Johannes Baader’s text Enthüllung was published in 1919 in his Handbuch des Oberdada aka as Buch des Weltfriedens, a reaction to the Treaty of Versailles of that same year. In the text Baader assesses the position of psychiatrists in the grave political situation of the period by eloquently comparing them to the guardians of enchanted castles…
Slowscan Vol. 58 is a collection of 10 recordings of varying length released on cassette in a hand made and silkscreened box. Produced in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Fluxus the box not only holds a treasure of recordings of leading Fluxus artists but is also a fine piece of work itself. Apart from the 10 cassettes the box contains four inserts, one…
American writer and editor James Grauerholz is best known as the bibliographer and literary executor of the late William S. Burroughs. Grauerholz was born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1953 and briefly attented the University of Kansas before dropping out in the early 1970s. Already fascinated by the Beat Generation when he left Kansas for New York City…
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983) was an American poet associated with the second generation of the avantgardist New York School. He served in the US army for three years before taking a B.A. in English at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1959. Berrigan, who considered himself a late Beat poet, was active in Chicago for a number of years before he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. There he published and edited various books and his C Magazine…