2013 Exhibition Index of Boxes Contents of Boxes 11, 25, 28, 29.
Mark Pawson - Unboxing
xero, kline & coma 258 Hackney Road London E2 7SJ
www.xero-kline-coma.com
Private view: Wednesday June 5th 19:00 - 21:00
Exhibition runs: 8.6.2013 - 30.6.2013
Sat. - Sun. 12:00 - 18:00


After being invited to loan material to two exhibitions in 2011 (the Stewart Home
retrospective at White Columns, New York and the fanzine exhibition which was part of the
Dazed Live Festival, London), and also writing an article in response to the question 'Why
Distribute? Why Archive?' for the 2012 Bookworks publication 'Again, A Time Machine, from
distribution to archive', it felt as if the numerous cardboard boxes stashed under my bed, in
the hall cupboard and kitchen cabinets had somehow changed status and been transformed from
'Stuff' into an 'Archive'.

I thought that it was the right time to start sorting through some of these boxes, to
see what was in there and to see what would happen as a result of this process.

So after writing a note to myself saying 'Start cataloguing some of this stuff.', on the
morning of February 5th 2013, I opened up an A4 paper box crammed full of mid to late 1990s
fanzines and publications by artists, sat down in front of the computer and started
cataloguing them.

Mark Pawson will be unpacking, cataloguing and displaying some of his extensive library of
zines, mail art publications, small press magazines, leaflets, pamphlets and other
hard-to-categorise print creations - a collection which accumulated over the past 30 years and
has managed to survive intact after several changes of address.

He will be working in the gallery each Sunday during the exhibition, adding material to the
display and producing weekly catalogue sheets, which will be available at the gallery and
online at www.xero-kilne-coma.com.

Pawson is an artist, publisher, bookseller and lecturer. Since being at school he's made and
distributed a constant stream of books, postcards, badges, multiples, T-shirts and other
essential ephemera, some examples of which are in the collections of the Tate Gallery Library,
London and MOMA Library, New York. He was an active and prolific participant in the
international postal art network during the 1980s and early 1990s and has reviewed
independent publications for Variant Magazine since 1998.
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