Network Atlas by Geza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

504→ Dunn, Lloyd: Editorial. (For the New Series of PhotoStatic) In: PhotoStatic, N°41, Jan. 1993,«Back from the Art Strike 1990-1993» issue. 1793 p.→ Home, Stewart: Assessing the Art Strike 1990-1993. Notes from a talk given by StewartHome at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, 30 January 1993.In: YAWN. N° 38, 1993~Literature:«...Since Art Strike is art, during Art Strike, Art Strike itself won't be possible.Conceptual art in the wake of Art Strike would be redundant and superficial.No single work of art could approach the brillant simplicity/complexity of ArtStrike. I imagine artists spilling out of the ship of culture like so many bewilderedrats, only to drown...» (Karen Eliot: Art Strike as Art. In: YAWN, N° 7,December 31, 1989)«Bob Black, in his essay „On the Art Strike“ raises some strong argumentssupporting the idea that the Art Strike is, against its overt intentions, an elitist(in)action which „...only certifies artists as the expert interpreters of what nobodybut artists do.“ He does so by likening the Art Strike to „imperialism“ and suggeststhat its „Ostentatious renunciation [which] is greed in its warped and mostinsidious form“. He also says that art-strikers engage in this (in)action becausethey are „...some of the less commercially successful [among] contemporaryartists...“ True, few of us are „successful“ in these cynical terms – and to measureour value as contributors to culture based on how much money we make is justone of the ridiculous attitudes the Art Strike seeks to combat. A Julian Schnabelcould not participate in an Art Strike. He has far too much to lose to be completelyhonest about milieu in which he prospers. Other points: If „...only artists canrefurse art...“, then art is irrevelant to begin with, and must be renounced, perhapseven ostentatiously. (Although the Art Strike maintains that consumers must refuseart, too.) If „...art... becomes everything...“ then the word has no meaning at all.(Art is not everything, but a class- and gender-specific activity which serves tojustify an objectionable ideology.) In short, Bob Black does culture a disserviceby talking the Art Strike too serioulsy – and this, of course, is rather like nottaking if half seriously enough.»(Lloyd → Dunn?: Remarks. In: YAWN. N° 7. December 31, 1989)ART STRIKE FORM (valid 1990-1993) Date......................................Today I did notO Make ArtO Exhibit ArtO Sell ArtO Buy ArtO Think About Art(put an x if you did)Your signature..........................................On January 1st, 1991, I will be suspending all activities in support of theART STRIKE 1990-1993. This issuue of Schism will be the last until 1993.If you feel the need for more copies of Schism #24 to get you through the'years without art,' please send a SASE for a replacement. Data from theART STRIKE FORM will be made available to the network of ARTSTRIKE ACTION COMMITTEES. Otherwise back copies of Schism willbe available only in sets. These sets will include all Schisms publishedbetween 1985-89 (#11-24). Payment in CASH only: USA/CAN/MEX $15.(→ Janet Janet: Schism, #24)→ Held, John Jr.: New Directions: Into the Nineties. (See: Thinking Openly: ArtStrike 1990-1993.) In: Chuck → Welch (ed.): Eternal Network. A Mail ArtAnthology. University of Calgary Press, 1995. 103-111 p.