Eat Your Heart Out
Eat Your Heart Out is a limited-edition zine I made in the fall of 2023. This publication has come together due to the hard work of countless students, faculty, staff, and community members at Northeastern University. Over several months, I edited, and designed this publication as a part of my co-op at Gallery360 and the Center for the Arts.
Eat Your Heart Out opens with an essay about food and contemporary art that I wrote as a kind of curatorial statement. The zine also includes thirteen student submissions that can start to give us some insights into thinking about food as art. Some of the student work includes poetry, essays, stories, recipes, and more. Each work is a wonderful example of the way food’s specificity as well as its transcendence. Beyond the body, beyond materiality, there is something innately creative and human about cooking, sharing, and eating food. At its root, Eat Your Heart Out is an intersection of my studio and curatorial practice.
In addition to the writing and design of the zine, I hand-printed and bound 100 physical copies of Eat Your Heart Out. These copies were distributed to the Northeastern community. A PDF version of Eat Your Heart Out can be found here.
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In a collaborative zine project, Gallery360 co-op gets hands-on by Claire Ogden
ASCO: The Kickass 1970s Performance Art Collective!
ASCO: The Kickass 1970s Performance Art Collective! is a standard 8-page single-sheet zine I made about the artists collective ASCO in early 2023. Asco was a four-person artist collective that was active from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Asco consisted of Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio ‘Gronk’ Nicandro, Patssi Valdez. The four artists came out of the Chicano Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Their work deals with socio-economic and political issues that affect Chicano communities, especially those in East Los Angeles. Their work deals with themes of labor exploitation, the Vietnam War, and police brutality.
A PDF Version of ASCO: The Kickass 1970s Performance Art Collective! can be found here. Please also feel free to print your own copy. The zine is intended for tabloid paper and a printable PDF can be found here.
