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AtTAYc Archive:
Super 8 film with The Administrator of the ATTIC ARCHIVE, Dundee, Scotland, 2010; 19:39 mins.
https://archive.org/details/at-tayc-archive

A story narrated by The Administrator about, among others, the river Tay, water bulls, Scottish mythology and Neoism.
shot & recorded by me & Mariette Groot in the ATTIC ARCHIVE, summer 2010, shortly before its dissolution.

#Dundee #Scotland #Tay #Scottish #Neoism #mailart #atticarchive

Five Super 8 films by Pete Horobin, digitized and published online for the first time. Since I didn't have their titles, titles are provisional guesswork:

DATA (8:57 mins)
ca. 1984, closely related to Horobin's DATA project and ATTIC ARCHIVE, and to Scotland. [Prescient/visionary in many aspects, IMO.]
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-data

LONDON 30-6-84 18:56 (6:00 mins)
shot one month after the 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival in London that organized by Horobin; both a record of a performance related to Horobin's land art and DATA project, and a psychogeography of pre-gentrified London.
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-water/horobin-super_8-water.av1.mp4

(Bonfire)
ca. 1984, part of the DATA project / ATTIC ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_1

(Bonfire/fireworks)
ca. 1984, part of the DATA project / ATTIC ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_2/horobin-super_8-flames_2.av1.mp4

(Fire)
ca. 1984
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_3/horobin-super_8-flames_3.av1.mp4

All films can be either streamed, or downloaded as high-quality, 10-bit, 4:2:2, 32-Mbit/s H.264.

#neoism #neoist #mailart #petehorobin #atticarchive

SMILE: SELL YOUR ARCHIVE
issue of the international magazine of multiple origins published by Pete Horobin, Dundee, Scotland, 1987

scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-sell-your-archive/

This zine from 1987 addresses an urgent issue that has only become more pressing in the meantime: How to preserve personal and non-institutional collections of DIY/small press experimental publications, zines, mail art, and similar materials?

Open letter by Pete Horobin, with replies by Robin Crozier, Simon Anderson, Robin Klassnik, John Furnival, Susan Young, Michael Leigh & Hazel Jones, Mark Pawson, Stewart Home, Stefan Szczelkun, Art Naphro, Keith Bates, Ben Allen, DJ at FOMT, Tony Lowes, David Jarvis, Eric Finlay, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Michael Scott & subsequent replies by Pete Horobin.

#mailart #smallpress #zines #anarchive #archives #neoism #smilemagazine

SMILE issue 4 vol. 1, December 1986; published in Florence/Italy & Baltimore/USA by John Berndt.

Scanned and put online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-issue-4-vol-1

"Endlessly, we put glasses, cups and bottles down on publications, inscribing them with an infinity of sweating circles. This action, although slight, counts as an invasion of what ts usually an ideological space (the magazine) with an element of personal, nominal reality. Like any action, the aesthetic, symbolic and revolutionary potential of this interaction expands greatly when it is placed in hospitable context. Hence this issue of SMILE, which, like the previous issues, concerns itself with experimental philosophy, and its close companion, fanatical self-derangement. [...]The ideology of this magazine is the ideology of minimalism, that is, the aesthetic of the nominal, and by interacting with it, you reduce yourself to a minimum. [...] This is a user generated magazine of abstract artwork, the manifestation of creativity as the rejection of inertia.

SMILE is an international magazine of multiple origins. The name is fixed, the kind of magazines using it aren't."

#smilemagazine #neoism #montycantsin #plagiarism #zine

SMILE issue 8: SMILE BACK AT THE RULING CLASS

published by Karen Eliot/Stewart Home, London, 1985, scanned and put online for the first time:

https://archive.org/details/smile-8-smile-back-at-the-ruling-class/

In this issue, Stewart Home announces his departure from Neoism, introduces Karen Eliot as a multiple nom-de-plume, and calls for the Art Strike 1990-1993. The texts were the first drafts of material that would later appear in Stewart's books.

Money quote: "To leave Neoism is to realise it".

Third-party endorsement: "The eighth issue of SMILE (available from KAREN ELIOT) contained a devastating critique of the NEOIST CULTURAL CONSPIRACY, a critique so persuasive that it invalidated the last remnants of the once important NEOIST movement." (John Berndt in SMILE issue 7 vol 1, 1986)

#smilemagazine #neoism #plagiarism #praxis #artstrike #kareneliot

SMILE issue 7:
NEOISM: DANCE THE MONTY CANTSIN

published & mostly written by Stewart Home in May 1985, scanned and put online for the first time. With contributions/letters by Istvan Kantor, David "Oz" Zack, Dobrica Kamperelic, Dr. Al "Blaster" Ackerman, Volka Hamann, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (Amir-ul Kafirs), Pete Horobin, M. Diane, with political insert 'Nationalism Today' (= hijack of the periodical of the UK 'National Front').

https://archive.org/details/smile-issue-7-neoism-dance-the-monty-cantsin/

Stewart Home in a letter to Graf Haufen, 1986:

"SMILE 7 was written and typed between January and March 1985, but was not printed up until the night before I left for a trip to Ireland in April. This was because a friend offered to typeset the heading, but took very long time to do this. I delivered the artwork to my printer during the next day and took an overnight train from London to the Stranraer ferry that evening. [...] During this time I reflected on a number of things and came to a series of decisions about change to be made in my life. Minor manifestations of this were that I stopped signing off letters with the phrase As above, so below, and that I was no longer a Neoist. [...] SMILE 7 was printed in May 1985 and by that time unfortunately no longer reflected my praxis."

#neoism #montycantsin #smilemagazine

SMILE NEOISM PLAGIARISM:
an early issue of the 'international magazine of multiple origins', ca. 1984, likely co-edited by Stewart Home & Mark Pawson, with contributions by Monty Cantsin, Ben Allen and Pete Horobin.

"IN NEOISM WHAT WE ARE DOING IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE FACT THAT WE ARE DOING IT. WHAT COUNTS IS THAT WE ARE MAKING A COLLECTIVE STAND AND THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT WE ARE TAKING THE STAND ON. MOVEMENTS IN ART FORM A COUNTER BALANCE TO THE EXCESSIVE INDIVIDUALITY THAT HAS CHARACTERISED WESTERN ART FOR THE PAST THREE HUNDRED YEARS."

Scanned & put online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-plagiarism-neoism/

#neoism #plagiarism #zine

SMILE 'Individuality collectively realized and abandoned"

- an issue of SMILE, the international zine of multiple origins, published by Monty Cantsin/Dialectical Immaterialism Press, Baltimore, USA, 1989

Contents:
- Proletarian posturing and the strike which never ends
- Critics praise Stewart Home!
- A manifesto of counterrevolutionary communism
- Mythstoric chronicle of the Neoast observer at the so-called "1,000,000th Neoast Apartment Festival"
- Comrades of a Pregroperativistic Homosexuality!
- The "Art" of the "Insane"
- "Cyberpunk Literature"
- Towards a Naive Opportunism

Scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-collectivity-individually-realized-and-abandoned-1989

#neoism #smile #montycantsin

RCRN Radio Centre de Recherche Néoiste

zine/report published in Montreal, 1981

""RCRN IS A DISCRETE VOICE OF THE NEOIST CULTURAL CONSPIRACY
CRN IS AN ACTION AND NOT A STATION

After long years of preparation, the RCRN was finally founded in 1980, in Montreal. Its first broadcast was transmitted from the MR.SUBMARINE restaurant to Vehicule Art gallery on
june 21st, announcing the "Kollective Third Brain War Project".
This announcement was repeated from a police car to the inhabitants of Chicoutimi on july 6th, 1980."

Scanned and published online for the first time:

https://archive.org/details/rcrn-radio-centre-de-recherche-neoiste

#neoism #neoist #zine #radio #diy

"The Neo": first issue of "the local-extraterrestrial paper of the Neoists", Montreal, 1979

with contributions by Monty Cantsin, Lion Lazer, David Zack, Pamella Rome, Jack Nathanson, Frater Neo, Al Ackerman

- scanned & uploaded for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/the_neo-1

#Neoism #zines #diy

Scanned and uploaded:

Western Cell Division, 'Opening Gaps and Filling Them Up... WESTERN CELL DIVISION and You', Baltimore: Dialectical Immaterialism Press, 1987

Experimental reflections of multiple-use name identity politics, plagiarism/anti-copyright and Art Strike 1990-1993, grown out of Neoism.

"The provided texts explore themes of cultural reproduction, individual perception, and societal critique within late capitalism. 'Western Cell Division and You' conceptualizes the proliferation of a dominant 'Western Culture' and the potential for 'deviant cultures' to emerge through its divisions, while other sections discuss how plagiarism and censorship can serve as revolutionary acts against established notions of originality and controlled information. The collection further investigates 'Optically Disassociated Reality' (O.D.R.), proposing methods to alter visual perception and challenge the continuity cues ingrained by visual media like television. Ultimately, the sources advocate for a radical re-evaluation of art, identity, and social relations, calling for an Art Strike to dismantle the capitalist commodification of creativity and empower individual 'anti-skills' against pervasive societal structures."

https://archive.org/details/western_cell_division_and_you/

#Neoism #plagiarism #artstrike #KarenEliot #Baltimore

Neoist Research Center, 'A selection of CORRESPONDANCES, 80-81'

Published letter exchanges between the Neoist Research Center at Vehicule Art, Montreal Canada 1980-1981, with: Eva Lake, Michael Kearney, Krononautic Society (Richard X, John Ellsberry and tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE), Peter Below, Bálint Szombathy, Dr. Al Ackerman, Niels Lomholt, R. Mappo, David Zack, Doug Retzler, Northern Star, Stephen s'Soreff, Lon Spiegelman, Ben Vautier, E.F. Higgins, Matt Svetich, Ginny Lloyd, Kiki Bonbon, Guy Schraenen, Gordon W. Zealot, Sheldon Polsky.

These letter exchanges document the early beginnings of Neoism, growing from a name and local group/collective in Montreal into an international network.

[Scanned and digitally published for the first time.]

https://archive.org/details/neoist_research_center-correspondance

#Neoism #Neoist #MailArt #Correspondence #DIY

"Valerium" - Neoist photo novel made in Montréal, 1981, part of the publication "Neoist Data / Centre de Recherche Neoiste", now scanned and publicly available on archive.org:

- with Valerie Figoli, Monty Cantsin Amen, Marianne Lebas, Jean-Luc Bonspiel, Tristan Stéphane Renaud, Nathalie Mongeau, François Mignault

https://archive.org/details/neoist-data-centre-de-recherche-neoiste-1981

#neoism #neoists #photonovel

SMILE 7/6 - Reality Adjustment / New York Scene

My personal favorite issue of the Neoist 'international magazine of multiple origins', published in 1986, scanned/digitized for the first time.

Subjects include: comb collecting, reality adjustment, text:antitext, Neoism + an interview with New York artist Karen Eliot

https://archive.org/details/smile-7-6-reality-adjustment-new-york-scene

#neoism #smile #zine #neoist #subculture #diy #mailart

A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 moving boxes weighing a total of 95 kilograms] from Rotterdam to Dundee/Scotland, to the crowd wisdom here.
Commercial shipping seems to cost about 2000 EUR… Does anyone know of cheaper alternatives? Could someone transport it privately against reimbursement?

- This concerns my own archive of materials from 1980s/1990s DIY cultural networks around Neoism, consisting mostly of zines, and pamphlets. I always wanted it to be public, but considered art institutions unsuitable due to restricted access to their archives, Neoism's distance to the art system, and vice versa the little art curatorial value and appreciation of such subcultural materials.

At the University of Dundee, efforts to preserve Pete Horobin’s (thematically and interpersonally related, archiving-as-daily-art-practice) Attic Archive led me to donate my archive there, trusting librarians for their understanding of cultural commons and alternatives to commercial regimes.

Longer story here: https://pod.thing.org/posts/2552034

#archive #anarchiving #anarchive #neoism