From the Divan of Petra Vogt was published by Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam in 1976. The final version of this sought-after edition – with poems and photographs from Kathmandu by Ira Cohen – has a black silkscreened cover and a purple title page. However, as a try-out a handful of copies were put together with a white cover and a white title page in 1976. One of these very rare white-cover versions has…
American photographer, poet and publisher Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents in the Bronx in 1935. After having dropped out of Cornell University, having married and having had two children with his wife Arlene Bond, Cohen sailed to Tangier in 1961, where he stayed for four years. In those years Cohen published his seminal Gnaoua journal with contributions by Jack Smith…
In September 2021 Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin organised a series of events to commemorate the Zodiak Free Arts Lab which was founded in 1968 by Beuys student Conrad Schnitzler together with Hans Joachim Roedelius and Boris Schaak. One of the three HAU venues is the building where at the time Zodiak brought together visual art, performance, music and film. Taste Tribes…