ACE Art Communication Edition/Strike

Collection of 7 issues (of 12, all published). Toronto, Center for Experimental Art and Communication/Strike Press, 1977/78. Tabloid on newsprint, 43.5 x 29.5 cm, approx. 34 pp., folded once. Alternative art periodical from the Toronto based artists' space Center for Experimental Art and Communication in Toronto (ACE), focused on performance, film, video, artists' publications and politics. Editors include Suber Corley, Bruce Eves, Paul McLellan, Amerigo Marras, Roy Pelletier and Rob Reid. The initial issues were titled Art Communication Edition, renamed Strike starting with Vol.II. The 'subversive' contents of Vol. 2 No.3 caused the Canadian Government to end financial support and marked the end of the publication.

Contains: (1) Vol.I No.5: Sex and Politics. Striking cover featuring Marina Sieverding (photo Klaus Mettig). (2) Vol.I No.6: Cover by Marina Abramovic and Ulay. Articles by Amerigo Marras, Hervé Fischer, Michael Gibbs 'Everything in the art world exists to end up in a book', Reindeer Werk, Nikolaus Urban. (3) Vol.I No.7: Behaviour. Feature on the Behaviour Workshop at the Free International University for Creative and Interdisciplinary Research (Caroline Tisdall, Martin Newcastle, Josef Beuys). Copy with small closed tear. (4) Vol.I No.9: Articles by Peter Byrne, Arrigo Marras, Harley W. Lond et al. (5) Vol.II No.1: Includes a survey of recordings by artists, and an essay on 'Intending Bookness' by John Faichney. (6) Vol.II No.2: Torture, Post-Marxism, Red Brigades, Venice Biennale Special protesting Canada's contribution. (7) Vol.II No.3: Canada’s KGB, Joseph Beuys, J.P. Sartre, Chiang Ching. All copies with light toning and edge wear on fragile newsprint paper. Ref. Gwen Allen, Artists' Magazines, p. 236. (total 7)