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THE FLUXUS WEST PHILOSOPHY AWĀRŪ. THE GOVERNORS' PRIZE FOR SOCIAL APPLICATION

The Board of Governors of Fluxus West will judge all entries in the issue on the basis of ideo* The Board of Governors of Fluxus West will judge the work and projects included in the Inch logical strength, intellectual vigor, and philosophical merit. Three pieces judged as having great char­ Art Issue from the standpoint of successful social application of the format, theme and idea. Social acter and refinement of conception will receive the Philosophy Award. application will be defined as the use of the ideas and possibilities implicit in the inch when applied to actual or potential activities or interactions between people and persons at the individual, interperson­ The award itself consists of some correspondence on the philosophy and nature of the inch, al, organizational, societal or international levels of human activity and experience. and a copy of the proof page of the original One-Inch Art Show, as it existed prior to later inclusion and publication by the Religious Arts Guild. FLUXUS PRIZE, PRIX D'HONNEUR

THE FRIEDMAN-FLUXUS DIMENSIONAL NOTATION AWARD To Terry Reidinch, Bob Kerrinch and the Organisers of the Inch Art Issue, congratulations on an outstanding achievement in applying a Fluxus Event to the dimensions of the world. In creating the inchoate Inch Art Issue, you have created a beacon of delight which will show people how better The Board of Governors will award to works and projects which demonstrate clarity and in­ to apply aesthetic technology in taking the measure of their lives and of the world about them. genuity of format and notation or presentation, an award honoring their descriptive handling of the inch. Therefore, The Governors of Fluxus West are pleased to award the Fluxus Prize in 1974 for this outstanding achievement, ~and to enlist them in the rolls of those distinguished ladies and The prize will be an inch-object from one of the inch-work series developed by Ken Frieklman gentlemen who have in the past earned this award for the application of Fluxus and Fluxus-developed between 1966 and 1971. The object might be one of the POEM Rulers, measurements of poetry dividedjnto twelve one-inch segments and resembling, for all practical purposes, the standard 12-inch philosophy and technology to new media and situations. tiutrej b sb papuann qioM ***"" jo tfavlJbo m o if J[^s®^A¥s cn'SStf3 ^ sjtaV tnopsuoa aqi jnoqi?— saqaui aiqna aaiqj ui V - JO J9Aoo aqi joj tpiqM oojojotu -ptouiOD uodn XitABsq satpi JoqjnB uot)S)J3Sttp snoScqoxncx Aipmba qjiM jqSnBJj ajnjnj b ui aauBAajaj sJBaq saqaui aiqna ui aauBQ XajunoQ uo JB3J pjoS jo XqjajsnB aqi aqr -aaiAap XjBjaitT-tsBnb jamo UV t SM0Il0I VEqM ing ’Ajmbua punoq puB a-renbs oj jna uaaq SuiABq jo jxajuoa pajajjB tt ‘ajBuB saps aqj iuojj }UB*Jodui; -Ub j^MaiAai aqj'sSuuq siqj, Jaqunj joj stssq b sb siqi Jo paputuj siq jo uoijBJapisuoaaj b *qaH03 fTHH siqj ui ‘jBifl aSteuii ub aAaujaa oj spjBMjpsq sisaX »nq ‘juiod jouuu y 'spBqsiuBdfj -aoiAap Xjo»oBjspBiun jsouT b Aq’ Abmb *3J 3cl 3M "dBqjad

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" The Book." By Author or in this loose— one might almost call On the purely literary level one it episodic— style in that it lends can only regret the heavy borrowing Authors Unknown. King James itself to piecemeal reading. One can of the author, for much of the Press. 30s. put it down at any time, confident material is derivative. This plagiar-1 that when one picks The JBook up Jsm will disturb the wider-read again that frustration of having lost As the title suggests, this work browser. The influence of Kafka is the thread of the tale, isn’t going to sets out to accomplish a lot. Much obvious, large tracts appear pure be present. time . has obviously been spent in Camus, and the beginning epic preparation and great pains taken But this slight consideration does comes straight from Gilgamesh, to ensure rigorous scholarship. not excuse some major faults. As a while Mr Aeschylus will no doubt recognise the rehashing of his Naturally enough, after his long picaresque The Book drags: the labour, the author is reluctant to narrative is allowed to bump and grind off-Broudway success “ Prometheus leave anything out. This is a pity, for almost half its length before the Bound because many of his theorems, which principal character is introduced, In conclusion, a word about the in the early days of his research and even then he is not fully ex­ overall appearance of The Book. As might have been original and urgent, ploited. The author unfortunately implied— if not plainly stated— are now very stale buns indeed. chooses to jump from early teens to earlier, the whole thing is far too Do we need telling that the full maturity, leaving a hiatus where long, and uninterestingly presented. MIDDLE AGES CUT DOWN TO SIZE world is not all that it might be? the formative years should be. Fur­ It Failed to grip me in the way other Or that human weakness and folly thermore, just when the reader’s epics have done, lacking the racy is ever present? Or that man needs interest and sympathy has been cap­ style of Ben Hur, the homogeneity guidance? I think not; but let it tured, this character is snatched of the Koran, or the poetry of the pass, perhaps we can fairly be re­ away by a most unsatisfactory device. Upanishads. A minor point, but BRU EGHEL, a reconsideration o f his years backwards to retrieve an image that, in this This brings the reviewer to an­ important from the sales angle, is altered context of having been cut to square and bound minded of this as a basis for further Country Dance enquiry. But what follows? An other quasi-literary device. The the austerity of gold leaf on black in three cubic inches in cubic inches bears relevance in a future fraught with equally tautologous dissertation author relies heavily upon coincid- morocco which for the cover of a — . p H th* .cjtiU. . t° save himself from corners of work intended as a family book, fa il -suo;;en;!s pue ejpaui Mau o ; A6o|ouqoa; pue Aqdosopqd l|3U |-2|, pjepuejs aq; 'sasod-ind paqaeid ||e joj. 'bufiquiasaj pue sjuaiubas qoui-auo aAia/vu oru; papiAip pado|aAap-snxn|j pue snxrq-j jo uojieoqdde aq; joj pje/we Sjq; paujea ;sed aq; u; aAeq oq/vv uauia|;iia6 Ajjaod jo s;uaiuajnseaw 'SJ0|ny |/\|BOd am jo auo aq ;q6|ui ;oafqo aqj. 'LA6L Pue 9961 uaa/viiaq pue sa;pe| paqs;n6uj;s;p asoq; jo sqoj aq; u; tuaq; ;sj|ua o; pue.';uatuaAajqoe Bujpue;s;no sjq; joj uBLupduj ua» Aq padojaAap sauas ypoM-qou; aq; jo auo uiojj ;oafqo-qou| ue aq h;m azud aqj. u; azijj snxrqj aq; pje/vve o; pasea|d aje ;sa/w snxrqj jo sjouj3ao0 aqj^ 'ajojajaqj^ *qoui A congratulatory inch from agency for advertising in industry

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(1) The first joint on my left thumb (but not my right) is exactly equal to the International Inch, and vice-versa let us hope. How about a statistical study of the statistical distribu­ N/ tion o f the lengths o f left-thumb first-joints? Based on this information, we could determine scientifically who is normal and who is not.

(2) The German “ inch” is called a “ Zoll” , and only God English Inch American Inch knows how long it is. Anyway the Germans don’t use the inch, which they consider too humanoid, but the centimeter. 2.54 cm. = lin. The French, maybe trying to be German for once, came up with the centimeter and adopted it in 1799. It was defined as l/100th o f 1/10,000,000th o f the distance measured on the earth’s surface from the equator to the V 1 pole. When they started really trying to measure how far this was, everybody kept getting different answers, so they ;-fcnv j made two scratches on a bar o f platinum, called it a “ meter” , horizontal inch and let it go at that. All this in case you ever are in Germany a i o or France and want to figure out how long your left thumb- black inch i ^ I joint is. O : I P

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A FORAY INTO THE FRONTIERS OF ART WITH KEN FRIEDMAN

Around 1962-3, I began to be concerned with the proper­ quently gave away. I began to ask my friends to contrib­ ties o f time and space as applied through ideas and ute similar works. gestures, not only as modifying factors for other functions (which I had already considered) but as themselves, and in Alison Knowles keeps a little gallery in which she collects their own properties. In 1965, I wrote a play, Fugue and the work o f her friends. (The Alison Knowles Miniature Tocatta for the Eye, the manuscript to which is in Archiv Gallery o f Modern Art). When I was telling her about Sohm, utilizing these properties as the sub-fugue theme of these inch projects, some o f which I had begun framing, the production. Later that year, I produced the first ver­ she asked for a piece or two for the gallery. It was at sion o f The Cosmic Garbageman (privately printed, 1965, that time that the projects first “ went public” . 1966, printed in Safran Magazine, San Francisco, 1968), utilizing the theme as an implicit dimensionality. While I could not afford to do up my metal edition of 10,000, I found I could easily achieve my framed square- Shortly, about the time o f the establishment o f Fluxus inch pieces. In the exhibition Fluxus and Happenings, West, in 1966, I began to work with concerns o f format Kunstverein Kolnischer, 1970, I showed a large number of and genesis o f art products. Viewing Fluxus modules and these pieces. As well as showing them in my room at that packets and their implicit ideology of production and sale, show, my own shows at The Richmond Art Center (Comp­ as against - for example - the “ French point system” ositions and Gifts) (1970), The Vancouver Art Gallery o f art measurement and sales value, the tremendous (Ken Friedman) and Friends in Process, 1972) and others differences o f varying methods and measures began to included these first basic framed inches. seem like an area worth investigating. What was an inch and what was it worth? What could it be used for? Not In 1970, after preparing my inches to go over for the only an inch, o f course, but a foot, a year, a yard, an Fluxus & Happening Show, I began to think, “ Wouldn’t acre .... this make a great format in which to invite many artists to to show their work” . I began to lay plans, and several From this -series o f concerns, came an entire praxis o f arts months later, in 1971, when The Religious Arts Guild o f o f time and space in my work including network projects, the Unitarian Universalist Association invited me to edit a flow systems, the one-year one-man show, work in pro­ folio for their series, I invited 500 artists to present works cess (derived with variance from the one-year one-man in this format. Probably due to the church-affiliated spon­ show), omaha flow systems, death piece, the altar to sorship, only a few chose to take part, but the first jorge luis borges, contributions to toward a profile o f latin widely-circulated 1-inch art show was achieved and pub­ american art, ken friedman and friends in process, work in lished in the R.A.G. folio (despite heavy censorship and progress; time, space, light and forgetfullness, and many changes) and sent to thousands o f persons, not only other projects in an entire experimental series Of systems church layman and clergy, but artists, writers, critics, etc. probing the dimensions o f dimensionality in all areas. In this way, a concept was brought out from vague con­ Most o f them have found a place now as exhibitions or cerns o f the early sixties through a series o f carefully projects, and many have been completed. chosen and conducted experiments and developments into the format which brought it to your eyes, and from One project, incomplete to date, developed in 1969, the which you reproduced several examples. modular inch sculpture. The French Point System, o f course, is a system whereby the size o f the canvas in Since that time, I have pursued the idea even more care­ square inches gives value to the work in terms o f sales fully, and some o f the concepts in which the matter is price, as developed by a series of value-points in relation bracketed have served in my projects, including one entire to the “ worth” o f the work o f an artist. I developed a show devoted to the theme, Distances (Sheldon Memorial sculpture which could be delivered in modules, to permit Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1973). the buyer to buy as many Friedman Points as he or she wished at any given time. The sculpture consists (or will, By seperate packet, you will receive a copy o f the R.A.G. when complete, consist) o f 10,000 blocks, each one cubic Folio and information about the Distances exhibition. inch in size, cast out o f lead or some other similar metal. The purchaser contracts to buy as many as required, from There are, o f course, a number o f more basic and deep 1 to all 10,000. In 1970, I began approaching various issues involved in the genesis and entire philosophy o f the foundries to actually produce the project, but none, to idea, but in this letter, I simply felt you would be more date, have accepted. Meanwhile, applying this idea back concerned with its basic history and development-in-the- onto the flat surface, I began to design projects for world. exactly one-inch areas, drawings, motifs,etc., which I fre­ THE aixai^u /vix v iiiiim i ixi ajia ORIGINAL i 1 1V J MtliL sm uno oiiv^i peaiqiaSuiS 3A sxinb .LON xna sonvho HVA NI ONIXVdlOIXHVd /S$ ui;sSrup jnoA se sbjoiod 3ng UBUQ spuas ApoqAue jj -X3 X 0H 3X V NO ASDH SI 3NV ‘Axvxan axinqw snoi ‘aq o ; aoB^d ia;;a q e ioj sjnoj^ w i t o w mmm mm m M VXIHSASXVW NVD HONI PMOO V da ONIXX3S ‘axo -joj§ anoj ui sauioo 44c;sei^„ OX ONINSddVH StiLVHM xoaxia 3ONVH0X3 3HX 9AO| UI |[BJ UBUI B JO injpnBaq » * monx ox snomno savm ‘ONIH3HXVO-03NI IVD u a iS 'ittSuti ciaMon atatim anmrif arSniMTiSiT x> TO ;soui aq; ,9Z & ev/dA o n e a f# < ? 4 a/A ? PINCHED

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Dear Friends, and will appreciate it if those who use our work will accord EXTRA COPY us the same honor. Thank you very much for your announcement o f the “ stainless 1 April 1974 *» v> Otherwsie, the whole thing seems to me to be beautifully- ■i &mZ, . steal” from the annals o f Fluxus West” in the form o f your Inch Art Issue. I am delighted to see how far this event has done, a very well-prepared project. Dear Terry, travelled over the years. Now : Please note my new address, actually the same old Thanks for your reply and extra copies o f the bulletin. I gave Here is a little historical and informational material for you : Fluxus West address. one right away to Eleanor Antin, and have been locating good Friedman people to give them ever since. Fluxus Event : The one-inch art show, history explained be­ 6361 Elmhurst Drive low, is not, as you will see, an anonymous Fluxus Event Al­ San Diego, California 92120 Enclosed, you will find a statement about the different prizes most all Fluxpieces Are the work o f an individual member of Fluxus West will be awarding. Along with the one prix d’hon- o f the group, f.ex., an event by Ben, by Takehiso Kosugi, by If you will send a stack of the announcements, I will send neur to you, we expect to give out four or five o f the social George Maciunas, by Beuys, etc. them out for you. Already we are sending some to various application prize, three o f the other two prizes. potentially-interested participants, in particular, people who This particular event which you are using is one o f my own took part in the first one-inch art show. We only have the So . . . I’ m glad you can use the material and history in the pieces, originally developed for non-publication and then uti­ ten or so you sent, though and can easily distribute several issue. I’ve reread my carbon, and find that the material in lized for publication first in 1971. hundred. If you want it, we will send you a copy o f our 1.) Fluxus Event could well be re-written by you accordingly. full mailing lists, about 5,000 names and addresses, including The most interesting material, o f course, is 2.) History o f the As you will note from Fluxus and Fluxus West publications, art schools, teachers, journals and places with access to many One Inch o f Art. It’s not really a contribution to the show it­ work is usually freely given and assigned, so I am happy to folks each. Just on the thought they might prove most self, my contribution will come later. It would be best used, I say you are certainly in the Fluxus tradition in this respect. useful, I’ll be sending the school folks to you anyhow, in the think, in some sort o f historical preface type o f thing. 3.) and However, work is never used or reproduced without crediting seperate packet you’ll be getting. (The packet, by the way, the rest were all details and also need no reproduction. the artists involved and the original sources. Thus, this pro­ will include a bunch of my regular information materials, so V ject - and several o f the works you reproduced - should be you can Scratch up your own archive when this is over). The prize statements enclosed should be handled as you wish, attributed properly. The “ Fluxus Event” is properly a “ Flux­ whenever those things are done. us Event by Ken Friedman, and the two works, A Void Inch Please write me to work out details on sponsorship and the I’m going o ff to mail this now. More later. by Dana Atchley and A Big Inch by Stan Van Der Beek were prizes. We have to determine a method for judging, exactly originally published by Fluxus West, in the annoucement o f what they will be given for, etc. (i.e. the criteria o f the a- the 1-Inch Art Show in a Fluxus West Letter, Spring, 1971, wards), and the announcement o f the prizes themselves. Best regards, and in Art Folio : Glorious Surprise Package, ed. Ken Fried­ I guess this letter is not as well-organised as it could be, but it man, prep. Fluxus West, publ. 1971, Boston, Massachusets, is almost March now, and to arrange these things before your by the Religious Arts Guild o f the Unitarian Universalist As­ April Fool’s Day deadline will require a prompt action. Ken . a sociation (published version censored by the R.A.G./U.U.A.). Best regards, I will appreciate it if you clarify these matters in future an- noucements and publications. Running a cooperative arts Ken Friedman P.S. - - Would you do me a favor? I’ve always been a tremen­ program has very few rewards, but among those few are the Executive Director dous admirer o f those little multi-language bulletins you put HAZEL ARMSTRONG AN INCH AND DENT pleasures o f proper credit for creating a piece. We have al­ Fluxus West (inventor of the Fluxus Inch Projects, out hither yon from your travels . . . I’d love any back issues 8 Bourne St ways seen to this carefully when using other people’s work, first publ. 1971, via Fluxus West); you could lay on m.e. Mt Eden Ak Photo Stephen Ballantyne DR. FIREMANS DAUGHTER CONT

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I would more than want it’s all a hideous freaky joke Dear Mr/Ms Non: to reciprocate with the First and resigning in an official Rudolph Schwartzkogler was International Rubber Stamp and civilized fashion to cease said to be a student o f Her­ Show (in Colorado) but be­ public service in mid June, mann Nitsch and the orgy- cause o f the colour stock god willing - sooner. Taken mystery theatre. Somehow used in your announcement awhile to sever the umbilicus, Robert Hughes got the idea my xerox facility makes very but made it now and getting (and published in Time) that poor copies, and my budget $143.86 cheer per f.n. to S. had sliced off his penis a forbids a reprint by Apres write letters and read dis­ bit at a time, and died. Dardar Systems (need a $450 ruptive literature. Going to In fact (according to Mike ring job on 63 Chevy pickup) buy a utility and retire for a Parr) he existed, was extrem­ (plus $100 brakes). Please helps keep him on his toes. 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Been a shithot 1974 skin-letters; hope you like the bandages affair. thought o f this at the time o f oriental cooking guide..wish to date - even the bummers page o f our sf shit we’re send­ the Nonprecious Mailout fr­ you could’ve seen that side of have been good, so feeling Why not make a pilgrimage to ing from our December issue? om here . . . Gael, please in­ it too On that side “ 236” is super energetic mostly and If Vienna, and find out? Ass oon as its finished we will clude the following in your the page number listed for I break a leg or otherwise Yours truly, also send you our newest correspondence listing . . . “ Foreighn Ingredients.” cripple myself, will devote Donald Brook spring Issue which has our Geraldine Price, 427 San An­ recovery to designing a super­ Professor o f Fine Arts usual things plus John Dowd’s Let us hear from you tonio, Santa Fe, New Mexico inch which can leap over a tall The Flinders University o fv “ DISNEY DEATH” is v. good Mrs Blaster 8 7 5 0 1 ... Tom Logan, Sculp­ British Standard Unit in a South Australia probably the best thing in the tor, Star Route Box 17B, single hectare, naturally trail­ Bedford Park, issue. Are you acquainted Morrison, Colorado 80645 . . ing millimetres like confetti - South Australia 5042 with the people at the Krazy Robert Herbert, Beacon Rd, but apart from recently roll­ Kat Archeives? Reason that I Bethany, Connecticut 06525 BRILLINCH! ing an official-type landrover, ask (small) part o f our stuff is . . . Joseph Scott, Artist, 646 I’ m not getting exposed to their and in a letter they men­ Clermont, South Entrance, crippling situations, so prob­ tioned recieving “ from New Denver 80220 Colorado, Re- YOU ARE BEING INVEST­ ably won’t get it together^ Zeal and I wondered if it 'WcxLf ^ ./ gine Gersch, Patron, 5335 IGATED and so far, no one else i$ might be you? That’s about very turned on to inch art. BETWEEN INCHES East 19th Avenue, Denver SO WATCH OUT FOR THE all I have to Write except we But- as consolation prize 80220, Colorado . . . Peter CREAM BROS., would ape preciate it v. much please accept this re-extension Dear Bob Kerinch, Milstein, suite G, 50 Crown LYSTER! BRILL! if you would forward on the CREATED by The Unseen o f invitation to stay a while - Center, 2440 Pershing Road I am rattling out “ Inchanity” Ed Plunket page for us as it Force our present household being DON DRUICK KC 64108 c/o E. Golik Goli­ for a subsequent issue. Ken and myself and no 358 Powell St. koff . . . Joseph Baldwin, immediate change expected Peter Priest Vancouver V6A 1G4 Canada 2935 Cedar Avenue, Lincoln, apart from itinerant systems 29 Beale St Nebraska 68502 . . . Crescent analysts and Canadian skiers- Hamilton, New Zealand Moon Novelties, 83 Murray all being good people. The Street, NYC NY 10007 . . . CORDIAL INCH THE NATIONAL INCH photo is a typical result of John Giorno, 222 Bowery, 2Vi years, work- and if you NYC NY . . . Les Levine, 8 bmo, 12/5/1974 Thank you for the very inter- Mott St. NYC MY 10012 ... think it’s vague and meaning- esting . 1« ff*- vo u r H cht. BLITINCHFORMATION I also found an inch paper in Otherwise, everything else is Auckland? It sounded very lish a large network o f all ing your readership to write Undermein Kampf my pocket that your Mother exciting. One guy talked | A-OK. sorts of people, to provide a to us for information on CRO. must have given me, though I VOM M INCH 9 about cowshit being put in I Keep on inchin’. means to enable them to get I would also be interested The less obvious source in the development of the concept for an do not remember her doing oxidation ponds and the gas in touch with each other, and to hear more about the Art Inch Art Issue was Michael Morris’ Iitiage Request List. If the name so. I hope you are keeping Love Jess. being used for energy pur-1 hopefully, to assist one an­ library (?) is not entirely self-explanatory, the idea is that people make requests well, a lovely day here today P.S. This letter has a copy- other in whatever they are poses. Combined with solar I for images which are published and circulated with addresses. Ap- Have just this minute placed heating our farm could reduce and it is about time, we have write - no part o f it may be doing or are involved in. We vou as Dossible originator __ i~ i: —— Moon Novelties, 83 Murray all being good people. The Street, NYC NY 10007 . . . CORDIAL INCH THE NATIONAL INCH photo is a typical result of John Giorno, 222 Bowery, 2Vi years, work- and if you NYC NY . . . Les Levine, 8 brno, 12/5/1974 Thank you for the very inter think it’s vague and meaning- Mott fit. WVC NY 10012 estinc Yriiir richt.. BLITINCHFORMATION I also bund an inch paper in Otherwise, everything else is lish a large network o f all ing your readership to write Auckland? It sounded very exciting. One guy talked Undermein Kampf my pocket that your Mother A-OK sorts of people, to provide a to us for information on CRO. VOMMINCH about cowshit being put in [ must have given me, though I Keep on inchin’. means to enable them to get I would also be interested The less obvious source in the development o f the concept for an oxidation ponds and the gas I do not remember her doing in touch with each other, and to hear more about the Art Inch Art Issue was Michael Morris’ Irilage Request List. If the name Love Jess. being used for energy pur-1 so. I hope you are keeping hopefully, to assist one an­ library (?) is not entirely self-explanatory, the idea is that people make requests well, a lovely day here today poses. Combined with solar • P.S. This letter has a copy- other in whatever they are Have just this minute placed for images which are published and circulated with addresses. Ap­ and it is about time, we have heating our farm could reduce | write - no part o f it may be doing or are involved in. We you as possible originator pearing simplistic on this description, the Request List, in fact, pro­ been getting so much rain the amount o f publicly gen­ clipped, copied or such, unless hope that,, amongst other Inch Art Issue (?) vides an avenue and focus for a subtle and evolving exchange that this winter. you have the permission o f things, this can result in a erated electricity used up by | has linked many people in diverse parts o f the world in a multifacet­ You will be kept informed on a significant amount There’s | Here are the inches: sender - “ No!” . cross fertilization o f ideas and ed, many voiced dialogue. Hie Request List is considered as a ser­ Thank you. But please feel approaches that can be use­ how things are developing. plenty going on alright an inch hole is a simple thing vice offered by the Image Bank, a diffuse and refracting image free to make cranes out o f my ful (or otherwise) to all con­ We will always be receptive To let a mouse explore Your letter contained some centre that breaks image bonds by separating image from context. letters to hang in your room. cerned. We are open minded to any comments you may To start the fun that may have about CRO (construct­ startling news about the mass Hie most obvious examples o f bondage through image manipulation about possibilities at this begin Arita ive; destructive; insulting) evacuation - rats leaving the would o f course be drawn from Madison Avertizing, but such exam­ stage, and hope to be able to and a scampering out the door 3-3-4 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku ship - but I’m glad you man- ples will be stylizations drawn from the less penetrable areas of the keep CRO flexible enough Vast wastage o f paper for 106 Tokyo, JAPAN KNEES 1 aged to fill it up again. Hope cultural unconscious. an inch is such a paltry thing for members to use it to formal signing off. everything is still satisfactory. I Until you come to blows their best advantage. So Taiji made a nude calendar. Friedman’s and Morris’ ideas are both participational; Morris’ how­ and find you had a shorter Could you please send down I I'll bet he looks better than As soon as the membership ever, establishes a system of direct communication which the Inch swing the keys to Waiheke fairly | Marilyn Monroe ever did. reaches our desired size, we Art Issue attempted to approximate by requesting that awards be Than you had oft supposed. soon. I hope to go down for a | Ronaye-Laverne has posed will be compiling a data-bank offered by participants for inches that were meritous in categories weekend soon and it can’t be I an inch is such a casual thing without Alberto or puppy for o f all the various interests the participants themselves nominated. The ideas is that inches and broken into any more because j When hanging up our clothes a one-inch publicity photo for and involvements that mem­ Sincerely, awards are published in one issue, and that, as those offering awards we fixed the broken windows To find we have to reach and this issue. Goki-buri is the bers have listed on their forms make their selections, direct exchange ensues. Keith Yule and if you can’t find them | strain Japanese equivalent o f cocki- A full list o f these will then By standing on our toes. be circulated around the en­ you let me know still and I’ll f roachi. Milly is the former Dear Inch, Co-optve Rsch Orgn tire membership. The data­ get the others from Welling- i Hie general idea in the 3 projects considered here is to establish — Well love and good luck. Milly Ristvedt, widely known 72a, Harcourt Road Well if you can look at it bank will deal with most spec­ ton. a global communications link-up that is participational and which as Milly Wristwatch until she, Sheffield, S10 IDJ James “ Pop” Chapman hears my contribution to Inch ific enquiries and requests. In by-passes the suspect selectiveness o f the editorial few in traditional upon marriage, became Ms England I bought myself a Wrangler I media. A wide-base, fast information flow is possible. A system of 214-500 Dunsmuir Milly Handwatch - a subtle Magorzine. the near future, we hope to jacket on Friday and it feels [ Van 2, Canada V6B 1Y2 be able to include inform­ communication thSt proceeds from artist, in diminishing ascent, form o f liberation. And, we If you vommit, do so into really good. Also got a hair­ through dealer, critic, editor, to artist is replaced by one that pro­ do not know how to make empty skulls. ation on resources and equip­ cut - feel a bit like a skin-head ceeds from artist to artist cranes. ment that members possess, BODGE AN INCH OF or a bodgie. That was my Love, Art-Taxidermist or have access to, and would nick-name at school - BODGIi - The Editors SUPERPHOSPHATE By substituting ‘ jperson” for ‘brtist” , this image can be abstracted POP INCH ANYTIME Opal L Nations be willing to make available because I had a slick-back for wider social application, and is especially relevant to television, Strange Faeces Press to other members. ’ swish-back hair-do style the P 0 Box 3622 which, if not the (media) cornerstone o f mass political fantasy, is A news-sheet will be pro­ Howdee, the Builders’ Lab- sun shines out my ass ever. Friday 13 - Lucky you - a 349 Georgia St certainly that o f mass personal fantasy. MARGINALE INCH duced from time to time, orour is sitting in his mansion The rain sounds really good letter from me. Vancouver, Canada V6B 3Y6 and is intended to provide a having just had his dinner and been very heavy down here Each o f the artist’s statements we are presenting in the Inch Issue Listen, my dear, I knew things OPAL L NATIONS means o f exchange more flex­ a glass o f California wine pro­ More brightly than before: Cher ami is to a larger degree a token o f assent in a process o f finding com­ were slow down there but STRANGE FAECES PRESS ible than the data-bank, and ceeded by the opening o f a I sound fairly cheerful be mon ground through the processing o f symbols to arrive at a mutu­ this is ridiculous - your letter Je suis heureux de vous ann- P O Box 3622, 349 W to deal with enquiries o f ji parcel o f delicious plastic red cause I have this house all tc ally understood “ language” that exceeds the divisive forms that limit came a couple o f days ago. oncer la parution de “ ART Georgia St more general nature. The grapes from Ritva Saarikko. myself. It’s really good. by separation into cultural, political, or national Groupies. If mini­ You mailed it in May. ET COMMUNICATION Vancouver, B.C., Canada news-sheet will also be avail­ If you find this writing un­ mal sculpture is too bulky, (if it even implies bulk) it will surely be able for members to use in readable you’re not missing Today being garbage day - & MARGINALE - TAMPONS V6B 3Y6 discarded. whatever ways they wish, and much because it’s just the Super phosphate me, not feeling like making D’ARTISTES”. will therefore have no fixed writing o f a fucking idiot - the usual trip to the comer, is the life-blood — Bob Kerr, - Terry Reid, J’ai rēuni dans cet ouvrage les format. reason - I’m still working at a have decided to send it to tampons de plus de 140 fucking stupid job I don’t (?) of NZ agri­ Fluxee anf* Fluxum INCH OF MARRIAGE That, very basically, is the you. artistes de tous pays, general- like much. I expect I’m too apparatus that we have plan­ culture. It deposits ement sur des documents late to contribute an inch but Pop’s poems are beautiful. I significantifs et des envois ned for CRO so far. We will, cadmium, an Credits : Gray Nicol, Open Drawers photograph; Colin McClaren, here it is:______have a drawer full. Each letter postaux. YES o f course, try out new ideas other uncredited photographs contained in this issue; Sharyn Ceder- We have said inch to each contains several (14 in one). as they occur to us or are there was a man accumulative metal man and Clare Ward for keeping red tape untangled; Tina Holland C’est la premiēre fois qu’un They are really heart-wrench­ other. suggested. The eventual char­ for uncountable hours o f type-setting under an unrelenting summer tel theme artistique est traitē from Yarrow poison, in the soil ing. Each time he writes, the Rodney Kirk Smith and Anne acter o f GRO will depend sun; and Pauline Barber for explaining the bizarre to our advertisers systematiquement. which is absorbec letters are shakier - the mind Wills are married solely on the demands o f its who had a to the satisfaction o f both parties. stays and the body goes. Ce livre N’est pas distribue 18 Paice Avenue membership. bum-screw with by plants and To Ed Haysom, who was president of the AU SA when this project selon la maniSre habituelle: Mt Eden Extent o f participation will animals. Cadmium was begun, goes special credit for getting Inch Art o ff the financial Summer is upon us - like so vous ne le trouverez pas en Auckland 3 a sparrow. LB. many hands pressing down be entirely up to the indiv­ ground, and to the Auckland U niversity Students’ Association for librairie (sueles quelques lib- the initials are reversible, absorbs the cal­ on our heads: idual member. We expect that making Inches, In All Shapes and Sizes possible at all. rairies spêcialisēes le vendront). Leigh Barrett or Builder’s most people will do no more cium from the A photochemical smog warn­ Labourer = moron. Actually I The Inch Art Issue would as well like to thank Rodney Kirk Smith Elabore par correspondance, il than receive the information ing was issued by the Tokyo didn’t make that up, obvious­ body. Long live for his advice and assistance on many occassions that enabled us to doit être diffuse de même et that we will be sending out Metropolitan Government to ly I havent got the intellect, bring this project to the attention o f a wide audience. par nous-memes. Cette diffus­ IN FORMATION from time to time, and only NZ agriculture, the eastern capital Sunday but I did manage to remem­ ion paraiiēie, ou underground, joining in whenever some­ morning for the fifth consec­ ber it. what about the la seule possible pour un thing that particularly inter­ utive day since July 4. Thank­ Dear Editor, — people? ------’ livre de ce genre, invendable ests them arises. Mum and Dad got away on fully, in a couple o f weeks, dans les kiosques de gares et Thank you for the return of Sunday morning, going to This publication has been printed by Wanganui Newspapers, we are leaving for a month. For the financing of CRO, sur le marehē consacrê, est the form. Some INCHFORM- Hong Kong then Bang-kok - Wanganui, New Zealand. some sort o f voluntary contri­ Look after your inch, Kohen is almost 9 months old. tres difficile. ATION: they’ll be in London by the butions system is currently Copies of this publication are available from Open Drawers, Elam, He is very bright and already time you get this. C’est pourquoi chacun recoit So far, things have not gone favoured. Members may be Leigh Barrett Auckland, New Zealand for $1.00 (N Z ), postage free by surface is showing a sense o f humour. un certain nombre de pros­ as well as we would have invited to send whatever they I didn’t try writing an article Barrett Rd, R.D. 10 mail. I’m really pleased with him. pectus ā distribuer lui-meme liked. We have spent the last feel it is worth to them in for you because if I did write Frankton Junction Taiji just finished doing a autour de lui. 6 months accumulating mem- any form of currency — one it would be as accurate Hamilton FURTHER AMUSEMENTS APPEAR ON PAGE 1 OF THIS SECTION TURN TO PAGE 1 FOR FURTHER AMUSbMENT

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OPEN ISSUE INCH BY INCH 6 Edenvale Rd, Mt Eden, Ak. 3, N.Z South China Morning Post incorporating CHERRY BLOSSOM TIMES INCH ART ISSUE - A NEWSPAPER Inside front page news FOR SMALL MINDED PEOPLE Hie Inch Art Issue was begun in October o f 1973 under the auspices o f Craccum. The concept was to combine and vary a couple of ‘hrt and communication” ideas that had been successfully in circu­ UNDER THE OVERTONES than you need in a lifetime. Just be a little abashed - you NIGHT TRAIN NEWS - can’t help it! (the contract says you compliment Groucho’s lation for some time. The most obvious o f these would be Ken The Inch Art Issue represents an aspect of a general counter­ CHATANOOGA SHINE BOY ALSO RISES moustache as he flicts his cigar ash on your ass). The chosen Friedman’s Inch Art Show, represented in detail in this issue. The movement in media. The modus operandi o f the counter­ ass is one in a million and all o f us at once, the illusion achie­ Show did a number o f interesting things • provided a unified and movement is to open the gates on what has been the feudal The techniques are various ; cross-section phrasing cuts ved through sacrifice before a High Priest ordained by the Pro- restricted format that was practical for extensive participation, but heritage o f corporation and state. Media, in the forms that in­ through barriers o f discipline and culture. A grotesque pas­ jectionist - a blow-job in the projection box. which stimulated the imagination to possibilities. The results, which form to persuade, considered as production units, are organ­ tiche pooled in a parallel and floating reality acts as indicator may be found inside under the heading, ‘The Original One Inch ized in like manner to corporation and state, and in a situation and detonator : The fabulous Dina Might entertaining what is Art Show” , bear out that the most severe restriction o f space does where power is isolated, media functions further as their voice. right, puts her right foot to the left, puts her left foot to the not limit the intention o f art : R. Meltzer’s “ Illy Williams” reduces A CHINESE right, shakes her hokey-pokey at a wish bone in the night. pop to symbology as successfully as Dana Atchley’s \OID identifies Considered as amplification, it is not a question o f free speech Takes to flight, flys to light ; night train searching up a dawn. the concept of the Show with zen-like clarity. but one of who has the loudest voice. Convinced by repet­ Cartoon characters blow up each railroad bridge and middle ition and prime time, leaders and toothpastes become great VIEWPOINT C we cross, and, before Disneyland becomes a Global Com­ A centralpart o f the heritage o f the avante-guarde is the need to re­ and gleaming. Such is the benevolent narcosis that objection munity, we take the Mickey out of mouse. veal the considerations o f the elements with which one is dealing is expressed in rejecting one man-channel-brand by selecting by Yang Kee through process : The painting is about paint, the film is about film­ another : Chairman Mao or Mustang Sally? Marilyn Monroe FINAL ADDITION making, and so on throughout the Plastic and Lively forms. moans with political undertones. THE ONE - WAY TICKET THAT EXPLODED The ticket explodes. The lights have not gone out in home or From this aspect, much contemporary work derives it’s directness MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE PROJECTION BOX The illusion o f participation achieved, reality is decided upon library, but (for a moment) the explosion clears the air - and and elusiveness; a paradox of the most perfect illusion seen in the in rooms with neither windows nor keyholes while the band, disbelief is possible. No longer convinced, allegiance to one­ best made mirror, but it is with this aspect o f form that the In historical process from avante-garde to mud-guard, form is trained to play, plays on. This is the stuff o f sandwiches, a way systems becomes impossible. Not only dogs but people culturally acclimatized have learned to comfortably identify their abstracted from function ; finally function itself is abstracted : package deal bought sight unseen when the melody crosses on both sides o f puberty get their rights to walk freely in the ethos. The comfort achieved with frequent contact, however, is at What remains is the residue ; vested interests disquised as peo­ middle C : Music and magic in modem times, (in the key of streets, wealth is not mistaken for freedom, Charlie Chaplin least momentarily lost when this point o f view refocuses. Films are ple and their servants. In the Personify The Image game the A) television a box lunch. gets sainted, to the Bananarama Boys go honourable mentions not only a matter o f film-making, but a matter o f film-theatres. If reel Projectionist does not stand up. Can it be Jack Flash In practical terms, the one-way media (corporation, state) for the bunch. Inch news is a single example o f a move to­ Warhol exhibits the virtually static cinematic image o f the jumps Jackie Kennedy? The lights dim and personality post­ described, uses people without consideration o f human po­ ward a global grass roots communication network. Media, o f Empire State Building in a gallery, it satisfys expectations o f static, ers come alive behind your eyes. tential other than to succour growth potential desires it has all kinds, in experiment, is undergoing a transformation from innovative imagery for that situation and audience. The same film itself implanted, harvesting a cash-crop. A morality that does an oligarchical plutocracy to a decentralized and openly par- shown in a film-theatre frustrates those expectations. Regardless A RIOTOUS STAGING not re-define itself in lateral movement, but becomes refined ticipational game that attempts to minimize the rules games o f the physical narrative o f Bruce Lee or intellectual narrative o f Letters to the editor mushroom in the innovative guise o f talk- in vertical movement loads the image question : headlines in impose upon players. Art is alive and well and inching to­ Jean Luc Godard, both, not only are narrative, but employ cameras back radio and grab-bag TV. Speak-up and be-seen, you are the Daily Mirror read, ONE-WAY TICKET EXPLODES, ward Bethlehem. that become static (even in the case o f Godard), only briefly. Simi­ now doing it yourself in reel-life with the permission o f the KARMA REPAIR KIT PATCHES INNER TUBE, YOGA larly, painting is not only a matter o f paint, graphics o f line, but Projectionist in a breakway attempt at 64,000 carrots more PROVES NEW FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL. When the Titanic sinks - have a whale o f a time. both of space. Where the modem painting tradition declared space as 2-dimensional (without the illusion o f another), and often big, bigger, biggest Friedman declared it as measured and asked artists what they would do with a basic unit. In the sense o f inch, art falls amongst the body o f concerns identi­ fied as conceptual. Size, more traditionally, would be established in an intuitive rather than measured fashion. The mm o f film is standardized, a play, enacted within a theatre, does so. on an archi­ tecturally unalterable stage, the television screen offers limited formats in inches. Visual arts holds licence to literal variation of size. That liberty, by being temporarily foregone, asserts itself on the consciousness. AN INCH ENJOYED nuuc uaiciiuai i u i nAdi attricu- J’espere que vous approuverez bers, but the response has not money, postage stamps, stat on facts as I could Possibly People and facilities were available in Auckland to translate most location. (He came back!) cette methode et que vous been as favourable as we were ionary & etc. make it and I haven’t got the conceivable responses to the invitation, regardless o f media, into or INCH HAS A time. Also a lot o f what I am Have been receiving so many voudrez y participer. Si vous expecting it to be. To date, Until all this can come to terms suitable for a news format, (e.g. a video image into a BIRTHDAY avez des suggestions ou des talking about is being acted letters from Hong Kong - we have had 44 forms return­ fruition, all you have to do is photographic image). In the hope that the diversity o f contemp­ propositions ā faire, êcrivez- on. Already demands for a Ronaye-Laveme, whose next ed, which is about half o f the let us know if you change orary activity would become apparent, response was not confined Thank you for your letter moi, s’il vous plait. public on Nuclear energy is stop is here. She is travelling number that we really want address, or if you want us to to format, increasing the likelihood o f the participant becoming which I received on My Birth­ being called for. Govt dept with her guitarist boy-friend, Au-delā de la distribution de before commencing any sort list any further interests in evident rather than the participant temporary assuming a pre­ day the 18th o f March. I am DSIR is about to release de­ Alberto, & a puppy she saved ce livre, il s’agit d’un projet o f activities. CRO is there­ thedata-bank. If in the mean­ supposed identity. now 85 and not so young as I tails o f a solar heater. Zero from being eaten by those plus vaste, dont nous bênē- fore, still in a very embryonic time, there is anything that used to be. I expect you will population is being suggested damn Chinks. (Watch that ficierons tous. form. you feei we might be able to know I have been in hospital for NZ. This doesn’t make me The shift in sensibility beginning in this decade and undergoing Chinese-food). She also asked Of the 44 members, all but 9 assist you with, let us know, again, come out about a week Je vous en remercie d’avance any more, can’t think o f a rapid acceleration in the past 5 years is toward an art that does not in one letter if there were are involved with things arty, and we will see what can be ago, so I am not up to scratch term, - hasn’t made me sit have an existence independent from it’s maker, but that reflects goki-buris in Tokyo. Are Salutations amicales. in one form or another. We done with the resources that at the moment. back at all, but if you read the the social, political position of it’s maker and is viable not as com- THERE?? have always intended, and are we do have. ------d i t r y *»•«. communication of t h a t position. 5*« mpl ?rship of newspapers and magazines wheiM______1 m so anxious to win Herve Fischer still hoping, to eventually invitation to participate in some worth-while comeback. »y the Rubber Stamp Thing, I’m “ inch art issue” .... I find the needed! Yours sincerely, frozen stiff about doing any. idea very nice & send you a Ian Hunter How is fast Buck? Where is little contribution here. i Thanks also for the baked National Art Gallery Brhamna Bull? (Jack Ed­ hope, you you are able to use beans thing - that was you, Private Bag wards protoge). I trust this them yet ! no? I’m afraid you can’t be Wellington, N.Z. address is friendly. Did you an Oldanberg for obvious rea­ urvifn f a D» 5 lilro alert frt coo fho ortrw rtf sons T,nw Rpid The shift in sensibility beginning m this decade and undergoing Chinese-food). She also asked u i wic ***t iiiemueia, an o u t u assist you wun, let us Know, again, come out about a week Je vous en remercie d’avance any more, can’t think o f rapid acceleration in the past 5 years is toward an art that does not in one letter if there were are involved with things arty, and we will see what can be ago, so I am not up to scratch term, - hasn’t made me sit have an existence independent from it’s maker, but that reflects goki-buris in Tokyo. Are Salutations amicales. in one form or another. We done with the resources that at the moment. have always intended, and are back at all, but if you read tht the social, political position of it’s maker and is viable not as com- THERE?? we do have. newspapers and magazines ------Hity but as „ mmunication o f that position. Simple ownership Herve Fischer still hoping, to eventually when.' I m so anxious to win invitation to participate in some worth-while comeback 'toftn1* affd Spare parts the Rubber Stamp Thing, I’m “ inch art issue” .... I find the needed! Yours sincerely, frozen stiff about doing any. idea very nice & send you a Ian Hunter How is fast Buck? Where is little contribution here. i Thanks also for the baked National Art Gallery Brhamna Bull? (Jack Ed­ hope, you you are able to use beans thing - that was you, Private Bag wards protoge). I trust this them yet ! no? I’m afraid you can’t be address is friendly. Did you Wellington, N.Z. an Oldanberg for obvious rea­ write to Ray Johnson? Any i like also to see the copy of sons, Low Reid. response? Is it true that o f this issue & hope, you will Richard Lippold dide died in be able to send me a copy. NOTE PAPER It was also you who did the May? Did you write to File? Inch Art Issue. That was qu­ mk, His very Eddie Fiction in Canada?da. Much love & i hope to keep the contact ite good, though I never saw Inch Art, you are right about life: art with you! the number. I would love to is what is left over. As they be more excited by “ Dada or m . say back East : BURNOFF, I thought I’d send you a Rod Dadda” , but it seems most of m very cordially, Slant St, Careys Bay ..jit. was SZTUK ROBOTNIK egg it is funny names and so Dunedin, New Zealand Most Art Parts Co. your friend forth, permit me my taste, m 1239 Santa Fe Drive North but no : I saw an issue of Denver 80204, Colorado jiff valoch, “ Vile” which was really crap AN INCH OF BONE And I think it’s much too jugoslavskS 46 a conservative really, don’t you. This message should be RE­ 602 00 bmo and GONE THE WAY CYCLED to keep all the rest for m e ...... cssr (Czechoslovakia) OF ALL FLESH I hope you will contribute to Inch Art : via Blue Beans m aybe...... the Cabaret Postale when it Capre ■7 really gets going. The chall­ National Art Museum a note in time saves IX Dear P&O&E&M&T&R (with enge to artists will be this : to Wellington, New Zealand additional M&Ms) \ write or prepare or put to­ p.s. Narcissus Art is like Gui­ The collapse o f the Roman Just received your first from gether an “ act” which can be do o f Aspen painting moun­ note. EnZed/ANZAC and enjoyed enjoyed, etc. without actual­ tains on walls exterior o f the the ‘random pendantics’ imm­ ly being present at the per­ Aspen Restaurant. ensely. RBR, o f course, al­ formance - with the aid of PROJECT OF SQUARE ways enjoys your ASHATAN JIEMETRA FOR only some space in TROM­ despatchings/ichings/etchings. INCH HEALTH + HAPPINESS BONE (the review). But I A reply will most likely mat­ Flat 7, The Castle Sharp mean : “ can be enjoyed!” Dear Reader, 11 Castle Drive erialize when his teeth get Please do send Arts Parts a (SCALE : 1 : 2,54) Mt Eden, Auckland better. spare ring job. Love, I hope when you published the inch art thing, you were Cari. — the Editors selective. You could print all Eventually, I suppose a B the good inches on a one-inch Undelivered Mail Bunny Kosmickeybook will scroll, and if you did it yearly ,. - > *A hop about & track you up/ you’d have a measurement of DR. FIREMAN’S List No. 8 Jeanette Daugherty down. Think it went via sur­ how boring and repetitive art DAUGHTER James K. Beard face mail to Nakano-ku. has become. (How many em­ The following undelivered mail Kevin Lilly Brian Fisher, Dwight Gardiner pty inches, or “ this is an items are kept at Tokyo Inter­ K. J. Morray Dear Pinch Tissue, George Bowering, Sally Penus inch” or “ me inch” etc. did national Post Office because of Lise Lamy, Chicken Bank, Taki Blues you get? Who won the com ­ Some spare addresses from insufficient address. If these Leonard Van Lvipen Singer (Gan Matsushita has petitions? Most Art Parts : items are not claimed by March Mary Hetherington met Taki, now in Japan on 30, they will be returned to the Maldwyn Themas Bull of Colorado Springs senders. Please refer to the Nancy Aguilan grant), are local people fam­ Did you ever get the 1,000, & Pope o f Chicago P.O. Box (Tel. 241-4806) quoting O. Grimm iliar to me, most o f whom 000th Birthday o f Art from having a two manner at the list and items number when Peter M. Fuchs know and love inch. Canada? I don’t know how m making an inquiry. Robert got into that scene ; University o f Colorado Philip Giffin Seems ironic that not too Ordinary Mail he seems to be acting Daddy! Colorado Springs 80907,USA Richard A. Merritt long ago I wrote re: ambidex- 1. A. E. Davis (But he is in fact a really _. se5£' This planet Earth Richard C. Silverio terosity and have now given 2. Alfred Jensen very good artist and also a Kopemik Universe Stephen P. Ophen part o f my hand for the 3: Andre Moisy very warm person. We have INCHOATE BY A MEASURE OF FATE and S. A. Stave cause. Ear that! Van Gough! 4. Brian W. Lynch to be careful! The History of Art Thurman Dennis (dis) Members upon the para­ 5. Bernice Wong Yale Vernon B. Smythe meters o f dedication. Can you 6. Birgitta Foresell Best, THAT ELEVEN INCHES MARK THE FOOT, Victor A. Searle dig it? Can you digit? To be cont. 7. Claude Baigle * Volkoff AND CONCEDE, BY ROTATION, 8. C. San Agustin W. V. Ruttkouoski (From the) Hazed depths of Stephen A LONG EARNED VACATION, 9. Charles C. Ray Walter Citrin morphine’s delightful fog/ TO EVERY SQUARE, ANCIENT NO ALTERNATIVE 10. Cynthia Worley Wagn Jacobsen grog. Have you ever tried to 11. D. K. Pfiffer Registered Mail open a tin can with one hand? BLITZINFORMATION & OVERW ORKED INCH___ 12. Dino Collodel Technology Knows many 18 Walmer Gdns. 13. Donald L. Arensen Albert P. Orian fucks. Or do up a zipper London, W 13 9Ts Sstteeweenns 14. David M. Jones Henry Fried without tearing/Tering out a Great Britain PHILIP DADSON 2 Rota Places 15. Emmit O Anglin Jerry Stark cluster o f publcs. Oft. Things (contact Klaos and you’re in 6 Whittaker PI. Parnell 16. E. T. Hapgood Kamen Ivanov are looking up. I awoke this the club) Auckland Auckland N.Z. 17. Fredie Hendeles Suchai Danvanich 18. Frank Noell Terry ReuI"^ day/night with an erection! (being every other inch a Dear Ssiirrs, 19. F. unarrow Parcel Post We haven't seen Vile but have 20. George K. Mitchell G. S. Chang perfect gentleman?) heard rumours that it is one We have lost your late inch. 21* George W. Harnik Gary Halbert Enough labour 4 now, expect, long banananananana. Whv 22. Hutton W. Theller (3) Lautang Cheung often wonder how Lindsay & can't we be an Oldanberg?, 23. Huynh Van Can Wong Keun Craig are doing & where. Do —The Eeddiittoorrs 24. John R. Pelkan (2) look Grunt & Ming up. — The Editors L.e.t.t.e.r.s. to the Editor, XXX Maris O'Rourke H339 H3d NVA NVLS HONI 0 1 9 V >U3 »p jpuBeui iJ 9A3 AYOHS XHV . IVI. V. netroit JSOUWJL»CJ Mich 48239 USA. Dear Feet for toilet paper tits. At night he obliterates himself to write LIKE IT MIGHT BE A PER­ (Inches Incorporated) warped little poems o f pain. PETUAL VACATION. Michael Goldberg 616 S. SIXTH ST. A super idea - I hope you TERRY? LIKED YOUR Western Front have fun producing the pub­ Love. Lost in the vicinity o f Trust and Betrayal. P&O&E&M FOR B C MON­ 303 E 8 PHILADELPHIA 19147 GLORIAS COLORAS lication. THLY (ENCLOSED IN CASE Vancouver 10, Reward. Tears o f silver water. YOU HA VENT SEEN IT Canada *Box 2009-56 High The following is a foot to add YET): RITVA, YOUR STAMP © THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED VALISE Newhaven 06520 to your inches: STAMP OUT he imagines strange sagas of a man who replaces his testicles IS LOVELY. Connecticut, USA FEAT • \ with ball bearings. He wonders at the life expectency o f his Scale: 1 inch equals 1 foot I HAVEN’T GOTTEN IT TO­ This Planet Earth sanity. Every surprising sometimes. FINCH YOU, REID! THE WORST IS YET TO COME! Kopemik Universe With two inches pound your, GETHER TO WRITE TAKI / . or somebody else’s, inches to gingerbread '(OR ANYONE FOR THAT If in search o f Ancient Myst- a waltz rhythm - boots - vicinity o f Trust and Betrayal MATTER); I HOPE HE’S King Anderson Art Factory ries please write to squeaky ones especially are 3,206,784 inches from Desperation City STILL GETTING IT ON. Roberts Creek, B.C. Gloria Fireman recommended. While the SPOKE BRIEFLY TO MICH­ Canada c/o Dr. Milton Fireman waltz is being stamped out, AEL MORRIS ON MY WAY 12/1668 Tehran introduce duple and common THROUGH TORONTO Iran metres to enforce a pulse. THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATION FROM A CONFERENCE This Planet Earth Meanwhile, inch by inch, (WHAT A PLEASURE TO Kopemik Universe edge toward suitable stompers Here below is my estimate o f an inch. Recent research on the GET BACK INTO FRENCH Dear King of B.C. Gloria is younger than all flo­ to which one synchronizes relation o f personality-type correspondence to size-estimate CULTURE.... LANGUAGE..... The Art Factor is ra & fauna feet. errors should be referenced in The British Journal of FOOD...WOMEN). MICHAEL Gloria has me singing: gee ell Approximation. IS IN FINE SPIRITS, HAPPY FINCH WHO? o are i aye End when dancing ensues. TO HAVE CONCENTRATED with her it’s always an aye Graeme Moir 1974 Donald Burgy ENERGY ONE ONE PROJECT for an aye 19 Veronica Avenue 145 Dudley Lane FOR A WHILE. GERRY - The Editors, Black and to know her love is to love Napier, New Zealand Milton, Mass. 02186, GILBERT, CAROL FISHER White and Reid all over. LE PROX NOX NOTES

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Taii Ashizawa of the Medium tino P o^ r will be presented for the Melody Company awards a 3-part most satisfyingly nostalgic inch. prize including “ Elephantina, a Taii Tanic Melody” , a «-musically Minty Imuj Bux will pay brokage miniaturized ikuo shukuzawa.’and the of one red-cent to the bearer on SuSuMu Da Da Mu Cow Boogie for demand for each red-herring inch. unspecifically musical inches. Nefarious Novelties Unltd., a sub­ „ m.QN MINCH, , HON MINCH Best postal To date, the (Worldwide Nonstop) sidiary of the pyramiding Broodapple Circulating Art Library has graciously Conglomerate, is keeping Nefertiti offered the Remember Memories under wraps for a delicious rumoured Inch Art awards Memorial Award. A Rudolph Valen­ inch. for Best Stunt By Inch Artist GNOME KINK CLUB

Brute, in top hat and tiger tails, with natural yogurt and cultivated aplomb, cooked up Custards, Let Stand to the I won't give an inch! says Ritva Saarikko satumalian syncopation o f the Satyrday Night Pops Orgystra. By Annual l/i time, Graeme Moir 1974, had sqare dancers CANADA ART RITERS SOUND SHOW happy Footing The Inch to the wimpiest scimpiest impiest ,#33 Tun/Retreat “*» ittunoria) o*in»cgr;u mu ABBREVIATES POSTERITY. Incest U.S. Inchettes 2 line chorus o f “ one more one inch t o n GIVE AND TAPE/ GIVEN TAPE line” and “ nine chains to the inch, one inch to the moon” . Gravey Train came in last, hugging the rails all the way. With a twelve bar measure, Art Riters measure the inch in O O historical notes on the rise and decline o f the New York Corres-sponge-dance Empire. Set in Manhattan, this sequence OBITUARY FOR INCH shall not elaborate on thp j t /f 2 K'un/The Receptive of one inch musical messages describes in minute detail the tragic details here but suffice aseajd Xbm siq? dn to say Inch took a pace to bfe mysterious origins o f the dadactic sure-fire teach-yourself - report from Peter Priest ROB TAKAGI technique bom out o f the sur and para real era of dream man­ one yard while Centimetre as­ Radio Waikato sumed it to be a metre. Cent­ 5322 - 44th St Ngaire Priest ipulation. Hamilton, New Zealand imetre being smaller obvious­ Sacramento ^^151 W. Broadway 29 Beale Street Ca. 95820 USA N.Y., N.Y. 10012 Hamilton N.Z. The duration o f the performance converse a period from the ly could duck to avoid blows sur-real A flats o f The Royal Serbian Tambouritza Orchestra It is with profound regret and also kept a safe properly to the para-real G sharps o f Scratch Orchestra. A must for that we record the death of metric measured distance. It anyone who wishes to get A into G. Mr Inch. Those who were was not long before Inch close to him and his family tired and his opponent mov­ -fW tU A vriflt Canada Art Riters 874 Broadway No 805 N Y C 10003 will be aware o f the protrac­ ed in and dealt a mortal blow. ted and recently bitter feud Mr Inch died shortly after. SON OF DADA that existed between the Im­ coming soon perial Measures and the Met­ Mr Inch is survived by his Son of an Inch, Natalia LL, Coum, Ovum, Beau Geste rics. At a recent function in sons Foot, Yard, and Mile, all Mow’d (he Press, I.A .C . - Focke E dition , Petr Stembera, M ix Mgazine, Herve Fischer, Proof Only, T W D , Horacio Zabala, D'Hondt BEYOND POLITICS, AN IMAGE BANG a scientific laboratory Mr. of whom must live in fear Roger, Davinci. Centimetre was heard to in­ that one day they must meet Art's Birthday, ESPy, Evergreen Free DADA Trust, sult Mr. Inch by declaring their Metric counterparts. The Winner o f this yearfs Clement Greenberg Annual Art Tourn­ Educational Projectiles, Signal, A Space, W.O. R.K.S. him to be ‘bver the hill” and funeral is being held at the Teletopa AZ Music, Royal Canadian Aerial Theatre, Sluj, ament in the Sponge Dance Section was The Waltz Disney ‘fuddy duddy” . Inch react­ city crematorium. No flow­ inches go? Les Petites Bon Bons, Lindsay J. Craig, Marsh, Frank Fergusonm. performed by Mickey Moose and Donald Goose, runners-up ed to this acrimony by chal­ ers please. Send donations Tom Hosier, Satomi Hirano, XXENOXX, Images and were the Sacred Cows All Species Fox Trot, presented with Information Magazine, Oxo Mfg. lenging Centimetre to a duel to the Society for the Pres­ cultivated natural milky wave rythms by Andrē Prenneur. Marcella Duchamp, Barry McCallion, John Dowd with rulers at one pace. We ervation o f Inches. Edgardo Antonio, Bueker & Harpsichords. u Connoisseur, and from the 4 comers of Brutopia, Dogtor briar» and sarah eno, arbigland, little to n , w inchester, hants

WITH THE RUN - AWAY EXCITEMENT OF RESCUING AND RESUCITATING THE INCH MOUTH TO MOUTH, LIFE - GUARDS REID AND KERR DID NOT CONSIDER THE SHORT LIVED FUTURE OF THE ANCIENT AND FAILING INCH, WHICH WITH YOUTH IN ASIA, WATCHES IT'S SUN GO DOWN. ALONG CAME JONES, RESCUING THE LIFE - GUARDS WITH A GRANDE SCHEME.

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About a third o f the people on this born. , pointing to a tube of petroleum jelly, an mailing list , are correspondence artists Today Chuck deals almost exclusively elf, an airplane...and much, much like himself. But most o f the names are in words, though occasionally he will more, all crunched together on one 8!4 o f people who have heard o f his unusual present one of his collages, possibly by 17 sheet o f paper. artistic bent and have asked for one o f entitled, Chuck Makes A Collage: Mick Small-scale national fame finally came YAWN his very special letters. Jagger, a pair o f handcuffs, an eagle to Chuck last summer when he spon­ Whenever he sends out a mailing he sored his Homage To Boredom Contest. picks a few names from the phone book Entrants were invited to submit what they believed was the most boring and sends them his latest package o f person and/or thing. tedium, hoping, just hoping, mind you, The results were staggering. People that they will reply. Perhaps they will More to bore from who normally reacted to a Chuck Stake send him something back. Something mailing with apathy or grunts o f an­ luck Stake Enterprizes neat. But it’s unlikely. Chuck figures noyance were moved to contribute. they think he must be insane, that they Chuck’s artistic instincts had proven open the envelope and say, “ I don’t correct... boredom is indeed the univer­ know what it is but 1 hope I don’ t get any BY SARAH HENRY sal experience o f all mankind. more o f it.” P. Padinik o f Sunderland, England He leads a quiet life with his artist claimed that “ Chuck Stake Enterprizes” Chuck Stake is bored. He is folding wife, Wendy Toogood (known as Miss should win, while another entry carried foolscap-sized sheets o f paper in half, Stake in her official assistant-to-Chuck this unoriginal theme further, saying to then in half again, before inserting each capacity) in their comfortable home, Chuck, “ Your mother must be-the most sheet in an envelope taken from a large stuffed with scads of Chuck Stake boring person because she bore you.” A stack beside him. The exercise is so memorabilia, much of which has come Montreal entrant, in an uninspired mo­ mechanical, so totally monotonous, that through the mails. ment, suggested “ boiled carrots” . And Chuck wonders whether he will ever Chuck’s needs are simple. All he Karsten B. Neilson o f Calgary asked that recover from the numbing tedium that wants are stamps, those nice, grey eight- the City o f Calgary receive considera­ fills him. Fold, fold, then cent beauties...a pile of crisp, white tion, while a Tbronto contestant named stuff... fold ... fold ... stufffoldfold­ envelopes... and enough money to the bus trip from the Lansdowne sub­ stufffold foldstuff fold fold stuff fold fold- mimeograph his sheets. way station to York University, then like stufffold fold j stu ff. In his early days o f correspondence bores everywhere, apologized for the Chuck Stake grinds to a halt. And art, Chuck worked under his real name, entry admitting that it wasn’t very surveys the pile, of sheets, sadly Don Mabie, a name that hints at his Most of the time, Chuck mails interesting. Poor Carolyn Sadowska o f acknowledging that, contrary to all laws uncertain artistic future. Most o f his words, but every once in a while Toronto had such a boring entry that she of logic, the stack just isn’t getting any early graphic presentations were re­ he’H do a collage. Some are wrote to say she couldn’ t remember lower. He stifles a moan o f anguish. And jected by his public. Queen Elizabeth, in more boring than others. what it was. begins again, remembering that simple an ungracious mood, didn't reply at all. But it was not until Chuck opened the maxim: To get mail you must send mail. Chuck’s evolution into things boring holding a Canadian flag, a pair o f glasses, entry of Kathleen lsobel Kulpas of What keeps Chuck stuffing is the certain was gradual, but by late 1972 the theme a pair o f teeth, a pair o f scissors, anti­ Montreal that he felt that winning knowledge that somewhere in North was firmly entrenched in his work. At smoking slogans, Colonel Sanders, a “ tingle” . Mrs. Kulpas thought the most America, at this very moment, there is that time a group called the Dixie puzzle, a fallen man, an intergalactic boring thing was “ Rex Morgan’s Nurse someone else folding and stuffing an Rumproast Band made a brief and spacecraft, Donald Duck, Elvis Presley, June’s new hair-do” . She won a pound envelope for his mailbox. unspectacular appearance in Toronto an old telephone, a Mountie, Bela o f chuck steak, an infinitely dull award a typical ew»///-laden mailing reads: and so Chuck Stake Enterprizes was Lugosi, a guitar, Mary Poppins, a hand since she is a vegetarian. “An artist paints ,so he will have something to look at. Experience shows that escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. The creation o f man took place at 9 a.m. on Oct. 23, 4004 BC. Ha correspond’art ha ha ha ha ha ha ha — ” Jt is only fair that Chuck should find language art. Friedman, whose major fields are educa­ his interminable folding and stuffing A stainless steal Fluxus exists primarily as a framework for tion and psychology but who also describes boring.-Boredom is his business. Thou­ from Rolling Sponge exchanging information, for publication and himself as a preacher/minister, says he sands o f words jammed tightly together occasional collaboration in collective events, shares the common philosophical base of Friedman said. He pointed out that some in; Chuck’s precise lettering flow many Fluxists in Zen, or, more precisely, a BY THOMAS ALBRIGHT 300 items— many of them pirated — have ap­ form of “ Amerizen” with strong admixtures through the mails each month from the peared under the imprimatur of Fluxus West of social radicalism. He said he began his headquarters o f Chuck Stake Enterpr- Fluxus is probably the most far-flung of alone during the past few years, ranging career as a young student when he decided to izefc. His endless fragments of thought, the correspondence art networks, and Best from xeroxed manifestos and tome-sized scrub a dirty statue in the public square o f a known among the general public, thanks to esthetic dissertations to printed facsimiles strung together in ever-curving rows, small New England town; this led to a series the activities of one of its most publicized of tickets to existent or non-existent events, of “ Shrine Pieces” which he performed un­ are: all seemingly designed to elicit huge sometime members, Yoko Ono. Like the and other para-documents. beknownst to almost anybody else, and jawrwrenching yawns from their reci­ NYCS, it is both an organization and a myth. Among collaborative activities in which scarcely to himself, until he came in contact pients. The more exquisitely irrelevant, It has no formal structure, but— at last count— most Fluxus members have taken part at with various avant-garde waves in the early one time or another are Flux events. Flux the more beautifully disjointed, the there were five functioning “directors” ; it Sixties and realized that his activities con­ issues its own “ Fluxpost” stamps, although boxes, Flux kits and Flux fests. The “events” stituted conceptual art works. more splendidly vague, the more they won’t take a letter any place except by are little cards printed with “ stage direc­ Friedman sees the kind of activity that brilliantly bland... the better. mistake; it operates from “ centers” that de­ tions” for Zen-like happenings that can only— Fluxus represents as restoring the “ I-Thou” Or... “ Every cockroach has* the- fine such subdivisions as Fluxus South or need only— take place in one’s imagination relationship between artist and viewer that (France), Fluxus North (Copenhagen) and (“ Light a match and watch it till it goes out” memory o f a revolting failure. Madeulhe has largely been perverted in modern times Fluxus West (San Diego), but these centers — Y oko Ono; “ Fill a swimming pool with lime through the obstinate tangibility of the paintings an expression o f coiripplte change, close down, move, resume; some jello” —George Brecht). Flux boxes are little .created object as well as the “ financial boredom. To tire with repetiUon'^br are mere box numbers, and at least one is plastic cases that may be filled with such piracy” common to the “ hide-bound mental tediousness___” currently located in a VW bus. “ Fluxus cards, or may be relatively self-contained, orientation of the art world.” works as if, and since it works as if, it, in such as Friedman’s “Open and Shut Case,” “Conceptualists use art as a vehicle o f en­ Chuck, 27-year-old “correspondence effect, is,” explains Ken Friedman, director the outside of which bears a summons for lightenment,” Friedman says. “The ultimate artist”*, prefers to bypass the conven­ o f Fluxus West. him to appear in court; when you open it, you goal of concept art is cultural cfiange, a goal tional art-gallery circuit. Instead, he Formed— if that is the word— around the see a little printed note saying, “ Shut Quick­ both spiritual and social in nature. It is a new mimeographs his creations. for the per­ vanguard of concept art (the term was coined ly.” Flux kits are attache cases filled with theology, a total art speaking to a bringing by a sometime Fluxist, Henry Flynt— in the Flux boxes, bottles, pamphlets, stickers and sonal delight o f the 250 people on the about change in the human condition.” early Sixties, Fluxus’ present “membership” other paraphernalia, and Flux fests are major Friedman himself is currently embarked on Chuck Stake Enterprizes master mailing varies from 30 to 50 people. Most devote the gatherings at which Fluxists and others take a number of fascinating projects, one of list. Before sending out his letters, he bulk of their time to independent activity in part in actual happenings based on the more which consists of a major in-depth psycho­ decorates each envelope with jolly various branches of avant-garde expression: performable of the Flux events. logical and sociological questionnaire probe fluorescent stickers and. finally, a rubber Concept art, (Friedman), neo-haiku music The events, boxes, and kits at least used into the attitudes and involvements of some and events (Ono, George Brecht), intermedia to be available to the public on a subscrip­ 2000 artists “to make at last available a real stamp advising MORE, TO and “ techno-art” (Nam June Paik); A rt tion basis, although this point— like most 'knowledge beyond assumptions of the at­ BORE... FROM CHUCK STAKE EN­ Povera sculpture and earthworks (Robert other information about Flux— is vague at titudes of artists as a whole, and certain sub­ TERPRIZES. Morris, Joseph Beuys), concrete poetry and the moment. groupings of modern artists in particular.”