In the early twentieth century the trivializiation and «domestication» of means of printing began, enabling artists, writers, and activists to produce their own limited edition publications.
This simplified book (or magazine) form, known today as the zine, would become a convenient way of preserving personal memory about important events, recording reflections, and distributing people’s own work.
Garage Senior Librarian Vitaly Sidorov will discuss the appearance and distribution of the first zines and the development of this low culture phenomenon in Russia and globally. He will also show some artists’ zines from the Garage Library collection, including publications by Alexander Brener, Elena Kholkina, and Yanina Boldyreva.