Future Fantasteek! - Serial Zines
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26321956
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Brighton, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is submitted as a single item output comprising FIVE selected issues of a self-published, independent serial art-zine produced by artist Jackie Batey, with contextual information.The issues were published between 2015-2019, with a special edition published in 2017.
This practice-based research has three areas of investigation: the artist as social commentator, drawing as a means of contemporary social/visual communication, and the audiences for art-zines in independent publishing.
The series extends the capacity of art-zines to articulate social commentary. Illustration techniques are experimental, incremental and reflective, focussing on the microcosm and macrocosm of living in the UK. Typography, drawing, found images, photography and text are juxtaposed to create new narrative possibilities for articulating lived experience. Language is explored using different ‘voices’ - anecdotal, colloquial or profane. These multiple registers are translated into drawn commentaries on social etiquette, politics and discourses of advertising. Visual humour is developed throughout as a vehicle for change, combining visual/verbal techniques such as pastiché, parody and Socratic irony. The ‘anxiety of the individual’ is an iterative theme throughout the series with recurring protagonists/antagonists soliloquizing their notions of ‘estrangement from home’ or ‘Das Unheimliche’.
The work is addressed to creative practitioners and to non-mainstream audiences for independent publishing, both digital and print. The series explores changing technologies with regard to shifting definitions of ‘the book’ and of ‘readers’, with online versions of Future Fantasteek! available via an aggregating blog and online PDF reader (issuu and .swf). In 2016 Kindle versions of selected issues were made available via itunes.
Future Fantasteek! has been secured for international book arts/zine collections by librarians/archivists across the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Europe and the UK (including Tate Britain, V&A Library, British Library, Getty Institute, Yale collection of British Art & Minnesota Centre for the Book).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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