A partial listing of the congress sessions organized in the framework of the
Decentralized Worldwide Networker Congress 1992
(We are looking for documents on those sessions which are not listed here due to lack of materials.)
Call
Organizer(s): Dunn, Lloyd – Stephen Perkins
Location: Aggressive School of Cultural Workers Iowa Chapter, Iowa, USA
Date: 1992
Number of participants: 400, 35 countries
Document(s): Issue Nos. 1–10.
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, iuoma.org, Lomholt, Ruch
Available for research at Artpool: Article, Photos
Bibliography: Janssen, Ruud: Mail-interview with Günther Ruch – Switzerland, TAM Publications, Netherlands, 1996
Comment: Related link: Günther Ruch 1942-2013
Ongoing
Organizer(s): Küstermann, Peter – Angela Pähler
Location: Worldwide
Date: 1992
Number of participants:
Document(s): Articles, Photos
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article, Photos
Bibliography: YU-Net Congresses. In War and Under Blockade, in: Netshaker, No. 1, Vol.2, Hanover, NH, USA (ed. by Crackerjack Kid), pp. 77-79.
“They have severely condemned the cultural embargo imposed on Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in their lectures and interviews given to the television and newspapers, calling it: “intellectual crime”. They had congress meetings in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Odzaci. They brought to us a bunch of sendings from whole world, even from Svjetlana Mimica from Croatia, from where she couldn’t send them to us through official mail.” Andrej Tišma
February
Organizer(s): Bogdanovic, Nenad – Aleksandr Jovanovic – Sandor Gogolyak
Location: Baranjsko Petrovo Selo, Croatia
Date: February, 1992
Number of participants: 3
Document(s): Article
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article
Bibliography: YU-Net Congresses. In War and Under Blockade, in: Netshaker, No. 1, Vol.2, Hanover, NH, USA (ed. by Crackerjack Kid), pp. 77-79.
March
Organizer(s): Lotterie, Heino Ottes - Joki
Location: Dangast, Germany
Date: March, 1992
Number of participants:
Document(s): Article
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article
Organizer(s): Maggi, Ruggero
Location: Milan Art Center, Milan, Italy
Date: 22 March, 1992
Number of participants: 11
Document(s): Article
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article
May
Organizer(s): Morandi, Emilio
Location: Artestudio, Ponte Nossa, Bergamo, Italy
Date: 9-10 May, 1992
Number of participants:
Document(s): Catalog
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Catalog
June
Organizer(s): Kamperelic, Dobrica
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Date: 13 June, 1992
Number of participants: 11
Document(s): Article
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article
Bibliography: YU-Net Congresses. In War and Under Blockade, in: Netshaker, No. 1, Vol.2, Hanover, NH, USA (ed. by Crackerjack Kid), pp. 77-79.
“Eleven participants have signed the petition against blockade of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) which was imposed on June 1.” Andrej Tišma
August
Organizer(s): Summers, Rod - Charles Francois
Location: Antwerpen, Belgium
Date: 23 August, 1992
Number of participants: 6
Document(s): Report, List, Photo, Video
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Charles Francois
Available for research at Artpool: Report, List
Organizer(s): Galántai, György
Location: Artpool, Budapest, Hungary
Date: 24-26 August, 1992
Number of participants: 88
Document(s): Site, Newsletter
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Site, Newsletter
“The first fax-action and exhibition by Artpool. From the session a news-letter called “Artpool Faxzine” was faxed daily to all around the world.” Galántai György
Organizer(s): Dragonfly (Janet Yoder) – Dogfish (Robert Rudine)
Location: Palace of Ministries if Greater Tui Tui, Salalberry, USA
Date: 3 August, 1992
Number of participants: 20
Document(s): Postcard
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Postcard
“The Congress greeted the Network Mail Carriers Peter Küstermann and Angela Pähler on their year long worldaround personal Congress mail delivery performance.” Tui Tui
Organizer(s): Summers, Rod - Charles Francois
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 7-9 August, 1992
Number of participants: 6
Document(s): Report, List, Photo, Video
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Charles Francois
Available for research at Artpool: Report, List
Organizer(s): Francois, Charles
Location: R.A.T. Editions, Liege, Belgium
Date: 7-9 August, 1992
Number of participants: 14
Document(s): Catalog
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Catalog
Bibliography: Francois, Charles: Mail Art From the Nineties. Three Pre-Internet Projects to Explore New Ways of Telecommunication. Never Documented, Rest and Care Editions, Belgium, 2024
Organizer(s): Miekal And – Elizabeth Was
Location: Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin, USA
Date: 22 August, 1992
Number of participants:
Document(s): Call, Photos
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool, Stephen Perkins
Available for research at Artpool: Call, Photos
Bibliography: Perkins, Stephen: An Iowa City Album: 1990-1994, Plagiarist Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2021
Comment: Steve Perkins was kind enough to digitalize the call for us after gifting us the An Iowa City Album.
September
Organizer(s): Tišma, Andrej
Location: Sremski Karlovci, Serbia
Date: 1-3 September, 1992
Number of participants: 8 (Amongst them: Nenad Bogdanovic, Jaroslav Supek, Miroljub Todorovic)
Document(s): Catalog, Article
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Article
“During three days eight of us networkers have been discussing our position in the circumstances where the essence of the art we are practicing – communication, is endangered by United Nations’ sanctions. During the congress we did numerous art performances in the street, lectures, exhibitions aimed against war, nationalism and isolation of our country.” Andrej Tišma
Update (October, 2024): Tišma was so kind to send us the scanned catalog and a
photo of the Congress.
October
Organizer(s): Francois, Charles - Metallic Avau - Daniel Daligand
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 29 October, 1992
Number of participants: 6
Document(s): Report, List
Source(s) of the listed documents: Artpool
Available for research at Artpool: Report, List
