DATA [Daily Action Time Archive] -- A self-historicization project documenting Pete Horobin’s existence in his 30s, his ramblings in the Scottish landscape, and involvement in the ‘Eternal Network’ of correspondence artists internationally through mail art and neoist activities. At times he worked under different identities, including The Acrobat and The Principal Player, and became an ‘actor’ in his own life. He also used multiple names or ‘collective identities, such as Monty Cantsin and Karen Eliot. He celebrated 1984 as the Year of the Freedom with PRAM (Pedestrian Rambles Around Myland), walking across Scotland carrying his belongings in an ordinary pram and sleeping in a canvas tent. Each campsite was signed by a ‘chronogram’; an ephemeral Neoist symbol marking particular space and time in the landscape. He collected data from his activities every day on A4-size sheets which he then distributed widely via his then networks. He established the DATA Attic in a former squat on 37 Union Street Dundee in 1980, which housed the Attic Archive until 2010 and operated as an independent art space. He hosted international artists and made spontaneous collaborative works in Dundee, co-organised Neoist Apartment Festivals internationally, published several SMILE Magazines, and researched the lives of Scottish artists’ living on the dole.
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Pete Horobin, DATA Sheet, 31.12.88 (1988)
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