Copy Machine Manifesto
Copy Machine Manifestos was an exhibition of zines by artists at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
The exhibition ran from November 17, 2023, till March 31, 2024, and featured hundreds of zines that have been made by artists. The exhibition travels next to the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancounver, BC, Canada from May 12 till September 20th, 2024.
The Vancouver Art Gallery website describes the exhbition in this way: "Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media. This canon-expanding exhibition documents zines’ relationship to various subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk and street culture to conceptual, queer and feminist art. It also examines zines’ intersections with other mediums, including collage, craft, film, drawing, painting, performance, photography, sculpture and video. Featuring nearly one thousand zines and artworks by nearly one hundred artists, Copy Machine Manifestos demonstrates the importance of zines to artistic production and its reception across North America."
Some of the many publications and events featured included:
- Artaud-Mania
- Beehive
- Bikini Girl
- Bikini Kill
- Brains
- Chica Loca
- Chop Suey Spex
- Dadazine
- Dirt (Morrisroe and White)
- Dr. Smith
- Egozine
- Evolution of a Race Riot
- Fag School
- Farm
- Fertile LaToyah Jackson
- Gay Goth Scene
- The Gentlewomen of California
- Gunk
- Hide
- Homocore
- I Heart Amy Carter
- International Graffiti Times
- J.D.s
- Joanie4Jackie
- Just Another Asshole
- LTTR
- Mobilivre-Bookmobile
- Modern Crorrespondence Magazine
- Mudflap
- My Comrade
- Nitrous Oxide
- NYCS Weekly Breeder
- Poser
- Rebel Fux!
- Schlepp Fanzine
- Shotgun Seamstress
- Snarla
- Thing
- This Is The Salivation Army
- Vile
- Yes, Ms. Davis
The Brooklyn Museum also produced a 448 page catalog book documenting the exhibition which was published and available through book distributors internationally. Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Caroline Azar, Beverly Buchanan, Vaginal Davis, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. It includes contributions by: Gwen Allen, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tavia Nyong’o, Alexis Salas, and Mimi Thi Nguyen, and cover photo by Jena von Brucker.
