Network Atlas by Geza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

446Tron, Otto ? River Fall, WI USA 1981°Illusion and Reality. Cat.: 22x28 cm., offset, 10 p. 377 parts. / Gallery 101. 1981 Truck, Fred Electronic Bank. 4225 University DesMoines, IA-50311 USA 1986The DesMoines Festival of the Avant-Garde. (In the form of performance proposals sent in to Fred Truck. Artists: A. Banana, J. Baldessari, G. Brecht,Cavellini, H. Chopin, B. Cleveland, G. Cook, R. Crozier, B. Gaglione,M. Gibbs, J. Armleder, D. Higgins, K. Kempton, R. Kostelanetz, M.Nannucci, O. L. Nations, J. Valoch and others) Cat. 29x21.5 cm., offset,12 p. Curated by Fred Truck. DesMoines, October 1979.Visuals & Memos. Letter, double-letter or folio size photocopied material aboutperformances, poetical and conceptual texts, photos and drawingscollected in cream coloured portfolios of 29.5x 23 cm. All pubs.from 1982:Visuals, 26 leaves: G. Bleus, C. Hilden, L. Burnham, R. Crozier, N.Frangione, E. F. Higgins, L. Spiegelman, Russian artists, etc.;XL Visuals, 8 leaves: P. Below, Bureau de la Poesie, P. Bruscky, U.Carrión, the Gerlovins, etc.;Memos, 12 leaves: G. Maciunas, Renate Bertlmann/Rimma Gerlovina,M. Scott, A. Partum, G. Wyllie, etc.The Electronic Memory Bank. An idea by Truck to found a performance-network (!).Collection and publications of proposals for performance «which havenot been performed, as well as documentations of events done elsewhereby the originating artist. Whenever possible, the Bank performed submittedevents, whether done before or not, and documented the results.»Since 1982 the Bank was a federally exempt private operating foundationand worked on an interesting synthese of performance art and anetwork documentation like Mail Art archives. Listed publications:The Performance Bank (Catalogue, 1982) Computer print onperforated accordion like pages of 18.5x17.5 cm. Pages have been preprintedby colour offset. Proposed performances by 32 artists on 40pages.Bond of Performance / The Performance Bank (Second cataloguefrom 1982) Computer print on perforated accordion-paper of letter size,layout horizontal. Pages have been pre-printed by colour offset. Proposedperformances by 45 artists on 68 pages:A. Banana, P. Below, J. Brown, P. Bruscky, Bureau de la Poesie/Warsaw,L. Burnham, U. Carrión, G. A. Cavellini, Le Clair, H. Clerico, R. P.Connolly, G. Cook, Cracker Jack Kid, R. Filliou, N. Frangione, K. Gaburo,B. Gaglione, R. & V. Gerlovin, M. Gibbs, A. J. Gnazzo, S. Henderson,E. F. Higgins III, D. Higgins, Mail Art / Arms-Race Poll, MarylandWriters, C. Parkinson, M. Metz, M. Mollet, M. Monastarsky, H. Nevidal,Off Centre Centre /Alberta, J. O. Olbrich, W. Ropiecki, G. Schraenen,M. Sherwood, L. Spiegelman, P. Stembera, J. Supek, J. P. Thenot, FredTruck, M. Tupitsin, R. Wigman, G. Wyllie, A. ZhigalovThe Memory Bank. (Catalogue, 1986) Unparalleled publicationof a large number of realized and proposed performances in the form ofa reach illustrated computer print. Letter size pages of an not perforatedendless computer paper, folded to accordion, bubble-jet print, 176 p.The works has been ordered by relationship to the following (subjective)categories:1) Dada, joyful nihilism, anarchism: LeClair, M. Mollet, Phil Nurenberg2) Performances on which writing or marking is important: R. Maggi,Lettrisme (J. P. Curtay), B. Danon, Ben (Vautier), P. Fish, R.