UPFRONT # 12/13, 1986-87
A Publication of PAD/D [Political Art Documentation / Distribution]
Special Supplement: "Concrete Crisis" Posters
| Charles Frederick | Why I Prefer Rhinestones to Diamonds (and other questions of power in art and cultuure) |
| Including: Lizzie Olesker, Diane Torr, and Chris Koenig / Sue Williamson | |
| PADD | Cultural Activism: Movement or Murmur? A Cross-country Enquiry Into Where We're At |
| Including: Robbie McCauley (Sedition Ensemble, New York) / Juan Sanchez (New York) / Nye Heron (Irish Arts Center, New York) / Jimmy Durham (American Indian Movement / Artist, New York) / Tim Drescher (Community Murals Magazine, Berkeley) / David Lindhal (James White Review, Minneapolis) / Susan Sherman (IKON, New York) / Jay Murphy (Red Bass, Tallahassee) / John Pitman Weber (Chicago Public Art Group) / Eva Cockcroft (Artmakers, New York) / among others | |
| William Olander | Which Brand is for You? Magazines and Activist Arts |
| Including: Heresies / Upfront / Artpapers / In These Times / Art and Artists (Artworkers News) / CEPA Quarterly / AHA! Hispanic Art News / Native Vision / Afterimage / Ikon / Jump Cut / World War III / Reb Bassand a critique of October magazine / | |
| PADD | The PADD Archive: Filing for Social Change |
| Includes: Alex Grey (Nuclear Crucifixion) / James Hong (Solar Electric Chair) / Guerrilla Girls (poster for the Untitled Conference) / Mark Fisher (cover for Artists for Disarmament) / Remo Blanchedl (The Middle Class) / Paul Rutkovsky | |
| Performances: Professor Louie's Survival Rap / The Cockroach | |
| Performances: Alive and Kicking: Cale / Dennis / Goese / Houston-Jones | |
| Including interview with Charles Dennis | |
| Performances: Northern Ireland Behind the Curtain | |
| Including: Barbara Juppe | |
| Performances: Eight Pound Livelihood [a performance of The New York Chinatown History Project] | |
| Including: Chin Che Yung | |
| Performances: Sanctuary: A Performance Event on Behalf of the Sanctuary Defense Fund | |
| Including: Tina Shepard / Diane Torr / The Sleazbuckets (Emily Rubin and Nancy Thacker) / | |
| International News | |
| Including: Alfredo Jaar's subway poster project / Freda Gutman's installation "Guatemala: The Road to War" | |
| SUPPLEMENT | "Concrete Crisis" Posters [also: Cracking the Concrete: Interventionist Posters] |
| ARTISTS [partial list] | |
| Vito Acconci | |
| Rodolf Baranik | |
| Marguerite Bunyan | |
| Eva Cockcroft | |
| Sue Coe | |
| Michael Corris | |
| Maria Dominguez | |
| Antonio Frasconi | |
| Leon Golub | |
| Peter Gourfain | |
| Maria Gutierrez | |
| Edgar Heap of Birds | |
| Jeff | |
| Janet Koenig | |
| Elizabeth Kulas | |
| Robert Longo | |
| Alfred Martinez | |
| Dona Ann McAdams | |
| Joseph Nechvatal | |
| Rachael Romero | cover of issue (above) |
| Juan Sanchez | |
| Greg Sholette | |
| George "Geo" Smith | |
| Mimi Smith | |
| Nancy Spero | |
| Anita Steckel | |
| May Stevens | |
| Seth Tobocman | Spatial Deconcentration [poster used by Union of the Homeless; the Harlrm Reclamation Project; and Support Squatters Rights (see above)] |
| Anton van Dalen | |
| Richard Ray Whitman | |