Hi buddies,

Here are the last Zone's news of the year :

I'm still in touch with several people met at the ZAC (see the previous report of November at http://web.archive.org/web/20000531101251/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/reportnov99.html) . You can see the exhibitions people here are making in the News pages, and be part of some of them which happen on the web.

Also, following the meeting in Poitiers with the Moroccan cultural and artistic group Mountada Rihab, you can see some poems of Fatima Jaafar, the organizer of the association, on the web at http://web.archive.org/web/20000531101251/http://www.inter-zone.org/fatima1.html . We also are starting a work of translation of a chapter of a writer, Samah Naourass, with Chayline in Lebanon. If we can make it correctly, then we shall go on with the rest of the book.

I hope we can get to some organization at the economical level after sometimes. The other groups are confronted to the same problems as us in this area and also looking for solutions.

Several among you keep asking what's going on in this area since we gave up with the project of hotel in Poitiers, and one Zoner in US is ready to get involved . At this point, it would be useful to know who wants to get involved as well in a close future, as the shape it may take depends of the participants : we have been foreseeing several formulas :

• hotel and exhibition place intown allowing us to earn money from our arts and from another regular work beside,
• a retreated place in the country-side to rest, studdy, work at one's own art, more like an academy place,
• and a place in Asia as well, more for holidays and East-West collaboration (see http://web.archive.org/web/20000531101251/http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/east-west.html ). We presently got several opportunities which might fit to the three of them.

Now it seems to me that it has to be built up by the people who will live in it or be part of it at different levels, who are really concerned, in function of their needs, their means, and their abilities in different domains , rather than by theorical models we would choose collectively whatever we may be concerned or not. So thanks for letting me know your position here.

You can now get "The Time of the Naguals in English" the tome 1, on Burroughs and Gysin, the articles, the cut-ups, and the poems.

See the contents on line in the menu of Interzone Productions : http://web.archive.org/web/20000531101251/http://www.inter-zone.org/ .

At the moment I'm printing them myself and sending them to people who ask for them. In case some of you would be interested by a printing in larger quantity, I received some info from a printer in US: Small Publisher Co-Op scoop@flnet.com : for books of 64 pages, $799 for 1000 copies.

Still on the chapter of books : the French translation of Gysin's book "The Process", "Désert Dévorant", which was published by Flammarion, is out of print. We might put some extracts on the web. I'm gonna start to put some pages on line soon.

I have started making post cards for the New Year, with collages on Burroughs by Alchemickal, and with Andrew Shachat's paintings and collages. And I must say they are nice and people like them. In case you got a color printer and want to make them, I can send them in Word files.

* Dead Joe has been sending two new tapes of Forked Yew this month : you can get them from him at : ibfuggedup@yippie.zzn.com