Workshop: Memory Re-Used How to Build a Magazine with Reused Paper Using your Memories

The Brooklyn Public Library (New York City) is hosting the University Open Air Winter Semester from February 24 to March 7th, they invited me to participate for the second time since they started to do the University Open Air (UOA) in 2019. 

On this semester I will do a workshop that I developed since I was living in Colombia, it workshop was named for me Sursystem 3R (Reused, Recycle and Rethink), but for this event, I changed its name, now is called: Memory Re-Used, and the goal is that the participants in the workshop bring their old memories from their life in the neighborhood where they are or were living (old pictures, postcard, letters, posters... etc) and create a new page for the content of the magazine with that memories and, on the same time, they learn how to build a magazine with reused paper and reused shoebox, also, they will make the decoration of the cover and the back cover of the magazine using different techniques.

The workshop will be split into two parts, I will leave below the links to the UOA webpage and the links to my workshop.

Also, there will be more classes and lectures through those two weeks, feel free to explore it and I hope you can participate in this fantastic idea from the Brooklyn Public Library.

  UOA Webpage with all the curses and info

>Click on the image to go to the UOA webpage<

See you around and enjoy it!

Marcelo Arroyave

THE ONLY ONE MAGAZINE SURSYSTEM 3R FROM 2019

Since I started to live in NYC I was eager to travel to different places around the world where some of my close friends are living a long time ago. One of those friends is living in New Zealand many years ago and I always said to her that after three years in NYC I will go to visit her there, but time was gone and I never got the opportunity to go to NZ to visit my friend. 

                                 Cover of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine unfold

After six years that I was not meeting with my friend, she called me a few weeks ago and told me that she will come to the US for three weeks and she asked me if I wanted to meet her in Fort Lauderdale and spend some days there with her. It was a surprise to me and I was happy to say yes to her proposition.

Cover of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine folded

It was a very good way to pay to her the promise that I did a long time ago and that I didn't comply.

Back cover of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine folded

That meeting was a good excuse to make a Sursystem 3R as a gift for my friend. I made it and I gave it to her this Christmas. It was the only one Magazine Sursystem 3R from 2019 that I made.

Enjoy it.

Interior page of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine

Interior page of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine

Interior page of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine

Interior page of the Sursystem 3R/2019 Magazine

Marcelo Arroyave

The only one member in the Sursystem collective, New York chapter.