— research project
The Workshop Punkzine invites practitioners to test possible conceptual and practical uses, re-uses and abuses of the textual and graphic material that constitutes the printed matters produced by the prolific DIY practice of 70s and 80s punk movements. The workshop is initiated by researcher Design Paul Gangloff.
Workshop Punkzine #6
X interviews Y
— workshop with Christophe Boutin, Hans-Christian Dany, Stephan Dillemuth, Martijn Haas, Roberto Ohrt, Gee Vaucher
What is the role of publishing in the organisation of a counterculture? What of punk has survived in contemporary publishing practices? How do design practices relate to the DIY principle? What do punks and bohemians have in common? What links can be made between punks and the Lettrists?
Rather than posing such questions in the setting of an academic conference, this workshop invites guests and participants to use them while interviewing each other.
The format of the interview is an important aspect of zines, because it allows a public to read an intimate situation – that of two persons having a conversation.
This conjunction of intimacy and publicness is one of the crucial points of a certain practice of publishing, moving between the personal and the political, the amateur and the professional.
For practical reasons, this workshop has a limited number of places. If you wish to take part, please contact Paul Gangloff by email at paul@onedaynation.com.
Workshop Punkzine #5
Dissecting the dissected
— workshop with Gee Vaucher
— room 209
This workshop proposes to USE the techniques of détournement WITH collages already at play in Gee Vaucher's images. THIS WORKSHOP AIMS TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO DESTROY, RECONSTRUCT, PULL APART VAUCHERS WORK in order to make A NEW AND PERSONAL STATEMENT. A selection of Vaucher's works and a pile of OLD AND recent issues of various magazines AND NEWSPAPERS will meet on the dissecting table, in an attempt to let something new and relevant make itself known.
The workshop will take place in the print studio of the Jan van Eyck Academie; if you wish to take part, please register by email at poloff@hotmail.com.
Words per minute
— workshop organised by Vasilis Marmatakis and Paul Gangloff
The production both of punk rock sound and of punkzines texts relied on the appropriation of electrical and mechanical devices.
Though this was sometimes actual theft, as in the case of the Sex Pistols, who stole their gear, in most cases appropriating was a matter of creating a new use for machines that were designed for business purposes, such as the photocopier and the typewriter.
The typewriter allowed anyone, anywhere, to produce documents with the look of authority, while limiting the means of visual organisation to vertical and horizontal disposition of one weight and one size of a font, of which all letters occupy the same amount of horizontal space.
Fast, noisy, dehumanizing and anonymous, resulting in uneven lines and bold punctuation, this "mass-produced article rolling off the production lines of a gun manufacturer" can be regarded as one of the most important instruments of punk.
For its fourth episode, the workshop punkzine will be set up as a dictating exercise in which voice, noise and text production will aim to produce on the spot, making an audio piece recorded on a cassette tape and its accompanying leaflet.
The workshop is open to participation, please register by email at poloff@hotmail.com or sign in on the list hanging next to those for studio visit before September 20, in order to facilitate the organisation of the typewriters.
Workshop Punkzine
#3 Open to interpretation
— workshop organised by Paul Gangloff
— room 201
Inspired by Rebecca Stephany's sound works, in which she explores and uses the medium/genre "song" (http://www.rebeccastephany.com/sound.html), this workshop proposes to interpret and record a selection of lyrics excerpted from the zine collection of the International Institute for Social History (IISG, Amsterdam).
The German word interpret and French word interprète refer to someone who performs a piece of music. The nearness of those words with the notion of interpretation seems to grant the performance an important role in giving a meaning to the piece.
What can be said and expressed by means of voice, rhythm, silence, repetition, sound?
Often inaudible during the performances, the lyrics of punk rock were circulated in printed form through fanzines, which sometimes even featured translations of the most famous hits. By offering new interpretations, picking up their vocabulary or energy and finding ways to record those readings, this workshop attempts to actualise the poetical, political or simply negative potential of those lyrics.
The workshop will take place in the sound studio of the Jan van Eyck Academie; if you wish to take part, please register by email at poloff@hotmail.com.
Prototype Day
For this second issue the Workshop Punkzine invites Jo Frenken, coordinator of graphic productions, to open the whole process of offset printing to experiments and playful interventions. In this perspective, the participants are invited to test each stage of the printing process, starting at the academy with the creation of the films, and ending on the presses of our partner printer, Wijntjens Druk.
For practical reasons, this workshop has a limited number of places. If you wish to take part, please contact Paul Gangloff by email at paul@onedaynation.com.
Workshop Punkzine
Mise en Zine
Didier Christen
— workshop organised by Paul Gangloff
For its first episode, Workshop Punkzine invites Didier Christen (FR) to take the place of guest editor. By relating Christen's practice — that of a musician who tours in remote rural places and organises festivals in his house — to a selection of excerpts from punkzines copied from the archives of the International Institute for Social History, this first episode will attempt to create a scene by means of playing.
Workshop Punkzine invites practitioners to test possible conceptual and practical uses, re-uses and abuses of the textual and graphic material that constitutes the printed matters produced by the prolific DIY practice of 70s and 80s punk movements.
If you wish to take part in this first workshop or to contribute material to Workshop Punkzine, you can contact Paul Gangloff by email at paul@onedaynation.com.