Page 52 - Studio International - June 1974

Contributors elements are not considered to be the materials and substituted an outline comprises reproductions of cuttings,
sculpture itself but are necessary of twine as an external definition of notes, sketches, germs of ideas, which
Howard Woody is a Professor at the mute units that are energized by the the volume, with balloons as the might almost have been found in
University of South Carolina ... natural forces (wind, gravity, and the hoisting devices. Succeeding systems someone's pocket. Mix 'makes no
Clive Phillpot is Librarian at Chelsea
lifting force of gasses such as helium began to define the interior of the attempt at technical sophistication',
School of Art ... Malcolm Le Grice which are lighter than air) to space block in various ways. and its typed texts and cheaply
is a film-maker and teaches at visualize the real subject-matter —the Howard Woody reproduced newsphotos are in
St Martin's School of Art, London ... atmosphere. Therefore, the visual keeping with its attempt to present
John A. Walker is an artist, writer and spatial/time event is, in fact, the pieces by artists working outside the
art librarian ... Paul Martin is an sculpture. The unique feature of this Feedback conventions of 'high art'; the
artist and teaches sculpture at concept is its free air-borne cycle, magazine has an aura of
Goldsmiths' College, London ... where it has no arbitrary flight ceiling, Contacts is a paperback expendability similar to that which a
Jennifer Oille is completing her confining extensions to earth or 'documentation book' available from newspaper has, or better, one which
doctoral thesis on Russian Studies at extraneous human restrictions except Vehicule Art Inc., 61 Saint Catherine encourages one to pass it on from
Sussex University ... Gunther Wirth for its previous designed flight Street W., Montreal, Canada at $7.00 hand to hand.
is a German art critic living in balances. (plus 65c. postage) ; there are only The artists whose works are
Stuttgart ... Beryl Leatham Thomas As a system in this concept is 500 copies. The instigator of the reproduced in Word Works, the
is a freelance writer and poet, created, a manner of defining space project which it documents was catalogue of the exhibition held last
working in Shropshire ...John with a particular type of sculptural William Vazan, who circulated a month at Mt. San Antonio College
Stezaker is a contributing editor to movement is delineated, along with request list via a postal network of Art Gallery, 1100 North Grand
Frameworks journal ... Susan the general characteristics that will be 'contacts' on a global scale ; in this Avenue, Walnut, California 91789,
Lambert studied at the Courtauld common to a related group of different he asked for photo 'contact' sheets are generally working within the
Institute of Art and is an authority
sculptural images. These may which included 'images of the conventions of 'high art', and are
on prints and graphics ... John demarcate the external definitions of participants themselves, their represented, as you might have
Sunderland is Witt Librarian at the the space block or, conversely, render families (and) friends' and 'of man/ guessed, by works which incorporate
Courtauld Institute of Art, London ; the inter;or volume. They may also nature interchanges through the words. Some are purely verbal, many
he is currently writing a book on utilize open or closed arrangements, phenomena of transformations and are diagrammatic pieces, many, as
John Hamilton Mortimer... elongated linear or clustered elements, imprinting'. 'The sign ... for this you might also have guessed, are
Caryn Faure Walker is a free-lance singular or multi-modular designs. endeavour was the figure X.' Thus one rather feeble (like the introduction).
writer on art ...James Faure Walker With the system formulated, the is able to wander through this book The works are so different in kind that
is a painter ... Tony Rothon recently planning of the specific type of aerial of images searching for the obvious it is not really possible to draw
returned from a spell in Spain on a balance required and the positions or or the subtle ways in which the significant conclusions about the use
Spanish government art scholarship interrelationships of the physical participants have recorded their Xs. of words in visual art on this evidence
... Rosetta Brooks is London elements is begun. The particular The use of this common sign 'led to a alone, but the catalogue might
correspondent of Flash Art ... construction features are designed certain formalization that unified the provide a starting point for someone
Paul Rosenbloom is a painter and for a specific definition of space using project group into one sensibility.' ( I) who wished to investigate the
writer, teaching at Gloucestershire motion, light and sound. It is true that there is a certain unity connections. Artists whose work
and Stourbridge Colleges of Art ... The studio fabrication consists of about the parts which make up the looks good in reproduction include
Atmospheric sky cutting, assembling and sealing thin the formula, and by the way the pages Agnes Denes, Hamish Fulton and
book, but this is also fostered both by
Edward Kienholz.
polyethylene or mylar films.
sculpture The completed elements are then are laid out. The 108 pages, measuring Reconstruction by Tim Head was
packed in their storage tubes for the 36 x 27 cm., each display the published last year by Idea Books, 18
My sculptural concept developed single flight activity. contribution of either one or two Endell Street,London WC2H 9BD at
from my interest in employing The responsibilities of the creating artists. 125 artists from 30 countries £1.25, and represents an adventurous
positive open-air space as a major artist do not stop with fabrication in are represented. A typical page departure in their publishing, or
concern. The concept utilizes an the studio. Before each event a series consists of a reproduction of a strip maybe a return to a direction which
integration between the properties of of activities are accomplished. The or two of contact prints, plus one or was previously suggested by Derek
atmospheric space and a system probable flight path is determined and two enlargements, part of the Boshier's 16 Situations.
which places expendible elements in then advance notices and requests envelope in which the photographs Reconstruction is clearly an
this aerial environment. Each system for assistants and spotters for this were sent, and sometimes notes, parts example of book art or of exploitation
of letters, captions etc. Sometimes of the book form. Physically the book
the elements are laid out formally, is well produced and put together,
sometimes they are strewn over the and instead of the pages being
page or photographed paper-clipped 'perfect bound' or sewn or stapled
together, the offset reproductions are they have been 'whirlwind bound',
often bled off. The printing and that is. the pages in one continuous
production are good, the photographs strip have been folded like a
submitted are generally straight concertina and secured in the cover
visual records and less frequently by glueing in only the first and last
mannered (though they are often leaves. The images revealed in the
contrived). It is the found or casual first page opening and the last are
images rather than the contrived ones explicit, the first is a photograph of
that provide the backbone of the book. floorboards, the last is a photograph
Some of the artists represented in from below of a camera on a tripod,
Contacts reappear in Mix Magazine, however, between these end points a
also from Canada, but also with process unfolds which progressively
contributors from all over the world. diminishes (or expands) one image
This is a pocket-sized publication, and slowly alters the other, it also
only 15 cm. high, which contains leads one to question just how the
between forty and eighty pages per images are arrived at. If you can only
Howard Woody Space Barricade participatory event are announced issue, and which is usually edited by suggest that it must all be done by
October 1973. Five 12 x12 ft mylar units
through the press, radio and TV ; Terry Sladden and Ron Shuebrook, mirrors, you will be very close to the
uses a selected cubic block of space the flight is announced to the USA (though no. 3, an East European truth —the last photo in the book
and positions a flexible organization Federal Aviation Administration issue,was guest edited by Klaus explains all. The page openings
of elements into the volume to regional office following their criteria. Groh). Each issue costs 50 cents and correspond to the positions of two
visualize the invisible fluid motion Return questionnaire postcards for although available from the Art effectively hinged mirrors between
flowing through it during a particular landing site details are prepared. Department of the University of and including closed and open
period of time. The specific physical My initial plans for sculptures based Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask. positions. If these words have tended
elements are neutral so that they can on this concept were begun in the S7N OWO, Canada, is poles apart from to confuse your understanding of the
reflect nature and not impose artificial late 1960s. My systems avoided the the Structurist which emanates from work, the book is more eloquent.
narrative images on the form. These use of space-consuming visual the same institution. Each magazine Clive Phillpot