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Food Cultures- Cusine Zines - Coggle Diagram
Food Cultures- Cusine Zines
what is a zine?
self-published (maga)zine
can be digital or analogue
DIY culture, cheap and easy to copy and share
emphasis on fun, ametur
some zines are more polished and proffesional
long history of zine making, at the heart of punk culture in 1970s
zines as "cultural revolt", creative practice which disrupts or overturns usual rules of cultural production
Zines as important practice of identity construction and self-representation (Cooper, 'Zines as Crip Doulas', 2025)
Ethos of collaboration, participation, self-determination
(Baker and Cantillon, 'Zines as Community Archive', 2022)
can be thought of as both product and process
zine libraries
zines as DIY culture- might be given, exchanged, left somewhere to be found, (sometimes) sold
M&L Zine Library 'housed' at Good Things Studios (Morecambe) and the Gregson Centre (Lancaster)
how to zine
Printing, stencilling, stamping, etc
Photography and visual materials
Cutting up, repurposing, recycling other media (newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, etc)
Writing- handwritten or typed text
Collage – assembling mixed media of any material (paper, fabric, found objects etc) into a visual artwork
Drawing – with pencil, felt-tip, crayon, etc
Poetry
food zines as food media's "experimental cutting edge"
food zines represent an opportunity for those without the connections to publish to make some work, anyone can do it
zines are different from traditional food media
