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PROFILE: La Mamelle Inc., Sen Francisco PROFILE: la mamelle inc., sen francisco La Mamelle Inc., an artists' space that began in 1974175, maintains a primary organizational concern of art publishing defined in the broadest terms. "Art publishing as the making public of art information" has been the central idea under- lying La Mamelle's programming. La Mamelle produces publi- cations in a variety of formats: magazine, video, audio, microfiche, and rubber stamp. La Mamelle also actively sup- ports gallery exhibitions, performance, video, music, dance, symposiums, and other idea-oriented situations. A major thrust of activity has been toward Art Video, with regularly scheduled cable television programming established since 1976, and with a developing archive of artists' video derived from in-house productions and donated works. An upcoming series for Fall 1979 entitled, Produced for Television, will combine performance and video, making "new performance in a live broadcast situation." In the four-part series, Chip Lord, Barbara Smith, Chris Burden, and Terry Fox will pre- sent performance works live before a color, airwave television viewing audience. La Mamelle's broad definition of art pub- lishing, incorporates the use of television broadcasting as a T. R. Uthco Performance, 1976 photo: Diane Hall primary means for disseminating art information to the pub- lic. Major efforts for creating television access for contempo- zines are popular, with imprints recurrently turning up on rary art have been made by La Marnelle Inc.; future broad- circulating mail of the correspondence network. casts involving a variety of new art situations are in develop- Micro-publishing is a necessary stage of information ment. storage which has already proved to be instrumental with La Mamelle Inc. maintains a unique organizational mode of today's circulation demands and diminishing resources. Presentation/Production. Presentation of contemporary art La Mamelle has re-issued complete volumes of Art Con- works are frequently combined with a documenting publi- temporary and other La Mamelle publications on archival cation, both elements functioning as an equally important quality microfiche. Preparations are in planning for addi- and integrated aspect of programming activity. Late in 1979, tional re-issuing of important contemporary, new art litera- the San Francisco Museum of Modem Art will exhibit a ture. Micro-publishing provides a consistent means of docu- "retrospective" of La Mamelle Inc. publications. menting ephemeral art publications in a format suitable for library application. Often, La Mamelle fiche re-issues PUBLICATIONS will be the only remaining example of this original activity in circulation. The emergence of La Mamelle Inc. into micro- The communicative responsibility of contemporary art is publishing is of eminent significance for the provision of an an important element of La Mamelle activity. La Mamelle ongoing information pool. Inc. has produced contemporary art publications from An adjunct to present publishing activity is a book series, 1975 to the present, publishing in a variety of formats. Contemporary Documents. The first title scheduled to ap- Appearing first, La Mamelle Magazine: Art Contemporary pear Fall 1979 is Performance Anthology: Source Book for a is a periodical produced by artists for artists offering Decade of California Performance Art. Two years in the coverage of video, performance, and idea-oriented works. making, the anthology contains original essays by Judith The magazine functions not only as an artists' chronicle, Barry, Linda Burnham, Carl Loeffler, and Moira Roth, as but also as primary art, i.e., "publication as exhibition well as an extensive annotated, illustrated, excerpted chrono- space." In a recent issue produced while in residency at logy of important literature including major books, essays, A-Space, Toronto (A Literal Exchange), the magazine Art reviews, artists' books, electronic and marginal works pro- Contemporary was published in an unusual format. Each duced in the 1970's. The anthology features over 100 photo- page of the issue was printed in signature format, so that if graphs, and chronicles one of the most impactful periods of the issue were dissassembled, separate pages could be refol- contemporary art. Other titles in preparation for the Con- ded to form individual artists' books. temporary Documents series focus on the subject areas of Videozine and Audiozine are electronic format magazines art video, post-pictorial photography, and new art theory. produced by artists. New art works are published electro- nically, so that participating artists occupy a specified VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE amount of "electronic pagesVin actual program-time. To date, La Mamelle has published 8 audiozines and 6 video- A major emphasis of La Mamelle programming has been in zines. The current Videozine 6 is a sampler of new video video and performance art. Several hundred events have been performance in a broadcast situation. sponsored to date. Main activity has been in the broadcasting Imagezine is a periodical in a rubber stamp format. Four or cablecasting of live performance works, documentation of issues have been published to date. "If publishing is the gallery presentations and other independent works. La Ma- making public of information, then affixing an Imagezine melle cablecasting was inaugurated by Willoughby Sharp in imprint upon a surface is an act of art publishing." Image- 1976. An ongoing program of weekly cablecasts of art video 8 1 or live performance programs was scheduled until 1979. Pre- sently, video and live performance programs are involved 1NFO EXCHANGE with five, color airwave television. Four live broadcasts of performance art are scheduled this fall. Future projects call Bruno Talpo, Via Longo 9,24100 Bergamo, Italy writes: for increased access to television. During 1979, La Mamelle I am really interested in establishing contacts for contri- Inc. is also sponsoring in its gallery a series of video exhibi- butions into graphic, mail-art, experimental and visual works. tions, organized by Nancy Frank. Invited participants pre- sent a videotape as well as an exhibition of works, e.g., TheFasflion Institute of Technology, under a grant from drawings, photographs, text, video stills, etc. that document the State University of New York Committee on University the process related to making the art video work. A primary Faculty Programs/Conversations in the Disciplines, will interest for La Mamelle is to expand the definitions and use sponsor a symposium on "Art of the 1970's" to be held of electronic communication systems for idea-oriented, new in New York on 28 and 29 March 1980. art activity, and to raise the visibility of art video in a hori- The symposium wiil feature principal speakers, panels, zontal direction in order to reach a broad spectrum of the and papers. Proposals for papers should be submitted as television-viewing cultural sphere. one-page abstracts by 30 November 1979 to the symposi- um's director, Professor Richard Martin, Suite B634, Fashio ARCHIVES Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001. La Mamelle Inc. maintains archives for artists' publications The Fashion Institute of Technology is a specialized college and art video. The publication archive contains artists' under the program of the State University of New York, periodicals and artists' books. The art video archive includes authorized to grant master's degrees as well as undergraduate La Marnelle video productions and important independent degrees. works. The archives contain extensive materials from both international and American sources. The video archive has B A renowned pigeon/photographer lived and worked in rapidly expanded with the continuous addition of works by Germany around 1908. Recently her writings on all aspects independent artists. The archival collection is non-circulating, of photography were discovered with her negatives and per- being used frequently by artists, educators, critics, and cura- sonal papers. As a consequence, a retrospective exhibition is tors. La Marnelle Inc. video viewing facilities are open to all in preparation and will be held at the fly-by-night gallery interested persons upon appointment. Additional copies of sometime in 1980. Collectors, photographers, curators, and art videotapes produced by La Mamelle Inc. are available mail artists are encouraged to send any relevant photographs for circulation. and writings to Eye of the Pigeon, c/o LunalSea Press, 831 42nd Street, Sacramento, CA 95819. A catalogue will be THE FUTURE mailed to contributors to the exhibition. La Mamelle Inc. is bracing itself for a whirlwind future of art INTER-DADA 80 UPDATE information dissemination. "Information is our most impor- tant product and the future for information is as big as our Response to the Inter-Dada 80 Festival scheduled for next growing dependency upon it." La Mamelle programming is May in Ukiah, California has been so great that the staff has based upon the premise that the future will bring many been increased to handle all the mail. forms of information presentation, mostly electronic. But of An International Dada Dance Contest will be held, with primary importance will be the application and development prizes to be awarded. Kurt Schwitters' play, Collision, of information in a participatory situation. The public will will be performed, as will Ionesco's The Bald Soprano have independent on-line access to vast resources. Participa- in multi-media fashion by Stephen Caravello
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