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Letters from Vali Myers

The State Library Victoria has added to their catalogue two collections of Vali Myers letters donated by Bobby Yarra and Gianni Menichetti. You can read more about the letters through the links below:

Letters from Vali Myers to Robert ‘Bobby’ Yarra and others: manuscript, postcards, 1986-2008.

Letters from Vali Myers to Gianni Menichetti: manuscript, printed, photographs, 1972-2002.

Gianni Menichetti Art Exhibition in Positano

In September 2024 the art exhibition Dreamland of Gianni Menichetti’s work opened in Positano, showing many of his most important works imbued with nature and beauty.

Read more about it in the Positano News.

A Positano il vernissage della mostra d’arte di Gianni Menichetti, le sue opere intrise di natura e bellezza

Interviews With Vali Myers

An interview from Australian television from 2003:

An interview with Vali in The Age from 2003:

Final dream of a bohemian priestess

Interviews about Ira Cohen

Interview with Mohamed Mrabet
Interview with Hans Plomp
Interview with Ian MacFadyen

Ira Cohen Readings

Bowery Poetry Club, New York, 2010

Song of Nothing, Zebulon, Brooklyn, New York 2008

Swiss Institute, New York, 2007

Can Writing Bring it Back, Rapture Cafe, New York, 2007

Ira Cohen reads Poem for Ronnie Burk

If you would like to know more about Ronnie Burk and this reading head on over to haroldnorse.com.

Interviews with Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen in Amsterdam with Luc Sala, 1999

With Coca Crystal, part 1

With Coca Crystal, part 2

Films by Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen in Kathmandu

Brain Damage

https://youtu.be/N8bM8FDZhN4

Films you can watch elsewhere

Links to Articles

Get into the Spirits with ‘Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber’ — artbook.com, 2021
‘Like looking through butterfly wings’: Ira Cohen’s Mylar chamber – in pictures — The Guardian, 2019
Ira Cohen, Psychedelic Jester — Valery Oisteanu on arteidolia.com, 2017
Ira Cohen: The photographic hallucinatory — Jishnu Das on medium.com, 2015
Friends Honor Avant-Garde Artist Ira Cohen — Forward, 2012
Ira Cohen: Writer, artist and publisher who devoted his life to his alternative vision of the world — The Independent, 2011

Music by Francis Kuipers

You can listen to a whole playlist of Gregory Corso with the Music of Francis Kuipers.

A Country Blues Concert by Francis Kuipers

Citizen Cake, from the album ‘Anthology’ by Francis Kuipers

Blindfold Blues by Francis Kuipers from the score of 4:44 The Last Day on Earth, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh

The short movie Transfiguration does not only have music by Francis Kuipers but was also produced and directed by him.

Links to Interviews With Francis Kuipers

Q&A with Francis Kuipers, an Anglo-Dutch singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist, composer, writer and actor (2024)

The guitarist and composer Francis Kuipers talks about his travels, Champion Jack Dupree, Blues and Gregory Corso (2017)