This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below.
This event spotlights how Chicago’s punk music scene of the 1990s and early 2000s inspired distinctive visual arts creations. Nadine Nakanishi, Dan Sinker, and Martin Sorrondeguy will discuss the art and design of Chicago-based Punk Planet, one of the best-known punk zines of all time, and a zine created by the Latinx punk band Los Crudos.
The Newberry collection holds the complete run of the Punk Planet zine, as well as related archival materials.
This program is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
Speakers
Nadine Nakanishi came to Chicago from Switzerland in 2003 for an internship at Punk Planet zine. The experience of meeting the working artists of this city gave her courage to pursue art and envision what centering a creative life might look like. Highlights of her path include experiencing how artists’ relationships are generative conversations, radical connections in time, singular and concentrated, and defined by velocious dynamics that have no boundaries. Since 2006, she has pursued a collaborative and experimental practice with Nick Butcher, also known as Sonnenzimmer.
Dan Sinker is a journalist, multimedia artist, designer, and maker, and founder of the iconic Punk Planet zine, for thirteen years the definitive voice of the national indie music and art scenes of the 1990s and 2000s. He is also known for co-hosting popular podcasts including “Says Who?” and “The Hitch,” and his fictionalized Ron Emanuel Twitter account, which was later released as the book The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel.
Martin Sorrondeguy is the singer of American hardcore punk bands Los Crudos and Limp Wrist and founder of the DIY record label Lengua Armada Discos. Since the early 2000s, Sorrondeguy has been very active in solo and group photo exhibitions of his photography, which has also been regularly documented in his semi-regular zine, Susto.
Cost and Registration
This program is free and open to all. Advance registration required.
Registration opens November 1.
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Past Public Programs
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