Zines, chapbooks, independent publication
“An Evening of Performance” chaplet, a collection of performance scores and ephemera from the performance series C. ran in Echo Park in 2022. Cover is marbled and custom hand stamped, saddle stitch bound. Fore-edge trimmed at Nova Community Arts. Edition of 75 published March 2023.
Reversible mini-chapbook containing one poem by C. Bain, one poem by Gia Kagan-Trenchard, and a context note by Adam Baran. Hand-stitched, stamped and stenciled cover, interior trans-tarot illustrations by C. Bain. Edition of 150. 2021.
THE BODY RETURNS is an abolitionist analysis/blueprint of the prison industrial complex as a structure of human sacrifice, and the body as a site of resistance as opposed to a readable/writeable surface. Prepared for Ashley Hunt, in collaboration between C., Kristofor Giordano and Matthew Adam Ross. Edition of 15, 2021.
All zines 2020-2021
“Are Trans Women Women?” a 1-sheet meander book that says some version of “yes” on all 12 pages.
front cover of Trans Polemics
back cover of Trans Polemics
cover of White Art Making: Failure Notes, an essay. Craft paper and red silk stab-stitch binding. 2021.
Zines, chapbooks, and other scrappy unique independent publications are a major part of Tiresias Projekt’s work. The physical text-document is a marker of connection, a form of proof. Paradoxically, as digital information pervades and contaminates us with extreme accessibility, zines become a way to contain and control information, an anti-algorithmic interference in the matrix of official vs. clandestine, permanent vs. ephemeral, canonical vs. marginal knowledge production. C. Bain trained in bookmaking through apprenticeship at Ugly Duckling Presse, via participation in the Center for Book Arts’ first creative publication seminar in 2020, and through the San Francisco Center For the Book’s core certification bookbinding program.
collection of C. Bain’s partial chapbook back-catalogue, courtesy of Sasha Warner-Berry.