1983. Falling Annual Livingroom Video Festspiel 83 catalog
Niels Lomholt of Lomholt Formular Press participated in the 1st International Neoist Apartment Festival in Montréal, Sept 17-21, 1980, No-Galero (Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor) 's apartment). It was probably thanks to this neoist connection that I started corresponding with him in 1981 which I continued to do until 1997. In that time I sent him 20 mailings & he replied with 9:
Of my 20, 9 are documented on his Mail Art web archive:
http://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/networkers/tentatively-a-convenience
I partially attribute the lack of documentation about all 20 to my having used so many names & having been generally uncategorizable. Looking over my records shown above I was astonished to find that in my very 1st mailing to Lomholt Formular Press I sent him the original & only copy of a super-8mm film of mine called "Testing". I remember this film as basically a somewhat failed experiment in which I wrote the word "testing" in sand using the lens of the camera. Still, I would never give away an original film now!!
Niels invited me to contribute video to the "Falling Annual Livingroom Video Festspiel 83" to which I contributed a compilation video that I must've made under very bad conditions given that I wouldn't've even had a VCR at the time. The compilation had work by me & a few BalTimOre based friends & collaborators of mine:
(a version of which is on my Vimeo channel here: https://vimeo.com/160516148 )
"Pee on "Bob"'s Head"
"Subtitles (Super 8 Vaudio Version)"
"Heart Rob" (by Laure Drogoul)
"Brain One" (by The Dork Brothers)
"Fish Story" (by The Dork Brothers)
"Gender Fuck Party Closet Film"
(made by Rick & on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/sXQ_CVS_5_8 )
"A Double Negative As Not A Positive"
(on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/OSxlaMSynjE )
"Balti-Media Edition & Science Fair" (by Doug Retzler & Axis Video)
In retrospect, this was a very solid body of work that some might've found a bit 'transgressive'.
The festival seems like it was probably extremely interesting - with work provided by (original catalog spelling preserved):
A+A Brand/Maschmann - Berlin, BRD
The Basement Group - Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Nancy J.S. Bechtol - Chcago, USA
Peter Below - Wurzburg, BRD
Guy Bleus - Wellen, Belgien
Erick Bock - København, Denmark
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini - Brescia, Italien
Albrecht D - Stuttgart, BRD
Claudia DeMonte - New York, USA
FOMT - Larne, N. Ireland
Brian King - Shankill, Irland
Helen Lait Kluge - Nødebo, Denmark
Pat Kelley - Whittier, USA
Stuart Bender
Kyoji Kojima - Togo-cho Aichi-gun, Japan
Antal Lux - Berlin, BRD
Anders Ljungman - Stockholm
Mertens & Mertens - Hamburg, BRD
Robert C. Morgan - Rochester, USA
Minoy - Redonodo Beach, USA
Carlos Pittore - New York, USA
Sluik/Kurpershoek - Amsterdam, Holland
Werner Schiedel - Hamburg, BRD
Joseph Somogyi - Hamburg, BRD
Gabor Toth - Budapest, Ungaren
Tentative - Baltimore, USA
Vaerksted Vaerst - København, Danmark
Angela Zumpe - Berlin, BRD
Spazio Video/2 - Salerno, Italien
Torben Søborg - Haslev, Denmark
Cartsen Schmidt-Olsen, Hjørring, Denmark
Niels Lomholt - Falling, Denmark
As is typical of the best of Mail Art, this was an international crowd. I'm sure it was fantastic. The catalog is very nicely done, presumably printed by Lomholt Formular Press using either offset or mimeograph in such a way that different pages have different inkings - with some pages having the type of 2 color inking where one color is put in the ink drum at one end & another at the other end so that there's a color transition across the middle of the page. The cover has a black & white photograph glued on & the title seems to've been handwritten directly on too.
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