Géza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

4 original rubbers to stamp. A1 Waste Paper Co Ltd., London. 1986
^Thematic Compilation Tape Exchange – pudding songs, train songs, etc. Inv. n.d.
^Pulling Face. Inv.-letter, 1986
^Duplicat Documents. (A series of 10x8 cm. ~16 p. publs. with collage, rubbers, etc.)
^#12 (1988)
^Michael Scott – 1935-1988, in memoriam Inv.-letter, 1988
Weirdorama. A festive side-show of curious objects, gadgets, gew-gaws, mail art,
collage and rubber stamps. Cat.: 12 p. Walsall Museum, Walsall, 1994
^Hand shaped postcards exchange – no envelope! Inv.-flyer, ~1995
Artistamps: ^Recycled (Sheet of 30 id. rubber stamped artistamp images /bicycle, ®
indigo colour on rose paper, not perforated) n.d. (1988?)
^A.1. MAIL (Sheet of 28 id. stamp images/globe, indigo colour) n.d.
^Michael Scott 1934..1988 (Sheet of 15 id. stamp images/text, indigo
colour) 1988
~
Literature:
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Rubberstamps. (An interview with Michael
Leigh) In: Métro Riquet (→ Duvivier), #8. Paris, 1990. n.p.
«CuriosThing has been my main published work with issues of 200 copies, signed,
numbered and rubber stamped coming out every few months on an irregular basis.
Just lately I have been collaborating with other people who have a similar sense of
humour and they have been called Curios Radio (with → Roger Radio), Curios
Snail (with Snail Art Co.), and The Pipe Flange & Nipple Sentinel (with A Classic
Pair). Other booklets have gone by various names including U-Mak-It Inventors
Manual and Do Wonders Inventors Manual. Around the end of each year I also
make a Christmas Catalogue which is a spoof on all those awful yuppie gift catalogues
that proliferate at that time.»
(Editor's Statement. In: Stephen → Perkins: International Zine Show, 1992, 4 p.)
«...to ask you what your „firm“ A1 Waste Paper Co. Ltd. is all about...
Well, it was soon after I had chanched upon the mail art network in 1980 at
the Artlink International exhibition at the Greenwich Theatre Gallery in London
that I decided I too could have a weird and wonderful nom de plume that many of
my fellow mail artists had contrived for themselves. Also it would be nice to have a
name other than my own attach all my mail art to so as to distinguist it from the
other art I was doing at that time (Landscapes and animals in oil on canvas). I forget
just how many names I'd thought up at the beginning but two I remember were Art
Aches Repository and the Bad Art Delivery Service. Both remeined on the back
burner until I chanched upon a couple of battered rubber stamps at a flea market in
London's East End – both were the address stamps for a defunct recycling firm
called the A. 1. Waste Paper Company Ltd. I couldn't belive my luck – just the
name I had been looking for! Not only did it sound good but could also be
shortened to A. 1. and covered all aspects of the recycling ethic I had seen as a key
element in the future. (...)
I think most sensible people realize that RECYCLING in everyday life is
very important... In art too this has become more and more important – not only
from an ecological point of view but as a way of saving valuable time and money.
My „archive“ consists mainly of dozens of cardboard boxes from the supermarket
which are stuffed full of old mail in no particular order or design. (...)
Mail is just as relaxing and therapeutic I think as sleeping, but unlike sleep I
have something to show for it at the end of the day! We just had a 2 days mail strike
here in London and I realized how much I missed the post when it didn't arrive –
I started to get withdrawal symptons! Yes, Mail Art is a drug! (...)
I like anything to do with postage stamps and rubber stamps. So it seemed
natural for me to combine the two. They are quick to apply to envelopes and one
can knock out sheets for projects and such like quite easily without having to spend
ages fidding around with a xerox machine. Also you can use those tiny collage