Piece for Cecil Touchon's Collage Centennial

Tip Top- as Seen on TV

38X9 cm

2012

collage in household match box.

I view collage as a form of magick. To quote Comte de Lautréamont, “Chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella”. Many of the my collages use juxtaposition to create effect, image and text, sign and signifier. Objects are brought together with the process of making of these strange marriages left visible. My collages are not seamless , rather they create their alchemy from the raw materials of the world.

David Dellafiora

Altered Book Workshop Lara Library, Australia

Altered Book workshop at Lara Library. A project by the Youth Development Unit from the City of Greater Geelong, workshopped by David Dellafiora and 5 young artists.

Field Study Postbox 11/1/2012

many thanks to all.

PROLONGED READING NOT APPRECIATED

PROLONGED READING NOT APPRECIATED

Post Punk zines, small press publications and artefacts from the Field Study Archive

(9^th – 23^rd January 2012)

Geelong Library . 49 Little Malop St. Geelong VIC 3220 Australia

Displayed here are a selection of publications from alternative groups, zines by individuals, examples of network culture, visual poetry, eccentric and radical writings and disinformation produced in the UK, USA and Australia during the 80s and 90s.

These publications emerged from the DIY counter culture of the post punk era and employ tactics including anonymity, an anti-copyright stance, exploit the availability of photocopiers for self publishing and explore an anti-aesthetic and anti-consumerist visual style.

Publications, postcards and multiples by:

Association of Autonomous Astronauts . Axle . Blackshaw Press . Cactus Network . Church of the Subgenius . Classwar Karaoke . Bob Cobbing . Collective Effort . Coracle . Robin Crozier . Joe Decie . David Dellafiora & Simon Ford . Disembodied Art Gallery . Disinformation Network . Electrick Skizoo . Karen Eliot . Matthew Fuller . Global Mail . Evan Griffiths . Jim Hayes . Stewart Home . London Psychogeographical Association . Tony Lowes . Medium Sliced . Neoist Alliance . Nocturnal Emissions . Donald Parsnips . Mark Pawson. Paul Petard . Stephen Perkins. David Powell . Jamie Reid . Rubber Whammy . Smile . Slim Smith . Stefan Szczelkun . Thee Church Ov Ringo . Underground . Unpopular Books . Vile . Wack

Mail Artists its time to pull our weight!

We all know that postal costs are going up, but what we seem to be over looking is that so often we send our post under weight. In Australia the postal international letter rates for weights at the present moment are: up to 50g $2.35, over 50g up to 125g $4.70 and over 125g up to 250g is $7.05. Its easy to go just over and have to play the next rate.

I call on all mail artists to take control of your postal rates by getting a digital scale and use the post office rate book to work out your own post to its maximum rate. Also it means by buying stamps and using them at home you get real stamps rather than the print out labels. Also remember when you get a piece of mail with an unfranked stamp its good to send back into the network to support your fellow artists.

Field study Tasmania

Field Study post Box 7/1/2012

Back from Tasmania and so much wonderful post in the box, thanks to all.