SUMMER JOY | ARI REMIX + EXTRA ZINE | NEWSLETTER | SPRING SUMMER 2025 | Issue # 13
Hello everyone!
We hope this issue of zines, community archiving and anarchic vibrations finds you well.
We wish you a Happy Summer and Happy Festivus season Ahoy!
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ARI REMIX NEWS OUT NOW. Enjoy our SUMMER JOY ISSUE 13
Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Queensland, this year we draw attention to untold stories, hidden histories and marginalised narratives about the pluralisation of Queensland/Australian ARIs, Queer-Trans, multiperspectival LGBTQIA+ communities of practice and persistent efforts by artists and artist groupings to activate and reactivate spaces.
Non-traditional and conceptually experimental artmaking, collaborations, artist groupings and participation, continue to play an important 21st Century pluralising role. Pluralising the Queensland/Australian arts ecosystem adds value by fostering creativity, cocreativity and innovation, strengthening social cohesion through increased access, shared identity, and enhancing individual, collective and community well-being.
So, in keeping with the punk, new wave and post punk vibration when 1980s Queensland/Australian ARIs evolved there is a punk-feel to this issue. It feels more than joyful to know that ARIs are enduring and essential arts organisations in Queensland/Australia, as well as a vital thread in the continuing pluralisation of the arts ecosystem.
Reflectively-speaking, in the 1980s when we set out reactivating and activating empty, abandoned and dilapidated spaces, there was no arts infrastructure. There was nothing supportive, respectful and valuing for young, mid-career or established artists. However, through persistent artist-led efforts across time and temporalities, this situation has changed greatly over the past 40 years.
For many of us, not all, the value of a punk mindset in arts-based contexts lies in its promotion of non-conformity, authenticity, and critical thinking, leading to greater personal freedom, artistic autonomy, creativity, and resilience. It is an ethos or philosophy which values and embraces individuality, collectivising, resistance and community, a “do-it-yourself” (DIY) ethos – which rarely means doing it alone and typically means doing it together- and a willingness to challenge the status quo and established norms, which can inspire positive and affective change in personal life, communities of practice and larger systems. This anarchic vibration shares an affinity with a community archiving mindset.
Here for your enjoyment are a few examples of stories, photo essays and DIY zines, zines as types of community archives.
Have a healthy and joyful Summer Festivus season Ahoy!
Paul Andrew | he/they
Whistling Kite Artist Studio
Australian Artist, Community Facilitator, Zinester & Curator
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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.
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