From Miekal And:
Just when you thought it was OK to forget about Bern PorterA new book of found art rescued from the bookdust of history
WUONDRUSKH
by Bern Porterfounds, collages, correspondence & ephemera
from Bern's 1989 residency
@ the Church of Anarchy in Madison, WIVersion 1.0
2004, 72 pages, 8.5x11,
color laser print, $100.Or download free EBOOK:
http://xexoxial.org/new_releases/wuondruskh.htmlABOUT BHP:
"In his 93 years on this Earth, he contributed to the invention of television, worked on the Manhattan Project and the Saturn V rocket, and made the acquaintances of Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Werner von
Braun; published Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, and Kenneth Rexroth, among others, and knew Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, Allen Ginsberg, and anyone else you might name; exerted a profound influence on the phenomenon known as mail art; traveled hundreds of thousands of miles on cruise ships; was married three times, once happily; spent several years in Guam; was an irascible crank; theorized a union of art and science called Sciart; was briefly committed to a mental institution;
wrote more than 80 books, including important bibliographies of Miller and F. Scott Fitzgerald; had a massive FBI file; lived and worked in Rhode Island, New York, Tennessee, California, Texas, Alabama; also Guam and Tasmania; at last settled in Belfast, Maine, where he ran for governor, served on the Knox County Planning Commission, called his house the Institute of Advanced Thinking, barraged the local paper with letters, and at the end of his life subsisted largely on soup kitchens and food gleaned from the munchie tables at art openings." –from an article in the Portland Phoenix
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