Copy Machine Manifesto
Copy Machine Manifesto was an exhibition of zines by artists at the Brooklyn Museum in new York, U.S.A.
The xhibition 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 featured included:
- Beehive
- Bikini Girl
- Bikini Kill
- Dirt
- Egozine
- Fag School
- Fertile LaToyah Jackson
- Gunk
- I Heart Amy Carter
- International Graffiti Times
- J.D.s
- Joanie4Jackie
- Thing
- Yes, Ms. Davis
The Brooklyn Museum also produced a 448 page catalog documenting the exhibition, 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 Beverly Buchanan, 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.
