Kim Gordon’s involvement aligns with her broader interdisciplinary practice that moves between visual art, music, writing and independent publishing.

Her contributions to printed matter often employ the aesthetics of zines, artist books and hybrid text-image formats, emphasizing immediacy, cultural commentary and subcultural distribution networks.

Mike Kelley’s engagement with printed media likewise forms part of his wider investigation into memory culture, popular imagery and institutional critique. Publications in his oeuvre frequently operate as parallel artworks — combining essayistic writing, archival imagery and conceptual framing — rather than secondary documentation. Within this framework, the Fama & Fortune Bulletin issues with Gordon and Kelley can be understood as compact artist books that foreground. The Fama & Fortune Bulletin series reflects the early-1990s moment when artist publishing functioned as an alternative exhibition format. Rather than documenting finished works, the bulletins were conceived as autonomous artistic statements using the printed booklet as a site of production, circulation and self-positioning.