SMILE issue 8: SMILE BACK AT THE RULING CLASS

published by Karen Eliot/Stewart Home, London, 1985, scanned and put online for the first time:

https://archive.org/details/smile-8-smile-back-at-the-ruling-class/

In this issue, Stewart Home announces his departure from Neoism, introduces Karen Eliot as a multiple nom-de-plume, and calls for the Art Strike 1990-1993. The texts were the first drafts of material that would later appear in Stewart's books.

Money quote: "To leave Neoism is to realise it".

Third-party endorsement: "The eighth issue of SMILE (available from KAREN ELIOT) contained a devastating critique of the NEOIST CULTURAL CONSPIRACY, a critique so persuasive that it invalidated the last remnants of the once important NEOIST movement." (John Berndt in SMILE issue 7 vol 1, 1986)

#smilemagazine #neoism #plagiarism #praxis #artstrike #kareneliot

SMILE issue 4 vol. 1, December 1986; published in Florence/Italy & Baltimore/USA by John Berndt.

Scanned and put online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-issue-4-vol-1

"Endlessly, we put glasses, cups and bottles down on publications, inscribing them with an infinity of sweating circles. This action, although slight, counts as an invasion of what ts usually an ideological space (the magazine) with an element of personal, nominal reality. Like any action, the aesthetic, symbolic and revolutionary potential of this interaction expands greatly when it is placed in hospitable context. Hence this issue of SMILE, which, like the previous issues, concerns itself with experimental philosophy, and its close companion, fanatical self-derangement. [...]The ideology of this magazine is the ideology of minimalism, that is, the aesthetic of the nominal, and by interacting with it, you reduce yourself to a minimum. [...] This is a user generated magazine of abstract artwork, the manifestation of creativity as the rejection of inertia.

SMILE is an international magazine of multiple origins. The name is fixed, the kind of magazines using it aren't."

#smilemagazine #neoism #montycantsin #plagiarism #zine

SMILE: SELL YOUR ARCHIVE
issue of the international magazine of multiple origins published by Pete Horobin, Dundee, Scotland, 1987

scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-sell-your-archive/

This zine from 1987 addresses an urgent issue that has only become more pressing in the meantime: How to preserve personal and non-institutional collections of DIY/small press experimental publications, zines, mail art, and similar materials?

Open letter by Pete Horobin, with replies by Robin Crozier, Simon Anderson, Robin Klassnik, John Furnival, Susan Young, Michael Leigh & Hazel Jones, Mark Pawson, Stewart Home, Stefan Szczelkun, Art Naphro, Keith Bates, Ben Allen, DJ at FOMT, Tony Lowes, David Jarvis, Eric Finlay, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Michael Scott & subsequent replies by Pete Horobin.

#mailart #smallpress #zines #anarchive #archives #neoism #smilemagazine

Five Super 8 films by Pete Horobin, digitized and published online for the first time. Since I didn't have their titles, titles are provisional guesswork:

DATA (8:57 mins)
ca. 1984, closely related to Horobin's DATA project and ATTIC ARCHIVE, and to Scotland. [Prescient/visionary in many aspects, IMO.]
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-data

LONDON 30-6-84 18:56 (6:00 mins)
shot one month after the 8th International Neoist Apartment Festival in London that organized by Horobin; both a record of a performance related to Horobin's land art and DATA project, and a psychogeography of pre-gentrified London.
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-water/horobin-super_8-water.av1.mp4

(Bonfire)
ca. 1984, part of the DATA project / ATTIC ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_1

(Bonfire/fireworks)
ca. 1984, part of the DATA project / ATTIC ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_2/horobin-super_8-flames_2.av1.mp4

(Fire)
ca. 1984
https://archive.org/details/horobin-super_8-flames_3/horobin-super_8-flames_3.av1.mp4

All films can be either streamed, or downloaded as high-quality, 10-bit, 4:2:2, 32-Mbit/s H.264.

#neoism #neoist #mailart #petehorobin #atticarchive