Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

that the history of. Zines. can be traced back to the s when science
fiction fans started putting out. their own slick science fiction
magazines. ...produced by General Idea who began File magazine in
with a grant from. the Canada Council.. ...Anna Banana Vile ...
particular ambition was to imitate Life magazine to. such an extent that
it could be taken for it ... At that point she dropped the. notion of
imitating Life. ...Stewart Home who in February published his first
issue of Smile 'The. official organ of the Generation Positive.' This
journal was to express Home's. ideas on 'Positive Plagiarism'. ...power
of rubberstamps. ...Robert Morris' 'Peripatetic Artists Guild' refusing
sales or fees but. asking. for a wage. ...the use of postcards by On
Kawara to document the minutiae of his everyday. activity for example
the 'I Got Up At' series begun in. deliberately contradictory
multitheories. It is antielitist and gives the. participator complete artistic
freedom to do whatevershe wishes with the one. proviso that she must
adopt the name Monty Cantsin or Karen Eliot and refer to. him or
herself as a Neoist.. ... The term Neoism a pastiche of art movements
implies a looking back to an. 'Ism' without any specifics. Neoism
defied any possible interpretation as to. what it stood for and as such
belongs to the debate that took place around a. redefining of art history..
... Home claimed that Plagiarism (and multiple names) challenge
western notions. of identity and therefore property and ownership an
anticapitalist. revolutionary tool considering it to be a positive creative
technique.. ...Home proposed an end to originality (for him the false
individualism of. consumer society) as an important aspect of creativity
and his theories centred. on an encouragement to photocopy the work
of other artists as a statement. against capitalism private property and
the commodification of Fine Art. ...This was extended to music with a
National Home Taping Day.. ...Mailart having no end product and
being a network. ...Caroline Tisdall sees Beuys intention as a widening
of the concept of art in. which The whole process of living itself is the
creative act ... thinking. talking performing teaching and above all
living which all of us do can. be seen as a process of moulding or
sculpting Social Sculpture.. ...immediacy Further electronic mail lacks
the physical appeal of snail. mail. Much of the aesthetic is missed and
most obviously it misses any three. dimensional qualities and all those
of weight texture and subtleties of. appearance. More important though
is the 'presence' through handling of the. sender in the form of traces of
smell secretions and residues that can be. experienced by the recipient.
Again this is evidence proof a further. signature a mark left like an
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