Workshop Description:

In this workshop we’ll co-create a digital zine using online collections of images. In discussing presence/absence in archives, legal and ethical questions of (re)use and remixing, and some of the histories of zines, cut and paste, and collage, we’ll explore the ways zines may offer new relationships to (medical) archives in which sick, Mad, neurodivergent or disabled people’s accounts are often absent, submerged or limited to narratives of "Lived Experience". The workshop is best on a laptop/desktop where you can have zoom open at the same time as a web browser.

Bio:

Lilith (Lea, as in sea) Cooper is a zine maker, artist, researcher and zine librarian at the Edinburgh Zine Library. In 2020 they began a PhD working with the zines at the Wellcome Collection. They regularly facilitate zine making and have worked on various different zine projects including most recently Take It Back, commissioned and supported by Unlimited with funding from Creative Scotland, exploring experiences of madness, mental illness, neurodivergence and in mental health services. They are based in Fife, Scotland. You can find more of their work at www.zinejam.com or @lilithjcooper (twitter).