Loved being a part of Issue 01: Networks: Irregular art – 1st-Run mailer, edited by, Dani Neira, Open Space, Victoria BC

FIFTY YEARS is an irregularly-published, xeroxed zine which functions as a container for research, archival selections, and participatory engagements as Open Space considers what it means to be in operation for 50 years on lək̓ʷəŋən land.

Both mail art and artist-run culture arose from a desire to build decentralized networks and alternative avenues for artistic production and collaboration. This issue pulls from Open Space’s archive to build a non-chronological assemblage of images, clippings, correspondences, and artist projects which explore how we have—and continue to—tend to our networks, human or otherwise.
Drawing inspiration from early mail art networks, the zine features an “Artist Classifieds” list which compiles requests and contact information submitted to us by artists.

Open Space is offering free and by-donation mail copies of Open Space’s Fifty Years zine Issue 01: Networks.