The gritty visual language of New York City’s 70s underground art scenes and social movements is manifested in a slew of guerilla printed ephemera: Punk magazine, The East Village Eye, Provo flyers, the East Village Other. These DIY magazines and newspapers documented art and experimental music performances spanning across the city. Today, the emergence of chronically online internet culture has resulted in newer tactics for displaying content—endless scrolls and memes. Social media’s absurdist aesthetics seep into the visual language and social makeup of NYCs underground, creating a reality rooted in cyberculture networks and schemes.
Phase Zero is an experimental-exploration-time-capsule-print-publication. It is an artifact attempting to document and critique the rapidly evolving culture and visual language of the current counterculture in NYC. Its DIY aesthetic, guerilla marketing, and rapid production mimics the tactics of 70s punk fanzines to contradict the internet aesthetic and create traditional community networks. Constantly evolving to simulate culture and trend cycles, the publication’s formula is simple but never finalized. Its container is an unconventional manifesto: a conversation between the two editors with new annotations for every issue. The discourse continues in monthly community meetings where new content is collected and old content is questioned. This dialogue is manifested in its ephemera: iterations of unfinished issues, typeface sketches on ripped newsprint, existential writings scribbled haphazardly on misprints, and messy risograph flyers.
Phase Zero is a space for anyone to share whatever they want. Phase Zero is subject to change.
32pp
8.5" x 11" w/ a 17" x 22" silkscreen-printed poster (last slide, color assorted)
Design & Production
Maya Valencia & Sydney Maggin
Editors
Maya Valencia & Sydney Maggin
Special thanks
You Know Who You Are
Back cover design
Early New Years with GMGW
Daniel Welch
Foldout poster design
Andy Ferro
Contributors
Alea Doronsky, Alice Katok, Amaya Branche, Anna Gorostiaga, Anna Montalto, Annabelle Abel, Antinomie Pareidolia, Asha, Ashley Ferina, Carter Gill, Casey Martin, Cate Christiansen, Chloe Levin, Chloe Strongin, Clocked Out Magazine, Cloud Sinclair, Contributor004, Craig, Damian B, Daniel Welch, Emma Harris, George Olsen, German Suplex, Good Flying Birds*Talulah God*Susie Slaughter*Luke Corvette*Richard Edge*Ari Bales, Greyson DeGregorio, Halle Segal, Hamish McCallion, Henry Bohan, Isa Grutter, Jeremy David Geist, Jake Hargrove, Juan Diego Silva, Kara Angan, Kara Hageman, Kassia Karras, Liam Doyle, Lucia Camon, Lucy B. Miller, Luke Ivanovich, Lynn Rose, Maddie Breeden, Margo Dela Cruz, Marina Crivelli, Matthew Koebele, Max Giesecke, Max Van Alstine, Maya V., McCoy Watts, Meiyi Chen, Micah Pava, Michael Chabler, Mick Johan, Miles Ellisor, Molly Levine, My Little Underground, Nadia Benslimane, Naive Corpse, Nicole Kiziuk, Noah Michaels, Owen Tighe Mahoney, Parker Albert, Quinn Spencer, Rex "X" Harrison @artofthexman, Rosie Armao, Samuel Edme, Sara Lockett, Sarah Feldman, Sasha Paris-Carter, Seri Kwag, Shannon Ross, Sheridan Plunkett, Sophia Hughes, spyder vondelae <3 eyevee woodz 4ever, Stella Gleitsman, the situationist, Tianna Herrington, Vanya Suchan, Will Lyman, Zachary Morphew @surrealstation, Zoe Laris-Djokovic
