Visual Studies Platform at CEU invites you to take part in zine making workshops! Would you like to explore a new medium and learn how to make small publications and art books? Sign up for biweekly open sessions starting in January 2025 to experiment with zines in the academic context.
The workshops consist of six meetings, four of which are open sessions and two led by guest artists. During open sessions, participants will be invited to get creative with materials and make small-format publications with the assistance of project organiser and MA candidate Magda Kopańska. We will play with paper, explore its endless possibilities, and create DIY publications.
Open sessions will happen biweekly on Mondays; location at the campus is TBC. Please register by 7th of January 2025 to secure your spot and stay in touch about the updates. Registration is available under the link .
Sessions schedule:
January- 13th, 27th
February- 10th, 24th
March- 10th, 24th
(It is not a requirement not participate in every session.)
Two sessions are planned to be led by guest artists. 1st artist session: 27th of January; 2nd artist session: TBC.
We will investigate how art books and zines can be used for academic research and applied in a University context. Please find below the artist’s bios.
Seth Weiner (1982, USA)
Often containing performance and proposal simultaneously, Seth Weiner’s work employs a wide range of media in which he explores the gaps between architectural fiction and social convention to create both actual and imagined spatial environments. Since the late 2000s, Weiner has been working on the sound-based project of Sadie Siegel, using his great-grandmother’s name to collaborate with himself and explore sound as an extension of touch, expression of space, and a way to create impossible places. Since 2018, he has been the Artistic Director of Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, a nonprofit museum-like entity that serves as a mobile place of remembrance and projection for what was lost during National Socialism. During his time as director, Weiner has focused on commissioning artworks that deal with the history of Atelier Bachwitz, a publishing house that was once located at the Palais des Beaux Arts building in Vienna before it was Aryanized. His artistic work has been exhibited at the MAK Museum Vienna, Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival Los Angeles, Wien Museum MUSA, Festival der Regionen Upper Austria (FdR), Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna, Soapbox Gallery Brooklyn, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Kunstlerhaus Bregenz, Los Angeles Barnsdale Municipal Gallery, Venice 6114, LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Planning, among others. Weiner is also active as an academic instructor, designing and teaching courses at institutions such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, UdK Berlin, the Art Institute of Hollywood Los Angeles, Central European University (CEU), and the University of Art and Design in Linz.
