MAKE•SHIFT ZINES ARE HERE
MAKE•SHIFT ZINES VOL 1 & 2: Motherhood, Interrupted & Made With Care
The two volumes are loosely themed as follows:
VOLUME I: MOTHER, INTERRUPTED – COLLABS WITH CHILD(REN); ADAPTING OR SIMPLIFYING YOUR PRACTICE; DESIGNED WITH INTERRUPTION IN MIND; DOCUMENTING INTERRUPTION
VOLUME II: MADE WITH CARE – WRITING AND ART ABOUT WORKLOAD, ABOUT CREATING ALONGSIDE CAREGIVING & ABOUT CARE AS IDENTITY; WRITING AND ART THAT INCLUDE CARE OBJECTS
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“to do the best one can with whatever means are at hand / an interim and temporary measure”
These zines focus on creativity alongside carework, in the form of making but also shifting – not just identities, but also ideas and boundaries.
What does creativity look like when you’re a parent or carer? Perhaps it’s pictures you take as your baby sleeps, audios you record on your phone, attempts to return to the same idea over and over after interruption, lists in your notes app or on scraps of paper, disjointed fragments that flit between genre...
These zines covers the friction involved in creativity and carework; subversion of previously used forms or practices; rejection of moulds that don’t serve the rituals of carework; and telling stories in the organic, accessible ways available to us in the midst of caregiving.
They embody the unpalatable, the unfinished, the “messy”, and showcase the amazing work that we are creating with the little time we have, without a focus on finalising or perfecting work before sharing it.
What does it look like when you are constantly interrupted, when you can’t prioritise your work, when you don’t go back to a piece to iron out the edges? What if you incorporate this — the stop-start nature of creating around care — into the piece? What if you let it arrive in an imperfect state — what would it look like then?
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PURCHASE THE PHYSICAL ZINES HERE
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MOTHER/CARE/WRITE
🀦 Wild Writing with Clare Shaw and Miriam Darlington // 1st June to 30th June, 9-10am BST, £9+
🀦 Writing Motherhood with Rebecca Jones // 9th June-14th July, 7:15-8:45pm, BST, £97+
