The Silver Bulletin 2011.
The Silver Bulletin, issues 1–5
Christchurch
2011
The Silver Bulletin began in 2011 as a direct response to post-earthquake Christchurch, conceived as a stand-in for the galleries, venues, and project spaces disabled by the 22 February 2011 earthquake—a distributable yet tangible venue for the writing, interviews, and artist page-works the arts community was still producing.
Five issues appeared across its first year, each edited, designed, and contributed to by me.
Articles by Delaney Davidson, Roy Montgomery, Johanna English, Andrew Just, and myself; an interview with a sign-writer; page works by Tjalling de Vries; photographs by Blair Barclay. (See the article Way-Finding.)
Materials: Risograph, black and red; edition of 500
Loosely themed around distribution and the transference of knowledge, with articles by Sophie Davis, Dylan Herkes, Hamish Win, and myself, photographs by Tim Veling, and a back cover by Telly Tu’u. (See the article A Kind of Transmutation.)
Materials: Risograph, black and yellow; edition of 500
A special edition released at a Delaney Davidson / Reverend Beatman apocalypse-themed gig, functioning as an ‘order of service’ handed out at the door, its content themed throughout around the end of the world, with contributions from Reverend Beatman, Delaney Davidson, Jane Maloney, and Abby Knapton, and middle pages by Dawn Marble.
Materials: photocopier and red stamp; edition of 250
Interviews with Delaney Davidson and The Eastern; articles by Andrew Just, Dawn Marble, Sebastian Warne, Oscar Enberg, and myself; front cover and diagrams by Ella Sutherland; back cover by Zina Swanson. (See the article Disappearance Reappearance 2.)
Materials: Risograph, black and blue; edition of 500
Released at Christchurch Pecha Kucha Night 10, where I introduced the project in a talk; a survey of the content quickly available at the time, with articles by Jessica Halliday, Stephen McCarthy, and myself, and photographs by Tim Veling. (See the article Disappearance Reappearance.)
Materials: Risograph, black and red; edition of 500
