Yoshio Nakajima, Ubbeboda Arkiv, 1975

Handmade staple bound artists' book, 36 x 23 cm, ca. 25 pp. of various sizes. Contains stencilled and printed sheets, with collaged elements and stamps, and one original b/w photograph of an outdoor performance. The front cover is signed by the artist in black marker. The work comprises an assembling of photo documentation, texts and press clippings about Happenings and performances by Nakajima and it documents the activities of the Ubbeboda Center, directed by Nakajima. Unique work, in very good condition.

Japanese experimental artist and cultural activist Yoshio Nakajima (1940) worked amongst the avant-garde in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. He was involved with Provo in the Netherlands, Happenings in Belgium (in both countries he was expelled for staging illegal performances), the Swedish Bauhaus Situationistes, Fluxus and Mail Art, coining his own performative actions 'Unbeat'. From 1973 onwards he started organizing art seminars and events from his base in Ubbeboda (Sweden), drawing international artists to the small village as a kind of 'Art Missionary/Professor'.