Club Moral Stocklist 058 - In Vitro II

A-01 - Vitro 1
A-02 - Experiment Incest
A-03 - Vitro 2
A-04 - Lakoste
A-05 - Vitro 3
A-06 - Vidna Obmana
B-01 - Vitro 4
B-02 - Hypnobeat
B-03 - Vitro 5
B-04 - Coup de Grace
B-05 - Vitro 6

The second In Vitro exhibition was held from 2 July 1986 till 30 August 1986.
Just as in the first version (see Club Moral Stocklist 046) there was a 2-month exhibition of independent products, cassettes, magazines, books, records, multiples, etc. For this occasion we also had 8 huge photo's by Hugo Roelandt on show, which coincided with the Antwerp Photography Summer that was organised at various art galleries and institutions at the time.

The exhibition .S.T.TI K., actually more conceived as an installation, shows us photo's, but photo's as object-minded, actual, sober investigating, rational images of reality. Intelligence has taken the place of inspiration, knowledge has taken the place of the mysterious, scarcely to be situated, notion talent.
That's where the format comes from: by the use of a supernatural size the loyalty to nature is abjured. The image: the human figure, situated in a contemporary sphere (commercials), constructed with contemporary means (photography) and placed in a contemporary form (enormous poster). The thundering, not neglectable presentation of the nudes may be a first touchstone to which each of you can measure his own dynamics.
(Mark A. Verreckt, 1976, in "Theory/Information/Practise")

In Vitro - The Opening Night
Wednesday july 2nd, 1986; a memorable day for all involved with independent whatever it be, records, tapes, magazines, books, videos, films,... That day opened the second and final In Vitro.
A first edition had been held in summer 1984, this was a replay, being far more complete with the latest available products, and set up in a logical way, with early independent U.S. newspapers and art-magazines. For 2 months again, every infant and demented could loose control in this astonishing amount of strange information.
Some 60 people packed the space on this wednesday-night, some travelled far to witness this event, some missed the boat... The opening-night was supplemented with films from Hugo Roelandt, who also furnished the twice-life-size nudes of 4 men & women. The photos -by the way- have been made in 1976 and have never been exhibited in the meantime.
A truly memorable event that day from 8 till late, grind your teeth because you missed it.

In Vitro - The In Vivo concerts
As in the 1984 version, also this In Vitro was completed with a series of concerts, this time we decided to do them all on the same day, allowing you all to come over for just one day, whereas the previous edition had all the concerts on different days. And again 6 bands were contacted, in fact much more were, but some enquiries stranded for different reasons. We were somewhat proud to present Experiment Incest, a new Belgian band going through their brother/sister repertoire with banging metal and hurling vocals, Lakoste, or an automatic tennis-ball-release-machine that howls Burroughs-texts and discipline amongst sweat-shirted audiences, Vidna Obmana, a snobbish Fata Morgana, Hypnobeat, the sound of 100 hypnotic rhythms and a neurotic operator, Blood ov Christ, who couldn't leave Sweden for some mysterious crimes committed in his darker period (and thus did not play), and finally as guest of honour, Coup De Grace mystic child-torturer, parent-murderer and social threat.

The tape is recorded by binaural recording equipment so that you will be able to act as if you were there when using headphones and a blindfold whilst hearing it.

(excerpts from reports in Force Mental 14)

In Vitro II contributions included:
ADN Tapes - A.K. - Angst - Apocalypso A'GoGo - Aquilfer - Architects' Office - AR/TE - Art Communication Edition - Art Pool - Art Rite - Bain Total - Bande Blanche - Vittore Baroni - Beyond the Pale - Maurizio Bianchi - Bla Bla - Black Dwarf - Guy Bleus - Bomb the Daynursery - Broken Flag - Camera Obscura - Caootax - Cassette Gazzette - Central Tapes - Cthulhu Records - Clair Obscur - Club Moral - Come Organisation - Commonpress - Constrictor Magazines - Controlled Bleeding - Corpus Mucus - Contact List of Electronic Music - Coup de Grace - Datenverarbeitung - Der Neger - Die Katastrophe - Discipline - Etant Donnés - Etat Brut - Europa - Exposed to Control - Façade - Fase 2 - La Fondation - The Feverish - Force Mental - Function Disorder - Fuse - Gerechtigkeitsliga - Graf Haufen - Grok - Happy Taxpayers - Idola Tribus - Impulse - Industrial Records - Interchange - Intermedia - Intervention - Intolerance - Iphar - Kankerkommando - Augusto Klamm - Korm Plastics - Laibach - Lard - Limite - Lymph Products - Mam-Aufnahme - Mauthausen Orchestra - Merzbow - N.D. - Nekrophile Records - Nick - O Magazine - Open System Project - The Other Sound - Pacific 231 - Dirk Paesmans - Paralellogramme - Particular Motors - Peal Off - ProduKtion - Pure - R&D Group - Re/Search - Recloose Organisation - Res Publika - Guy Schraenen - Search & Destroy - Sevenhorns - Shvantz! - Simpletones - Situation ML - Skeletal Work - Societe Anonomie - Sound Choice - Staalplaat - Strike - Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe - Smegma - Le Syndicat - Throbbing Gristle - Time Based Arts - Toll - Tox Movement - Trench Music Kore - U-Bahn - Unsound - Vile - Vita Nova - Voluptiare Cogitum - V2 - Wet - Whitehouse - Zeal SS - 3 Phallus - 6de Kolonne - ....

At the same time as the In Vitro II exhibition, the Archive for Small Press & Communication of Anne & Guy Schraenen organised an exhibition of Text-Sound-Image Archive Pieces.
The Archive collection now resides in the Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, Germany and Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal.