BANANA SPLIT 1980 / 1990

Under the sign of the “desire for an inedible dessert”, Banana Split revue marked the poetic field of the eighties. Founded Aix-En-Provence by Liliane Giraudon and Jean-Jacques Viton, combining the “resolutely contemporary” with the “rediscovery of old texts proposed for a modern reading”, Banana Split produced some twenty-eight issues until its self-dissolution in 1990.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Printed on offset paper, with simple binding, printed in 500 copies and sold at an accessible price, the revue is open to poets from all horizons, including Dominique Fourcade, Joseph Guglielmi, Mathieu Bénezet, Christian Guez-Ricord, Olivier Cadiot, Hubert Lucot, John Ashbery and Haroldo de Campos, as well as visual artists such as Christian Boltanski, Jean-Pierre Pincemin and Annette Messager.

N°01 TO 27

Numerous issues take the form of “albums” featuring a particular author or theme: Mallarmé, Pound, Wittgenstein, 16th-century Occitan eroticism, Catalan Futurists or women’s writing. Breaking with the conventions of poetry publishing, Banana Split has been a daring ten-year enterprise in the service of poetry.

ABS: AN ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVE 

Archive Banana Split is a publication by Editions Salon du Salon. ABS lists contributions by visual artists to Revue Banana SPLIT, founded and edited by Liliane Giraudon and Jean Jacques Viton between 1980 and 1990.

WEBSITE USING

In the website MENU, users will find access to the entire archive of original documents provided by the artists, as well as a PDF/PRINT function that allows them to generate a document to save or print.

WITH THE SUPPORT OF 

DRAC PACA, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles (PNV Program for the digitization and valorization of cultural contents), Cnap, Centre national des arts plastiques (Support for Digital Publishing), ADAGP (Endowment Fund for Artworks and Archives).