Bibliozine, Part IV Mus�e de la Poste. Timbres d'Artistes et Images de Timbres. Paris France, 1993. I received a handsome invitation to this show from the Mus�e de la Poste for the opening on September 13. Running from September 14, 1993 through January 20, 1994, the exhibition features an international selection of 85 stampsheets, plus the work of French artistamp artist Michel Hosszu. The opening also featured a performance, "Artistamp-Xerox-Carpet" by active networker H. R. Fricker of Switzerland. A catalog of the exhibition is forthcoming and proves to be a hopeful sign for the increased visibility of the future of the artistamp field. For further information contact: Greg Byrd. 10017 Renton Avenue S., Seattle, WA 98178-2256. James Warren Felter. 2707 Rosebery Avenue, West Vancouver, BC, Canada V7V 3A3. Joki Mail Art. PO Box 2631, D-32383 Minden, Germany. Mus�e de la Poste, 34 bd de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France. Bibliozine #15 ( October 1993) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). Book Catalogues. Being a bibliophile, one of my greatest joys is looking through book catalogues for both new and out-of-print materials. Some interesting ones have come my way recently, and I thought I'd share them. They're usually free for the asking. These companies cater to libraries and collectors, and are one of the first steps on the food chain of historification: libraries buy here; the materials are archived; whence they are made available to researchers; thence to the public. Ars Libra. Catalogue 97, Parts 1 and 2. June and July 1993. 560 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02118. Ars Libra, Ltd. is probably the leading American antiquarian bookseller specializing in the arts. Early this summer they published a two-part catalogue on Contemporary Art, which included the Library of Robert Pincus-Witten and Books from the Library of Ellen Johnson. Most of the materials listed are concerned with both well-known and obscure mainstream contemporary artists, but some interesting items appear. Foremost among these is a "dossier" of some 18 items sent by Ray Johnson to Robert Pincus-Witten between May 31, 1989 and February 4, 1992. "Numerous figures from the art world are referred to throughout, to charmingly ludicrous effect." Together with six hand-addressed envelopes, the items are offered for $500. Allan Kaprow's masterpiece, Assemblage, Environments & Happenings, which includes photographs on the Japanese Gutai group, is on sale for $700 (I've seen this offered for much more elsewhere.) V TRE EXTRA, a posthumous tribute to George Maciunas by fluxus, is $75. Get the picture? This catalogue, and all of Ars Libra's lists, are as knowledgeable as they are unique. Art Metropole. Catalogue Number 16, 1993. 788 King Street, West Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1N6. Art Metropole has been providing information on international contemporary art for over twenty years. In the early days they were linked with the artist collective General Idea. They operate both a bookshop and a mail order operation which stocks artists' books, exhibition catalogues, critical writings, audio works, videotapes and multiples. Both current and out-of-print works are available. They also publish their own editions as well, including a 1992 exhibition catalog of Iain Baxter and N.E.Thing Co. Ltd., who was responsible (along with General Idea, Image Bank, Anna Banana, Chuck Stake, et al.) for the Canadian mail art explosion in the early seventies. You'll find everything from artists' books by Hakim Bey, Marcel Broodthaers, and Karen Finley, to works on Fluxus and the Guerrilla Girls. Anything relevant to conceptual art is likely to wind up here. Howard Schickler Fine Art. Catalogue No. 1993-1. Russia and the Avant-Garde. PO Box 97, Pacific Palisades, California 90272. An offering of "books and journals published in Russia between 1910 and 1941 dealing with some of the most significant art movements in the 20th century - Russian Futurism, Suprematism, and Constructivism. Many of the items in this catalog are notable for their historical or illustrative contents, and others for the people instrumental in their design, including Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Lazar El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, and Gustav Klutsis to name but a few." A handsome work with many reproductions from the books and periodicals referred to. Ursus Books. Catalogue 171: Part III N-Z. Monographs on Artists of the 20th Century. 375 West Broadway, New York, New York 10012. This tends toward the mainstream (Picasso, Man Ray, Ad Reinhardt, Cy Twombly, William Wegman), but it's a good browse, and if nothing else, it clues you in on which artists are in and out of favor according to the prices asked for the books and exhibition catalogues written about them. Ronny Van de Velde. Catalogue 1. Twentieth-Century Art. 1992. Amerikalei 202, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium. The offerings in this catalogue are divided in two sections covering Dada and Surrealism, and Art After 1945. Books and periodicals are offered as well as manuscripts, photographs and multiples. In the first section you can purchase a photograph of Man Ray for $10,000, or three manuscripts of texts by Magritte (a total of 81/2 pages for $3,125). But of more interest to the networker are works by contemporaries like the periodical Diagonal Cero, Number 21, edited by Edgardo Antonio Vigo of La Plata, Argentina ($78); three xerox booklets by German Albrecht D ($62); the English Fluxshoe catalog conceived by Ken Friedman and Mike Weaver, and realized by David Mayor in 1972 ($110); a conceptual art project by Klaus Groh ($62); and a collection by and about Ben Vautier (see Bibliozine #13) ($625). A pleasant stroll down the memory lane of the avant-garde. But keep your pockets full. Bibliozine #16 ( November 1993) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). Mus�e de la Poste. Timbres d'Artistes. Mus�e de la Poste Editions, Paris, France. 1993. 246 Pages. ISBN 2-905 412-21-6. This issue of Bibliozine features a breakthrough publication in the field of artist postage stamps, alternatively known as artistamps, and/or cinderellas. This discrepancy in terminology highlights the fluency of the field, whose ambiguity is but one reason the field has received so little attention in the mainstream art press. This work should help remedy the situation. Not only is it published by one of the great postal museums of the world, but the introduction is authored by noted French art critic Pierre Restany, who first came to the attention of the artworld when he championed the work of Yves Klein and the Nouveau R�alisme movement in the late fifties. Both of these contributions should lend the field of artist postage stamps a new found legitimacy. The book is the result of an exhibition at the Mus�e de la Poste curated by mail artist Jean-No�l Laszlo from September 14, 1993, to January 20, 1994. Laszlo previously curated an exhibition by the same name at Espace Peiresc in Toulon, France, in May 1990. It is due to his dedicated five years of research that this book has been brought forth. In an essay included in the work, Laszlo makes clear that he had no previous interest in philately, but that in spite of this, his interest in mail art drew him to the artist stamp. The attraction of the field is it's ability to bridge both art and life and "the bypassing of the institutional cultural field which certain artists refuse." Other supporting essays included in the book (French and English translations provided), are written by the Director of the Mus�e de la Poste, Marie-Claude Le Floc'h Vellay, Peter Frank, James Warren Felter, Edward Van Riper Varney, and Patrick Marchand. Frank's essay is a reprint from his pioneering article, which first appeared in Art Express magazine in May/June 1981. The decade old history is still the best overview of the field. Felter and Varney's essays update the field and seek to define the characteristics of the artist postage stamp. Marchand bypasses mail art to concentrate on the way various philatelic artists have moved the postage stamp beyond it's basic format. As informative as the essays are, the real treat for the reader is the full color reproductions of some seventy sheets and envelopes by an array of mail artists and others active in the field. The majority of the artists are known to me as long-time mail art participants. Some French artists are included whose reputations escape me, but who are no doubt active in a more limited circle. The big surprise, however, is the inclusion of Nick Bantcock, the author of the Griffin and Sabine series, who is represented by a sheet of stamps produced by Anna Banana (Bantcock, like Banana, is a resident of Vancouver, Canada). But otherwise, the networker will find such familiar names as Vittore Baroni, Guy Bleus, David Cole, Mike Duquette, Arturo Fallico, E.F. Higgins III, Ruud Janssen, Joki, Ruggero Maggi, Clemente Padin, Pawel Petasz, Jenny Soup, Lon Spiegelman, Patricia Tavenner, and Chuck Welch. The 246 page oversize paperback is a must for anyone interested in mail art and associated fields. One will find references to rubber stamp art, copy art, fluxus, computer art, communication theory, and many other concerns of the contemporary cultural networker. Timbres d'Artistes is available through Mus�e de la Poste, 34 boulevard de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France. The cost is 320 French Francs ($56.90) . Bibliozine #17 ( December 1993) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). A year end report of writings by and about John Held Jr. MAGAZINE ARTICLES PUBLISHED: "Performance at Club Dada Examines Concept of an Open World." Cage (Serbia). April 1993. Page 12 and back cover. Ilustration. "This is Not a Lecture." Kettle of Fisk. Philadelphia, Pa. Vol. 3, No. 2. June 1993. Page 11 and back inside cover. "Blinking Through." New Bulletin (Adria, Italy). Number 86, May 1993. "Where the Secret is Hidden." El Djarida (Trondheim, Norway). Number 10. 1993. "FeMail Art: An Annotated Bibliography." Face (Youngstown, Ohio), Number 7, November 1993. (What is) International Networker Culture (Anyway). Kettle of Fisk. Philadelphia, Pa. Vol .3, No. 3,. December 1993. CATALOG ESSAYS PUBLISHED: "(What is) International Networker Culture (Anyway)." International Networker Culture, University of Texas at Dallas. April 1993. "Excerpts from Crossing the Cactus Curtain." Collected Works of Clemente Padin. Montevideo, Uruguay. 1993. "Hair Networking." Peter Kusterman. Free Personal Deluxe Net Mail Delivery Documentary Catalogue. Minden, Germany. 1993. "Bibliozine #1." Peter Kusterman. Free Personal Deluxe Net Mail Delivery Documentary Catalogue. Minden, Germany. 1993. "Architecture is the Way We Wrap the World Around Us." Building Plans and Schemes. Cultuurcentrum Heusden-Zolder, Limburg, Belgium. 1993. BOOKS MENTIONING: Kusterman, Peter. Free Personal Deluxe Net Mail Delivery Documentary Catalogue. Netmail, Minden Germany. 1993. Articles and graphics. Mus�e de la Poste. Timbres d'Artistes. Editions Mus�e de la Poste, Paris, France. 1993. Reproduction. Perneczky. The Magazine Network. Soft Geometry, Cologne, Germany. 1993. Tisma, Andrej. New Territories. Krovovi Publishers, Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia. 1992. Photo. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS MENTIONING: Al Ackerman. "Keynote Address to the Southwest Decentralized Mail Art Congress and Rodeo." Retrofuturism, Number 17, April 1993. Page 1871-1875. Banana, Anna. "Late Letter." Herd, Number 2. June 1993. Broadwater, Lisa. "International Networker Culture Mail Art Show." Dallas Morning News Guide, April 9, 1993. Page 3. Bryant, Helen. "Art Thou Art?" Dallas Morning News, February 25, 1993. Page 29A. Coenegrachts, Yel. "Mail Art: Who Says What in Which Channel to Whom With What." Gonzo Circus (Belgium), March/April 1993. Page 40-41. Degney, , Neil. "What is Mail Art?" Fearless: Internation Contemporary Mail Art Exhibition Catalogue (Brisbane, Australia). March 1993. Gagnon, J. C. "Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography/Bibliozine." Inter (Quebec, Canada), Number 55/56,. 1993. Hoffberg, Judith. "A Fluxus Event." Umbrella, Vol. 16. No. 2/3. October 1993. Hoffberg, Judith. "News." Umbrella. March 1993. Joki Mail Art. "Artistamps." S'Mail (Minden, Germany). Number 2. September 1993. Kamperelic, Dobrica. "Communication Kills Isolation." The International Weekly (Belgrade, Yugoslavia). August 16-29, 1993. Page 4. Myers, Rhonda. "A Stampy Time in London Town." Rubberstampmadness, March/April 1993. Page 80. Phillpot, Clive (translated into Italian by A. Rizzi). "Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography." New Bulletin (Adria, Italy), Number 88, June 1993. Sperling, Roberta. "The Art is in the Mail-And in the Street." Rubberstampmadness, September/October 1993. Page 20. Utica College of Syracuse University."Alumni Notes."On Campus, Summer 1993, Vol 2, Number 3. Page 4. Y�piz, Gerardo. "Correo del Arte." Expresion Deforme (Ensenada, Mexico). July 1993. Yoshitome, Yayoi, ed. "Global Forum."Art Unidentified Newsletter, (Nishinomiya, Japan), March 30, 1993. Yoshitome, Yayoi, ed. "Crucifixion Symposium." Art Unidentified Newsletter, (Nishinomiya, Japan). June 2, 1993. Bibliozine #18 ( December 1993) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). Pioneer Networker Picasso Gaglione As a New York City high school student in the early sixties, William Gaglione witnessed the golden-age of Fluxus performance. He was a participant in Ray Johnson's New York Correspondance School exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970. Ken Friedman passed him the editorship of the New York Weekly Breeder in 1972 going on to edit such publications as Dadazine, VILE, and Stamp Art. Gaglione was a founding member of Bay Area Dada and participated in a number of San Francisco exhibitions and performances. He toured Eastern and Western Europe in 1978 with then wife Anna Banana in a series of Futurist theater pieces. He has been a tireless advocate of rubber stamps as an art medium, and currently directs the operation of one of the largest of America's rubber stamp companies with his current wife Darlene Domel. Stamp Francisco encompasses a manufacturing department, rainbow pad division, retail store, mail order business, art gallery, and rubber stamp museum. Gaglione is currently researching a book on the subject of hand carved eraser stamps. In the Spring of 1994, Gaglione and the editor of Bibliozine , traveling as the Fake Picabia Brothers, will tour Germany, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland. Selected Bibliography of Works Mentioning Picasso Gaglione. Banana, Anna, ed. About VILE. Banana Productions, Vancouver, Canada. 1983. Contains a complete publishing and performance record of Gaglione's output current to the work's publication. A diary of the 1978 European Performance Tour is given by Anna Banana. Cavellini, Guglielmo Achille. Cavellini in California and in Budapest. Living Room Show, Brescia, Italy. 1980. Pictured on the cover with Buster Cleveland, Gaglione also plays a part in this retelling of the author's trip to Inter Dada '80 in Ukiah, California. Crane, Michael, and Stofflet, Mary. Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity. Contemporary Arts Press, San Francisco, California. 1984. Mentioned throughout, Gaglione also authors a chapter on Italian mail art. Most of the graphics in the book are from the Gaglione Archive. Gaglione, Bill, ed. Vile #7 (Stamp-art). Banana Productions, San Francisco, California. 1980. The first major effort to detail the publications, exhibitions and events in the history of contemporary rubber stamp usage. In the process, Gaglione's early rubber stamp accomplishments are listed. Held, John Jr. Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press, Metchen, New Jersey. 1991. Article about (10) and by (6) Gaglione are listed and annotated. Neumark, Naomi. The Evolution of Stamp Francisco. Rubberstampmadness, January/February 1992. Page 44-45. An interview with Darlene Domel which tells the history of Stamp Francisco from it's start in the basement of her and Gaglione's house to it's current reincarnation as one of the foremost rubber stamp companies in America, and sponsor of the Stamp Art Gallery. Newell, Susan. The Stampart Gallery. Rubberstampmadness, January/February 1992. Page 41-43. Gaglione talks about the philosophy, much of it steeped in the founding principles of mail art, which quide the management of the Stamp Art Gallery. Perneczky, G�za. The Magazine Network: The Trends of Alternative Art in the Light of Their Periodicals 1968-1988. Soft Geometry, Cologne, Germany. 1993. Just recently published, Gaglione's accomplishments are examined in relation to the surge in alternative art publishing during the seventies. The author also offers an explanation for Gaglione's success as both an artist and a businessman. "Gaglione's devotion to the 'commercial' is part and parcel of his artistic world. Similar to most of the other American stamp artists, he also began as a collector of the old Art Nouveau toy rubber stamps and the related pattern-books, boxes and publications. Most probably he still relies heavily on these old prints in his large-scale stamp producing venture. But his art is also marked by the influence of the antiquated and rather commercial figural stamps. For Gaglione, stamp art is a 'ready-made' affair. He is not a poet of some refined reflections or profound tautologies. Instead, he is a prankster whose jugglery with the logical sequences (or contradictions) raises his stamps to an artistic level. Bibliozine #19 ( December 1993) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). Selections from the first ten issues of M. B. Corbett's Tensetendoned are currently on exhibition at Modern Realism Gallery. Tensetendoned is an "international networker periodical of mail art accumulation and dissemination." Contributors are encouraged to send "56 originals, copies, postcards, texts, or 120 artistamps/stickers. In return receive an assembled collection of all submitting artists' work." (Tensetendoned, P.O. Box 155, Preston Park , PA 18455 USA) The editor will curate an exhibition of artist postage stamps at the Bush Barn Gallery of the Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon in June 1995. Works will be selected from the Modern Realism Archive collection (currently numbering over 250 artists). Contributions for inclusion are welcomed. Two Recent Books on the Networker Congresses of 1992. Kaufmann, Peter W. Congress Chronology DNC '92. Peter W. Kaufmann, Ebmatingen, Switzerland. 1993. Kaufmann was the co-organizer of the Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress 1992 with fellow Swiss mail artist H. R. Fricker. They began working together to define the Congresses in January 1990, but it was not until 1991 that a steady push was initiated to propagate the concept within the mail art community. Mail artists were encouraged to propose Congress sessions on different aspects of networking and write their thoughts on the networking experience. Statements were sent to the two Swiss networkers, which were then forwarded to Stephen Perkins and Lloyd Dunn of the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers Iowa Chapter. The statement booklet produced by Perkins and Dunn was circulated widely in the network and served as a basis of discussion for some 250 Congress sessions. The concept of the Networker Congresses found favor in mail art circles because of a shared willingness to reach out to other networks having cultural, political, and social concerns. Such networks, forming around zines, computer bulletin boards, electronic caf�s, rubber stamps, fax, women's issues, peace, anticopyright, etc., were of a similar thread, yet were often only vaguely aware of each other. Mail artists, having had experience in organizing global interaction with the 1986 Mail Art Congresses (80 Congresses in over thirty countries), took the lead in organization, but the results were ultimately successful because of it's decentralized activity. Co-organizer Kaufmann has given us his personal account of Congress activities. Taking up the larger part of the work is a nearly day-by-day listing of communication between himself and nearly two hundred networkers expressing interest in the Congresses. Each listing is dutifully notated in a brief description of the exchange. Periodicals and other bibliographic materials are also cited making this an invaluable resource for further research on Networker Congress activities. Primary source materials generated by Congress participants are reprinted, including the German language call for the holding of Congress sessions and networker statements by Kaufmann and Fricker and translations of it into English, Italian, English, and Spanish; completed information sheets on proposed Congresses; and flyers for forthcoming Congress sessions . Twenty-seven artist postage stamp sheets designed on the Macintosh computer (some perforated) by Kaufmann compose the next section. This acts as a creative counterbalance to the record keeping implicit in the work, and fetishizes different aspects of the Congress. Next is a list of 193 contacts and 251 Congress sessions. The book is composed on computer and laser printed. The binding is undeniably European and very attractive in it's black and white simplicity. It is published by the author in an edition of fifty with an additional sixteen copies printed for the Congress netlinks. No price is given. For further acquisition information contact: Peter W. Kaufmann, Bergwisenstrasse 11, CH-811123 Ebmatingen, Switzerland. Netmail, Peter and Angela . Free Personal Delivery / Congress Mail 1992. Netmail, Minden, Germany. 1993. This work is a perfect compliment to the one above as it also reflects the authors personal view of the Networker Congresses, but in quite a different way. Peter Kustermann and Anglea P�hler (who after the experience changed their last names to Netmail) set aside the entire year of 1992 to travel the world and conduct Congress sessions with those networkers they met along the way. And what a journey it was! In the course of their one-year art project, Kustermann and P�hler convened 170 Congress sessions in 35 countries crossing 50 borders; met 350 networkers; and carried 4,000 pieces of registered mail. This is a large book of 450 pages that contains written information on each of the 170 Congress sessions (many of them unnoted by Kaufmann in his compilation), plus photographs, commemorative rubber stamp impressions, perforated postage stamp sheets, and stickers. Articles from both local papers and art magazines describing the activities of the two travelling Netmailers are reproduced. Introductions are provided by Library Directors of both the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Clive Phillpot), and the Tate Gallery (Meg Duff). In addition, Dr. Wolfgang B�tsch, Federal Minister of German Post and Telecommunication offers, "...most important is that mail brings people closer. This is also a function of art. In this respect, 'MAIL' and 'ART' are very closely related, and the passion of the NETMAIL POSTMEN creates connections of a completely new kind." For acquisition information contact: Peter Netmail, PO Box 2644, 38383 Minden, Germany. Bibliozine #20 ( February 1994) John Held Jr., Editor Modern Realism Archive 1903 McMillan Avenue Dallas, Texas, 75206 USA Bibliozine is an irregular periodical published in connection with research the editor is conducting for a new book, International Networker Culture: An Annotated Bibliography. If you have materials that may be of interest to the project, please send them to the above address. Especially looking for articles on networking and it's various aspects (zines, mail art, telecommunications, computer bulletin boards, fax, cassette culture, photocopy, collaborative performances, artist collectives, artistamps, rubber stamp art, fluxus, and other aspects of post-war avant-garde cultures). Please send mail art, zines, artist's books, and related genres to: Sr. Abelardo Mena, Curator of Foreign Art, National Museum of Beaux-Arts, Calle 19+1164 e/ 16 y 18 apto 5, Vedado Habana 4, 10400 Cuba. A mail art exhibition at Cuba's National Museum is currently under consideration. The Fake Picabia Brothers World Performance Tour has been postphoned until the Fall of 1994. Dobrica Kamperelic's Open World: YU Mail Art Magazine. Number seventy-eight of Open World has just been published by Yugoslavian Networker Dobrica Kamperelic and never under more trying circumstances. Despite unimaginable inflation and scarcities of all kinds including paper, this indefatigable champion of the underground arts is still publishing in the face of an embargo placed upon his country. That he still continues to call his magazine Open World, a utopian ideal flying in the face of daily Balkan reality, is a testament both to the goodness of Dobrica's heart, and the kindness and support he continues to receive from the network. In the Yugoslavian anti-embargo art magazine,Cage (Number 3, October 1993) Kamperelic writes: In 1985 I started a network magazine OPEN WORLD. My intention was to fill a real gap in Yugoslav network art of communication. I wanted to give everybody the chance to express and to present themselves to the international network of alternative creative work. My plan was that they find out about new projects and to take part in them, and also that the Open World stands for a place of various influences and for providing spiritual and other influences from all over the world... Continue to Part V |