✨PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT! ✨On May 8, join our opening night panel discussion: Holding it Together: Building + Sustaining Collective Publishing Projects. Featuring @sadvember + @coldnachos on Pulping, @photoedmagazine , and @arty_izzy + @theshycreative on @ottdesignclub Moderated by @carleton_u associate professor Benjamin Woo.
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This panel brings together artists and organizers working across comics, graphic design and photography-driven independent publications to share how their projects are initiated, structured, and sustained over time and the communities that are fostered alongside it. Panelists will also reflect on what it means when the goal of an initiative has been met. When is it necessary to pause, transform, or let a collective publishing project go?
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Presented by @possibleworldsshop Object//Project Art Book Fair is a multi-day gathering which celebrates diverse and boundary-pushing artists’ publishing. Free and open to the public, fair visitors will experience artist talks, workshops, installations, outdoor activations, music performances + more alongside the work of 60+ exhibitors from across Canada and beyond.
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Friday May 8 // 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday May 9 // 11:00am – 6:00pm
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa)
RSVP + donate to help sustain this 100% community-funded initiative > link in bio
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andy irons grazing his hand along the barrel of the wave.
16 frame animation, gouache & pen.
original footage from "Mundaka The Legendary Day: 09.22.06" Oxbox & Jon Aspuru
diagrams from Eneko Iriarte et. al. "Consecuencias del dragado y vertido de arena estuarina en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai (Golfo de Bizkaia): el caso de la “ola izquierda de Mundaka”
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Antonello Bruschi et. al.
"Steady streaming and sediment transport generated by propagating sea waves"
Happy New Year! Here's a strip I did last year for @thegrindto .
Thank you editor extraordinaire @oleamkim !!
I love/hate lists. I am reading many lists today.
I’m exhibiting at the upcoming ZINE YO! FEST: Virtual Party. Come check out my zine in the multiplayer game world that will be built for it! The party opens:
December 6 (Saturday)
↔️ Hong Kong 9pm-1am
↔️ London 1-5pm
↔️ New York 8am-12pm
December 13 (Saturday)
↔️Hong Kong 10pm-2am
↔️ London 2-6pm
↔️ New York 9am-1pm
The Virtual Party is @zine_coop ‘s unique twist on the virtual art book fair. Through a virtual platform, everyone gets a pixelated body to walk around, look at things on walls, talk to other people, arrange a zine swap, and join in on panel discussions. No shopping required! The space is designed for non-commercial and spontaneous social interactions, and to connect zine makers and readers across the globe 🌏.
Register to get the link when they open their virtual doors! (Link in profile):
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/zine-yo-fest-virtual-party-tickets-1976475798318
In remembrance of Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, who passed last month at age 93, I am staging her piece “Identical Lunch” which had been performed in various forms since 1967.
The piece consists of eating the same lunch she ate nearly everyday: tuna on wheat bread with butter and lettuce (no mayo) and a cup of soup or buttermilk.
The Fluxus movement radically challenged the conventions and spaces of art, with groundbreaking works like Knowles’ establishing the concepts of conceptual art.
“The act of making the same sandwich each day, often seen as insignificant, could lead to changes in our daily perceptions once conceived as a personal performance. Ordering and eating the The Identical Lunch allowed art to take place without calling for an audience. You could make a sandwich, sit down, eat it, and art was occurring whether or not you knew it or if anyone else was there.”
It’s a good sandwich. Butter is unexpected for with tuna, vs olive oil though I learned olive oil only really entered Basque cuisine post-Civil War, and before the cooking was more French and buttered. For a year I kept eating the tuna sandwich off the menu of the restaurant I worked at, so much that my coworkers said I should get my Mercury levels checked. Sure buddy, and I’ll get my Saturn checked too.
Part of the experience and ritual is acknowledging that it isn’t identical, it’s different everytime though played from the same score. I am performing it in the “World Tuna Capital”, Bermeo, perhaps for the first time, with bonito del Norte of Serrats. Tuna is totemic for me, the fish of fortune, and I have fondness and gratitude to it. It is comforting to perform and think of a great thinker like Alison and her corpus, and feel connected in a line of ritual to others. I am happy to find art in eating a tunafish sandwich, where I always suspected it was hiding.
PULPING volume 1 & 2 are now available at the Toronto Public Library. Check them out and read our comics please :) And then come visit us on November 29 @houndstoothto for a special party celebrating volume 2 with readings from the book. 8-10pm.
