Quaranzine

Art

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Quaranzine

Entry/Object ID

2021.04

Description

A collection of 100 double-sided prints housed in a cardboard box.

Artwork Details

Medium

Risograph

Subject

Covid-19

Context

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted Chicago-based artist Marc Fischer’s (who works under the name Public Collectors) current projects Library Excavations—where he explores the holdings of Chicago’s public libraries—and The Courtroom Artist Residency Report—where Fischer brings artists to observe court proceedings at Cook County Criminal Court—many artists and creatives were suddenly without access to their usual venues for sharing and displaying work. Fischer, who has been publishing zines and artists’ books for over 30 years, equipped with two Risograph printers, decided to launch Quaranzine, a one-page zine that could serve as a creative space for artists to disseminate work during the pandemic. The project resulted in 100 one-page double-sided zines that Fischer printed daily, with contributions from artists, activists, and poets from Chicago and beyond including Jim Duignan, Rachel Harper, Deep Time Chicago, Paul Nudd, Matthew Girson, and many others. Shared online and distributed widely across the city in print form, Quaranzine soon became a mobile and nimble site for text and image-based contributions ranging from reflections on the pandemic and social justice to recipes and comics. After completing the project on June 22, 2020, Fischer compiled the 100 issues to form the complete Quaranzine in a limited edition of 55.

Acquisition

Accession

2021.04

Source or Donor

Marc Fischer

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Courtesy of the artist

Made/Created

Artist

Public Collectors

Date made

2020

Notes

Various artists contributed to the project which Marc Fisher printer and put together as "Quaranzine."

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Posters

Dimensions

Height

11 in

Width

8-1/2 in