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Baines, Jess (2019) Community Activism, Papers and Printshops. In: Art of the Mimeograph, International Conference, 6-7 February 2019, University of Westminster.

Art of Mimeograph conference image, Alt Gar Bra (Download)

Slide of community newspapers, JB (Download)

Type of Research:

Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item

Creators:

Baines, Jess

Description:

Invited talk discussing connections between urban community activism, the role of autonomous local community newspapers and the printshops that facilitated them. This is framed within contemporaneous countercultural and alternative left discourses of self-help and autonomy and DIY. The paper partly draw on current research project based at UWE, Recovering the Regional Radical Press 1968-88.
The conference, organised by Alt Gar Bra, explored the political and artistic role of the mimeograph.

Official Website:

https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/events/the-art-of-the-mimeograph-international-conference

Additional Information (Publicly available):

Other speakers at the conference included: Alt Gar Bra, Alessandro Ludovico, Rob Hansen, Teal Triggs, Elizabeth Haven Hawley, Bruce Wilkinson, Douglas Field, John May, Ueno Hisami, David Mayor & Amy Tobin and performance by Cephalopedia.

Your affiliations with UAL:

Colleges > London College of Communication

Date:

7 February 2019

Event Location:

University of Westminster

Date Deposited:

18 Feb 2019 12:58

Last Modified:

19 Feb 2026 11:43

Item ID:

13958

URI:

https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13958

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