Text. Sound. Image. Small Press Festival.

[Guy Schraenen, ed] 

Text. Sound. Image. Small Press Festival. 

Antwerp, Belgium: A.S.P.C., 1976

[unpaginated], 20 x 10.5 cm., softcover

Edition of 500 copies

The Archive for Small Press & Communication (A.S.P.C.) was an international centre for documentation, preservation and exhibitions of artists' publications (books, records, catalogues, magazines, postcards, posters, invitations, etc.) founded in 1974 by Guy Schraenen and Anne Marsily in Antwerp, Belgium.

The main focus of the centre was Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Land Art, Minimalism, Pop Art, Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry, Sound Art, and Mail Art. It includes works by Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Ulises Carrión, Henri Chopin, Hanne Darboven, Robert Filliou, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roman Opalka, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Timm Ulrichs, Ben Vautier,  Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner and many others. 

In 1999 the A.S.P.C. collection was acquired by the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen, Germany. 

This rare catalogue documents the first exhibition organized by the A.S.P.C., held in Galerie Kontakt in Antwerp, Galerie Posada in Brussels, and Zwarte Zaal in Ghent in 1976/1977. It includes an introduction by Schraenen, statements by several small press publishers, such as Henri Chopin, Paul de Vree, Richard Kostelanetz, and Ulises Carrión. 

The publication lists over eight-hundred exhibited items which were sent from 28 countries. It is accompanied by a loose inlaid ASPC card with red string, citing abbreviations used in the catalogue.