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AGK
The Annual General Karaoke has become an established highlight in Dundee’s cultural calendar and why would it not be? The idea is simple: a karaoke night where all the karaoke videos are made by you! Yuck ’n Yum decided to not only ask the audience to sing at a Karaoke event but to also ask them to produce the Karaoke videos to sing along too. It’s the most unusual video competition in existence with top prizes to be won. The open submission has attracted a wealth of talented video makers from video pros to some dabbling in the media for…
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Zine Fair
The Yuck n Yum zine fair has become an irresistible event in independent publishing within Dundee. Grown each year since its inauguration into the YnY events calendar a mere two years ago, the fair has attracted stall holders from far and wide including, TYCI, Treehouse Comics, Super Club and Team Girl Comics. The second zine fair also saw the YnY host an international stall, giving those who would be unable to make it to the fair the opportunity to get their work out to a new, very receptive, audience. By inviting zine makers and artists to have their work on…
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Zine Idol
After 5 years spent climbing to the top of the zine tree, and having printed our last ever issue, Yuck ‘n Yum decided to give a helping hand to someone else. We wanted to find another zine, a group of zinesters just starting out who were deserving of the chance. Zine Idol aimed to find the best zine-making talent out there, with the prize of £500 seed money and all of our help and know-how up for grabs. The competition attracted entries from all over Scotland, with the Hannah Maclure Centre’s Micro Cinema hosting presentations from 5 finalists, each making…
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Proof
For the 2013 Print Festival Scotland, in parallel with the Impact 8 Conference, Yuck ‘n Yum worked with the Hannah Maclure Centre to present Beatrice Haines’ exhibition Proof. The prints and installations aimed to reveal the invisible, and were inspired by a residency at the University of Abertay Dundee’s forensics lab.
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Guest Zine
In 2012 Yuck ‘n Yum brought to you the Guest Zine Project, where we funded, published and distributed two zines ‘Innards’ by Michael Lacey and ‘I Like Yellow Things’ by Val Norris and Steven Myles.
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Artists’ Books
In 2012 Yuck ‘n Yum were asked to curate a wall as part of DCA’s showcase of artist books and ephemera. We featured 39 artists who had contributed to our zine alongside framed original artworks from our cover artists Paul Milne, Ross Hamilton Frew and Helen Flanagan.
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Cabin:Codex
In 2011 we created ‘The Deadline is Nigh’ – a live work responding to the notions of the book and reading for the relaunch of the Centre of Artist Books, Visual Research Centre, DCA. Over the course of the month of May Yuck ‘n Yum ‘live curated’ a special edition of our zine from submission, selection, printing and distribution.
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KYTN Mixtape
We were invited by Arika to make an audio work for the Kill Your Timid Notion Festival in 2010. For each day of the festival we transmitted audio works via a bluetooth device in the foyer of the DCA alongside hosting the works on our website. At the end of the festival we released the 7 track compilation on our website which can still be downloaded.
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Turn Your Bluetooth On
It was a freezing December in Inverness… but those parking their car in Old Town Rose Street Car park in Inverness could be warmed up by some great video art just by turning their Bluetooth on! We were commissioned by Old Town Arts in Inverness to create an artwork in a public space as part of a larger exhibition called Getting Up! YNY invited 8 artists to create a video or sound work to be transmitted via Bluetooth. The artists were Jason Nelson, Sam Spreckly, Kim Walker, Roger Roger, Holger Mohaupt, Catherine Weir, Edward Shallow and Gayle Meikle . Not…
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Yuck ‘n Yum Art Distribution Unit
In 2009 we were commissioned by the Cupar Arts Festival to implement our project Yuck ‘n Yum Distribution Unit, a tongue-in-cheek project which gave away free art mimicking large corporations tactics of marketing ‘new products’.
