A sound piece Strings (2005) by Helena Wee is inspired by the unseen patterns in the everyday rhythms, structures and movement of our lives. Strings deconstructs the Prelude to Bach's Cello Suite No.1 by randomly swapping blocks of frequencies within the piece using Fast Fourier Transform. “Maybe all we are is a collection of tiny vibrating strings of energy. Elegant symphonies of randomness and chaos, each movement varying in tone and colour".

Helena Wee is an Other Asias Associate Artist whose work appeared in Current 1:InFormation and A Cup of Tea Solves Everything. She is also part of the Other Asias Zine Circle and made the Chang - E Starchart

OtherAsias Co-director Hamja Ahsan in currently involved in Construction Gallery Project Space in Tooting, from January to March 2012. Hamja was born, grew up & lives in Tooting. His event:

Tooting Zine & Artists Books Fair 2012

Saturday 25th February, 12pm - 6pm

Construction Gallery, 74-80 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PB, United Kingdom

Tube: Tooting Bec (then 2 mins walk)       FREE, all welcome

Email: tootingzines@gmail.com

The Construction Gallery ( constructiongallery.co.uk ) will be hosting the Tooting’s 1st Zine Fair on Saturday 25th February 2012!  Zines, artists books, illustrators, comics and critical writing will be exhibited from locally-based artists and all around the world including Pakistan, Russia, Siberia, Egypt and China. The day long event will include workshops, exhibitions, animation & video art screenings.

Admission is free.

Tooting Zine & Artists Books Fair :
http://tootingzines.tumblr.com/

CONFIRMED STALLS / ARTISTS / COLLECTIVE EXHIBITORS 2012:

Alternative Press, Girls Get Busy, Walrus Zines, Shebang, Other Asias, Tom Cass- Financially Hard Times, TINAG/Myrdle Court Press, Emma Falconer, Decadence Comics, Nichol Keene, Vampire Sushi, She Bang, Red Robin Press, Just Design Collective, Nanae Kawahara, Monster Emporium Press, Microcosmic Orbit, Eyeball Comics, Cressida Knapp, Partisan Zines, Siberian Zines, Elliott Baggott, Jasmine Fung, Very Small Kitchen, Whirly gig distro, Melanie Maddison, Vapid Kitten, Jasmine Fung, Susan Mortimer, Partisan Siberia.

Background:
The Zine Fair was initiated by two Tooting-based artists Hamja Ahsan and Sowfia Niazi.
Ahsan and Niazi have been active in the current revivial of interest in Zine culture, participating in recent Zine Fairs across the UK. The two wanted to bring Zine subculture to to address the lack of arts events in the local area, as part of the team running the Construction gallery.  

Hamja Ahsan, of Bangladeshi origin, runs a transnational artists collective called Other Asias, who will feature in the event. Sowfia Niazi, of Pakistani origin, recently published a zine on Hijabs and featured in Micah gallery’s Britpak exhibition and the Artistic Jihad touring exhibition. She is part of the Walrus Zines collective.

The event is part of Tooting Tales literary event held in Brick Box at Tooting Market.

Construction Gallery: http://constructiongallery.co.uk/

Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/251343718274031/

For posters / flyers & press images please contact us : tootingzines@gmail.com

Hamja will be delivering a talk and screening at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester in 2012. More details to follow.