Robert Filliou (1926-1987) was a French poet, writer and artist affiliated with Nouveau réalisme and Fluxus. Filliou conceived the celebration of Art’s Birthday in 1963. He claimed that 1,000,000 years ago there was no art at all until one day, on 17 January to be precise, art was born when someone dropped a dry sponge…
G.J. de Rook (1943) was co-founder of ‘Bloknoot'(1968-1982), a magazine for concrete and visual poetry and compiled the anthologies of visual poetry ‘xprmntl ptry’ in 1971 and ‘Anthologie Visuele Poëzie’ in 1975. In the 1970s he also put together a large number of exhibitions on visual poetry, mail art and stamp art for several museums and art…
Published on the occasion of ‘Eastern dazed: DIY Music Topographies’, a series of concerts and art happenings curated by Lucia Udvardyova, Szilvi Nemet and Peter Gonda at Higgs Field, OFF-Biennale Budapest, 17 April – 12 June 2015, this book is a wild collection of risographed artworks. The cover is made from hand sewn and hand coloured leatherette shaped like a…
Hans Plomp (1944) is a Dutch writer, poet and activist from Amsterdam. His first book was published in 1968 and dealt with his relationship with publisher Johan Polak, a period in which Plomp – much to Polak’s dislike – started experimenting with LSD and other mind-expanding drugs. Later his experiences with hallucinogens would be expressed in the leading drugs manual ‘Uit Je Bol’ (Out Of Your Mind), which Plomp…