PostHype 3.1, the Franklin Furnace/ Artists Talk on Art Tapes
PostHype 3.1, the Franklin Furnace/ Artists Talk on Art Tapes
In 1984, as a participant in the two-day Artists Talk on Art panels related to the exhibition “Mail Art: Then and Now” at the Franklin Furnace, NY, John Jacob recorded, transcribed, and published the contentious exchanges between colleagues in PostHype 3.1, International Mail Art: A Partial Anatomy, accompanied by documents related to or responding to the panels.
Printed in a numbered and initialed edition of 300, fewer than half of which were ever distributed, 3.1 was the last published issue of PostHype. The PDF files are downloadable using the links blow. A handful of the original printed edition are available to collectors.
PostHype 3.1
Contributors (in order of appearance):
Prof. Kum Nam Baik
Henryk & Helenka Gajewski
Milan Knizak
Judith Hoffberg
Joseph Huber
Geza Pernecszky
Klaus Kux
Steffan & Martina Giersch
Vittore Baroni
Jon Held, Jr.
Anna Banana
Steen Moller-Rasmussen
Robert Morgan
Mark Bloch
Ed Higgins
Carlo Pittore
Ed Plunkett
John Evans
Steve Random
DB Chapman
Alex Igloo
Louise Neaderland
Ken Friedman
Dr. Ronnie Cohen
Dick Higgins
Richard Kostelanetz
HR Fricker
Ed Gomez
Paul Zelevansky
Peter Frank
Lon Spiegelman
Leonhard Frank Duch
Ray Johnson
Crackerjack Kid
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David Cole
Marilyn Rosenberg
Dislokate Klammer
Robert Swierkewicz
Jupitter Larsen
Robin Crozier
Eugenio Dittborn
Ryosuke Cohen
Shozo Shimamoto
Eric Finlay
Volker Hamann
Waclaw Ropiecki
Nenad Bogdanovic
Clemente Padin
Luis
Birger Jesch
Steffan Jacob
David Zack
Minoy
KS Ernst
Faith Heisler
Roberta Sperling
Pete Horobin
Gene Laughter
Blaster
Jiri Valoch
PostHype was founded in 1981. The first issue was created, using pressed Letraset on paper, as a birthday gift to the artist Steven Durland, and modeled on his satirical mini-magazine Tacit. Early issues of PostHype were printed with an original rubber stamp, hand carved from photographs made using the photobooth machine at the Times Square arcade known as Playland, which recorded the visits of friends and other mail artists to New York City. Later issues expanded to document Jacob’s mail art activities.
Riding Beggar ceased publication in the 1990s. A complete run of PostHype was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1987. Incomplete sets are held by the Getty Research Institute (acquired with the Jean Brown, Bern Porter, Carlo Pittore, and other people’s papers) and active mail art archives such as the Artpool Art Research Center.
The Riding Beggar archive is housed with the John P. Jacob Papers at the Beinecke Rare Books Library, Yale University.
