ARIs, Artists, Paper Creatives, DIY Zinesters, Memory Makers – Doing Community Archives Together, Making & Transmitting New Memories Together

DIY ZINES

  ANTHOLOGY

2022 – 2026

ARI REMIX | PROJECT TWO | EXTRA – AN ARI MEMORY ZINE ANTHOLOGY

ARI REMIX PRESENTS: SELF-MADE, ARTIST-RUN | EXTRA | An ARI Zine Anthology Project [ 64 Artists, 70 DIY Zines ] 2022-24

ZINES ARE TOOLS FOR ACTION…

ARI Remix activity uses non-traditional and alternative archival practice. Specifically, we employ concepts like counterarchive, and anarchive to promote community engagement, and involvement. Both concepts, counterarchive and anarchive, refer to alternative archival practices but are understood in different ways, by different people. In an arts-based setting, ‘counterarchives’ may refer to countercultural, political, and community-based archival practices, however, the term ‘anarchives’ tends to encompass projects that are based not on ‘fixed’ property principles, administrative control, or prescribed procedures but on a logic of plurality suited to handle events and movements or “time-based sensations.” In a sense, anarchives are principally in an active mode. The promotion of such terms in the Web 2.0 environment and in an Internet or Net Art context such as this, suggests that archives are now enabled to fulfil a proactive, participatory, and temporal function in society.

See, for example, Paalman, F., Fossati, G., & Masson, E. (2021). Introduction: Activating the Archive. The moving image, 21(1-2), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.5749/movingimage.21.1-2.0001

Overview | Artist-run initiatives [ARIs]

ARIs [pronounced Ah-rees] are essential cultural organisations. They are typically characterised as culturally diverse, volunteer-based and autonomous artist groupings which exist outside formal, mainstream and institutional settings.

ARIs and ARI members, past, present and emergent, demonstrate a strong emphasis on a DIY, participatory and pluralising ethos in their creative, social and archival activity, in both online and offline settings.

The term DIY [do-it-yourself] is often described in literature as a ‘self-made-culture’. In contemporary arts-based settings which represent diverse identity-based communities and community members these ecologies often embrace terms like doing-it-ourselves and doing-it-together culture, participatory practice, a collectivising and pluralising ethos, and creative mulimodality.

Creative multimodality is broadly understood as the deployment of multiple modes of communication to express a community of practice creatively. This involves exploring, assembling and combining different modes of meaning, such as visual, audio, linguistic, spatial, gestural, and multimodal design and a range of temporal, artistic, and conceptual perspectives.

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