György Galántai, Julia Klaniczay (eds.): Artpool: The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe (2013)

“How could an arts initiative, called Artpool, in the 1970s, in a small corner of the world, in East-Central Europe, become a significant node, a reference point in a worldwide – initially analogue (postal) then digital (online) – network?

How has it been able to validly speak out and address issues and people again and again in the ‘storms’ of history and scientific-technological progress, for more than four decades now?

Using authentic documents, numerous photographs and illustrations Artpool’s chronological volume containing a brief presentation of events and exhibitions, a detailed bibliography and references follows the history of the Artpool art project – launched more than forty years ago by fine artist György Galántai and later jointly realized with Júlia Klaniczay – from the exhibitions of the Chapel Studio active in Balatonboglár between 1970 and 1973, through the establishment of the Artpool archive in 1979 to the opening of the Artpool Art Research Center in Budapest in 1992 and its becoming an esteemed research facility by the 2010s.

Hundreds of artists from all corners of the world sent their works to the international Artpool exhibitions, which are built on the “Active Archive” concept and explore themes inspired by our perpetually changing world, in the same way as György Galántai and Artpool also participated in the events organized in the various other nodes of the “Eternal Network”.

The information accumulated in Artpool over the forty years, the collections that were built up, and the research work based on them form the tissue of today’s institute, which beyond the developments in the art scene also informs us about the eventful forty or so years during which Artpool came into being and has continued to operate. This period can be best described by the following keywords: communism, iron curtain, secret files, tapping telephone wires, bans, “the happiest barrack”, samizdat publications, counterculture, change of the system, democratic transition, freedom of the press and speech, independent non-profit initiatives, European Union, strengthening nationalism and conservatism; 20th century, millennium, 21st century; technological and communication explosion.”

Foreword by Kristine Stiles
Publisher Artpool, Budapest, 2013
ISBN 9630872250, 9789630872256
535 pages

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Steve McCaffery, bpNichol (eds.): Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (1978)

For the Eleventh International Sound Poetry Festival in Toronto, Canada, October 1978.

With texts and works by Steve McCaffery, Paula Claire, Greta Monach, Charlie Morrow, Jackson Maclow, Bob Cobbing, Bernard Heidsieck, Paul Dutton, Sten Hanson, Henri Chopin, R. Murray Schafer, Owen Sound, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Gibbs, Raoul Duguay, Steve Ruppenthal, Earle Birney, Lawrence Upton, Dick Higgins, Sean O’Huigin, Ann Southam, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Larry Wendt, bpNichol, Cris Cheek, P.C. Fencott, Ilmar Laaban, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Bill Griffiths and Ake Hodell.

Publisher Underwhich Editions, Toronto, 1978
112 pages
via Juan Angel Italiano

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Dick Higgins: Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature (1987)

“Pattern poetry–poetry from before 1900 that fuses literature and visual art–has existed since the times of ancient Crete and Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in many oriental literatures.

This book tells the history of pattern poetry, documenting and classifying more than 2,000 works. Illustrations of each major genre of pattern poem are included. The book also explores related forms, such as graphic music notations, shaped prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to name a few. A glossary, essays by two world authorities on the oriental analogues to the pattern poem, and the first full bibliography on pattern poetry complete the work. With this book, Dick Higgins has provided an indispensable tool for opening up the area of pattern poetry to the scholar and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an obscure and confusing area, and delighting the eye and mind by casting light on these forgotten treasures.”

Publisher SUNY Press, 1987
ISBN 0887064140, 9780887064142
x+275 pages

Review: Piotr Wilczek (Pamiętnik Literacki, 1989, PL).

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