BOOK AND POSTER PROJECT IGOR LANGSHTEYN “Secret Formulas” SEYOUNG PARK “Hard Hat” CAROLINA CAICEDO “Shell” AN ACT OF RESISTANCE FRANCESCA TODISCO “Up in Flames” CURTIS BROWN “Not in my Fracking City” WOW JUN CHOI POSTERS “Cracking” SAM VAN DEN TILLAAR JENNIFER CHEN “Fracktured Lives” “Dripping” ANDREW CASTRUCCI LINA FORSETH “Diagram: Rude Algae of Time” “Water Faucet” ALEXANDRA ROJAS NICHOLAS PRINCIPE WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS “Protect Your Mother” “Money” SARAH FERGUSON HYE OK ROW ANDREW CASTRUCCI ANN-SARGENT WOOSTER “Water Life Blood” “F-Bomb” KATHARINE DAWSON ANDREW CASTRUCCI MICHAEL HAFFELY MIKE BERNHARD “Empire State” “Liberty” YOKO ONO CAMILO TENSI JUN YOUNG LEE SEAN LENNON “Pipes” “No Fracking Way” AKIRA OHISO IGOR LANGSHTEYN MORGAN SOBEL “7 Deadly Sins” CRAIG STEVENS “Scull and Bones” EDITOR & ART DIRECTOR MARIANNE SOISALO KAREN CANALES MALDONADO JAYPON CHUNG “Bottled Water” Andrew Castrucci TONY PINOTTI “Life Fracktured” CARLO MCCORMICK MARIO NEGRINI GABRIELLE LARRORY DESIGN “This Land is Ours” “Drops” CAROL FRENCH Igor Langshteyn, TERESA WINCHESTER ANDREW LEE CHRISTOPHER FOXX Andrew Castrucci, Daniel Velle, “Drill Bit” “The Thinker” Daniel Giovanniello GERRI KANE TOM MCGLYNN TOM MCGLYNN KHI JOHNSON CONTRIBUTING EDITORS “Red Earth” “Government Warning” JEREMY WEIR ALDERSON Daniel Velle, Tom McGlynn, SANDRA STEINGRABER TOM MCGLYNN DANIEL GIOVANNIELLO Walter Sipser, Dennis Crawford, “Mob” “Make Sure to Put One On” ANTON VAN DALEN Jim Wu, Ann-Sargent Wooster, SOFIA NEGRINI ALEXANDRA ROJAS DAVID SANDLIN Robert Flemming “No” “Frackicide” MICHAEL CARTER BOOK BINDING RENZO CASTRUCCI/A. CASTRUCCI KIRSTEN KARKANEN ELLEN CANTAROW “Mother Fucker” “Your Waters Fracked” A&P Castrucci LIZ ALDERSON Superior Metal/Woodwork ITALO ZAMBONI JOHN KIM CARL WATSON “There is Something Wrong...” “H2O” PRINTING ANDREW CASTRUCCI HOLLIS MOLONY VICTORIA MOYA Dirty Graphics Collective WALTER GURBO “Tearing Our Resources” “Grocery List” School of Visual Arts THOMAS GRAY IGOR LANGSHTEYN CHRISTOPHER ALBORANO BEN GONZALEZ “Lighter” “Fire/Water” FUNDING CAROLINE TISDALL SEBIT MIN BEN GRANDGENETT Bullet Space: Your House is Mine “Caution” David Hammons: Global Fax Fest. ANDREW LEE “U.S. Drinking Water” School of Visual Arts FRANK MORALES GABRIEL GONZALEZ CORIN TRACHTMAN/SEAN MITCHELL David & Chie Hammons ANNIE LENIHAN “Fracktured...” “...but Not a Drop to Drink.” KEN FOGERTY EUNYOUNG CHO ITALO ZAMBONI PUBLISHED ANDREA LISCA “X Red Circle” “Halliburton Loophole” Dirty Graphics Collective AMY CLAMPITT DAEWOOK DO BRANDIE FERREIRA “NY Fracking” Fracktured Lives © 2020 VIC WESTGATE “700 Chemicals” 292 E. 3rd St. #5A, NYC 10009 PETER APANEL ADAM FRATINO BEN JURA “No Drill-No Spill” “War” bulletspace.org MARY TWITCHELL WOODY GUTHRIE KERRY MURDOCH WALTER SIPSER “Rotten Apple” “Pipeline” MARY JO LONG JUN YOUNG LEE CATALINA RODRIGUEZ SUE COE “To Frack or Not to Frack” “NY Bans Fracking” ALBERT CRUDO JOHN FEKNER SAM RUSSO ANDREW CASTRUCCI “Gold Water” “Zero Sense” IGOR LANGSHTEYN MARIA RODRIQUEZ LUCAS FOGLIA FEKNER/CASTRUCCI “Fracking Delicious” “NY+DK 4EVER” WALTER SIPSER YOON DEOK JANG JOSEPH BEUYS WALTER SIPSER “No Fracking NY” “Arm” EUNYOUNG CHO DORAN FLAMM WALTER SIPSER JON CAMPBELL “Flaming Cocktail” “Bad Trade” SEHEE LEE Bound Sheet Metal, Bolts, Wood, 21x24”, Ed. 50 SEHEE LEE JOSSELIN ACTERE 36 Pages Text Section + Silkscreen Posters BEN JURA “Frack You” “WTR” IN MEMORY OF KILLED AS A RESULT OF A GAS DRILLING PLATFORM ACCIDENT LARRY GUIDELLI MATT O’HARA CHARLES BEVINS 1948-2011 1973-2011 1988-2011 RIP 2 SPECIAL SOULS FROM MOUNT UPTON, NY FOREWORD Fracktured Lives - A Coming Together Lives (begun 2010). Castrucci modeled this process on and a healthier earth needed to sustain it. Tom McGlynn the organic unfolding and consolidation, in New York City “THEY ARE PLANNING TO DROP AN ATOM during late 1980’s early 90’s, of a resistance movement Individuals participating in Fracktured Lives range BOMB IN UPSTATE NEW YORK” Earth, water, air, fire: these are the basic elements that against encroaching real estate development and gentrifi- from a grouping of writers and poets whose social and ANDREW CASTRUCCI make up life. These elements work upon us everyday as cation of his Lower East Side neighborhood. Collectively, aesthetic histories align with New York’s The Lower we walk, we breath, we drink and we gather warmth. In with a number of other community members, made up East Side, including Carlo McCormick, Frank Morales, a different combination, augmented by modern alchemi- of writers, poets, artists and a wide array of neighbor- Carl Watson, Sarah Ferguson, and Michael Carter. Like the Beat Generation and the New York School writers cal fiddling, these elements can become deathly fissures, hood denizens, Castrucci helped conceive and publish “...BECAUSE WE KNOW, THERE ARE tsunami floods and poisoned wells, choking gas clouds and Your House Is Mine (1988) This massive book (21x24”, before them, these (and many others) have fostered and KNOWN KNOWNS; THERE ARE THINGS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS devastating combustive explosions. So why on earth would 19 pounds) of resistance writings and associated artist- maintained a thread of radical reimagining of collective anyone choose this latter scenario as a plausible way to move posters has since been called one of the most important society— and the visionary words it may bring forth. Visual WE KNOW WE KNOW. WE ALSO KNOW human society forward? Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a art book documents of the 20th century, namely by the artists include Sue Coe, David Sandlin, Walter Sipser, THERE ARE KNOWN UNKNOWNS; THAT + method of extracting natural gas from the geological substrate likes of Mark Dimunation, Head of the Rare Books, Special John Fekner, Alexandra Rojas, Anton van Dalen, Tony IS TO SAY WE KNOW THERE ARE SOME destroys the eons of integrity of the ground on which we walk. Collections at the Library of Congress, in Washington DC. Pinotti and Andrew Castrucci himself. Most of these, too, THINGS WE DO NOT KNOW. BUT THERE have taken up subjects that have pre-occupied earlier It can be found in museums collections around the world, ARE ALSO UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS—THE including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in generations of socially engaged artists such as those EDITOR S NOTE ONES WE DON’T KNOW WE DON’T KNOW.” DONALD RUMSFELD It poisons the ground water and the air with toxic chemicals and gases and sets fire to potential pipeline and wellhead explosions. Why would we even go there? Fracktured Lives “TRUTH IS NOT TRUTH” proposes that the “we” as in “We The People” would clearly prefer not to. The short-term profit goals set by oil and gas RUDY GIULIANI ECONOMICAL exploration companies, such as the now notorious Halliburton, EXPORTING HALLIBURTON GAS 30 YRS have seduced a wide swath of interested parties, (including LOOPHOLE PERPETUAL WAR indigent rural property owners who have long suffered the 60% deleterious fiscal vacuuming by centralized agribusiness of “NO MAN MAY POISON THE PEOPLE FOR LEAKING GAS WELLS their local agrarian economies), into thinking it’s “their” (the BENZINE HYDRO- HIS PRIVATE PROFIT.” FRACKING invasive and aggressive natural gas interests) way or the ENVIRON- MENTAL AIR 5% WATER THEODORE ROOSEVELT highway, yet the resistance movement grown up around the RACISM F energy industry’s push to industrialized nature’s ancient in- LAND USE RADON ENERGY frastructure is responding with an unequivocal “no” to such B MB DEPENDENCE METHANE irresponsible and devastating development. DOMESTIC PETRO- “YOU HAVE TO START FOCUSING TO WHAT CHEMICAL MILITARY INDUSTRY Years before the governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, PEOPLE DON'T SAY AND STAY FOCUSED” RENEWABLE ENERGY MILITARY ENERGY INDUSTRIAL INDEPEN- MIKE BERNHARD established an executive ban on fracking in that state in 2014, COMPLEX DENCE a grass roots movement had evolved into a growing national network. Vermont and Maryland have come to similar con- SOLAR WIND clusions— their legislatures having banned fracking in their states in 2012 and 2017 respectively. Local activist groups, “HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR COM- comprised of a wide social cross section concerned citizens, MUNITIES ARE CONSIDERED A PART A majority of our politicians and elected officials no longer Kirsten Karkanen, Yunjie Qian, Sam Baraitser Smith, Sean have already witnessed and decried the initial effects of the do their appointed jobs. They don’t protect our health, safety, Mitchell, Mateo Ramirez, Stephen Cup, Emily Pracher, Yusef OF MOTHER EARTH, BY BEING INTE- ever-widening environmental degradation caused by fracking. Andrew Castrucci well being or quality of life in any substantial way. As engaged Najafi, Leks Angeles, Sean O’dea and Juan Zalaquett. Special GRATED IN “LIFE SYSTEMS” DEFINED These national and worldwide social protest activities have citizens we have to step up, as the muckrakers 1 of the early thanks too text section printers, Brendan Carney and Bishop inspired the publication of Fracktured Lives. Contributors to AS ... COMPLEX AND DYNAMIC COM- 20th century (such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair) exposed Printshop, as well as Joe and John Cipri from Superior Metal/ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Germany. who contributed to the American- socialist The Masses Fracktured Lives have brought pre-publication banners of its MUNITIES ... IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT, the excesses of the nascent oil industry and the brutish, Woodwork for book binding. Additionally, I’d like to express Castrucci modelled the combined book-poster function (1911-17), the neighborhood periodical posters to the steps of the New York State legislature in Albany, The East Village IN WHICH HUMAN COMMUNITIES AND destructive power of monopolies. On the slippery stage of my appreciation to Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon for their of Fracktured Lives (which associated artist-poster project Other (1965-72) and the erstwhile outpost of progressive August 27, 2012, to SUNY Binghamton, August 23, 2013 (an THE REST OF NATURE INTERACT AS A digital/social mass media we’ve been all but subsumed as Frack Action, Artisit Against Fracking. Josh Fox for his call was also deployed in acts of civil resistance such as the liberalism (1955-2018).