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Gum Ball Universe: The Smallest Books / Nina Prader and Malte Spindler
Books
FA.B123.2491
15 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
2019
Risograph-printed, staple-bound.
"Gum ball vending machines are nostalgic....Gum Ball Universe plays with the memories of the sweet and sticky past.....In contrast to our multi-option-swipre-reality, these Zine-O-Mats dispense microzines, Fluxus-like art pieces and notes of culture. Zines are avant-garde and subcultural information carriers; paper megaphones for empowerment. The colors of the Risograph-ink or paper visually remind of candy. They also speak symbolically to gift economies -- markets based on trading and solidarity -- that power most artist book fairs."--p. 5
"Mission: Share love for zines, independent authorship, publishing for all ages. Fight facism through positive messages. Create alternative gum ball multiples, sculptures and monuments. Expand and develop the project in neighborhoods, with artists, at fairs and exhibitions. Intervene in urban space through installations, workshops and discussion-formats."--p. 11
"Gum ball vending machines are nostalgic....Gum Ball Universe plays with the memories of the sweet and sticky past.....In contrast to our multi-option-swipre-reality, these Zine-O-Mats dispense microzines, Fluxus-like art pieces and notes of culture. Zines are avant-garde and subcultural information carriers; paper megaphones for empowerment. The colors of the Risograph-ink or paper visually remind of candy. They also speak symbolically to gift economies -- markets based on trading and solidarity -- that power most artist book fairs."--p. 5
"Mission: Share love for zines, independent authorship, publishing for all ages. Fight facism through positive messages. Create alternative gum ball multiples, sculptures and monuments. Expand and develop the project in neighborhoods, with artists, at fairs and exhibitions. Intervene in urban space through installations, workshops and discussion-formats."--p. 11
