SUMMER COOLERS | ARI REMIX + EXTRA ZINE | NEWSLETTER | SPRING SUMMER 2024-25 | Issue # 11
Hello! Happy Summer, Happy Festivus 2024!
I hope your summer is a cool, healthy and creative one ahoy.
This brief newsletter coincides with the culmination of two years intensive creativity and two “extra” project stages of community-based, cocreative and explicitly archival activity.
A few examples of recent news items as well as memory work and memory posts are included here for your reading enjoyment this season.
Thank you to everyone who kindly and generously participated, a big hearty thank you from me, I am truly, deeply grateful.
Finding ephemeral materials, assembling and telling a little story about lost, hidden and forgotten records and artists’ ephemera from the past – whether recent or distant – is typically a messy, challenging, time consuming and heartfelt labour of love.
By way of a recap, the two recently completed projects which build out from Project One activity 2011-2021 are:
EXTRA
Exploring DIY Zines as Community Archives [online & offline]
Project Two- March 2022 – November 2024
Stage One | ARI REMIX PRESENTS: SELF-MADE, ARTIST RUN The EXTRA ZINE PROJECT: An ARI Zine Anthology | June 2022- June 2023 [funded by Arts Queensland]
Stage Two | https://ariremix.com.au | ARI REMIX PRESENTS: SELF-MADE, ARTIST-RUN | EXTRA | An ARI Zine Anthology | July 2022 – November 2024 [ funded by Creative Australia ].
ABOUT:
The EXTRA Zine Project [ Project Two ] is a new ARI, Art, Memory and DIY zine collaboration.
EXTRA is a complementary, and evolving archival art initiative building on longitudinal creative practice with the ARI REMIX living archives “1970 to Now” located at: https://ariremix.com.au.
ARI REMIX challenges traditional, formal and mainstream archival practices, by co-creating artful and historic online stories by artists inside artist-run communities. Artists and members of diverse artist groupings who have build upon, extended and reimagined the foundations of 1970s and 1980s experimental art ecologies.
Here, DIY zines and zine making practice are explored to produce unique narratives demonstrating the effects of history, as experienced by its living participants. It aims to significantly expand creative practice by re-presenting untold ‘little stories’, and ‘at risk’ artists’ ephemera with 64 artists through 70 new art works produced through intensive artistic collaborations.
Countering the underrepresentation of ARI activity presented by mainstream media and GLAMR settings, zines allow artists to tell their own stories, to reclaim and amplify their DIY cultures and express the rich nuances of their activities, identities, and DIY collections. They are a socially useful cultural form for storytelling that seeks to preserve radical history and resist the erasure of marginalised identities and narratives, hidden histories, and ‘at risk’ primary resource materials. In this context, where an iterative and assemblage like approach to multiple archival art initiatives is employed, these zines can be read alongside complementary art works, websites, and resources.
And by way of a heads up, fingers crossed – and arts funding permitting in today’s competitive and depleting funding climate – the next expanded stage of the ARI Remix Project creative developments – Project Two, Stage One, Part Three – is poised to start in March – October 2025.
Stay tuned!
The Anarchive.
The anarchive refers to the fact that the archive in the digital age never sits still. Digital media events are reactivatable by nature, and lend themselves to re-uptake, remix and contagion. There is an in-built unruliness to them. This calls into question traditional practices of documentation and archiving, which operate on a model of passive storage. The anarchive is a kind of dynamic, open-air archiving in which media events are let loose to proliferate through networks, mutating as they go, and triggering follow-on events
Courtesy ‘ Anarchiving: Precarity ‘ –
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/89371/89372/0/21
ACCESS EXTRA ZINE ANTHOLOGY HERE:https://ariremix.com.au/extrazine/
Thank you for reading, sharing and dwelling among these records, ephemeral materials and stories.
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Warm wishes,
Paul Andrew
Artist, Community Facilitator, DIY Coordinator
Supporters, readers and visitors please note: After 14 years of intensive memory work activity we are currently in the process of a major web migration process from remix.org.au to ariremix.com. au to enable a more accessible, faster, and streamlined ARI Remix Net Art or Internet Art experience in 2025, so please, kindly bear with us in coming months ahoy 🙂
Please, kindly donate if you can.
Summer 2024 Donations to support ARI Remix as a faster and more streamlined web experience are encouraged, and welcomed now.
Thank you everyone who has kindly and generously supported our ongoing project-based crowdfunding work over the past five years. I am truly grateful!!!
No donation is too small. We rely on crowdfunding to help support the project’s ongoing lo-fi digital infrastructure including web hosting, domain name, phone, internet, software applications, web indexing, and web optimisiation and enhancement processes.
We are currently in the process of a major web migration process from remix.org.au to ariremix.com. au.
Kindly help to grow, sustain, streamline, and optimise ARI Remix here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-preserve-ari-remix-living-archives
NEW SITES, SOUNDS, SPACES & PLACES 2022-24
NEWS & VIEWS 2024
PROJECT ONE – MEMORY POSTS – 2011-2021
ARI MEMORY ZINES 2022-2024
https://ariremix.com.au/queer-filmmaking-in-90s-brisbane-with-sarah-neal
Read More:
ACCESS the new ARI Remix – DIY Zine anthology as it evolves in 2022 to 2026 here:
EXTRA ZINE
NEW FEATURE : FOCUS ON
RECENT ARI REMIX NEWS
ACCESS >
ARI Remix Socials
Australian ARI Living Archives – Queensland Artist-Run Heritage 1970 to NOW – Public group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/451268288264701
ARI Remix Project – Living Archives, Artist-Runs Past Present Future
@ariremixproject
https://www.facebook.com/ariremixproject
https://www.instagram.com/ari_remix
The ARI Remix collective acknowledges and respects the traditional and ongoing custodians of the lands where we live, make and work. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. We support the Uluru statement from the heart.
ARI Remix is an archival art initiative, in a ‘living archives’ form; LGBTQIA+, cis, non-binary, queer trans BIPOC, and crip time inclusive, and involves active participation and collaborative collecting engagement by artists, art workers, co-creatives, peers and artist groups. It is an enthusiast-led, community-based, non-profit and art ephemera study resource and Web 2.0 internet art work [net art] #ariremix. It is made entirely possible through immense kindness, generosity, volunteerism and collaborative collecting efforts of over 1500 Australian artists and significant arts philanthropy;
PROJECT ONE – Stages One & Two
of this project are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Stage Three of this project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
ARI REMIX | PROJECT TWO – Project Two: Stage One, Parts One and Two
of this project are supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and have been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this archival art initiative contains names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions in this catalogue which reflect the author’s attitude or that of the period in which the item was created and may now be considered offensive.
Newsletter Header Image:
‘Circadian Visions’ artist-run space poster by artist Erika Scott, 2022.