DOUBLE ISSUE
Fag Tips Utopia Zines 31 + 32
Fag Tips Utopia Zine 31: Fag Tips for Artists Space and Fag Tips Utopia Zine 32: Return to Form are now online.
Dear readers,
Thank you for meeting me here, it is a pleasure to share some bits of news with you, some old, some new, some fresh, all for you.
Fag Tips Utopia Zine 31: Fag Tips for Artists Space was printed (rare, lol) as a component of the exhibition project, Minor Publics, at Artists Space in New York, NY between February 4 – April 23, 2022. This issue features contributions from: Fritz Laszlo Weber
Ashkan Sepahvand, Tiffany Sia, Sophia Hussain, Jesse Darling, ZEFAK, Danielle A. Jackson, تجمّع المحتال Almuhtaal Collective, Jazmina Figueroa, Jay Sanders and Moad Musbahi. Each contributor responds to a prompt which emerged from my research for Minor Publics:
Dear friend, a prompt, invitation:
Between the three, nothing is fully caught, captured, reflected or found. Fuck a category. Locate a scene. The line bends and becomes an uncertain circle. Weakly circumambulating a potential space of meaning: a scene. A condition, an object, an activity. And again. Speaking of anyone, and the feeling of meaning missing becomes apparent. We are at a bar in an arcade, the space outside has been renovated but the interior has not, save an awkward A/C unit. Locate a scene, an uncertain circle which cannot hold. The line between is loosely dashed, the breaks might let you see the meaning. The space outside is renovated, but the interior is transparent. We are in a gallery, we are on the street. We are listening to, you are hearing this. I am looking at, you are viewing. What distinguishes an artwork from other forms?
Is an artwork a condition, an object or/and an activity?
Warmly,
virgil b/g taylor
Be in touch if you want to get your hands on a physical copy—we can work something out!
Fag Tips Utopia Zine 32: Return to Form is classic Fag Tips, a text poem on the suspended, speculative edge of digital and print—a series of PNGs, wavering in their potential reality—already and never enough.
Let’s see what the next 32 issues hold—it’s nice to be back :)
Warmly,
Anxiously,
With all anticipation,
Only regret,
Make me,
xo,
Virgil Benjamin “Fag Tips” Goodman Taylor
