Network Atlas by Geza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

473PhotoSTATIC, you know how it seems to float around on the page & work withworlds. It's good to see so much of it tightly related all in one place. The imageand text manipulations are expressive, and the pictures will satisfy any diabolicalcravings you may have... Subscribe to Xerolage...» (PhotoStatic. N° 16, Jan. 1986.Lloyd → Dunn: Mail Review)Miekal And, Liz Was / Interviewed. In: Lowlife, #16, May 1989, Atlanta, CA(Anti-Isolation, #3-4): «The title is not exaggeration. This is an exhaustive andhighly usable source book of the networking arts. And & Was have a singulardedication to the idea of what artists, working flarflung, can do to gain contact &significant interaction, all with the spread of ideas in mind. Anti-Isolation is theirorgan for this. Contains reviews, articles, graphics, and contacts enough to keepthe dedicated networker busy for months. I refer to it a lot to read the reviews,which are short and to the point and give a good idea of what the work they'reabout's about.» (L. → Dunn: Mail Review. In: PhotoStatic. N° 25-26, Aug. 1987,874 p.)«Stephen Perkins: (...) Is The Acts of Shelflife a book or magazine?Liz Was: Both and neither I would say. We have always been interested in thesegenres and forms that can't be labelled quite so simply, it feels like a book in theway that it's bound and perhaps in the way that it feels when it's in your handsflipping the pages. It's a magazine more than a book in the sense that it involvesmany other people and I always think of magazines, although there are compilationbooks, it seems like magazines are the kind of thing that involve many others. It'sunlike a magazine in that it doesn't come out periodically, but then again we aperiodicperiodicals that we've published too. (...)SP: Why the title The Acts of Shelflife?Miekal And: it comes from a poem that I wrote and it's sort of a reference actuallyto Charles Olson, it's a discrete reference, it's not like a quote from a book of hisor anything, but it's more certain sort of notion that came out of Charles Olson forme about projectivist verse and having texts that extend out from themselves... Sothe notion is that The Acts of Shelflife, the literal interpretation would be „the acts“that somebody did and how it relates to being on a bookshelf years later and peopleinteracting with that. (...) The one thing that was kind of nice for Xexoxial was normallywe are very frugal with how we distribute copies of our books and stuffbecause we have to pay for the copies each time, so with The Acts The Shelflife wefelt a lot more generous with getting copies out and distributing them.»(Miekal And & Liz Was in Conversation [Dreamtime Village, August 26,1996]. In: Stephen → Perkins: Assembling Magazines. International NetworkingCollaborations. Cat.: Half-legal, phc., 64 p. Subspace, Iowa City. 1996 / Print:1997. 6-7 p.)(And / Was Have Done To Be): Miekal And / Liz Was go full tilt – spinning off inall sorts of publishing and performing directions under the corporate aegis XexoxialEndarchy. For instance most recently there's been the Festival of Swamps.It's their takeoff on a local arts event and the third such gathering of homemadeand a heapin' helping of noise/music... As publishers and non-stop networkers And/ Was constantly churn out anthological gatherings of mail art and squibs on otherprojects. Spek and Anti-Isolation are two on-going editions. They've producedlovely handdone chapbooks on their in-house photocopy machine from the workof Bruce Andrew, Loris Essary, Joe Schwind, Bern → Porter, JW Curry, → Musicmasterand Joel → Lipman along with a bunch more. Lately Miekal and Liz havegotten into creative plagiarism (as espouced by Stewart → Home and others)... Itmay sum up the open-ended, free-wheeling philosophy at Xexoxial Endarchy. Tosee their quirkly, clever and uplifting explorations for yourself write 1341 Willi-