This issue of Vile, number 7- Winter 1979, is really the crowning jewel (it’s also the most difficult to photograph– the paper is awfully fragile and, since it’s bound with a metal tab nearly impossible to open completely). Made in an addition of 300, this issue includes original works from artists who used rubber stamps.
I’m going to do a bit of sleuthing and try to find out how things unfolded.
Each of its 93-pages seems to be an original (at least, not photocopied). According to the masthead it was hand collated by Madeline Behrens-Brigham. According to some Google research, she is still active in the San Francisco Crafts community. Trying to work up the courage to send her a message via LinkedIn or Facebook… For some reason collating this seems like a truly herculean task– even moreso than following-up with the artists who agreed to participate.
Stamps featuring the work of Italian artist Filippo T. Marinetti.
As always, there are more images of this issue on my Flickr page. This weekend I’m hoping to have time for more scanning and snapping. Ideally, I’ll eventually have a nearly complete version of Vile v3 on Flickr (unless I get a nastygram/take-down notice. But that just seems like it’d be counter to the whole mail art spirit, no?)
2 responses so far ↓
1 Madeline Behrens-Brigham // Jan 26, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Hello, what a good detective you are.
Yes, I am still active in the arts community.
Please come by to see my archive of other Dada Days/Daze artwork and collection. I recently came across a proclamation from Cavallini which stated that I was charged with mounting a museum exhibition in 2014/hmmm? I’d better get started.
2 Madeline Behrens-Brigham // Jan 26, 2011 at 5:29 pm
The collating project was great fun. We set up in a church in Diamond Heights/San Francisco. The pages were laid out on tables and we all went in circles picking up the pages. I have photos of this in one of the boxes of Dada memorabilia.
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