OVO

Photocopy, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 16 pages. Ernest Mann Becoming More Free, Hakim Bey (first publication of Salon Apocalypse / Secret Theater, later published in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone), tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Mike Film, body art (two years before Modern Primitives), copy art, collage art and graffiti stencil art.

[Front Cover] Copy art.
[02] Introduction.
[03][04][05] Becoming More Free by Ernest Mann.  Ernest Mann advocated refusing to take pay for one’s work, with the idea that if everyone worked for free then the need to charge for goods and services (and scarcity of goods and services) would vanish, bringing universal prosperity. Good ideas that can’t be carried out aren’t good ideas at all.  This is why Gerry Reith’s piece in OVO 1 was impressive to me.  After decades of publishing his own newsletter and two books, Ernest Mann was murdered by his grandson in the 1990s.
[06] Mike Film. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE.
[07] OCCUPANT booklet.
[08] Death Car. Collages.
[09][10] Salon Apocalypse by Hakim Bey. First appearance of this essay. Published four years later in T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone.
[11][12] Body art. These photographs of a nipple pierced in 1985 were published in 1987, two years before the Modern Primitives issue of Re/Search.
[13] Collage.
[14] Collage.
[15] Collage.

OVO is a collection of new works in the public domain edited and published by Trevor Blake since 1987. New issues are in progress.