Andrea Juno and her long term collaborator Vivian Vale produced an incredible catalogue of publications under the RE/Search umbrella, covering Industrial Music, Performance Artists, Bodily Fluids, Incredibly Strange Films, Incredibly Strange Music and in depth interviews with JG Ballard and William Burroughs among others. In this 4/5th issue of the publication, we focus on Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle and Brion Gysin. It is arguably one of their best and features exclusive, long-form interviews with each other artists highlighted by the likes of Vale himself, Jon Savage, Gensis P-Orridge and Rapid Eye author Simon Dwyer.
Full of beautiful illustrations and incredible black and white photos of the artists and writers featured it makes for an incredible document of the time, published in 1982 it marks the 4th release of RE/Search books which is possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism to this day.
Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.
And we've got plenty more RE/Search publications which we'll be sharing here on the site and on our instagram over the next few days.
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Cover Photo by Ruby Ray
Publishers / Editors: Andrea Juno & V. Vale
Published 1982 by RE/Search
This is the V/Search edition
