Kuti Magazine, a Finnish contemporary comics magazine. Issue curated by ZORAS Collective, out September 2023, and presented at the Helsinki Comics Festival.
“You need imagination to be an activist, and there is also something activist about being imaginative.” S.B. anti-racist activist and researcher.
Cover is a collective doodle made at Kone Foundation residency, Saari Manor, Finland, Summer 2022
Rooting hope
This issue of KUTI magazine is edited by ZORAS, a transdisciplinary collective of visual and sound artists and writers. The idea was born during a month long residency at Kone Foundation’s Saari Manor in the suumer of 2022. Through thinking and making together we explore the interconnectedness between practices of individual artists and activists as a catalyst for change. We appreciate the tradition of comics as a medium of artistic experimentation where boundaries are pushed and practices of activism can flourish. By translating our forms of collaboration into the fertile field of KUTI, we try to use the art of comics to explore how this could help us to collectively move towards social and ecological change.
We walk in the footsteps of transdisciplinary practices, while leaving new prints behind. In this issue you will encounter comics, different visual arts, narrative and pieces of music.
Part of our explorations are invitations into our practice, a question or an experience. Therefore it seemed only natural to invite nine other fellow artists and activists to create this issue of KUTI with us. Likewise, we now wish to invite you into our process – to travel, think and metabolise the world with us. We hope you enjoy roaming through this universe and take something from it for your own life or practice.
ZORAS is: Sanna Hukkanen (FI), Inez Louwagie (BE), Rona Kennedy (BE/GB), Silvana Mammone (DE) and Charlotte Peys (BE) together with the invited artists: Daria Apakhonchich (RU/GE), Carla Besora (SP/BE), Enrica Camporesi (IT/BE), Jonne Kauko (FI), Line Mertens (BE), Hannele Richert (FI) and Maria Trautmann (DE).
Editor-in-chief Sanna Hukkanen, editorial & cover ZORAS collective. Layout by Väinö Sirén.
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