archives@tulane.edu / This thesis analyzes submission-oriented Latina/o zines based in South Texas. Each publication circulates nationally and internationally, featuring artistic submissions from this network. Through three case studies, this thesis investigates zines’ roles in forming spaces, both discursive and physical, for feminist, queer, Latina/o identity-making. The three case studies of South Texas-based zines are: St. Sucia, founded by Isabel Ann Castro and Natasha I. Hernandez in San Antonio, Texas (2014), Muchacha Fanzine, founded by Daisy Salinas in San Antonio, Texas (2012), and ChingoZine, in Austin, Texas (2012). These collaborative zines challenge the celebrated individualism of the modern artist by privileging a collective platform over the individual voice. The editors of these zines weave together submitted multimedia works—written, photographed, painted, drawn—into a curated selection that exhibits an alternative artistic network. These zines exemplify key aspects of contemporary artistic production: they are collectively authored, privilege lived experience over artistic training, and foreground alternate personal narratives. These works thus reshape the art historical narrative of U.S. contemporary art away from largely white, largely male, New York-based artists working in a succession of trends (Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Neo Geo, Appropriation, etc.). Instead, these zines foreground queer, female, artists of color whose work brings historical Latina artistic and punk subcultures in dialogue with contemporary political commitments to revising art history. As objects of study, a zine-focused approach for an art historical analysis calls attention to the alternative approaches to artmaking and understanding of art. The creators, contributors, and readers of these works hold many roles, thus the zines themselves become avenues through which to understand the social role of artmaking. These zines disorder archival divisions to reinterpret contemporary art of the U.S. as already transnational, as already inflected by feminist thinking, and as overtly queer. / 1 / Mia Isabella Uribe Kozlovsky
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_122013 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Contributors | Uribe Kozlovsky, Mia Isabella (author), Anagnost, Adrian (Thesis advisor), School of Liberal Arts Art (Degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | electronic, pages: 175 |
| Rights | No embargo, Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law. |
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