An exhibition of fanzines presented Crass between 1976 and 1984 (‘In all our decadence people die’) ran in the New York Boo-Hooray gallery between 30 September and 20 October. The exhibition featured numerous zines, along with original Crass-era artworks by Gee Vaucher and a new audio installation by Penny Rimbaud.
The Boo-Hooray exhibit space is happy to present an exhibition of fanzines and ephemera collected at Dial House, home to the English anarchist punk band Crass, active from 1977-1984. The public and private political stance of Crass was without peer or compromise. Their influence on the lives of misfits, belongers, winners, losers, straights and visionaries across the globe reverberates to this day.
Dial House has been running as a creative centre since the late 1960’s and was instigated by the poet, philosopher and Crass drummer/lyricist, Penny Rimbaud. The Crass/Dial House fanzine archive, saved by Gee Vaucher, consists of approximately 3000 fanzines, broadsides, pamphlets and flyers, as well as posters, manuscript and original artwork. The materials were sent or given to the anarcho-punk group Crass during the years 1977 to 1984 from all over the world. The archive also includes later publications mailed to Dial House during the 1980’s and 1990’s. The show illustrates and demonstrates the immediacy and potency of these grassroots activist punk artworks from an era which was pre-computer and, in some cases, pre-xerox. In addition, related original artworks by Gee from her ground-breaking “nihilist newspaper for the living,” International Anthem, are also included.
AMAZING!!well I make one anarchopunkzine of name DEKADENCIA HUMANA coming with he from 1980 and still follow today,that all past time when CRASS make this story well was for me one great reference of course too all our story of anarchism in argentine,all was part of our begining,gee vaucher have good works,please how can have one mail of gee vaucher?,I write to steve ignorant and never give me one answer,is shame what too much parsons of that times dont have interchange of storys with people of sout amerika¿why?i ever write with the heart and real fellings and have contact with too much punks of the world but¿what happen with CRASS o bandas similars?only MARK of ZOUNDS write me,very very good people and still have real fellings for our story and life style…BYE!! DEKADENCIA G