indeed? The editors talk of the combination of structural exploitation and self-exploitation that characterises the ‘pseudo-professionalism’ of work in the art world (and we could include in this description not only artists, but curators, art writers, and all those at the less glamorous end of the gallery/museum/art fair spectrum). This unhappy situation in the art world (and the rest of the world) is the crux of the collection at hand.

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