Zines ASSEMBLE was a two day event on Fri 9th and Sat 10th September 2022 exploring zines, zine making, zine research and zine cultures.
Zines ASSEMBLE began with a free one-day online symposium on Friday 9th September 2022 with formal and informal talks, presentations and sharing around zines, zine making, zine librarianship and zine research. Scroll down for publicly available recorded presentations, and find out more about all our presenters here. It was followed by a Zine Jam in-person at Wellcome Collection, and online.
This page contains all the public documentation from Zines ASSEMBLE 2022 and a call for submissions for our Zines ASSEMBLE zine. If you have any questions, or want to sign up to receive information about future events, email zinesassemble@gmail.com.
Presentations from Symposium (Public Recordings)
Some of our presenters at the Zines ASSEMBLE Symposium 2022 were happy to have their presentations recorded and publicly distributed. Find these below. If you registered for the symposium, you should also have access to limited distribution videos - check your inbox for information about how to access these.
The Zines ASSEMBLE Zine - Call for Submissions!
We had so many amazing submissions for the symposium that we just didn’t have the space to programme, and people messaging us sad that they’d missed the deadline for the event. We also wanted to find a way to capture some of the thoughts, reflections and experience of attendees. So, we have decided to put together a Zines ASSEMBLE zine!
We’re looking for writing, drawing, collage, creative, textual, visual and multimedia responses to the themes of the symposium (see below). Your submission might take the form of a traditional academic essay, a piece of personal writing, a drawing, a collage, a comic, a how-to guide or a list.
Submissions need to be formatted as A5 pages. The zine will be digitally colour printed.
Please send submissions to zinesassemble@gmail.com with “Zine Submission” as the title. The deadline for submissions is 9th October 2020.
More info at the Call for Submissions page.
Kin Long Tong is a PhD researcher at the Department of Information Studies, University College London. He is interested in information politics, media activism, archives and libraries studies, and publishing studies. His current research investigates how and why Hong Kong citizens use a wide variety of self-publishing practices for advancing social changes.
Organisers
Kirsty Fife is a DIY cultural organiser, zine maker, academic, musician and archivist based in Leeds, Yorkshire. They currently work as Lecturer in Digital Information and Curatorial Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University, and their PhD research explored methods for documenting and archiving current UK-based DIY music spaces.
Autumn Brown is a PhD researcher at Science Gallery and Trinity College Dublin. Her research explores the role of science in society and the ways in which community-based art practices help folks imagine and create a more just and joyful future for scientific research.
Tamsin Walker is a PhD researcher at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research explores how people who have been in mental health services or who are at risk of being psychiatrised use zines to craft contention about mental health and challenge epistemic oppression. She also loves making and reading zines and picture-writing.
Lea (as in sea, aka Lilith) Cooper is a zine maker, zine librarian at Edinburgh Zine Library and zine researcher, currently working on collaborative PhD between the University of Kent and Wellcome Collection looking at Wellcome’s zines. Zines ASSEMBLE content is being (temporarily) hosted here on their website!
Zines ASSEMBLE 2022 was supported by Wellcome Collection.