Pop-Up Exhibition on Tuesday
October 13, 2012
This Tuesday there is a chance to see some examples from UCL’s collection of little magazines and alternative press publications. Slade librarian Liz Lawes, MA LIS candidate Siobhan Britton and I have selected items that reflect some of the wide range of materials – from The Yellow Book through to the 21st Century.
We have emphasised some of the more DIY forms, because on Tuesday evening Siobhan and I are running a zine-making workshop, and want attendees to see some of the effective things that can be achieved with a photocopier … or a carefully-folded and cut piece of paper … or even a matchbox. However, we have included some pieces with high production values, like Aspen.
Liz let me take this photo of some of the items to promote the exhibition. If you study or work near Gower Street, do pop in and see us between 2 and 4 pm on Tuesday 16 October. The exhibition is free, as part of the Strindberg’s Red Room series, and is co-sponsored by UCL Festival of Reading, as a taster of some of the events you can expect in March next year.
The promotional poster I made (with a deliberately DIY feel) can be downloaded here and full details are on the Red Room website here.
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this looks really interesting, it was John McKay who was the first student librarian at UCL to begin to collect or catalogue the zine universe, which is in turn part of gay history
Thanks, John. I really love this collection, and I know Liz Lawes, who is responsible for it now, really loves it too.
Do you know if John McKay was associated with the Alternative Press collection here at UCL as well? His is definitely a name I’ve come across in connection with zines, but I hadn’t realised his connection to UCL (SLAIS, I guess).
[...] Following the well-attended pop-up exhibition in October, as part of the wider UCL Festival of the Arts, on Saturday there is a chance to see some different items from UCL’s collection of little magazines and alternative press publications. Slade Librarian Liz Lawes and Department of Information Studies PhD student Sara Wingate Gray have curated a selection of the concrete poetry, and Sara has also designed some bookmarks and an accompanying website, with support from a professional graphic designer. [...]