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Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse NEOIST WORLD CONGRESS plus NEOIST WORLD FAIR - 1997 ************************ Call for Avant-Garde Art ************************ Dear prospective participant! You might have asked yourself many times: What is Neoism, and how can I become a Neoist? The Neoist Worldfair now gives you the multiple opportunity to become part of Neoism, the only avant-garde movement left. In June ‘96 both a World Festival of Neoism and a retrospective of this century’s Neoist Art is taking place at „Kunsthalle Exnergasse“, perhaps the largest alternative space in Vienna (A). Everybody is kindly invited to forge Neoist artworks or performances. Although it is in no way necessary to know anything about Neoism in order to forge Neoist (anti-)artworks or to proclaim a Neoist manifesto you might appreciate some basic information on the subject. It was in Portland of the late 70ies where Neoism emerged out of the Mail Art scene. Then, (anti-)art of the 80ies was heavily influenced by a number of Neoist Apartment Festivals. Neoism was defined as prefix and a suffix without anything in-between. The peak of historic Neoism was reached when an Art Strike was proclaimed by Karen Eliot in 1990. For three years no work of art was produced by Neoist anti-artists what eventually lead to the collapse of the art market in the early 90ies. The central Neoist strategy is the use of multiple names, especially of „Monty Cantsin“ and „Karen Eliot“. Whoever uses these names becomes a Neoist. Whereas Monty Cantsin is conceived as multiple Pop-Star, Karen Eliot can rather be described as multiple signature for any form of (anti-)art. If you want to take part in the Viennese Neoist Worldfair in June 1997 (opening June the 5th) please fill out this form and send it in (via e-mail or snail-mail) or give us a call. We guarantee the acceptance of every single entry as long as there is enough space left in Kunsthalle Exnergasse and time left in June 1997. Only condition for the acceptance of (anti-)art works/performances is the use of the signature „Karen Eliot“ respectively the multiple name „Monty Cantsin“. FORM: a) I want to preserve the purity of Neoism as anti-art and therefore I am strictly against any festival or exhibition. I will take the following active counter-measures: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ b) I don’t want my name to be mentioned in connection with Neoism on no account. My name: _________________ ___________________________ c) I want to take part in the „Neoist Worldfair“ under the multiple signature „Karen Eliot“ with a work of (anti-)art. I declare to agree with my work bearing the signature „Karen Eliot“ and being donated to The Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, after the end of exhibition. prospective title of work: ______________________________________________________ d) I want to use space and/or infrastructure of Kunsthalle Exnergasse during the month of June for the following anti- or non-artistic activities under the name of Monty Cantsin’s: organizing discussions, holding political assemblies, playing skat, destroying Neoist art-works, marrying, others: ___________________________________________________________________ preferred date (7th - 29th June 1997): ______________ e) I want to declare a Neoist manifesto (max. 5 min.) under the name of Monty Cantsin’s: prospective title of manifesto:__________________________________________________ g) Could you arrange finding a cheap accommodation for me. My name: Address: City: Country: tel.Nr: e-mail: All (anti-)artworks can be handed over to Kunsthalle - after prior announcement/arrangement via phone or via the form above - or can be installed by the respective Karen Eliots themselves from the 2nd of June until the end of June. Kunsthalle Exnergasse guarantees the acceptance of every work of (anti-)art, performance/activity and paper. Please send the filled-out form to Kunsthalle Exnergasse or contact us for further information: KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE WUK (Verein zur Schaffung offener Kultur- und Werkstättenhauser) Waehringer Strasse 59 1090 Vienna Austria Tel: + 43 - 1 - 40 121 - 41 Fax: + 43 - 1 - 408 08 02 e-mail: khex@thing.at --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de