List of published COMMONPRESS issues.
The list was compiled by Viktor Kotun (Artpool Art Research Center), Budapest, 2020
Author(s)/Editor(s): Petasz, Pawel
Publisher: Arriére-Garde Edition, Elbag, Poland
Date: December, 1977
Number of participants: 17
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Comment: On the copy at Artpool there is a sticker covering the Commonpress logo on the top of the cover page. Pawel Petasz writes about the usage of this “Surplus” sticker in his text Distribution of COMMONPRESS (in: Dziamski, Grzegorz (ed.): From Poetry to Poesy, Commonpress No. 4, Maximal Art Edition, Poznan, Poland, 1978) as follows: “As to the size of COMMONPRESS and the range of changes that may be introduced, 14x20 format is from now on considered to be obligatory size of COMMONPRESS. The form of the title should not be changed, too. No price should be put on the covers. Copies assigned for selling should be marked ‘surplus’ not participating in the system of distribution.”
Author(s)/Editor(s): de Jonge, Ko
Publisher: Key Art Edition, Middenburg, The Netherlands
Date: March, 1978
Number of participants: 19
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Below, Peter
Publisher: Mixed Media Edition, Kitzingen, Germany
Date: March, 1978
Number of participants: 56
Document(s): Call, Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Dziamski, Grzegorz
Publisher: Maximal Art Edition, Poznan, Poland
Date: April, 1978
Number of participants: 39
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Bibliography: Dziamski, Grzegorz: Polish Files in the Lomholt Mail Art Archive, in: lomholtmailartarchive.dk
Author(s)/Editor(s): Carrión, Ulises
Publisher: Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Date: 1978
Number of participants: 34
Document(s): Magazine, Essay
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Bibliography: Meijden, Peter van der: BOX BOXING BOXERS. Mail Art Projects, Exhibitions and Archives, in: lomholtmailartarchive.dk
Author(s)/Editor(s): Carioca
Publisher: San Francisco, California, USA
Date: August, 1978
Number of participants: 20
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Brög, Hans – Thomas Grünfeld – Hermann Sturm
Publisher: Werkstattgalerie, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Date: November, 1978
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt, Artistsbooks.de
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Spatola, Adriano – Giulia Niccolai
Publisher: Edizioni Geiger, Italy
Date: June, 1979
Number of participants: 39
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Bruscky, Paulo
Publisher: Recife, Brazil
Date: 1979
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
„let me mention issue number 10, which Paulo Bruscky and Leonhard Frank Duch from Brazil wanted to compile together. According to Chuck Welch, the issue was published but the post office of the Brazilian dictatorship confiscated all the copies called Post Office, ironically enough. Leonhard Frank Duch said that “the magazine was apparently never published or distributed […] However, one version exists in the archive of Paulo Bruscky in Recife and Duch has an alternative version [of the cover] in his own archive in Berlin.” […] I contacted both authors, and Duch believes that only the cover of the magazine was completed, which he sent to me by email, while Paulo Bruscky sent me the complete published 10th issue by post, i.e. it obviously was completed after all.” Kotun, Viktor: A Ghost of Your Masterpiece. Correspondence Between Pawel Petasz and György Galántai (1978–2007), in: Sztuka i Dokumentacja, No. 22, 2020, p. 336.
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Publisher: Mt. Berry, Georgia, USA
Date: December, 1978
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Crozier, Robin
Publisher: Sunderland, England
Date: January, 1979
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Groh, Klaus
Publisher: Dada Research Center, Edewecht, Germany
Date: 1979
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Artistsbooks.de
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Burch, Charlton
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Date: September, 1979
Number of participants: ca. 52
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Research Center, Visual Studies Workshop
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Barneveld, Aart van
Publisher: Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, Holland
Date: 15 September – 12 October, 1979
Number of participants: 57
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Collectie Gelderland
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Schraenen, Guy
Publisher: Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 1979
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Higgins III, E.F.
Publisher: Doo-Da Postage Works, New York, New York, USA
Date: August, 1979
Number of participants: 120
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Marx Vigo, G. E.
Publisher: La Plata, Argentina
Date: June, 1979
Number of participants: 23
Document(s): Magazine, Call
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine, Call
Author(s)/Editor(s): Durland, Steven
Publisher: Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Date: 1979
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Research Center, Visual Studies Workshop
Available for research at Artpool:
Author(s)/Editor(s): Baroni, Vittore
Publisher: Forte dei Marmi Library, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
Date: 1-16 September, 1979
Number of participants: 250
Document(s): Call, Magazine, Poster
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Gilmor, Jean Ellen
Publisher: Cedar Rapids, USA
Date: January, 1980
Number of participants: ca. 60
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Frangione, Nicola (ed.):
Publisher: Armadio e Officina, Monza, Italy,
Date: February, 1980
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Wielgosz, Andrzej
Publisher: Poznan, Poland
Date: October, 1981
Number of participants:
Document(s): Invitation, Magazine, List of Participants (poster)
Source(s) of the listed documents: Held [Chuck Stake List], Lomholt, Petasz
Available for research at Artpool:
Author(s)/Editor(s): Dijk, Pier van – Joseph R.
Publisher: Hengelo – Duiven, Netherlands
Date: May, 1981
Number of participants: 80, 20 countries
Document(s):
Source(s) of the listed documents:
Available for research at Artpool:
Author(s)/Editor(s): Wulle Konsumkunst (Gebhard Eirich)
Publisher: BBK-Gallery, Hahnentorburg, Cologne, West Germany, 7 March – 15 April, 1980; Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Germany
Date: 1980
Number of participants: 199, 16 countries
Document(s): Call, Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Jean Brown], Kretschmer
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Butler, Russell
Publisher: Gurdon, Arkansas, USA
Date: 1980
Number of participants: 30
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents:
Available for research at Artpool:
Author(s)/Editor(s): Osewski, Wieslaw
Publisher: BWA + ZPAP – Galerie Wigry, Suwalki, Poland
Date: 1980
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Ruch, Günter
Publisher: Switzerland
Date: 1980
Number of participants: 120, 23 countries
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Lara, Mario
Publisher: San Diego, California, USA
Date: 1980
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call, Magazine (bw), Master copy (color)
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine, Master copy
"I would say the high point of my involvement was when I decided to do an edition of Commonpress. This was a publication series organized by Pawel Petasz in Poland (before the wall came down). I was able to get my first modest grant from the Fessenden Foundation to cover the costs of printing Commonpress-37” Lara, Mario: Mail Art Museings, November, 2010 artpool.hu
Author(s)/Editor(s): Anker, Michael Peter
Publisher: Berlin, Germany
Date: 31 December, 1980
Number of participants: 66
Document(s): Call, Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): MachArt, Cristoph
Publisher: Witten, Germany
Date: 1981
Number of participants: 138, 18 countries
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Umbrella (September 1980)], Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Geluwe, Johan van
Publisher: The Museum of the Museums, Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen, Belgium
Date: 17 January – 1 March, 1981
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call, Newsletter (ICC Bulletin), Flyers
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Call, Flyers, References
Author(s)/Editor(s): Duquette, Michael
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: 1981, 1990
Number of participants:
Document(s): Artistampsheet, Magazine, Catalog
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Artistampsheet, Catalog
Organizer(s): Saunders, Robert (OK Post East)
Location: Weare, New Hampshire, USA
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call, Catalog
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held [Umbrella (May 1981); Umbrella (January 1982)]
Available for research at Artpool: Call
Organizer(s): Erlij, Tania
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine (poster)
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine (poster)
Author(s)/Editor(s): Schmidt, Angelika
Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Call
Comment: “In Stuttgart, Angelika Schmidt was collecting the artwork for her upcoming photobooth issue of Common Press. I had the opportunity to get a sneak preview when I visited her. It should be another excellent book by Angelika. She has been a participant in the mail art network for several years now, and she has a very organized archive and record of this activity.” Llyod, Ginny: The Mail Art Community in Europe: a first hand view, in: Umbrella Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1982 [source]
Author(s)/Editor(s): Kid, Cracker Jack (Chuck Welch)
Publisher: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine, Boxwork
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine, Boxwork
Author(s)/Editor(s): Schmidt-Olsen, Carsten
Publisher: Kiregardsvej, Denmark
Date: 1985
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Prost, R.
Publisher: Illinois, USA
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Galántai, György – Júlia Klaniczay (Artpool)
Publisher: Hungary Can Be Yours, Young Artists’ Club (FMK), Budapest, Hungary 27 January, 1984; Reconstruction of a Banned Exhibition, 9 – 21 December, 1989, Young Artists’ Club (FMK), Budapest, Hungary
Date: 1984; 1989
Number of participants: 110, 18 countries
Document(s): Magazine (1984/89), Invitation (1989)
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine, Photos, Works etc.
Author(s)/Editor(s): Fürstenau, Klaus Peter
Publisher: Mainz, Germany
Date: 1984
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call, Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Semah, Joseph
Publisher: Makkom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: 1984
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Held, John, Jr.
Publisher: Modern Realism, Dallas, Texas, USA
Date: 1984
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Comment: An exhibition was held at Richmond College of the Dallas County Community College District, 5-28 May, 1984.
Author(s)/Editor(s): Bleus, Guy
Publisher: Administration Center, Wellen, Belgium - Museum het Toreke, Tienen, Belgium
Date: 1984
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call [1] [2], Magazine (with micorfiche)
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Held, Lomholt
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Jupitter-Larsen, Gerald X.
Publisher: Vancouver, Canada
Date: 1982
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Küsterman, Peter
Publisher: Minden, Germany
Date: 1986
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Author(s)/Editor(s): Jesch, Birger
Publisher: Volkmannsdorf, Germany, 1989; 3 – 25 March, Gallery Schwamm, Weimar, Germany, 1990; Halle, Germany, 1990
Date: 1989-1990
Number of participants:
Document(s): Magazine
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Magazine
Comment: “The alternative gallery ‘Schwamm’ was the real good place for two Mail Art projects: ‘Favorite Pornography’ (Jesch, 89) + ‘Animals-as Which Do Your Feel’ (Wohlrab, 87) – which were shown under the exhibitions-title ‘The Animal In The Artist’.” Source: Jesch, Birger (ed.): Your Favorite Pornography, Commonpress No. 100, Birger Jesch, Volkmannsdorf, Germany, 1989, p. 8.
