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Zine Library: Vol. 1

RIPPLES

For our first call, we put together a selection of zines which explore themes of queerness, land, water, un/mapping, movement, and trace. These works coincide with our week-long experimental residency RIPPLES with artist Kitt Peacock.
Blue Crush
Kerri Flannigan

Blue Crush is a risograph zine that features personal stories about swimming, we want to consider the ways that we inherit, inhabit, and/or embody our differing lived experiences inform our relationship to swimming, and swim culture.

Kerri Flannigan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based on Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories (Victoria, BC), who experiments with methods of research and storytelling. This work frequently takes a collaborative form to create collective responses to ubiquitous themes. Coming-of-age confessions, queer experiences of place, fire, and swimming are subjects of recent works.

I Love You, I'm Leaving You
Paolino Caputo, featuring Alex Jensen

I Love You, I'm Leaving You (ILYILY) is a short, two-player LARP / lyric game about a non-reciprocal breakup played through touch and voice. As you play, you will explore the feelings of the partners as they recount their relationship and go their separate ways.

Paolino Caputo (they/ask) is a queer and non-binary artist-advocate of mixed Italian ancestry living on unceded Lekwungen territories. Through interdisciplinary practices—including new media, social/somatic performance, and roleplaying games—they navigate the many faces of queer desire: desires for bodies, desires for sex, and desires for a brighter future.

Alex Jensen (he/him) is a queer, early-career multimedia artist living and working on the unceded traditional lands of the Lekwungen peoples, in Victoria, BC. Through his work, Alex explores ideas of self, and aims to create a space for both contemplation and connection with others. His practice engages with themes of memory, popular media, relationships to others, and queer identity.

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Mm!Syrup
Tajliya Jamal

MM!Syrup is a screenprinted and hand-bound artist's book depicting a childhood obsession with Nin Jiom cough syrup. The book was created as a vessel to share experiences around a cultural item for the Chinese diaspora.

​Tajliya Jamal (they/them) is a queer, mixed-race printmaker and comics artist based in Vancouver. Maximalist yet intimate, their work looks to complicate socialized boundaries and binaries. They like to use book forms and print media as it is a more accessible art form for viewers and readers, and often collaborative in practice.
The Shape of the River
Madeleine Salomons​

The Shape of the River is a love letter to the river Madeleine Salomons grew up living near, and being intentional in my relationship with herself, her community, and the land that surrounds her.

Madeleine Salomons (she/her) is currently located on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territory, otherwise known as so-called “Vancouver”. Salomons is eager to create work that is playful and challenges “traditional” modes of artistic thinking, and makes space for joy.

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(carrying wind, for now)
Kara Stanton
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(carrying wind, for now) looks to recreate this space through works that attend to the wind and the ways in which it, in turn, calls us to attend to our bodies. For queer folks and others who find themselves tired, overwhelmed, or ill at ease in historically antagonistic city spaces, the ever-present wind on these territories invites a heightened awareness of the body, and a familiar feeling of being enmeshed in forces outside of your control. And yet, the wind is also a reminder of the land’s power to disrupt and transform the built environment around us. How, then, might tracing its movement become a comfort, allowing us to see where care gives and falls away from us?

Kara Stanton is a poet and cultural worker based on Lekwungen territories. Through poetry and interdisciplinary projects, they trace the relationships between land and body, articulating their entangled experiences of water, the weather, chronic migraines, and dyke embodiment. They have shown projects at the fifty fifty arts collective and the Comox Valley Art Gallery, and published poems in Poetry is Dead and Arc Poetry Magazine.
Earth Containers
Lucas Glenn

Earth Containers: Speculative Structures for Ecological Support (Pocket Edition 2272/72) is a poorly reproduced, spiral-bound report from an imagined future, set in a collapsed and collapsing climate. Its fictional author, a posthuman Corvid salvager, designs support structures for agri-forestry, ecological restoration, and environmental stabilization. The book's production is supported by a curious geologist, a small publishing house, and a number of government and community organizations. It describes persistent, community-driven, ecological labour that continues despite systemic setbacks— it exists as a speculation of what nurturing forces might look like in a dystopic future. The zine is a collection of drawings with a short preface. And though it's framed by fictional characters and settings, it is informed by my past year working on private, community-level, government, personal, and Indigenous-led environmental restoration projects.

Lucas Glenn (he/they) is an emerging artist. Using materials like plant matter, paper ephemera, snowmobile parts, scrap-metal, hiking supplies, and electronics, his transdisciplinary installation challenge the false binary of human and nature. He uses fiction and fantasy to propose supportive systems for human-nonhuman partnership. Glenn is an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria and currently lives, works, and studies on the traditional and unceded territory of lək̓ʷəŋən peoples.



MULTI
Tajliya Jamal

A risograph printed zine combining academic writing and personal anecdotes about mixed-race experiences.
The Pure and Tender Thoughts That Take Too Many Tears to Keep Alive
Reid Urchison

The Pure and Tender Thoughts That Take Too Many Tears to Keep Alive is a story of queer millennial friendship, created entirely in Kid Pix.

Reid Urchison is a queer/trans artist living on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. Their work focuses on language, literary theory, memoir, and often takes the form of videos, zines or other multiples.