documenting the present: the art of attention | barnard zine library visit
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Class taught by Sara Marcus. Zine Librarian Jenna Freedman What does it mean to write about ourselves—or not to write about ourselves? “I imagine,” Joan Didion writes, “that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not. . . . My stake is always, of course, in the unmentioned girl in the plaid silk dress. Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.” During our week together, we will document the world around us and, in so doing, create records of our personal experiences. We will read poems, essays, and fiction; we will listen to music, to noise, and to silence; we will visit museums and the Barnard zine archive; we will write every day. At the end of the week, students will make their own books, telling stories of their New York summer lives.TRANSCRIPT
Barnard Pre-College ProgramDocumenting the Present: the Art of Attention
Professor Sara Marcus
Librarian Jenna FreedmanJune 26, 2013
craft in zines
Choose a zine, report back on one or more of these questions:
● Why did the artist/writer choose this medium? How does its communication style differ from online media?
● How do the visual elements or style support or contradict the text?
● What does the zine reveal--whether directly or indirectly--about its maker's life and the world and times she lives in?
introduction to zines
● Definition● History ● Types
the people's medium
● Who makes zines?● Why do they do it?
library stuff
● Zines website● Using CLIO to find zines● Be our friend on
Facebook, Flickr, LiveJournal, or MySpace. Follow the library on Twitter.
● Contact Jenna Freedman [email protected], 212.854.4615, IM: BarnardLibJenna