Product Description
“Published by its contributor under the auspices of Co-Lab (Collborative Projects Inc,) X Magazine (also known as X-Motion Picture Magazine) is a collaborative non-profit associationn controlled by artits. X Magazine emerged in 1977 as a newsprint journal that published social satire, art and political commentary. The magazine was founded by Betsy Sussler, Eric Mitchell and Andrew McCLard, who collectively assembled the first issue by hand. The three-issue collection quickly lodged itself in the nexus of the punk zine culture that was emerging at the time, initiating techniques that served as a touchstone for self-publishing. Although X Magazine terminated publication in 1978, the journal serves as an impressive cache of anti-establishment sentiment, and is a seminal example of the raw cut-and-paste aesthetic of New York punk and no-wave in the seventies.” “This issue of X Motion Picture Magazine, published in 1978, explores punk techniques and dark themes of S & M, torture chambers, and renegade street gangs. It also includes a transcribed talk between Rosa Von Praunheim and Lindzee Smith, a written piece by Jeremy Lipp, and a show review by Terence Sellers. Other contributors include Kathy Acker, Charles Ahearn, Scott B, Tim Burns, Jimmy de Sana, Stefan Eins, Colen Fitzgibbon, Michael McClard, Craig Gholson, Duncan Hannah, Beth B, Scott Johnson, Tina Lhotsky, Jeremy Lipp, Katy Martin, Aline Mayer, Eric Mitchell, Alan Moore, James Nares, Michael Oblowitz, Judy Rifka, Terence C. Sellers, Duncan Smith, Lindzee Smith, Susan Springfield, Betsy Sussler, Robin Winters, Jeff Goldberg, Robert Cooney, Philippe Demontaut, Philip Fraser, Leandro Katz, Sonia Miranda, Jacki Ochs, Amos Poe, Marcia Resnick, Leisa Stroud, Duncan Rathbone Hannah. The cover features a found photograph of a man holding two swords in the shape of an X.”
