To mark the second anniversary of AAA’s zine collection, Nam2 Haa5 Zine: Tête-à-tête between Zines and Books in AAA Library looks at how zines have expanded, challenged, and enriched existing narratives in art history. By pairing and grouping the zines with books and ephemeral materials from AAA Collections, this library display initiates a dialogue between institutional and personal approaches of artistic expression, and the generative discussions they can instigate in a research library.

The zine collection at AAA was launched in April 2019, and currently features over 500 titles. We first began to collect zines as a way to record the diversity of unrecorded and marginalised voices within the arts community, and to better understand the proliferation of this particular medium in this particular time.