hot and cold
Room Temp: an exhibition of 5 emerging zine artists,
Pond's zine library,
& CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
@ PLAySPACE Gallery
Oct 25 - Nov 12, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday Oct 28th, 6-9 pm
with special musical performance by North Korea (Adam of The Mall)

         

PLAySPACE: 2nd floor, California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street (at 16th and Wisconsin.)
gallery hours: Tues - Sat, 12-6pm.

For Information/Photos
PLAySPACE (Dina Pugh): dpugh@cca.edu | 318.229.6536
Pond: pondpeople@mucketymuck.org | 415.437.9151
         

          featured artists:
Alena (Scooter) Rudolph, Brion Nuda Rosch, Will Yackulic, Amanda Eicher and Jeremy Fish

Room Temp is part of a city-wide, multi-venue investigation of historic and contemporary zine production curated by the creators of Hot and Cold, Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland. In conjunction with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' exhibition The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, this satellite show will also feature Pond's ever-growing zine library, a collection of international self-published works alongside the most comprehensive collection of zines from the San Francisco Bay Area inherited from the legendary punk collectives Epicenter and Mission Records.

With support from San Francisco zine archivist, Smurph, Room Temp's zine library will highlight the following themes:

  • Unmitigated Fandom: the obsessive evangelisms by music nerds, skaters, bikers, etc. and enthusiasts of erstwhile technologies, literature, and other esoteric miscellanea

  • How-To's, Primers, and Manuals: Tips & Tricks on hacking, silk screening, micro-broadcasting, micro-brewing, earth-goddess gardening, greywater ecologies, recipes for illicit substances, etc.

  • Identity-Questing: diaristic outpourings about being nature punk, queer, trans_____, post-goth mod, neo-hippie, ____(fill in the blank)

  • The Ism's: Thoughts clustered around the theme of anarchism, feminism, deep ecology, passivism, Marxism, hedonism, paganism, pragmatism, affirmative nihilism, etc.

    Pond is contiunally building its zine library and is always seeking scintillating submissions from around the world. Please send your zine to our mailing address below for inclusion into our zine library:
    1855 Mission St #229
    San Francisco, CA 94103

    Related Events:
    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:
  • The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies. October 7-December 30, 2005 Needles and Pens:
  • Potato Sweat-painting/installation and drawings by Jeremy Taylor and Allyson Melberg. October 15th-November 15, 2005
  • Copyist Conspiracy- mock-ups and the process oriented aspects of zine making by several seminal zine makers. November 19th-December 19th, 2005

    •