After
16 months, here I am writing about the Fanzine scene in New York,
again!
In March of 2016 I was in a love depression, and this
situation pushed me to go to street and join every single Fanzine
event in NY. It was nice because I went to different places on the
city and I met another Fanzine scene. One of them was the NYCFeminist Zinefest; it is made a Saturday on March in a very old and
very fancy building in the Columbia University in Manhattan; In that
moment it was a short trip to me in that festival because it was small, also, was the same Punk-feminist fanzine fair that you can met
in another middle class “rebel” event around New York and around
the west world: youth with Punk-feminist style clothes and a lot
monster DIY Fanzines, plus, fanzines where the author show the drama
of her life in that moment (although that young woman currently is a
student in one o the most famous and expensive universities around
the world).
But,
this is the important thing, in middle of it Deja vu, I found a
mature woman sat down in a single table with a little and tiny Fanzine
on front of her and on the cover a number: 50. In that moment, when I
took the fanzine, I felt that my time and my trip wasn't lost.
I
talked with her for a few minutes a paid for the Fanzine. I left the
event and when I got my home, I left the little Fanzine on my desk
where remained until three weeks ago, when I took it again and I read
with devotion.
50
is the Fanzine name, like I said above; it is a little autobiography,
where the author, in a very hard and deeply exercise of her memory,
got and wrote down her memories from the age of one year old until
the 50 years old -I didn't know how old was her on the moment when I
bought her Fanzine- saying in each page a moment of her life in that
age, and letting us know how she changed through her relationship
with her mother, father, boyfriends, lovers, books, pets, cities,
jobs... letting a little window open to us whereby we can see a
little of her life and in the same time, guessing the other big part
of her life.
50
was a nice discovered in that fair and I am happy to do a little
description of it, because do that kind of memory exercise is hard
and some times painful for the author, on the other hand is a good
vehicle to let her demons go.
Title:
50.
Author:
Jude Vachon
City:
New York.
Year:
2016
Measurements:
5.50 inches of width X 4 1/3 inches of high.
Number
of pages: 56
Printing
Technician: Copies by copy machine in black and white.
Contact:
vachonjude@gmail.com
Resume:
fanzine
with a little autobiography by years of age, from the one year of age
until the 50 years old.
By Marcelo Arroyave
Eternal member of the Sursystem Collective.
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