Yoshio Nakajima, original collage Ubbeboda Center, 1974

Hand signed and stamped in lower corner. Printed black on thick white stock, 45.5 x 31 cm, featuring collaged text and images. Elaborately adorned with purple stamps, red and green paint, black marker and a glued-on strip of brown paper ca. 30 x 3 cm. Announcement and invitation to join a 100 day International Symposium at Ubbeboda Center from 16th of April to mid July 1974. The 'Intermedia Fest of Free Expression' was organized by self proclaimed 'Professor and Art Missionary' Yoshio Nakajima in the small village of Lönsboda Sweden. It turned out to become the longest symposium ever, extending well into 1976 with participants from Nakajima's worldwide network of Experimental, Fluxus and Mail Art friends.

Most stamps promote Nakajima's art center and state 'unbeat', a term used by the artist to denominate his actions and exhibitions. Several stamps allude to Documenta. Another intricately designed stamp mentions Bauhaus Situationistes, Galerie St. Petri, Omnibus and Reflection Press with whom the artist collaborated. Nakajima seems to have used a poster printed in 1973 by Beau Geste Press as a backdrop for the collage, featuring a performance by Raul Marroquin/Equipo Movimiento and Felipe Ehrenberg titled 'A reconstruction of Rodin's The Thinker'. Top corners show some wear due to removed staples. Lower left corner with tiny tear along edge. Faint horizontal fold in centre. Unique and intriguing work.