Object to be Restored: Seven Years of Migrant Zine Collective Exhibition

Asian Aotearoa Arts 2024 & Migrant Zine Collective Presents: Object to be Restored: On Anarchival and Seven Years of Migrant Zine Collective

Te Pikitanga Gallery
Massey University Library
68 Wallace Street, Wellington

14 April - 10 May 2024
Opening hours: 8am-10pm Mon-Fri & 10-6pm Sat+Sun

Hosted by Te Pikitanga Gallery, Massey University Library, this special celebration marked the Migrant Zine Collective's seven-year anniversary. The exhibition, running for the duration of the AAA2024 programme, offered a comprehensive look at our archived publications, as well as photographs, graphics, and an exclusive complimentary zine created by Helen Yeung, who founded the collective in 2017. As a Hong Kong Chinese feminist scholar, facilitator and zine-maker, this zine reflects on her work from grassroots community organizing and protests to libraries and classrooms in Aotearoa and beyond. 

Object to be Restored, explores themes of anarchival in DIY publishing to interrogate what constitutes an archive and the selective practices that continuously erase marginalised subjects. This exhibition was digitally coordinated from the island of Guåhan and highlighted the power of art, activism, and community across distances.

FREE and all welcome.