Author: Anneke

Slowscan’s MOCA/FM release is an anthology of audio art pieces by 26 performance artists from the late 1960s-early 1970s that was broadcast on KPFA-FM radio, Berkeley in 1971. The radio broadcast consisted of one-minute works presented by the Museum of…

Slowscan #36 is a re-issue on vinyl of three separate cassettes originally released on Balsam Flex, a London-based label run by artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s-early 1980s. In those days a number of British poets were producing works influenced by radical…

Californian artist Liam O’Gallagher was born in 1917 in Oakland the tenth of eleven children. Inspired by Aldous Huxley he decided to follow an artistic career and studied with Hans Hofmann in Greenwich Village in 1946. O’Gallagher returned to California to pursue an artistic career in Ojai and teach art at the Happy Valley School there. His mystical and socio-political views were greatly influenced by the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, whom he met in those days. O’Gallagher and his partner Robert Rheem moved to San…