COLOPHON
MINI-ZINE-LIBRARY
A project by Habib Afsar, Dominik Bachmann & Mara Züst
Library Design: Habib Asfar, Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukhan, Flavia Horat, Mara Züst
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Design: Dominik Bachmann
Programming and codes: Robert Bitterli
Texts: Habib Afsar & Mara Züst
Photos: Habib Afsar, Dominik Bachmann, Piet Esch, Diana Krasovskaya, Yasmin Müller, Spyros Paloukis, Eleonora Stassi, Mara Züst and various others
PROJECT CYCLES
September 2018: International Performance Art Giswil, Giswil, Switzerland
December 2018 – February 2019: Kolkata, India, and Lahore, Pakistan
September – November 2019: Schule im Widmer, Langnau a.A., Switzerland
October/November 2020: Schule im Widmer, Langnau a.A., Switzerland
October/November 2021: Schule im Widmer, Langnau a.A., Switzerland
Gesamtschule Unterstrass AG May/June 2022 as partner for Blickfelder Festival 2022
May 2023: Schule im Widmer, Langnau a.A., Switzerland
May/June 2023: Festival About Us!, Zurich, Switzerland
November 11 2023: Montagstraining Kulturkosmonauten at Alpenhof, Oberegg AI, Switzerland
November/December 2023: Schule im Vorder Zelg, Langnau a. A., Switzerland
EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS
February 21st 2019: Closing event and presentation of the library at Imperial Public School with various guest, Lahore
November 15th 2019: Closing event and presentation of the library at Schule im Widmer with various guests, Langnau a.A.
November 16th – 27th 2019: The Mini-Zine-Library as a guest at the Gemeindebibliothek, Langnau a.A.
November 29th – December 1st 2019: Part of VOLUMES, Zurich
June 9th-19th 2022: The New Us- Blickfelder Festival
June 23th-25th 2023: Opening of the Mini-Museum Me “The New Us” at the About Us! Festival.
September 15th 2023: Community Party in Langnau a.A., with the Mini-Sound- and Film-Library being part of it.
AWARDS
Awarded 100 Beste Plakate 21
Shortlist Swiss Design Award 2024
SUPPORT
The Mini-Zine-Library is a project of “Verein Love für Allen” and the non-profit association “IDA – Projekte für Kultur”.
Habib Afsar and Mara Züst as part of the International Performance Art Giswil, Giswil, was supported by the festival. The project cycle in Kolkata, India, and Lahore, Pakistan, was supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi, the four project cycles with Schule im Widmer, Langnau a.A. by Kulturagent.innen Schweiz. About Us! is supported by the Stadt Zürich, the program “Neues Wir – Kultur, Migration, Teilhabe” from the EKM and the Kantonales Integrationsprogramm, Kanton Zürich, The Library of Peace was supported by the Simurg HIVE grant.
