ere’s afterart news #2. Welcome back, and thanks for the warm reception you gave our first issue. Turns out culture vultures of many stripes are hungry for a quality art paper that’s free, doesn’t spout party line and focuses on developing international cultural and social tendencies. As you can see, we’re most excited by hybrid styles, borderline activities, fried brains, crossover artists, networks, the constantly mutating potential of the internet and the frontier of public and private spheres. We’re in English because any project like afterart news with international distribution has to be in English, unless you can afford an army of translators. We’re based on the onestar press network because it provides us with what is actually a meta-network of pre-existing artists’ networks, like a multi-galaxy universe with exponentially infinite possibilities. Want to make it into the pages of afterart news? It’s simple: publish a book with onestar press. Everybody else did, or knows someone who did.
We would like to dedicate afterart news #2 to Rudolf Schmid. He’s dead, and you won’t find his name in any art book, but in 1953 the Viennese “stunt man” lived in a bottle for 365 days, making an exhibition tour of 100 European cities. Rudolf Schmid lost 66 pounds (30 kilos) over the year. According to the International Herald Tribune, Schmid “also lost 14 snakes which he had taken with him for company but which couldn’t take the climatic changes.” Schmid was reported saying, as he emerged from his bottle, “There is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle.” Little is right. So hats off to Rudolf, the great unknown pre-neen proto-actionista from Vienna!
See ya in the fall in the next afterart news.
Richard Dailey, editor-in-chief.

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