drain, cunningham and hudson at design miami 09

workshop workshop space at design miami 09
photo © james harris

during design miami 09, sculptor graham hudson was in charge of constructing a workspace
using leftover lumber, rubber, plastic, furniture - anything the fair and the city (the larger fair)
had cast off. together with jim drain and poet p. scott cunningham, the trio produced,
'workshop workshop', a place where physical and metaphysical byproducts are put to use,
creating an environment / locus for collaboration.


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british artist jim drain, poet p. scott cunningham, and sculptor graham hudson
photo © red eye productions

'the brief happy life of workshop workshop' by jim drain, p. scott cunningham
and graham hudson produced zines during the event that responded to design miami itself -
its participants, objects, conversations, histories, narratives, suggestions and shapes.

defintion of zine [zeen]:
1. an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine
2. a handmade journal, with small circulations and hyperlocal aesthetics,
that maximizes the two-dimensional intersection of image and text, using both original
and appropriated content.
3. any self-published work of minority interest reproduced via photocopier.

completed zines had a cost of .00 each and could be bartered for intellectual property.

proceeds were donated to two local non-profits, bas fisher invitational, an artist-run
exhibition space located in the buena vista building in miami's design district,
and the university of wynwood, a literature advocacy organization.