Shape & SituateTaken from the zine Shape & Situate, collated Queer Zin - PDF document

Shape & SituateTaken from the zine Shape & Situate, collated Queer Zine Fest London and alongside Music & Liberation at Space Station Sixty-FiveZine Fest: 8 December 12-7pmOpen Thursday - Sunday 12-6 pm14 - 27 Jan, weekdays by appointment.Gallery closed between 17 Dec - 9 JanuaryShape & Situate is a zine of posters made by artists and DIY creative folk from within Europe, each poster highlighting the (often hidden) history and lives of radical inspirational women and collectives from Europe, as a way of connecting us with the past and the present through a dynamic cultural articulation of these women’s lives.Born as a result of an appreciation of radical poster projects from the USA, such as Celebrate People’s History and Inspired Agitators, the zine provides a European perspective of women who have acted in inspirational ways, providing knowledge on - and recognising and celebrating - these women’s lives and actions. Women who have acted as organisers, activists, pioneers, educators, or role models, from a wide range of disciplines.There’s no life that does not contribute to our collective history, yet conventional history books show us that it’s rare for women’s lives to be documented as readily as men’s, especially women in more underground, domestic, or radical spheres. I hate to think that in years to come it’ll only be the ‘elite’ people on the top of the pile who are remembered, creating a void and mass forgetting of the great work and lives of so many women within our social, cultural, and political makeup, communities and lives. Women such as those who are collected in the 4 issues of the zine (and many, many more besides) are important to our collective history, women who have helped to shape and situate our lives whether we know it or not.It is important to consider and question just who traditional/hegemonic history ‘remembers’, whom it suppresses, and why this may be. And important too to counter such narrow practice with culturally resistive, artistic and creative, grassroots memorial projects of our own, such as this one.97 posters have been created for issues 1-4 of Shape & Situate zine, and they will all be on show at Space Station Sixty-Five. The work aims to activate feminist cultural memory, to inspire in the present, and to visually bring women’s social and political history to life and into view. Featuring posters by: Dimitri Antorka-Pieri (aka Jimi Gherkin), Zoraida de Torres Burgos, Marylou Anderson, Nina Nijsten, James Clayton, A-K Pirata, Jen Chung, Matthew Evans, Claira Turvey, Red and Nu, Chella Quint, Soya Le Gato, Julia Downes, Seleena Laverne Daye, Verity Hall, Bill Savage, John Bishop, Benjamin L. Cooney, Kathryn Taylor, Leah Mathos, Erica Smith, Melanie Maddison, Michelle Mendonca, Anna Knowles, Peter Willis, Emily Aoibheann, Ed Webb-Ingall, Amy Wright, Cara Corden, Patrick Staff, R Clout, Kathleen Teadrinker, Charlotte Cooper, Cendrine Rovini, Gladys Badhands, James Clayton, John Davison, Jo Harrison, Flo Brooks, Rachael House, Molly Askey-Goldsbury, Sarah Francis, Stephanie Young, Jenny Howe, Red Chidgey, Deborah M. Withers, Siân Williams, Sarah Maple, Ralph Fox, Jay Bernard, Isy Morgenmuffel, Lauren Hutchinson, Cj Reay, Hazel Smoczynska, Holly Casio , Charlotte Young, Soa Niazi, Charlotte Richardson Andrews, Lucie Russell, Margareta Kern, Benedict Rutherford, Ian Cockburn, Jean McEwan, Ian Pepper, Vic Conway, Laura Simmons, Lindsay Starbuck, Natalie Bradbury. Space Station Sixty-Five info@spacestationsixtyve.comBuilding One, 373 Kennington Road, London, SE11 4PS www.spacestationsixtyve.com 020 7820 1120 www.facebook.com/spacestationsixtyvePosters Of Inspirational European WomenShape & Situate posters, installation view. All rights reserved. All images Copyright Space Station Sixty-Five , Melanie Maddison & the respective artists Further Information Shape & SituateShape & SituatePosters Of Inspirational European Women’ is a zine founded and edited by Melanie Maddison (Leeds, UK). The zine started life in 2010, and the 4th issue was released in November 2012. Shape & Situate is distributed internationally.Melanie’s previous self-publishing includes the zines, ‘Colouring Outside The LinesTaking Cultural Production Into Our Own HandsReassess Your WeaponsWith Arms Outstretched’UK Ladyfest Artwork ZineI’m Not Waiting: Doing It Yrself Now’, as well as writing for www.pikaland.comMore information can be found on Melanie’s blogs: www.remember-who-u-are.blogspot.com www.cotlzine.blogspot.com Space Station Sixty-Five1. Space Station Sixty-Five (SS65) is an artist-run space based in South-East London. Co-directed by artists Rachael House and Jo David, SS65 was founded by them in July 2002.2. SS65 have recently started the process of expanding our activities to include new ventures including artist’s studios, workshops and the gallery space. We have opened our new location, run by our company Space Modules Ltd., of approximately 1400-m oor space at 373 Kennington Road, London that is now our main site of activities. Within this site, we have a large gallery with an attached project space. The new gallery opened earlier this year with a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Shari Hatt, which received critical and popular acclaim. The rest of the site will be open for business at the end of the second quarter of 2012.3. SS65 launched two artist’s studio bursaries in 2012 for Paul Jones and Rosalie Schweiker.4. At SS65, we continue to curate the contemporary art we love in accessible venues, unswayed by fashion, trends and the whims of government funding.5. The SS65 project involves ongoing research into the placing of contemporary art, its audiences and its relationship to the everyday. We place great emphasis on location, with an open door policy. We foster a large, lively and diverse audience.6. Notable recent SS65 projects include: I just want to be taken seriously as an artist etcMisercord by Cathie Pilkington and Jay Cloth, The Marquis of Camberwell, part of Live on Stage at a Camberwell Pub, Carny Town at The Portman Gallery, The Dulwich Horror by Dean Kenning, window installations at The Waterloo Health Centre (a working GP surgery) and The Peckham ExperimentCamberwell Space, SS65 and other sites in Southwark.7. The organisation supports other arts initiatives with which we share similar aims. These have included Transfabulous, transgender arts festival and Drawn Out and Painted Pink8. Visit the website: www.spacestationsixtyve.com Space Station Sixty-Five info@spacestationsixtyve.comBuilding One, 373 Kennington Road, London, SE11 4PS www.spacestationsixtyve.com 020 7820 1120 www.facebook.com/spacestationsixtyve