☂ Шalazine is a translocal queer artistic zine dedicated to queer life forms from the region known as Belt, aka Beldik. It represents invisible communities of humans, semi-humans, and non-humans that might not quite exist.
☂ The name Шalazine consists of two parts: the Kazakh word “shala” (meaning “half-,” “under-,” or “not completely”) and the international word “zine” — a DIY magazine. Therefore it is not completely a journal in the proper sense of the word. It is communicative organ of a beltian para-institution named Kreolex zentre. Being only half a journal, Шalazine nevertheless strives to become a platform for queer-feminist, decolonial and anti-imperialist positions and practices from the Belt and beyond.
☂ Шalazine pretends to be an art journal about everything — because it’s about art, and art is always about everything. And not only that. There is always more to the subject matter than can be said. Whatever we say here will only tell half the story.