A to Z of Resort Life: a project by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon (2015)

A to Z of Resort Life, a project by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon, 2015. Photo: Brian Cregan

A to Z of Resort Life, a project by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon, 2015. Photo: Brian Cregan

Produced by Maeve Connolly and Fiona Gannon, A to Z of Resort Life is a zine devoted to the work of US artist Andrea Zittel. Since the early 1990s, Zittel has used her daily life as the material of her practice, making objects, furnishings and clothing. Some of these objects are inspired by Zittel’s own childhood experiences of holidaying in trailers and recreational vehicles. Most of the artworks are functional things that can be customised by their owners and users, such as her Travel Trailer Units and A-Z Escape Vehicles, and Zittel has also created miniature islands for temporary habitation. The A to Z of Resort Life was produced within the context of Resort Revelations, a residency programme organised by Caroline Cowley of Fingal Arts at Lynder’s Mobile Home Park in Portrane, north county Dublin. It was devised for hardcopy distribution at the Bleeding Pig Festival in Portrane, September 11-13, 2015. A compressed PDF of the zine can be downloaded here.