In celebration of the opening of the Cork Zine Fest Exhibition and the start of the Festival please join us for a panel talk exploring Zines as Artistic Practice with three of the showcasing artists. Ailbhe  Cunningham, Artem Trofimenko, Katie Lynch, moderated by Elize de Beer

More about the speakers: 

Ailbhe  Cunningham (Ample Space)

Ample Space explores zines as tools of creative dissemination for ongoing and completed research, adopting bloomers definition of publication as “public meaning making”. As a practice engaged in spatial design and research, our zines take on a spatial character, exploring unique folds and assembly as a key aspect of our zine practice.

Artem Trofimenko

Artem Trofimenko's practice moves across film, sound, installation, performance, and photography as a way of working with attention — constructing situations where perception slows and subtle shifts in space, material, and the body become perceptible. The work operates at a low threshold of tension, duration, and instability, where image, sound, and material form a continuous field, each bearing traces of the others.

Katie Lynch

My practice investigates the strangeness of living down back roads where not much ever happens, exploring how identity and absurdity interact with the Irish landscape. Drawing structural inspiration from Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and amateur theatre, I construct surreal, fictionalized narratives anchored in local archival footage, bog graveyards, and parish roads. I use self-publishing as a tool to connect printmaking, pinhole photography, text, and studio collages into portable spaces.