Maher, Miranda
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
100 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 1995
The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
1000 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 2001
The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
After Reasonable Research / Maher, Miranda., 1999
This book consists of indications of battles and wars from the year 1 to 1999. The battles are printed in micrographic text vertically, with the yearly dates placed vertically in the center of the pages. Miranda Maher designates on the cover that "Years with No Acts of 'OPEN AND DECLARED ARMED HOSTILE CONFLICT' are Indicated with a Perpendicular LIne. Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace." Actually there is only one red, vertical line in the year 329, indicating no battles. The book is printed on light weight, beige paper with repeating, gilded Fleurs de Lis, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms / Maher, Miranda., 1991
The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Girls! Girls! Madwomen & Murderesses / Maher, Miranda., 1993
This is a feminist book in which the author describes madwomen, murderous madwomen, and murderesses using press quotations, drawings amd photographic reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
How to Read and Write in the Dark / Maher, Miranda ; Henning, Barbara., 1996
Miranda Maher composed the drawings and Barbara Henning wrote the text. The prose is diaristic with found text from the author's imagination and bits and pieces of material discovered by her. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Redbook: A Book of Hours / Maher, Miranda., 1992
This book lists women's names in alphabetical order according to day and time on a daily basis over a year to symbolize the average annual estimate of reported forcible rapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Spend Me / Maher, Miranda., 2000
The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Surveils / Maher, Miranda., 1996
The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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