Germbutter: First Wave

Zines are cheap, lo-fi creative publications that pride themselves on being innately material objects which can be held in the hand and passed between friends. But! Objects are now suspect, to be left alone for a proper period of time before being handled. Isolation, whether in solitude or not, breeds weird thoughts, and we, as a collaborative unit, thrive on weird thoughts. Germbutter is a quick turn-around response to COVID times, using collage, drawing and writing. In classic zine tradition we are including contributions by guest artists. No one has touched each other, and distanced collaboration and humour is keeping us all alive. Along with a limited edition print version, the digital zine appeared in the online exhibition Iso-topics, at Belco Arts.