Forensics enthusiasts take note! The deadline for our joint residency with Abertay University and Impact 8 is approaching. Send us your submission by the 19th of April.
We’ve heard that some applicants have had their submission emails blocked by Abertay uni’s spam filters (apparently universities aren’t keen on being emailed folders of images from strangers). If this happens to you, please share your submission material with us by Dropbox instead.
After its dramatic birth-by-zine-fair, our Spring issue has wound its way online. You can read it now, or download the PDF to print your own version. Hard copies are winging their way to our stockists now.
And we’re already taking submissions for our Summer issue. Here’s Sir Cliff to tell you about the deadline:
Finally, a reminder that the deadline for applications to our awesome printmaking/forensics residency is drawing near. Send in your application by the 19th of April.
The weather may be unspringly, but the Yuck ‘n Yum release schedule is pointing to Spring o’Clock. It’s a new year, and we have a new issue of Yuck ‘n Yum with a new look, thanks to this year’s cover artist Cos Ahmet.
We’re launching our Spring issue on the 31st of March at Empire State Coffe in Dundee – and to celebrate, we’re holding our second zine fair with some of our best zine-friends! Here is the poster, by long-time Yuck ‘n Yum pal Paul Milne:
As part of the inaugural Print Festival Scotland, the Hannah Maclure Centre, Abertay University’s exhibition space and cultural hub, and Yuck ‘n Yum are teaming up. Together we are offering an artist-in-residency opportunity within the university’s ground-breaking forensic science department.
We’re really excited to be able to offer this opportunity! You can read full details about how to apply at http://impact.yucknyum.com.
Send your submissions to exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2013.
The residency itself will take place the week beginning June 17.
What’s this? The Yuck ‘n Yum team is evolving!
Venerable, leathery Yuck ‘n Yum stalwarts Andrew Maclean and Gayle Meikle are currently on sabbatical. Cast out as hermits in the wilderness, eating only berries, they will meditate rigorously on the fine technicalities of the art collective. We will welcome them back to civilisation in summer, by which time they will be luminous with enlightenment.
And we also welcome three new, fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked team members: Becca Clark, Dan Faichney and Morgan Cahn! Full of vim and pep and the florid glow of youth, each brings formidable new skills to the Yuck ‘n Yum team. Just look at them!
Let’s not forget the wider Yuck ‘n Yum extended family – that’s right, *you*! Our contributors are our second cousins once-removed, and we would have no zine without you. Our spring deadline is approaching fast (March 15), please do send us your work for inclusion in the Spring 2013 issue.
The deadline for the spring issue has been extended, so please send us your black and white artworks to submissions@yucknyum.com by March 15th. Both digital works and high quality scans of original artworks are accepted. If you’re unsure of format etc, please cast your eye over ‘How to submit‘.
For the forthcoming issue we are also accepting applications for written pieces. Articles should be around 900-1000 words and there are no absolute restrictions on subject or style. Previous features can all be found at http://www.yucknyum.com/the-zine/ which should give you an idea what we’re after. Drop us a line if you have any queries.
Look at the kitten! It’s asking, nay, begging for submissions to 2013′s first Yuck ‘n Yum issue. Check out our How To Submit guidelines to appease the kitten.
Yuck ’n Yum are delighted to announce that our new cover artist for 2013 is Cos Ahmet.
Cos Ahmet describes his work as a ‘collective of body dialogue’. Themes of sexuality, identity & self are all principle themes in his work, exploring these through structures of the figure, form and self, constructing and reconstructing them into altered egos, meta-figurative beings & grafted self portraits.
In his current practice, he works and thinks across disciplines & practice boundaries, engaging a diverse range of media to create his work. The process results in the repetition of imagery. Echoes and trace elements emerge. As the personal element is shaped and shifted, the gestured, sexualised and fragmented personalities transpire.
Cos Ahmet studied BA Hons Constructed Textiles at Middlesex University. He currently lives & works in London.
We at Yuck ‘n Yum are incredibly excited to have Cos as our 2013 cover artist and are intrigued to see the direction in which Cos will take YNY in the year to come. Cos has been a recurring contributor to the zine, and you can view these works amongst others by heading to our zine archive. http://www.yucknyum.com/the-zine/
Please check out his website where you can see a delightful array of work and projects.
http://www.cos-ahmet.co.uk/
We would also like to say a big thank you to Helen Flanagan who was our 2012 cover artist. Helen produced four incredible covers for us last year and we wish her all the best for the future.
The deadline for the Spring 2013 issue is the 15th of March.
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The latest edition of Yuck ‘n Yum will feature at tonight’s event at the BALTIC 39 space in Newcastle as part of Jim Shaw’s exhibition You think you own your stuff but your stuff owns you. The event explore art fanzines, graphic novels and board games in association with Travelling Man, Newcastle. Yuck ‘n Yum will be amongst enthusiasts of unusual board games, comics and ‘zines who will give insights into their collections which will also be on display. There will be a chance to play some unique board games and enjoy a beer/soft drink and American candies. It looks to be a fun night!
We like yellow things. And we’re launching Val Norris & Steven Myles’ guest zine tonight at Drouthies in Dundee. Be there from 7 for zines, song poems, outsider music and a free download of the I Like Yellow Things mixtape.
Featuring: Cos Ahmet, Kris Harzinski, Levi Bunyan, Ale Siniestro, Lotte Fisher, Ben Robinson, Luke Cloran, Ger O'Brien, Gabriele Jogelaite, Eva Angermann, Alec Finlay, Susanne Lund Pangrazio, Emer Tumilty, Lucas Battich, Ross Hamilton Frew, and Lydia Brownlee.
Read & download Yuck 'n Yum back issuesWe are always looking for submissions for future issues of Yuck 'n Yum. We invite anyone to submit work for consideration to submissions@yucknyum.com
Yuck ‘n Yum is a not-for-profit group and the zine is free, so work is accepted on a voluntary (i.e. unpaid) basis. By sending us your work, you consent to our publication of it in print and online. Free paper editions are available at our launches, and are sent out to several galleries and distributors (see our list of distributors, below). PDF versions are always available online for you to print out yourself.
Yuck ‘n Yum is distributed as a physical on-paper zine, but is also made available in an online edition. You can submit a single piece that will be included in both editions, or you could take advantage of the internet medium to produce alternative work for online publication. Our print edition is entirely black and white, so you could, for example, provide an alternative colour version for the online edition. Alternatively, you could send us totally different media: an audio project, a short video or animation for example. It’s totally up to you.
Format guidelines: The printed image will be black and white, and quite high contrast - bear this in mind. Each page in the zine is A5. Images should be 300dpi resolution. We prefer to receive images as jpegs (if a photograph) or pngs (if a line drawing). If you send us something low-res and we want to include it, we will probably get in touch to ask you for a high-res version before the zine goes to print. Written articles should be saved in a format compatible with Microsoft Word. If you are interested in submitting a sound piece or video work for the online version we would prefer audio work in mp3 or ogg format, and video work as a Quicktime mp4/mov file or ogg.
The deadline for our Spring issue is the 7th of June 2013.
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