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Dog Ears is an alternative reading list and zine collaboratively developed by workshop participants. Its title and triangular form reference the practice of folding over the corner of a page in a book. It signifies reading in progress; a place to return to. A dog-eared book has been well-read, well-worn, perhaps overly-loved. It is the tactile result of a book passed among friends or strangers.
Led by artist-publisher dani neira, the workshop’s participants will learn to make an accordion-folded zine, and collaboratively design an alternative reading list. Dog Ears broadly defines “alternative” as independently published materials, artists’ projects, or other non-traditional means of production and dissemination.
As a part of the project’s critical and conceptual grounding, the workshop will discuss community-based strategies in independent publishing, and the reading list as a networked structure where meaning is produced. This web of relationships will be explored through the lens of kinship, framed by queer, feminist, and BIPOC perspectives on citational justice.
*Workshop Participants: Please bring a zine, artists’ book, or otherwise “alternative” book that you feel kinship with. The participants’ books will create the collaborative reading list — which is the content of the zine! Bringing a physical copy is ideal, but if this is not possible, a title in mind works as well. New to the world of independent publishing? Don’t worry! There will be a small zine library to select from.
Key Themes for Discussion: - Affect, materiality, and printed matter - Zine-making as pedagogy - Citational justice and approaches to developing reading lists and collections - Strategies of resource and knowledge-sharing in independent publishing
