Géza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

B. → Cleveland and Robert Rockola. Tabloid, phc., 15 p. Edition La
Mamelle Inc., San Francisco, June 1980
Cushman, Barbara: The 1980 Cooperative Color Xerox Calendar.
The 1981 Cooperative Color Xerox Calendar.
Color Xerox Annual.
1983 Color Xerox Annual.
New Art 84.
(Spiral bound colour xerox calendars 1981-84. All publs. legal size,
colour xerox, 15-16 p. A Fine Hand Prod., S. F. More: → Cushman)
Stamp Art. Eds.: Joel Rossman, Tim Mancusi, Bill Gaglione. (55 participants)
Letter, phc., San Francisco, 1980
Fallout (Mag., ed. by → Smith, Winston. #1-2: digest, phc., #3-5: tabloid, newsprint,
24-40 p. 1980-84, squ.) Fairfax CA. Further→ Smith, W.
Cenizas #18 (Mag., with guest editor Geoffrey Cook. A visual poetry special issue,
digest, phc., 40 p.) Ed. Romax, San Francisco (Rolando Catellion)
Neo-Roc International Mail Art Exhibition. Cat.: Letter, phc. & rubber stamps,
28 p. Org.: Marlon Rockola (editor of the Cat.:) & B. Gaglione. 112
parts. / Fort Mason (alternative space). San Francisco, Febr. 1982
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Literature:
Robert Camuto: Mailomania. (Covers the Bay Area mail art activity with Banana
and Gaglione at the forefront) In: Boulevards (tabloid). Vol. 2, N° 1. San Francisco
Vittore → Baroni: Interview with Bill Gaglione & Anna Banana (espacially about
the Bay Area Dadaists). In: Punk Artist. N° 4. Ed. Graziano Origa. Milano, 1979
Géza Perneczky: The Magazine Network. The trends of alternative art in the light
of their periodicals 1968-1988. Edition Soft Geometry. Köln, 1993. 50-51 p.
«In 1968, Gaglione began working at Barons Art Supply, where owner, Edward
Aaron, a former lawyer and army surplus salesman, encouraged a relaxed atmosphere
among the staff. Steve → Caravello, who became the photographer of record
for the group, began working at Barons soon after, joined the following year by
Charles Chickadel. The core group of the Bay Area Dadaists congealed when Tim
Mancusi, Gaglion's from Long Island Island moved to the area in 1969... In the
seventies, artists went alternative, circumventing the established away institutions.
For the most part, the Bay Area dadaists operated away from the mainstream,
building new support systems through correspondence, publications, performances
and festivals... From 1972, they were all involved in the mail art scene...
Gaglione and Mancusi became the editors of The New York Weekly Breeder,
which had first been published by Fluxus member Ken → Friedman. Friedman
passed the editorship on to Stu → Horn of the Northwest Mounted Valise, who in
urn relinquished his editorship to the Bay Area Dada group... These publications
were produced at a crucial time, when photocopying was replacing mimeograph
as the favored medium of self-publishing... The publications of the Bay Are
Dada group marked a shift from the underground writings of the psychedelic area.
They had a harder edge, in part due to the New York roots of Gaglione and
Mancusi, and precursed the turn from hippie to punk and industrial sensibilities...»
(John → Held, Jr: An Introductory History of Bay Area Dada Publications. In:
The Bay Area Dadaist. Ed. Stamp Art Gallery [→ Gaglione]. San Francisco,1997)
«In many ways, this issue (#4) of the Breeder attains it's classic look. Reprinted
newspaper articles are collaged with visual material, much of it pornographic in
nature, all of it just a bit off kilter. For instance, on page three the following scraps
from newspapers are gathered together on a collages background... The headline on
page one reads, „Re-elect the President“, and there is social commentary running
throughout.» (John → Held, Jr: Bay Area Dada, 1970- 1984: An Annotated