Aggressive School Of Cultural Workers
AGGRESSIVE SCHOOL OF CULTURAL WORKERS
Aggressive School Of Art/Cultural Workers Stickers. Version 1,
inspired by 'The Aggressive Correspondence School Of Art'
created by Swiss Mailartists Hans-Ruedi Fricker vs. Gunther Ruch.
The poorly drawn version of the
'Corrosive' symbol - hand traced, layout of these stickers was taken
directly from a cardboard box that had contained bottles of bleach.
Large quantities of the rectangular Aggressive
Correspondence School Of Art and Aggressive Correspondence School Of Cultural Workers stickers
were distributed via the Mailart Network
Initially produced with 50% saying Art, and 50% saying Cultural Workers.
Art was gradually phased out.
Aggressive School Of Cultural Workers Badge version 1.
It is much easier to fit the lettering for Aggressive School Of Cultural Workers
around the outside than it would be for
Aggressive School Of Art! Note the poorly drawn version of the
'Corrosive' symbol.
Aggressive School Of Cultural Workers Badge version 2.
Improved & redrawn corrosive symbol.
A.S.C.W. Badge version 3, with a book and photocopier. Correspondence has been dropped.
This version was created as the breast print for the 1991 A.S.C.W.
T-shirts. Printed on the left breast ie; on the 'wrong' side,
breast prints are conventionally on the right hand side.
One day I'll get around to producing an updated version including a computer.
A.S.C.W. HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS 1990-1992
Copyart, for Community Copyart Resource Centre, Kings Cross. Providing direct access for
customers to a range of copiers and computers at affordable prices, Community Copyart was a
unique facility and pivotal 1980's location for people producing their own
artwork/publications/publicity materials etc. I spent so much time there that
they eventually gave me a job.
KNUST, Nijmegen, the Dutch stencil printers supreme. This version has an old
hand-cranked Roneo/Gestetner stencil printer. Made as a thank you after I spent
a 6 week residency there in 1992 printing 'Life has meaning.' Hmm I must pay them
a visit sometime soon and get to grips with their lovely new 2-colour digital stencil printer.
PRINTED MATTER, NYC. The original and best artists book store. Now in a new
location and on a sound financial footing for the first time in years. I doubt that
I'll miss the letters saying 'We owe you $213.00 for sale of your books in the last
6-month period, would you kindly consider waiving this payment as a donation to
Printed Matter.'
(535 W 22nd St)
NORMALS, Baltimore. Secondhand book and record emporium founded by John Berndt,
Laura Trueseal, Rupert 'Shattered Wig ' Wondolowski,
tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, and Alfred. Latterly joined by Al
'Hamburger Lady' Ackerman. John Waters shops there you know. 425 E 31st St.
KINKOS, Baltimore. Well I though Kinkos was just some goofy local Baltimore copy
shop where most of the Normals gang had served time, I didn't know it was a
mega-chain. I was wrong, I made a mistake. I could always claim retrospectively
that this was awarded in recognition of the many U.S. zines that relied on special
graveyard shift discounts for their printing.
IOWA CHAPTER. Which would have included The Tape Beatles, PHOTOstatic Magazine,
Retrofuturism, Lloyd Dunn, Steve Perkins and Subspace. There was a real hub of corn
belt activity going on there for a while.
EXPLODING CINEMA, Associate Membership. I was actively involved with Exploding
Cinema at the time of the Union Tavern shows, German Tour, Dublin show and Legendary
Brockwell Lido show. These badges were issued to anyone who had shown work at an
Exploding Cinema show and afterwards got on stage for a question & answer/ritual
humiliation session.
Paisley Aggressive School Of Menial Workers Badge. Produced for people who provided
invaluable assistance for the installation I made at Copyart in 1991, 1600 x A3 photocopies
covering the entire wall and ceiling space. Intended to acknowledge the tedious job of
making hundreds and hundreds of loops of masking tape, this design was very poorly
recieved by its intended recipients and rapidly discontinued, now very rare and valuable!
AGGRESSIVE SCHOOL OF CULTURAL WORKERS
2004 honorary membership awards
Who are all these people?
From the crumbling Monsterism bunker in east London surrounded by managers and assistants,
Pete Fowler's prodigious output includes toy designs, paintings, illustration and sculpture.
www.monsterism.net
abake - that gang of graphic designers from many different lands, I first came across their
work when I pocketed a big stack of the envelope/catalogues they did for the British Council
Book Corner Exhibition.
You've seen their stuff in those trendy design mags & books, their stalls at V.& A. Village
Fete, Sexy Machinery magazine, designs for the Video shop on Broadway Market and Laburnum
Pilot - Street Magazine... they're friends of Alex Rich.
As well as being one of Canada's most in-demand book designers/illustrators, Toronto
based Pas De Chance (Ian Phillips) produces exquisitely constructed books of his own
postal art projects and in collaboration with writers such as Elisa Joy and Derek
McCormack and illustrator Maurice Vellekoop. LOST, a collection of lost pet posters
has been an international success, especially in Japan where it has given birth to a
whole litter of merchandise and toy figures! www.pasdechance.com
London's only specialist Artist's bookshop - as the name says! Run by the ever-enthusiastic
Tanya bookartbookshop carries hundreds of artist-produced publications most of which you
are unlikely to find anywhere else, complemented by a constantly changing programme of
small exhibitions/window displays.
17 Pitfield Street, London, N1 6HB. Wed-Sat 1-7pm. 020 7608 1333.
Miss Harriet Vine and Miss Rosie Wolfenden are Tatty Devine, their delectable, desireable
jewellery and accessories are available from stockists worldwide as well as their very own Shop
in Brick Lane, London E2, and Boutique on Brewer St, London W1. www.tattydevine.com
Cast-Off(associate membership) - The Knitting Club for Boys and Girls, ' We think knitting
should be fun.' they hold knitting events in public spaces such as parks, nightclubs and on
the Underground's Circle Line. Their Summer 2004 Knit-In at the V.&A. caused a nationwide
shortage of knitting needles. Cast-Off Brand Merchandise includes a full range of
knit-your-own kits, choose from fag ends, nipple tassels, tea towels and penises.
www.castoff.info/manifesto
As if being rapidly rising artists/clothing designers & screen printers par excellence
is not enough, Bethnal Green's The Mangle Studio have also hosted exhibitions, children's
parties, a Free Stuff Party and the unique Mangle Studio Sale.
Since the 1970's from bases in S. London. Norfolk, E. London and now Ireland, Coracle -
Simon Cutts together with at various times, Brian Lane, Colin Sackett and Erica van Horn
has produced a steady flow of publications, multiples, bookshops, galleries, and exhibitions.
Highlights for me; 1986's exemplary The Artist Publisher exhibition at the old Crafts Council
Gallery in Picadilly and workfortheeyetodo Hanbury St, London, E1, 1995-ish. Look out for VINYL
if youčre in Cork City July-August 2005.
These are long established purveyors of music & sounds strange & unusual, experimental
& avant garde and the genre that has come to be known as fucked-up noise. Currently
shop-less I'm sure that the brothers Jacques will re-emerge exactly where and when
they want to. www.theserecords.com
The Horse Hospital is London's most interesting independent arts venue, hosting regular
exhibitions, film & video screenings, talks, events, book launches and drag-racing day trips.
Their regular social evening 'The Salon of Exotic Reason' is held on the first Friday of
each month. www.thehorsehospital.com
From Marseille, Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury, Le Dernier Cri, publish silkscreened
books by a dysfunctional family of artists from Europe and beyond, a blend of Comics,
Art Brutes, Porn, Cut-ups that hurt, Obsessive mark-making and Illustration. Toxic
sludge or a tasty Bouillabaise? www.lederniercri.org
In their own words, Glasgow-based 'Variant is a magazine with the independence
to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.'
In their current incarnation Variant is a free 28 page newsprint tabloid coming out
3 times a year with 10,000 copies distributed to diverse venues across the UK and
Ireland. www.variant.org.uk
VISUAL RESEARCH - Ian Noble & Russ Bestley, design exhibition catalogues, in particular
for Aspex, Portsmouth, edit books including 'Up Against the Wall - International Poster Design'
and 'Experimental Layout' both Rotovision and also run the Graphic Design Dept. at London
College of Communication,
previously known as London College of Printing. Not bad for a couple of old Punks from Portsmouth.
I can see L.B.T.H.L.D.C. (London Borough of Tower Hamlets Learning Design Centre.)
from my front doorstep! Primarily a resource centre for local schools, they kindly
allowed me to use their copiers/computers/film output and even invited me along
to their Christmas meal one year! Closed down in 2002 due to local authority
politics/bullshit, Manager Eddie McParland set up his own buisness, but died unexpectedly
a short time later, sadly therefore this is a posthumous membership for Eddie, and L.B.T.H.L.D.C., and also Geraldine ,
Tony and Sue (who are all still alive!)
