FRAMEWURX (2025) is a limited edition zine created as a companion artefact for ‘Tales of History Retold’ (2025), a group exhibition co-curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom at Iyatsiba Lab, University of the Western Cape, and is now available in digital form.
Each copy is unique with bespoke interventions. It’s about “thinking through zines as a constructive mode of non-formal education that can work beyond the realm of the exhibition space”, as Williams told visitors to the exhibition’s curatorial walkabout. The zine can be read in two ways – as a zine, or folded out into a poster, for display. One side forms a composite of artists’ images riffed and collaged from work in progress. The reverse side is comprised of key words that act as prompts to unblock creative process.
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Artist Statement
It sometimes seems that Artificial Intelligence, and algorithmically-driven artistic practices are hinged on outputs of perfection, polish, and refined answers…. refined solutions. To some extent, even a zine that is printed via the photo-litho process of a commercial printer conforms to a standard of completion and professionalism. Perhaps – the deliberate intervention, the imperfection and even the superfluous show manual labour ….or handiwork can confirm the human presence. In the instance of FRAMEWURX, it is the dissatisfaction with the printing process – indicated by means of acrylic paint – applied like one would apply correction fluid – circling, pointing to and commenting on printers’ errors, that confirms a human intervention has taken place.
The human hand is also seen in the selection and reinsertion of architectural / archival fragments of the campus building, skies and snippets of red brick paving into the zine – in a way that hints at discarded drafts that are crumpled and unfolded for re-use in recognition that the errors might be useful stimuli. It is reflected in the stapling of scraps, notes and riffs in ways that append – loose hanging and glued appendages. Appendages as parts of a body forming a whole. parts of an embodied practice.
– Scott Eric Williams