FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOCOPIER
FEBRUARY 2008 MELBOURNE
Zinemakers across Melbourne and Australia will join together in the month of February for Sticky Institute’s first Festival of the Photocopier, celebrating Australia’s underground zine culture. Heightened zine activity is anticipated during this time. More information is available at WWW.STICKYINSTITUTE.COM
ZINES AND ANARCHY — WED 20 FEB 5pm at Sticky Far from being a world of chaos, the zine culture is a resilient community of people driven to make something of their own to share with others. Why have zines been able to survive capitalism at it’s nadir? Can this freedom last? What does ‘nadir’ mean? Ask all these questions of our anarchist staffer Lu Shr.
SLEEPTALKER LAUNCH WITH CELERY — THU 21 FEB 6.15pm at Sticky Multi-faceted multi-tasking musical and zining wonder Celery. performs and launches her new zine Sleeptalker. ANNA POLETTI GETS PERSONAL — FRI 22 FEB 5.30-7pm at Sticky Author of an upcoming book on Australian zines by Melbourne University Press, and former Sticky volunteer, Anna talks about Australian perzine writing and uses examples from her extensive zine collection.
AN AFTERNOON WITH MAVIS MCKENZIE SAT 23 FEB 12-5pm at Sticky One of the most anticipated events on the Australian zine calendar, Mavis McKenzie joins us for an afternoon of memories, cut and paste tips and cups of tea as she outlines her remarkable zinemaking career. Possible guest appearance by Clive Waffle.
THU 28 FEB 5-6pm Zine Viewing with John Stevens and Eloise Peace Meet in foyer of State Library of Victoria 4.50pm email the subject BOOKING to stickyshop@gmail.com with the day you wish to attend and we’ll confirm your place.
THE 27 CLUB: FOFFLE LAUNCH OF ISSUE 27 — WED 27 FEB 5.30-7pm at Sticky Music and mayhem will prevail. Remember the muso’s who, too cool for skool, died at the age of 27. Ponder the numerology of it all to the customised Foffle 27 mix-tape soundtrack for the launch.
TTO ON THE PHOTOCOPIER REVOLUTION — THU 28 FEB 5pm at Sticky Melbourne’s Legendary TTO of Collective Effort Press talks the art of copying in the arts, from Roneo machines to using hand-me-down obsolete industrial printing presses to the photocopier revolution. TTO talks about the first generation of photocopied arts with assemblage magazines; photocopier bootlegging vs Penguin Books with the Portnoy’s Complaint in 1969; and the risks of accessing the first photocopier technology in the workplace when you needed machine authorisation. And that’s just the beginning.
WEB: THE NEW REALITY ARRIVES — FRI 29 FEB 4-6pm at Sticky All hail the Great Lord Web and ten years of the New Reality ERINSBOROUGH EXPLOITS/YOU/WEB: SPLIT ZINE LAUNCH — SAT 01 MAR 3-4pm at Sticky Three of Melbourne’s regular zines join stapler forces with a three way zine and an appearance by Neighbours. For further information contact Eloise Peace 0421 479 153 or Sticky Institute 03 9654 8559
** Sticky Institute is an Incorporated Association and is a volunteer run, not for profit Artist Run Initiative housed in Degraves Street Subway under Flinders Street, Melbourne.