FUCT Archive
The FUCT Archive documents the development of the project established by Erik Brunetti in Los Angeles in 1990 and its continuing significance as a field of artistic, graphic, editorial, and cultural production.
The archive’s core comprises approximately fifty primary working materials produced from the early 1990s through the early 2000s. These include original mechanicals, rubylith assemblies, hand-cut layouts, Xerox proofs, production references, graphics, prototypes, photographs, printed matter, and related ephemera created before and during the transition to digital production.
These materials preserve forms of process that are largely absent from commercially distributed objects. Cut edges, registration marks, annotations, separations, pasted elements, corrections, and production residue record the physical construction of images before their reproduction and circulation.
Considered as a unified research collection, the archive provides primary evidence concerning:
Analog graphic production
Authorship and image construction
Apparel as a vehicle for independent publishing
Appropriation and cultural critique
The early development of streetwear
The international circulation of subcultural imagery
The transition from mechanical to digital production
The archive has been exhibited and documented internationally. Selected material was presented in Italy in connection with the publication of FUCT by Rizzoli in 2013.
Institutional Custodial Placement
The Foundation is considering proposals for the long-term custodial placement of the core FUCT Archive with a single qualified museum, university, library, archive, or research institution.
The proposed arrangement would take the form of a long-term custodial research loan. The archive is not being offered for acquisition.
The objective is to preserve the collection as a coherent body within an institutional setting capable of supporting:
Appropriate collections care
Scholarly and curatorial access
Cataloguing and technical documentation
Public presentation where appropriate
Publication and exhibition research
Long-term stewardship of the archive as a unified record
Institutional review is conducted on a rolling basis. Proposals should identify the prospective host institution, responsible department, research purpose, available facilities, and proposed framework for access and stewardship.
Research access:
research@erikbrunettifoundation.org
Custodial-placement inquiries:
archive@erikbrunettifoundation.org