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Zine in a Box
Made in Mailart

Item date(s): 2013-2018

Cheryl Penn - (featured artist)

Pages: 19 boxes
Size: 200 x 55 x 30mm
Binding: Black boxes with decorated multi-media tops
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: One of 25 copies

Place publication: Starnberg, Germany
Publisher: Ptrzia(TICTAC)

Additional notes:
1. 10/25. 24 participants. Cover: Rotating X on white and black.

2. 12/25. 25 participants. Cover: Eye on yellow and black.

3. 09/25. 25 participants. Cover: Cogs on white and brown.

4. 10/25. 23 participants. Cover: Large eye in tin tray on white. Inner cover: 35 eyes.

5. 04/25. 23 participants. Cover: Coca-Cola over face.

6. 15/25. 23 participants. Cover: Pressed form sculpture on black.

7. 20/25. 18 participants. Cover: Pig in a box on black.

8. 11/25. 20 participants. Cover: Psychedelics in black and white.

9. 22/25. 11 participants. Cover: Circle of bubble wrap on white.

10. 11/25. 23 participants. Cover: Silver metallic, see-through.

11. 12/25. 22 participants. Cover: 3D items on white.

12. 15/25. 23 participants. Cover: 3D floral with bottle-top.

13. 14/25. 23 participants. Cover: THIS SIDE UP on brown.

14. 10/25. 22 participants. Cover: Sardine-tin with red items on black.

15. 17/25. 22 participants. Cover: Peephole with white collage on black.

16. 20/25. 22 participants. Cover: Collaged eye with red string.

17. 17/25. 22 participants. Cover: Three red circles on black.

18. 15/25. 23 participants. Cover: Sink drainer on grid.

19. 18/25. 23 participants. Cover: Two circular, orange reflectors tied with white string.

Editions 20-23 have not been obtained (2022-2024)

Zine in a Box, Made in Mailart is an art zine with original works from international participants and contained in a box made by hand.

Reference note:
See: https://zineinabox.blogspot.com/ for illustrations and full details of the participants to each edition with an overall alphabetic index.

Only three other artists (apart from Cheryl Penn) contributed to all editions.

Exhibition notes:
lo-fi street cred: artists’ zines, DIY and alternative publications

4 June – 30 August 2024. JGCBA

#7, #14, #17 included in the exhibition (see images)

Keywords: postal art, mailart, collage, ephemera, zine, Fluxus

Ref: GB/31701