Zine of the Future : A Workshop on Futuristic Zines | with B&D Press
A workshop with B&D Press that will explore ideas of the future in zine format. We will look at art made about the future, talk about the future, then produce or collect images and words to make a zine, as well as learning zine-making techniques.
When: Wednesday, October 16, 1 - 4pm
Where: A4025
Priority registration given to QTBIPOC students
15 participants max!
“The future is always here in the past” - Amir Baraka
To register please email zineworkshop@ecuad.ca
What do we think when we think of the future? In this workshop we will explore together ideas of the future in zine format. We will look at art made about the future, talk about the future, then produce or collect images and words to make a zine. We will be able to consider the future as aspirational, dystopian, utopian, fantastic, doomed, dreamy, or neutral. We will briefly investigate concepts of Futurisms such as Afro-Futurism, Futurismo Italiano, and Indigenous Futurism, among others, in printed media, visual art, music and film. Then we will learn some zine-making techniques, and create our own futures.
Jenny Lin is a visual artist based in Montreal. Her practice centres around experimental narrative, blending autobiography together with fiction. Using digitally-rendered and hand-drawn imagery, she uses print media, video or web-based platforms to explore formats that include print, artist's books and zines, video, installation, and interactive web projects. She currently teaches Print Media at Concordia University.
Eloisa Aquino is an artist and zinester based in Montreal. Originally from Brazil, she moved to Canada to pursue a M.A. in Media Studies at Concordia University, where she researched the food of immigrants in Montreal. Always active in the micropublishing scene, having published art and poetry fanzines since the 1980s in São Paulo, she currently runs the micropress B&D Press, in Montreal, alongside Jenny Lin.
B&D Press is a micro press that focus on experimental queer art zines. Jenny and Eloisa use this platform to explore non-fictional narratives – both personal and historical – and modes of production, presentation, and distribution of art.
If you can't attend the workshop, be sure to catch Jenny Lin and Eloisa Aquino's artist talk at VABF! Saturday, October 19, 12:00pm in the Rennie Room. Sponsored by Emily Carr‘s Print Media Area.