Skank Bloc Bologna #1

by Alex Hetherington, 30 Jan 2008

SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA, Tart San Francisco

In February 2008 TART will launch an art and poetry journal entitled Skank Bloc Bologna.

Skank is inspired by Semina a free-form journal published sporadically by artist Wallace Berman and his circle in California in the 1950’s and 60’s.

These short bursts of contemporary avant-garde poetry, prose, photography, collage and drawing were augmented by fragments lifted from various visionary precursors, then mailed out to a couple of hundred kindred spirits. With a somewhat irreverent attitude and a DIY, ad hoc approach Berman was able to create his own culture and community.

Skank Bloc Bologna will offer a loose leaf collection of works with each piece able to stand on its own or be re-configured within the collection. Rather than offer a thematic framework the collection will be open to interpretation. This is the first in a series of issues with a view to Skank becoming an extension of the TART program.

Contributors:
Bill Berkson
Sari Carel
Alejandro Cesarco
Ishan Clemenco
Anne Colvin
Caroline Colvin
Jordan Essoe
Graham Fagen
Oliver Farley
Marcella Faustini
Urs Fischer
Alex Hetherington
Nico Ihlein
Fabienne Lassere
Rebecca Miller
Frank Olive/Rudy Shephard
Anne Waldman

Launch:
Toscas in North Beach, San Francisco, US
Wednesday February 13th
6-8pm