The Grass is Green in the Fields for You acted as the home for a series of speculations in making and distributing. Through the production of publications, ephemera, objects and sound works which were disseminated experimentally via a subscription service.
The work explores a balance between the private and the public through independent published outcomes. Utilising online promotional techniques the subscription service gained its followers and publications were then sent to subscribers in the first instance. The catalogue and other items were then distributed on a secondary level at events and bookfairs, and through peer-to-peer trade streams, again questioning what is public and what is private?
Subjects were not limited to music narratives, but its artefacts celebrated the ways in which music events, people and cultures become mythologised, often exploring copyright, editioning and the format of the Shanzhai. The un-detailed catalogue endeavoured to push lo-fi consumer-level production and antagonised the ways in which text and images travel, disregarding the protective territory of ownership. The project aims to straddle genres; independent art and design publishing and mainstream music publishing, whilst remaining loyal to underground fanzine culture.