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Encyclopedia > SMILE (magazine)

SMILE is an international magazine of multiple origins. Since 1984, an estimated 100 different issues of SMILE have been published by different people in different countries of the world.

Smile Magazine produced by Stewart Home in 1985
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Smile Magazine produced by Stewart Home in 1985

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History

SMILE was launched in February 1984 in London by Stewart Home. He described it as the official organ of 'Generation Positive', a "movement" which consisted solely of himself. In the second issue, published in April 1984, Home suggested that all magazines be called SMILE. Artists Mark Pawson and Erica Smith issued the next Smile magazine in London in the summer of 1984. Versions had appeared in Germany and the USA by the end of the year. During 1985 editions of SMILE had appeared throughout Europe and the USA. When Home joined Neoism, a subcultural network whose participants collectively used the identity of Monty Cantsin, SMILE became closely associated to Neoism, too, with several Neoists and mail artists releasing their own versions of the magazine. In 1989, a magazine entitled Smile - History Lesson catalogued over 100 issues which had been produced by the end of 1987. Stewart Home produced 11 issues of SMILE, the last being published in 1989 prior to the Glasgow 'Festival of Plagiarism' and the Art Strike 1990-1993. Andy Martin and the musical group Academy 23 produced 26 issues of Smile between 1992 and 2001. Other editions were published by the rest of the Neoist network and anyone else who felt like it. For this reason it is impossible to know how many issues of the magazine exist and how many people have produced their own editions. An exhibition of SMILE magazines curated by Simon Ford was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum London between 20 March and 10 August 1992. The catalogue for this event was itself a further issue of SMILE magazine. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Stewart Home (born 1962) - Otherwise known as Lachlan Kuhn - is a British fiction writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. ... Street action at the 6th Neoist Apartment Festival in Montreal, 1983 Neoism refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists and more generally to a practical underground philosophy. ... Monty Cantsin is a multiple identity that anyone can adopt, but has close ties to Neoism. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... Stewart Home (born 1962) - Otherwise known as Lachlan Kuhn - is a British fiction writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, and activist. ... Campaign launched in 1986 by Stewart Home which called upon all artists to cease their artistic work between January 1st, 1990 and January 1st, 1993. ... Andy Martin is a groundbreaking musician, lyricist and writer who lives in London, England. ... Academy 23 was the name given to the new experimental music project created by Andy Martin and Dave Fanning immediately after disbanding their former group The Apostles. ... For a general definition of Neoists, see Neoism. ... The Cromwell Road entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum viewed from Thurloe Square The main interior courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004. ...

SMILE Magazine produced by Mark Pawson in 1987, cataloguing his collection of small plastic babies (toys)
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SMILE Magazine produced by Mark Pawson in 1987, cataloguing his collection of small plastic babies (toys)

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Origins

The title SMILE alludes to the 1970s Mail art magazine FILE published by the Canadian artist group General Idea. FILE in turn was a play on the title and typography of Life (magazine). Before SMILE, the Mail art magazines VILE and BILE parodied FILE. SMILE conversely mutated into Limes, Miles, Emils, Snarl, Slime, Smirk, C-Nile, Lisme and iMmortal LIES. Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... General Idea, Playing Doctor General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and A.A. Bronson, who were active from 1969 to 1994. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ...


The fixed name SMILE for a magazine that anyone could produce corresponded to the names Monty Cantsin and Karen Eliot which were chiefly shared among practitioners of Neoism. Monty Cantsin is a multiple identity that anyone can adopt, but has close ties to Neoism. ... Karen Eliot is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour. ... Street action at the 6th Neoist Apartment Festival in Montreal, 1983 Neoism refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists and more generally to a practical underground philosophy. ...

SMILE Magazine produced by John Berndt in Baltimore, Maryland, USA - 1989
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SMILE Magazine produced by John Berndt in Baltimore, Maryland, USA - 1989

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Known SMILE Issues


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