Out of Print. An archive as an artístic concept

Autor: Guy Schraenen, Bettina Brach

I.S.B.N.: 978-3-928761-51-2

Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen 2001, Centre National de L'estampe et de L'Art Impriné, Chatou 2001, Museé de Art Contemponarei de Barcelona, Barcelona 2002, Mednarodni Graficni Likovni Center, Ljubljana 2002, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb 2002, Museu Serralves, Porto 2002, Städtische Galerie Erlangen 2002.

Edition 2001 (2000 copies)

Fundado por Guy Schraenen, el Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) del Neues Museum Weserburg de Bremen se caracteriza por reflejar un periodo artístico alternativo, iniciado en los sesenta, en el que los artistas, aplicando diversos y rompedores métodos a la obra gráfica y sonora, expresaban sus tendencias antitradicionalistas y sus ideas innovadoras. La exposición Edición agotada, que ha recorrido varias ciudades de todo el mundo, mostraba una amplia selección de la obras pertenecientes al ASCP, en cuyo catálogo, además, se publica un manifiesto de Guy Schraenen.

The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A. S.P.C.) was founded in 1974 in Antwerp (Belgium). It has the aim to collect and preserve all types of art documentation, emanating principally from artists' initiatives and covering all fields the contemporary artist is active in.

As most of the collected documents record activities neglected by the traditional artworld, the preserved works are, and will remain, an Important contribution to the knowledge of the contemporary artscene.

The collection consists of publications, ranging from the avant-garde of the 20ies to the most actual tendencies, focusing however on the period 1960-1980.

The Archive is divided into several sections such as Artists' Books, Sound Poetry, Original Vorks, Music and Sound Vorks, Posters, Video, Catalogues, Multiples, Magazines, Postcards, Visual and Concrete Poetry, Fluxus, Performance, Mail Art, Photography, Writings by Artists..

All together it is a fund of thousands of documents representing the work of several hundreds of artists from over 25 countries, classified by name, origin and type of activity and easy to consult as the Archive is open to outsiders for research.

Collecting day after day and preserving all these documents is most important. But giving the opportunity to a public, kept ignorant by specialized media, to have knowledge of them, is equally important. This is one of the reasons which motivates us to set up or to participate in many activities, in Belgium as well as abroad.

Since 1974 we had an uninterrupted activity such as publishing, organizing exhibitions and lectures or producing radioprogrammes; both on individual base and in collaboration with artists' run spaces, museums or cultural centres.

The Archive principally communicates through: its collection of publications and works which form a museumlike collection; the documents and bio- bibliographical publications; the Archive Space,, a place where exhibitions focused on certain aspects of the collection are regularly organised; its monthly radio programme "I am an Artist", devoted to artists' initiatives; and also through the organisation of travelling exhibitions.

The A.S.P.C. wants to preserve the patrimony built up by people, active from inside and not from outside the international artscene, and to be witness and memory of actions independent of all power and influences, where the breath of non-conformism, liberty and creation still passes. (1974-1981)

Características:

Formato : Tapa blanda con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Páginas: 256

Peso : 1.177 gr.

Dimesiones Alto: 27 cm Ancho: 19,3 cm. Grosor: 2,7 cm.