http://luminen.net/when-zines-meet-archives-above-and-below-ground-collections

The article is titled “When zines meet archives: above- and below-ground collections”

Margie Borschke, who wrote an article for the edition of Artlink, has posted it up at the above link.

The article is titled: “Hiding in Plain Sight: Regionalism and the Underground”

yes, although the ‘underground’ theme was not my original choice (i was invited to address it as guest editor), i did very much enjoy exploring (with all these great writers) its funny little tributaries and oxbow lakes.

i’ll keep a print for ya. and i do believe you can buy artlink magazine from the tate gallery shop in london – let me know if you find it!

Just read the Editorial for Underground issue, and loved it — your style of writing is so clear and…literal, so perhaps the blog should be re-named biliteral rather than bilateral.

I thought the image you draw of a dance between ideologies is just spot on, a danse macabre even. The terms themselves are inseparable from each other, seemingly evoking the other ie. ‘underground’ evoking ‘mainstream’ and vice-versa, by their very existence. So I just looked up their etymology…and I like how mainstream refers to water, ie. the principle current of a river, and ‘underground’ links back to not only under the surface, but trains! So both about flow, perhaps on different levels.

I love the radish drawing-analogy. May I reserve a print please? The link with gardening (esp. guerilla gardening) is fab. I’m going to send a copy to Thomas. And it’s funny too that the top tassle of a radish is green, perhaps the mainstream bit, and the body is red (and white inside), being the underground bit, with red and green being complementary colours on the colour wheel.

Yours in admiration,
Anna.