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This subseries is made up of any items which do not fit into the other categories noted elsewhere in this series, but which were stored among the various collected publications in this series. It is mostly made up of published materials, albeit often unconventional ones.

This subseries includes posters, pamphlets or flyers relating to shows or events, printed essays, calendars, travel guides, invitations to exhibitions, playing cards, assembling boxes, various notebooks written in by Anna Banana, artworks and other miscellaneous materials.

Best Examples of How Mail Art Evolved

Anna Banana set this subseries aside in two boxes titled “Best Examples of How Mail Art Evolved,” evidently showing the ways that mail art expanded from its initial scope in the 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the items in this subseries are dated after the year 2000, detailing some of the latest innovations in the mail art network, as well as various compendiums or encyclopedias of mail artists and their work.

The subseries contains mostly books about mail art, as well as some newspapers, mail art projects, zines, posters and other published material.

Zines

Subseries includes items published in small batches, which might have been created using technologies such as Xerox photocopying, and at home binding techniques including staples and sewing, and which are most often in small (i.e. smaller than A4size) formats, or items which Anna defined as zines. Items are often self-published, or published through small collectives.

This subseries can be differentiated from other subseries as a result of the format and the content of the files. For example, it excludes exhibit catalogues, as Banana distinguished in her own filing system between the two, so small, zine-like exhibit catalogue are not included. Files are distinguished by the names of zines or zine collections. It includes one-off booklets, handmade artists poetry books, handmade or custom zines, some handmade “one of a kind books,” and regularly published small format zines and newsletters.

Other publications

Subseries is made up of items published by Anna Banana which were not related to one of her primary publications, but which were published or written by her over the course of her career. It includes drafts and markups, letters and posters on Banana Productions letterhead, some originals and logos for reference, as well as planners and some essays written by Banana but published in other places.

Bananology and other certificates

Subseries originates with Banana’s earliest performance art while she was Victoria’s Town Fool. It consists of various certificates in bananology (including bachelors and masters degrees) which Anna would give out to individuals who had “Gone Bananas”, often after providing Anna with a piece of Banana paraphernalia or a Banana-related fact or story. This activity often took place within the context of her mail art actions, where she would mail the certificates back to networkers who had provided her with banana-related mail. However, it began while she was still Town Fool, prior to or concurrent with her entry into the mail art network.

The subseries consists almost entirely of various certificates, as well as letters to correspondents.

Artworks

As well as her performance art, artistamps and various publishing endeavors, Anna was also a visual artist and collector of visual art. This series is a compilation of the various artworks which were created by Anna and various colleagues. It contains xerox art, drawing and watercolours, collage, rubber stamps, as well as a number of photocopies of different artworks.

By Anna Banana

Anna Banana drew, created collage, painted and printed from the early 1970s up until the late 2010s and beyond. This subseries contains the working drafts, final works, and copies of her visual art. This subseries consists mostly of graphical materials, including drawings, watercolour paintings, xerox art, photocopies of Anna’s original artwork, and postcards.

Anna Banana’s publications

Series is made up of the various periodicals, books and textual items which Banana published over the course of her career. Most of these were published under the aegis of Banana Productions, a company first created while Anna was living in San Francisco. Project files contain magazines, newsletters, and artistamp editions; documents related to the creation of these publications, press and promotional materials; books and binders.

Series is arranged into seven subseries: VILE Magazine, Encyclopedia Bananica, Banana Rag, OOK (One Of a Kind) Books, Artistamp News, International Art Post, and Other publications.

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