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INTRODUCTION TO THE CATALOGUE FOR THE 1991 INTERNATIONAL SHADOWS
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PROJECT SHOW, KENOSHA, WISCONSIN
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by Karl Young, Mail-Art Curator
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When the first atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945,
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people within three hundred meters of ground zero were vaporized by
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the heat, leaving behind nothing but faint shadows on nearby surfaces.
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Survivors outlined these shadows, and these shadows and outlines have
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become increasingly important symbols of the evil we cannot allow to
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endanger our species. Shadows Projects, memorials to the first victims
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of ultimate evil and warnings against premeditated armageddon, have
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proliferated around the world during the last decade. In many cities
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during August people now go from place to place outlining each other as
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a reminder and as a warning. Related art exhibits, concerts, readings,
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etc. have also been held to commemorate Hiroshima Day.
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Participants have included practitioners of all arts, at all levels.
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Their main purpose has been to help others understand and imagine the
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disappearance of life through nuclear war. Participants include
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artists from Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the U.S.S.R. who have
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used Mail Art as a means of subverting the censorship imposed on them
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by totalitarian governments. Many U.S. Mail Artists see the genre as a
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means of circumventing less violent means of censorship. These artists
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set good examples for us, both as artists and as responsible members
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of the human community. As well as making devastation tangible,
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Shadows Projects point out what will be lost if nuclear insanity is
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allowed to continue. Some of the most moving pieces have been lyrical
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evocations of children playing or elderly people watching them.
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Shadows projects often unite the two dynamic and egalitarian genres of
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this century, Mail Art and Performance Art. In the U.S., John Held,
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Jr. has been indefatigable in such efforts. Ruggero Maggi of Milan,
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Italy has also been particularly active.Closest to most Mail Artists'
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hearts was the 1988 International Shadows Project Show held in
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Hiroshima, organized by Shozo Shimamoto, Maggi, Held, and others. This
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show was international not only in its content but also in its
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organization and in the number of participants from all over the world
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who came together for this event.
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The show mounted in Kenosha included work from previous shows
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organized by Maggi, including the Hiroshima Show. Some pieces go back
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to the beginning of the decade. It would be interesting to chart the
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course of these older pieces which have circled the globe several
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times in their course from show to show. Work from a 1989 show in
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Calexico, on the U.S.-Mexican border, sponsored by Harry Polkinhorn,
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and a 1990 show in Milwaukee under my curatorship were also included.
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The global postal system established after World War II was a crucial
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factor in the growth of Mail Art from a limited genre practiced by
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Schwitters, Duchamp, the Paris Dadaists and their cousins the Italian
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Futurists into a decentralized, global, grass roots movement. It is
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interesting that while Mail Art has been expanding, two other
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movements have followed along similar lines. One of these is crane
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projects. In Japanese tradition, cranes are symbols of longevity, and
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anyone who can make a garland of a thousand cranes will live long.
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This was the belief of a girl named Sadako who tried to make such a
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garland out of scrap paper as she lay dying from radiation in a
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Hiroshima hospital. She had not quite made it to a thousand when she
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died. Her family and friends completed the garland and started making
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others. This practice spread and today people all over the world make
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these garlands and send them to the children's memorial in Hiroshima
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or to other peace groups. Like Mail Art, cranes projects work through
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the mail.
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Following another Japanese tradition, Hiroshima survivors have made
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lanterns with messages for dead relatives written on them to float out
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into the Ota River and the Ocean on the evening of Hiroshima Day.
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This, too, has developed into global practice, with participants all
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over the world making lanterns to send to other people in other
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countries to memorialize Hiroshima and to promote world peace. Not
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only do these lanterns go through the mail, they often initiate long
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term correspondences between practitioners.
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Last year, a number of crane garlands were included in the Milwaukee
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Show. This year lanterns were lent to the Kenosha show by Lanterns for
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Hope. Mail Art, Cranes, and Lanterns have been passing each other in
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the mail for years without connecting. We are all working from the
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same impulse, the same need, the same hope. I hope cooperation between
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these movements can grow in future projects. I had opportunity to lend
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material from the Milwaukee show to a Dia de los Muertos (Mexican Day
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of the Dead) Show curated by Russell Bloch in Detroit last fall,
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suggesting that the shadow was not only a new icon but one that
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changed the significance of skeleton imagery. I also made photocopies
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of about forty pieces to be used in a Performance Art Shadows Project
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organized by Luigi-Bob Drake in Cleveland. Avoiding galleries
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altogether, the photocopies were used as the basis for posters mounted
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throughout the city. Possibilities for collaboration with other,
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unjuried, uncensored, noncommercial events will probably continue to
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present themselves. At a time when we seem to be moving out of a
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binary political system where two giant antagonists threaten each
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other to one in which the dangers of nuclear disaster are more widely
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dispersed, it is good to increase our efforts at enlarging our
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contacts with each other.
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 1991 SHOW
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A.
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David Abel (U.S.A.); M. Acosta (U.S.A.); Fernando Aguiar (Portugal);
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Peter Ahlberg (Sweden); Castelli Alberto (Italy); Ernesto Alberto
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(Mexico); Charles Alexander (U.S.A.); Daniele Alfani (Italy); Flavio
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Almado (Brasil); Reed Altemus (U.S.A.); Lary Angelo (U.S.A.); Michael
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Andre (U.S.A.); Mark Amerika (U.S.A.); Komives Andor (Romania); Antler
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(U.S.A.); Avelino de Argujo (Brasil); Atmosphere Controlled
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(Denmark); Avajo (Australia);
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B.
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Kum Nam Baik (Korea); Ken Baker (U.S.A.); AA Balk (Sweden); Anna
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Banana (Canada); Claudine Barbot (U.S.A.); Gerard Barbot (U.S.A.);
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Dennis Barone (U.S.A.); Vittore Baroni (Italy); Umberto Basso (Italy);
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Keith Bates (England); Ciro Beltran (Chile); Guy Beining (U.S.A.); Pop
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Bela (Hungary); John M. Bennett (U.S.A.); Carol Berge (U.S.A.); Pedro
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Bericat (Spain); Guy Bleus (Belgium); Mike Bidner (U.S.A.); Giovanni
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Bonanno (Italy); Phil Boiarski (U.S.A); Guido Bondioli (U.S.A.); Anna
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Boschi (Italy); Joaquim Branco (Brasil); Cesar Brandao (Brasil); Hans
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Braumuller (Chile); The Broccoli Bunch (U.S.A.); Caroll Brooks
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(U.S.A.); McCanon Brown (U.S.A.); Joseph Bruchac, III (U.S.A.); Equipe
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Bruscky & Santiago (Brasil); Rex Buckingham (Australia); Sergio
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Burguez (Mexico);
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C.
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Iara Cabral (Brasil); Jorge Caraballo (Uruguay); Glauco Lendaro
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Camiles (Italy); Elliot Cantsin (U.S.A.); Bruno Capatti (Italy); Joe
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Cardella (U.S.A.); Michael Castro (U.S.A.); Anne Fox Chaudonnet
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(U.S.A.); Frank Clark (U.S.A.); Ryosuke Cohen (Japan); David Cole
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(U.S.A.); flavio coltri (Italy); Geoffrey Cook (U.S.A.); Norman
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Conquest (U.S.A.); Raimondo Cortese (Australia); Costis (Greece);
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Daniel F. Courtney (U.S.A.); Ruth Cowen (Australia); Raimondo Cortese
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(Australia); Robert Creeley (U.S.A.); Giancarlo Cristiani (Italy);
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Robin Crozier (England);
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D.
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Daniel Daligand (France); Guillermo Deisler (Germany); Wally Depew
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(U.S.A.); Desireau (Italy); Marcello Diotallevi (Italy); Desirey-Dodge
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(U.S.A.); DROP (U.S.A.); Matthias Dreyer (Germany); Mike Duquette
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(U.S.A.); Andrzej Dudek (Poland); Christina Duchaump (U.S.A.);
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Francoise Duvivier (France);
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E.
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Yutaka Edo (Japan); ENDWAR (U.S.A.); Epistolary Stud Farm (U.S.A.);
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C<EFBFBD>sar Espinoa (Mexico); Ever Arts (Netherlands);
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F.
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FaGaGaGa (U.S.A.); Woody Farlee (U.S.A.); Luce Fierens (Belgium);
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C<EFBFBD>sar Figueiredo (Portugal); Michael Fox (Germany); Fluxus Inc.
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(Belgium; Willy Forster (Germany); Kimmo Framelius (Finland); H.R.
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Fricker (Switzerland); Tetsuya Fukui (Japan); aFUNGUsBOY (U.S.A.);
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G.
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V. Gabriell (Yugoslavia); Kathy Gagliardi (U.S.A.); Kenneth Gangemi
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(U.S.A.); Pedro Gonzalves Garcia (Spain); evvy garrett (U.S.A.); Jayne
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Garrett (U.S.A.); Karl Gartung (U.S.A.); Jesus Romeo Galdamez (El
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Salvador); Joan Gelhaus (U.S.A.); Keiko Matsui Gibson (U.S.A.);
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Morgan Gibson (U.S.A.); Gino Gini (Italy); Rafael Jesus Gonzales
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(U.S.A.); Artful Goodtimes (U.S.A.); Coco Gordon (U.S.A.); Edward
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Grothus (U.S.A.); Dan Guenther (U.S.A.); Pedro J. Gutierrez (Cuba);
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Vince Ferenc Gyorgy (Romania);
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H.
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Kristof D'Haeseleer (Belgium); Mark Hamilton (U.S.A.); Mary Alice
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Hammond (U.S.A.); Josef Hampl (Czechoslovakia); Mayumi Handa (Japan);
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Lotte Rosenkilde Hansen (Denmark); Hardbound Ed (U.S.A.); Wm.
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Harrington (U.S.A.); Mike Hazard (U.S.A.); He Me [Beauty Surrounding]
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(Japan); Jan Heinrich (U.S.A.); John Held, Jr. (U.S.A.); Scott Helms
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(U.S.A.); C. Henry (U.S.A.); Tom Hibbard (U.S.A.); Crag Hill (U.S.A.);
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Alexandra Holownia (Poland); Honoriartist (U.S.A.); Tyler James Hoare
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(U.S.A.); Jim Huck (U.S.A.);
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J.
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Janet Janet (U.S.A.); Miroslav Janousek (Czechoslovakia); Leavenworth
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Jackson (U.S.A.); Ko De Jonge (Netherlands); Rene Joseph (U.S.A.);
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K.
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Kowa Kato (Japan); Judy Katz-Levine (U.S.A.); Peter W. Kaufmann
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(Switzerland); Bill Keith (U.S.A.); Dr. Ken (U.S.A.); Kenosha Alliance
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for Peace with Justice (U.S.A.); Roberto Keppler (Brasil); Bliem Kern
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(U.S.A.); Kingdom of Edelweiss (U.S.A.); Karl Kempton (U.S.A.); Jen
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Klimala (U.S.A.); Eckhard Koenig (Germany); steen krarup (Denmark);
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Fanny Kriegel (Brasil); Zvonimir Krtulovic (Yugoslavia); Ilmar
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Kruusamae (Estonia); Katherine Kuehn (U.S.A.); Arto Kytohonka
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(Finland);
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L.
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LaFollette/Silver Wind (U.S.A.); Fredy Lapenna (Italy); Valeria
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Landolfini (Italy); James Lawrence (U.S.A.); Harold Lehnardt
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(Germany); Pascal Lenoir (France); Carmen Leon (U.S.A.); Joyce
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Lieberman (U.S.A.); torbjorn lime (Sweden); Oronzo Liuzzi (Italy);
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Chris London (U.S.A.); marco lorenzoni (Italy);
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M.
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Jackson Mac Low (U.S.A.); Ruggero Maggi (Italy); Olga Maggiora
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(Italy); Bande Magnetique (England); Reima Makinen (Finland); Malok
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(U.S.A.); ManWoman (Canada); Roberto Marchi (Italy); Graciela
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Gutierrez Marx (Argentina); Alina McDonald (Australia); Melart
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(U.S.A.); David Meltzer (U.S.A.): Ruth Miles (U.S.A.); Bob Miller
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(U.S.A.); Cynthia Miller (U.S.A.); Angela & Henning Mittendorf
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(Germany); Kenneth Mood (England); Emilio Morandi (Italy); Ikuo Mori
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(Japan); Caroline Muchala (U.S.A.); Nathan Muchala (U.S.A.); Rodrigo
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Mu<EFBFBD>oz (Mexico); Kazunori Murakami (Japan); Roman Muzyinski (Poland);
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N.
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Sigeru Nakayama (Japan); Joe Napora (U.S.A.); J.P. Naud (France);
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Steve Nelson-Raney (U.S.A.); Jonas Nekrasius (Lithuania); Mogens Otto
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Nielson (Denmark); giorgio nelva (Italy); Rea Nikonova (U.S.S.R.);
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Kjell Nyman (Sweden);
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O.
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Aloys Ohlman (Germany); Gil Ott (U.S.A.);
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P.
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Clemente Padin (Uruguay); Konstantin Pavlov (Bulgaria); "Rev." Y Paul
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(U.S.A.); Shane Paul (U.S.A.); Pavel Petasz (Poland); Michael Joseph
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Phillips (U.S.A.); Barry and Eve Pilcher (England); Pips (Germany);
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Carlo Pittore (Italy); Natalia Podina (U.S.S.R.); bruno pollacci
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(Italy); Michel Pollard (Peoples Republic of China); Harry Polkinhorn
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(U.S.A.); Jeff Poniewaz (U.S.A.); Hugo Pontes (Brasil); Andrej Popov
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(U.S.S.R.); Bern Porter (U.S.A.); JK Post (U.S.A.); Arto Posto
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(U.S.A.); Charles Potts (U.S.A.); Raimondo del Prete (Italy); R. Prost
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(U.S.A.); Publishers Group of South West Ireland;
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Q.
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Julio Quispe (Peru);
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R.
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Radio Free Dada (U.S.A.); Sherry Jo Reniker (Japan); Tulio Restrepo
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(Colombia); Diane Reyer (U.S.A.); Gilda Risso (Peru); Accorti Robereto
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(Italy); Childe Roland (U.K. - Wales); George Ronsholdt (U.S.A.);
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Waclaw Ropiecki (Poland); Martin Jack Rosenblum (U.S.A.); Sever Rossi
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(Italy); Erika Rothenberg (U.S.A.); Jerome Rothenberg (U.S.A.);
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Emanuel Rubin (Brasil); Sabine Rubin (U.S.A.); Jimmy and Marsha Runner
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(U.S.A.); Rupocinski (Poland);
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S.
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Mako Sakoda (Japan); Jack Salaga (U.S.A.); Ribeiro Regina Sandra
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(Brasil); Vesselin Sariev (Bulgaria); Flora Sartor (Italy); R.
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Saunders (U.S.A.); Dave Schmitz (U.S.A.); C. Schneck (U.S.A.); Hans
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Schneider (U.S.A.); Helen Schneider (U.S.A.); Erin Schuler (U.S.A.);
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Serge Segay (U.S.S.R.); Bernice Serpe (U.S.A.); Jan Serr (U.S.A.);
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Christopher Skiba (Poland); Shozo Shimamoto (Japan); Shmuel (U.S.A.);
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Elena Siff (U.S.A.); Valter Smokovic (Yugoslavia); Zdenek Sima
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(Czechoslovakia); Mariarosa Simoni (Austria); Dennis Smart (U.S.A.);
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Maynand Sobral (Brasil); John Solt (U.S.A.); Pete Spence (Australia);
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Jan Spiegelman (U.S.A.); State of Being (U.S.A.); Manfred Stirnemann
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(Switzerland); Joachim Stange (Italy); Wm. S. Stipe (U.S.A.); Matt
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Sturm (U.S.A.); Marcel Stussi (Switzerland); Russel Sunabe (U.S.A.);
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Arthur Sze (U.S.A.);
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T.
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Marlene Tack (U.S.A.); Kazuyoshi Takeishi (Japan); Shigeru Tamaru
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(Japan); Ruben Tani (Uruguay); Nathaniel Tarn (U.S.A.); Harvey Taylor
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(U.S.A.); Terrestrial Art Post Office (Japan); Thalia (Australia);
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Anrej Tisma (Yugoslavia); Larry B. Thomas (U.S.A.); Jean Yamasaki
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Toyama (U.S.A.); Nataliya Tretiyakova (U.S.S.R.);
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V.
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Franco Vallone (Italy); Willem Van Dijk (Netherlands); Jose VdBroucke
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(Belgium); Stephen Vicary (England); Alma Luz Villanueva (U.S.A.);
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Jules Villanueva-Castano (U.S.A.); Martha Villegas (U.S.A.); Cornelis
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Vleeskens (Australia); Edgardo-Antonio Vico (Argentina);
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W.
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Joy Walsh (U.S.A.); A1 Waste Paper Co. (England); Tamotsu Watanabe
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(Japan); Achim Weigelt (Germany); Don Wellman (U.S.A.); Matt Wieler
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(U.S.A.); A.D. Winans (U.S.A.); Franz-Milan Wirth (Austria); Phil
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Woods (U.S.A.);
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X.
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Madam X (U.S.A.);
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Y.
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Bernice Young (U.S.A.) ; Karl Young (U.S.A.); Darlene Yeugelowiz
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(U.S.A.);
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Z.
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Alexevena Elena Zenoba (U.S.S.R.); Zephyr (U.S.A.); Paul Zelevansky
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(U.S.A.); Anatoly Zmigalov (U.S.S.R.); Biro Zozsef (Hungary).
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