Chimp frenzy

Chimp frenzy (2002) was an anthology of excerpts from Australian zines - and an experiment in zine distribution. Two issues of Chimp Frenzy were produced. The zine was created by Natasha Cho, coordinated by Bernadette Fitzgerald and edited by Adam Ford.

Issues

A photo of 'Chimp Frenzy' (actually, editor Adam Ford, who dressed up especially for the launch of Chimp Frenzy #1)

Chimp frenzy #1 contained excerpts from the work of 20 Australian zinesters and was distributed as a free-standing insert in a print run of Beat Magazine - a free street publication with an average print run per issue of about 30,000 copies. Printing was sponsored by the School of Education and Institute for Youth, Education and Community at Victoria University; the Australia Council and City of Maribyrnong contributed funding for other parts of the project.The first issue also contained a form enabling readers to buy the zines featured in the anthology via mail order, and discount vouchers for zine purchases at a variety of zine stockists in Melbourne. Zine excerpts featured included:

• So bad it's good

• Bizzarism

• Westside Angst

• Crash course in extreme couch surfing

• I think so

• Spork

• Sub plot

• Newt

• Republic of hallucination

• Luddite shall inherit

• I am a Camera

• 1046

• You

• Jutchy Ya Ya

• Post-consumer waste

• Plan dementure wrestling ghoul

• How the body works

• Web

• International sweetheart rhythm

• Sweet valley zine

• Chimp frenzy #2 contained excerpts from the work of 8 Australian zinesters and was produced as part of the literature programming for the City of Boroondara. It was distributed using point of sale-style racks at four McDonalds restaurants in that locality (Camberwell, Hawthorn, Kew, and Balwyn). The City of Boroondara paid for the printing of the zine and jointly produced the project with Footscray Community Arts Centre and the production team. Zine excerpts featured included:

• Funky monkey

• Plan dementure wrestling ghoul

• A little bit nice

• How to be happy

• Republic of hallucination

• Telly narcosis

• Pretty ugly

• Extinction

External Links

• Natasha Cho's website containing more information on the Chimp frenzy project