“Materializing reflections: the production of Fanzines as a research tool” was the title of a talk given at the annual colloquium of the SSE (Swiss Ethnological Society) on Thursday.
I took part of the first panel named “Comics, drawings, photos, films, blogs: Feedback and fair benefit sharing, giving research results back to a broader audience”, which focuses on the distribution and communication of academic research to a wider audience. This is an interesting way of thinking about the production and use of fanzines, which I’ve been producing since the start of our collaboration with Nicolas Nova, and now with Thibault Le Page. These intermediary objects take the form of fanzines, posters, a mixture of drawings, images of small comic strips or even drawn reading notes. These various research-creation protocols enable a form of analytical reflexivity by bringing together different fragments of the field of study in printable, distributable editorial objects. These objects also have the advantage of providing a visual medium that is intellectually accessible and easy to share.