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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