Cabaret Voltaire
Fluxus West, San Diego, and Southern California Mail Art
Edited by Arzu Ozkal &Mila Waldeck

Hyperbole Books, an Imprint of
San Diego State University Press
release date: March 22, 2023
Paperback: ‎350 pages | $27.95
ISBN-10: ‎ 1879691337
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1879691339

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From the Introduction by Arzu Ozkal

his book is about a social networking movement from the 1960’s: The International Mail Art Movement or Correspondence Art. It intends to be the first extensive review of the graphic minutiae created by San Diego State University (SDSU) alumna Ferrara Brain Pan focusing on informal art networks and their extension into digital media. Fueled by post-structuralist critiques of meaning, permanency and authorship, this book intends to inspire many cultural producers to learn about artists for whom dialogue and exchange were primary means for art making.

Advance Word on CABARET VOLTAIRE

"When was the last time the Three Stooges, an astronaut on a moonwalk with fish, rubber stamps of “Mistakes and Errata,” and Cabvolt Man projecting lightning bolts from his eyes shared a train compartment? Cabaret Voltaire, Fluxus West, and Southern California Mail Art grabs you by the lapels with a collection of dadazines, the work of west coast artists, Dada, Pacific style. With this collection of essays and images from the zines you can still have a museum in your pocket and be transported with every viewing, as if you just happened to pick up your mail and discovered all kinds of treasures waiting for you.
Susan Daitch, Author of LC and SIEGE OF COMEDIANS

“Long before we had theories of such as transmedia & convergence culture, there was the late 1970s xerographed, radical mail-art zine, CabVolt. This exquisite reprint of CabVolt along with the exquisite compendia of creative critical work that situates its significance powerfully reminds that even before Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouley published their much-heralded Raw magazine, the international cadre of transmedial zinesters of CabVolt had already planted seeds for the globalization of what we call Alternative Comics. Remarkable!”

Frederick Luis Aldama, Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, UT Austin

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