WILLIAM BURROUGHS J GIORNO PSYCHIC TV THROBBING GRISTLE

	£		31
	$		41

"THE FINAL ACADEMY DOCUMENTS"

RARE ORIGINAL 1982 LIMITED EDITION 2xVIDEO BOXSET IN PRESENTATION CASE PLUS ORIGINAL HACIENDA PRESS ADVERT AND INCREDIBLE MAGAZINE SPECIALLY PRODUCED FOR THE EVENT

THIS AUCTION IS FOR AN ULTRA RARE ORIGINAL, LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF THIS SEMINAL BURROUGHS ARCHIVE. BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED IN A TWIN VIDEO SET WITH GOLD EMBOSSED PRESENTATION BOX. FEATURES FASCINATING BURROUGHS SPOKEN PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE PLUS THE SPECTACULAR 'GHOSTS AT NUMBER 9' AND 'TOWERS ON FIRE' FILMS.

VIDEOS PLAY PERFECTLY AND BOX AND TAPES ARE BOTH IN MINT CONDITION.

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS AUCTION IS THE AMAZING  58 PAGE MAGAZINE (A4 SIZE WITH GLOSSY CARD COVER) PRODUCED SPECIALLY FOR THE 'FINAL ACADEMY' EVENT, DESIGNED BY NEVILLE BRODY WITH PAGES, CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AND INTERVIEWS WITH -

WILLIAM BURROUGHS, DAVE DARBY, JEFF NUTTALL, JOHN GIORNO, BRIOG GYSIN, PSYCHIC TV, 23 SKIDOO, LAST FEW DAYS, Z'EV, CABARET VOLTAIRE AND MANY MANY MORE. PAGE AFTER PAGE OF BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED PHOTOS, TEXT AND GRAPHICS FROM ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS AMAZING EVENT.

MAGAZINE IS IN GREAT CONDITION AND ALL PAGES INSIDE ARE IMMACULATE BUT IT DOES HAVE A COUPLE OF MARKS ON THE COVER AND A SMALL SECTION IN THE BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNERWHERE IT IS VISIBLE WHERE I REMOVED THE PRICE STICKER

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST, AN ORIGINAL PRESS ADVERT (SESIGNED BY PETER SAVILLE) FOR THIS MOMENTOUS NIGHT AT MANCHESTER'S HACIENDA. THIS AD HAS BEEN MOUNTED ON BLACK CARD AND IS IN PERFECT CONDITION AND WOULD LOOK STUNNING FRAMED!

THIS WHOLE PACKAGE TOGETHER AS ONE AMAZING AUCTION - DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE TO BE THE PROUD OWNER!

I AM BASED IN LONDON BUT CAN SHIP WORLDWIDE.

I HAVE NOT WEIGHED ALL THESE ITEMS TOGETHER BUT I SHOULD IMAGINE UK POSTAGE WOULD BE AROUND £7-£8 / OVERSEAS APPROX £10-£12 , SENT IN SECURE CARDBOARD PACKAGING, WITH RECORDED DELIVERY DUE TO THE VALUE AND RARITY OF THESE ITEMS.

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PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT BETTER QUALITY COPIES OF THE ILLUSTRATION PHOTOS AND HAVE A LOOK AT MY OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MY FUTURE LISTINGS AS I WILL BE AUCTIONING LOADS MORE OF MY PERSONAL COLLECTION OF PUNK AND EARLY INDUSTRIAL/AVANT GARDE MEMORABILIA OVER THE COMING WEEKS.

HAPPY BIDDING!

In answer to questions received:

This very limited edition 'Final Academy' Boxset was produced by Psychic TV / T.O.P.Y and 'IKON VIDEO' and was released in 1982.

For a full overview of the 'Final Academy' event (and the items included in this auction) please see:

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=966

Whether you like William Burroughs or not is an irrelevance: he's simply there, a cultural presence, a massive influence not just on the prose of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties but on over two decades of performance art, experimental film and music, and pop culture - the Beats to Bowie to punk and beyond.

The scope of this achievement should be represented in a forthcoming festival/event, The Final Academy. One of its organisers Roger Ely hopes that, by using artists who've been inspired by Burroughs' work, the affair will move beyond backward-looking homage to a vital assessment of future cultural developments.

Although, then, the meat of four evenings at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton (Sept 29 & 30, Oct 1 & 2) will be readings by the man himself and longtime friends and collaborators Brion Gysin and John Giorno, there'll also be contributions from Jeft Nuttall, performance artists like Paul Burwell, and groups like 23 Skidoo and Cabaret Voltaire. There'll also be the first outing of Genesis P-Orridge's Psychic TV, not to mention films by the late Anthony Balch.

Footage which Balch shot in Tangiers, New York, and London (Burroughs lived off Piccadilly in the early Seventies) will be shown continuously at the B2 gallery in Wapping (Sept 27 to Oct 24) as a further component of The Final Academy. Video installations will be accompanied by Gysin's Dream Machine kinetic sculpture, all sorts of visual material, manuscripts and first editions etc. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a 60-page catalogue - the contributors ranging from poet and academic Eric Mottram to Face writer Jon Savage.

The Final Academy has been largely financed by publishers and plenty of material is being released to coincide with it, including Victor Bockris' With William Burroughs: A Report From The Bunker (Hutchinson) and The William Burroughs Reader (Picador) edited and introduced by John Calder, whose own company has done so much to promote the writer. Ely is sure that the whole event will shake off any shackles of artiness and turn into a substantive engagement with many of the themes in Burroughs' work and those that take their cue from him.

Paul Tickeil. The Face, No.29, September 1982.