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2 NOTHING / SPEC I A L ZINE is an art zine for mad/sick/crip art published in print and online at www.nothingspecial.cargocollective.com. A feminist platform for engaging in discussions on madness/sickness/ cripness and/as/in/through art. Comments and suggestions on the online presence, printed magazine, accessibility and terminology of the project are warmly welcome! Have an idea for an issue? Need more information? Want to join the zine-making? Please contact: nothingspecialzine@gmail.com
NOTHING / SPEC I A L ZINE on taidelehti mad/sick/crip taiteelle, joka julkaistaan printtinä ja verkossa osoitteessa: www.nothingspecial.cargocollective.com. Feministinen alusta keskusteluille sairaudesta/vammaisuudesta taiteena/ taiteessa/taiteen keinoin/ja taiteesta. Kommentit ja ehdotukset liittyen projektin ulkoasuun, saavutettavuuteen ja kieleen ovat lämpimästi tervetulleita! Onko sinulla julkaisuidea? Tarvitsetko lisätietoja? Haluatko osallistua zinen tekoon? Ota yhteyttä: nothingspecialzine@gmail.com
N OTH I N G / SP ECI AL ZINE #1 “n ot h i n g sp eci a l” neither very good nor very bad a reply to a question: “What’s going on in your life?” balance meanings that undo each other things that are/are not worth mentioning N OTH I N G #1 “e i
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SP ECI AL ZINE mi t ä ä n er i t yi st ä”
ei erityisen hyvää tai huonoa vastaus kysymykseen: “Mitä kuuluu?” tasapaino merkitykset, jotka kumoavat toisensa asiat, jotka ovat/eivät ole mainitsemisen arvoisia
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Anna Ting Möller Anna-Mari Nousiainen Anne M. Ferguson Arsi Keva Emmeli Person Hanna Wildow Harri Piispanen Mai Ivfjäll Jani Laakko Kristina Sedlerova Mari Miyamoto @neopelko Pauli Ahopelto Riikka Enne Samantha Conlon Sofi Häkkinen Tea Hono Terhi Adler 3
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LEFTOVERS AND IMPRINTS, 2018
TOO FAST TOO FURIOUS 1-2, 2017 120 film photo
ANNA TING MÖLLER @annatingmoller www.annatingmoller.com Anna Ting Möller is a Chinese/Swedish textile artist. Born in Yueyang, China 1991. They work and residence in Stockholm and have just graduated (BA) from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design in spring 2018. Anna Ting has been studying textile art in London, Beijing and Stockholm.
ANNA-MARI NOUSIAINEN @annamarinousiainen @annamarinousiainenpro www.vimeo.com/annamarinousiainen www.av-arkki.fi/taiteilijat/anna-mari-nousiainen/ Anna-Mari Nousiainen is a filmmaker and artist who gets lost in nightmares, loves to organize boxes and is inspired by monsters.
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IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH (creating and archive), 2018
HELIO, 2018
During my recovery from surgery in the summer of 2018, I was forced to avoid physical overexertion and spent six weeks of sick leave scanning a box of photographs for my visual archive.
Helio is an artistic research project spinning around the axis of a fictional neurological disorder Heliosynchesiy, the project creates theoretical and sculptural collaborations, exploring the hypothetical world a patient with Heliosynchesiy.
ANNE M. FERGUSON @annemferguson
EMMELI PERSON
Anne is a visual artist from Germany/UK mainly working with printmaking and photography. She graduated from Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany in 2018.
Emmeli Person’s research based practice is formulated in installations. Leaking into social formats, projects act in the slippage between a phenomenological entanglement with material and the creation of scientific fictions that help narrate new or existing semiotic structures.
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UNACCOMPANIED MINOR IS A TERM WITH TOO MANY LETTERS TO PRONOUNCE two excerpts from a lyrical text
MY LITTLE PANZER - GUNSHIP IS MAGIC, 2018
HANNA WILDOW www.hannawilde.com Hanna Wildow, born 1983, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. In her artistic practice, she explores language, body and spatiality. With a desire for interspaces, breakages and gaps; she searches for warped spaces and errant narratives. She got her MFA from Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design in 2015.
For each thing that exists in the known universe there is a pony-equivalent. My Little Panzer is a pop-surreal animal - a collage of candy-coloured ponies, Second World War tanks and top-shelf magazine ads. It is a pastiche of a world where cartoons are toy commercials, waging war is sexy and news are entertainment. Gotta catch ‘em all. HARRI PIISPANEN @bishopslittlefinger www.harripiispanen.eu
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WEEP HOLE, CALL ME PERSEPHONE two poems & photograph
UNTITLED 1-2 two collages
MAI IVFJÄLL @astral.flowers www.ivfjall.info Mai Ivfjäll is a bilingual poet based in Stockholm (by way of Atlanta). She is a member of the experimental Danish writing group Hekseskolen and co-edits HYENA. Her on-going project exploring chronic illness through tanka poetry can be found at 57577etc.tumblr.com.
The collages stem from the Dark Night. Dark Night is scary and beautiful at the same time and it should be welcomed with a trusting heart. JANI LAAKKO @beelsebub Jani Laakko is a Helsinki based former carpenter and current theology student.
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DON’T LOOK BACK, 2018 natural salt from Sicely (170cmx40cmx40cm, 2 pieces)
BALANCE, 2018 photograph
Two salt monoliths slowly dissolved into the sea at Eiran uimaranta, Helsinki under the weather circumstances. These salty capsules refer to two persons who looked into the past and turned into the pillars of salt as in ancient myths and the Bible. Don´t look back has vanished into the Baltic Sea, slightly rising its level of saltiness.
The irregular concrete grid protects the hill from a landslide. MARI MIYAMOTO @mari______m www.marimiyamoto.net
KRISTINA SEDLEROVA
I’m a Finnish artist currently based in Tottori, Japan. I work with lines and structures through different mediums. The narrative in my works is often in the way materials behave, or how they are in relation to each other.
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30.6.2018 text
LINES #riennelines on-going photographic project
@neopelko
RIIKKA ENNE @riikkaenne www.riikkaenne.com
23.8.2018-
P. 14-15 ENSIAPU / THE FIRST AID, 2018 #päreterapia PAULI AHOPELTO
In my practice objects find me. These residues of life which speak of the human condition, echoing with past experiences, call me to act. I am an explorer following a trail of breadcrumbs. My sculptures and performances explore the things we leave behind in the effort to make sense of the ambivalent, absurd and surreal things we do and surround ourselves with.
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SICK ROLE: DEAD GIRL III, A PRESSAGE, ALTAR, DEAD GIRL II, 2018
SHINE THE LIGHT / TERVEISIÄ PAHVILAATIKOSTA, 2018 sculpture
sick is weak sick is radical sick is dark sick is violent sick is healing sick is sensual sick is the end sick is medication sick is needing help sick is terror sick is the void sick is the rot sick is the role SAMANTHA CONLON @samanthaconlon_ www.samanthaconlon.com
SOFI HÄKKINEN www.sofihakkinen.com/shine-the-light-terveisiapahvilaatikosta/ P. 25
Lens based artist working with ideas of gender and class struggles. Founder and curator of Bunny Collective + Editor of BUNNY magazine.
PETE LANKUTTAA, 2015
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UNEDITED DIARY-LIKE NOTES ON LIFE audio recordings, text, photograph
HILLO / JAM comic strip
Unedited diary-like notes on life is a series of audio recordings that tell about a person’s life, sensations or anything else as if the audio recording was her diary. Unedited diary like notes on life investigates feelings of self-consciousness and awkwardness and letting go of control in a media saturated time of today where most excerpts of people’s lives are carefully curated.
Jam tastes bitter sweet!
TEA HONO www.teahono.com
ARSI KEVA
EI MIDIST IV photographic series TERHI ADLER @terhiadler @tetrabot www.terhiadler.com Terhi Adler likes comics, banana flies and awkwardness and also to take photos, watch series and eat noodles. 7
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It will be all right someone says but it won’t It wasn’t even a problem for me to begin with and for whom it was it will not be all right
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14 WEEP HOLE i want to eat every daisy & dandelion i see i want to swallow the rain as if it were your come or drink the rain like piss if pee tasted like memaw’s sweet tea which i pretend it does sex acts involving urine seem pretty boring but i’ll try anything once we’ve had sex at least 10,000 times i guess we will have sex 10,000 times more what is there left to do? we laugh & we laugh everyone we love is dying or dead i’m dying too - maybe i begin to conceptualize closeness i’ve never been the kind to think about touching but it is usually nice what is there left to do? women’s bane wolf’s bane queen of all poisons so many ways of saying flower power i am attempting telekinetic connections to clouds but i just end up in THE CLOUD adblock all the art bros of the anthropocene that are having emotional responses to the end of nature my body falls apart with the moon but this isn’t a period poem it’s a poem period or maybe it’s a weep hole i’m a weep hole helping lessen the spiritstatic load on the masonry of whatever
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I read somewhere that trauma from war eats itself into the flesh of mothers, passes through the uterus from one generation to another to a third grandchild. And I think of my mother who spent summer breaks on orphanages when her mother went in and out of hospitals for the body and hospitals for the head before she eventually died from what is called
an enlarged heart
And I think of the strangeness in a heart growing too large and I think of two world wars and two falling husbands and one seek for refuge eating themselves into her flesh all the way to her heart which grew and grew and grew until neither that nor anything else could grow anymore and I think of what the world would look like if we eventually become an army of girls with traumas from our mothers and their mothers in our dna.
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DON’T LOOK BACK 23.08.2018Eiranranta, Helsinki natural salt from Sicely (170cmx40cmx40cm, 2 pieces) @kristinasedlerovafionadelmonde
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CALL ME PERSEPHONE the days grow shorter i sink down down down marry the pain underneath snow & dirt fuck the pain slowly, quickly, not at all let it linger unravel it onto the marmoleum of the hospital floor let the pain become a prayer let the prayer become an incantation a lullaby a dirge
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30.6.2018 10 minuuttia että mieleni asettuu, vain alkaakseen harhailla toisen kymmenen minuutin ajan. Olen tullut liian tutuksi näiden syklien kanssa. Välillä osaan vielä yllättää. Kuten tämä yhtäkkinen ajatus järvestä, jonka keskelle soutaessasi voit kuulla täydellisen akustiikan. Tai tämä jonkinlainen abstraktio läheisistäni riisuuntumassa. Hetken tyyntä. Eräs kultista karannut kitaristi kertoi, että meni tovi ennen kun sai tunteensa takaisin. No, en usko enää itsekään Samsāraan ja kaikessa on jälleen teräviä kulmia, yksityiskohtia, värejä. Vitsailin itselleni, että tänä ilon päivänä nämä olivat kirkkaimmat raidat mitkä löysin kaapista. Tiesin paremmin kuin hyvin ettei tämä ollut totta. Valehtelun piti olla helppoa? Katso nyt. Joku näki vaivaa, kiillotti pinnat platinaksi ja kattoi pöydän. “Sullehan elämä oikein hymyilee.” Näin tekee. Tummapaahdon kellastamalla virneellä. Silmäkulmat nykien vakuuttelen, että olen matkalla eteenpäin. Mutta pelkään tyytymistä. Toivon salaa, että jokin repisi minut jälleen kappaleiksi. En riitä.
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“Hän on täyttänyt minut katkeruudella ja pähdyttänyt minut koiruoholla. Yhden kerrallaan hän on iskenyt hampaani poikki, hän on ravinnut minua tuhkalla. Minun sieluni on syösty pois rauhasta, olen unohtanut hyvät asiat. Ja minä olen sanonut: Tyhjäksi käynyt ja päättynyt on minun tarkoitukseni ja minun toivoni Herraan. Muista minun köyhyyttäni ja minun ahdinkoani, koiruohoa ja sappea. Minä pidän sen mielessäni ja muistan, ja minun sieluni nääntyy minussa tuskiin.”
“Sillä tavoin tämä yö vieroittaa henkeä yhä enemmän sen vakiintuneesta kokemistavasta johdattaakseen sen jumalalliseen tajuamiseen, joka on outoa ja vierasta kaikelle inhimilliselle käsitystavalle.” Excerpts from Ristin Johannes: Pimeä yö / St. John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul 33
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“I am sitting on the beach of an island, which lays in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and it is really windy and All of a sudden I felt like Like this wind is full of ghosts somehow, Full of, of ghostly spirits, And they just… Somehow all the fish, That was caught here, somehow their dead spirits And I don’t know. I just feel as if they are floating above me and… And… I don’t know, I just don’t like the wind today. I guess I just have to accept it. The wind is blowing and the ghosts of the Atlantic Ocean are flying above me.”
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Let’s see... / Ugh! Oh shit, just when I was yearning for this passion fruit jam. Three years too late. / Time to let go all passions... Why did I even make pancakes, what a stupid idea. Eating pancakes alone... / Is there anything else in here / Oh fuck... “HAHA!” Rose petal jam!!! / I remeber when I bought this from some fair. This is something to eat for breakfast with a lover after a night of love making. / The petals would have been sprinkled on the bed sheets the evening before.
I bought it anyway. “Hnnnghh” *click*. How romantic. / Maybe I should find some human contacts. At least someone to talk to. / *eats the pancake* / *goes to computer* / *typing sound*. The computer screen has a text translate on it. The close up of the screen has texts suomi, (Finnish), mä rakastan sua (I love you) and kuuntele (listen) on it the cursor is on the kuuntele button. / *clicks the kuuntele button, eats the pancake and cries*. / “I love you, I love y..., I love you” / *repeating clicking sound*. 37
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