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jwcurry, 1959-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1959

Nationality

Canadian

Found in 668 Collections and/or Records:

one cent: Mutual Envelopes. No.131/Nov / jw curry., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-50897-71975
Scope and Contents

This card is also designated Curvd H&Z No.254 and th wrecking ballzark 59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

one cent: part 1: special collaboration with Industrial Sabotage No.42. No.200 / jw curry., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-05281-5384
Scope and Contents

one cent No.200 was published as Curvd H&Z No.378, 1988. This manuscript constitutes the foreward to this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

one cent: pornograph. No.109 / jw curry., 1983

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Identifier: CC-50891-71969
Scope and Contents

This booklet is also designated Spider Plots in Rat-Holes (also held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

one cent: The Basmajian Variations in A (minors). No.237/Feb / jw curry., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05038-5137
Scope and Contents

Dedicated to Shaunt Basmajian in memoriam, born Jan. 30, 1950, died Jan. 25, 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

one cent: Three cents' worth, That at least, (Pulp). No.397/Dec / jw curry, editor ; Mann T., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50851-71929
Scope and Contents

curry indicates that the three short stories in this issue were appropriated from Pulp magazine published in Vancouver from 1972-1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

One of the Most Important Even If Unfortunate Things About Breathing Is That It Allows Us to Speak / curry, jw., 1991

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Identifier: CC-20272-20669
Scope and Contents

The human silhouette painted on a door panel who silently points out a chest x-ray to another silhouetted figure to emphasize the physiologic importance of breathing is taken from the lead on an article on asbestos screening contained in this documentation. The manuscript includes the handwritten title and a sketch of the planned sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

One of the Most Important Even If Unfortunate Things about Breathing Is That It Allows Us to Speak / jw curry., 1991

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Identifier: CC-18909-19287
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing Exhibition." A human silhouette painted on a panel silently points out a chest x-ray to another figure to emphasize the physiologic importance of breathing. Behind the door, a telephone is placed adjacent to a network of printed and handwritten, torn and fragmented texts appearing as a gigantic speech bubble (reminescent of a cartoon) to suggest babble, dependent on breathing, eminating from many telephone communications. The contrast is a metaphor for the title of this work. Five of the images show the current istallation as doors leading to one of the Sackners bathrooms, the sixth shows the original free standing installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Opiamarble, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-19741-20128
Scope and Contents

These are the original notes for an unpublished sound poem for two voices used for a few performances. curry now prefers the title, Opium Marble: The Alley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Opium Marble: The Alley / curry, jw., 1990

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Identifier: CC-59783-10002840
Scope and Contents

This performance manuscript apparently has never been published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Our Nights in Perugia / Shikatani, Gerry; curry jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-29524-30891
Scope and Contents

The poem prints deal with phases of the moon. According to the colophon, the cover was produced by jw curry as a silkscreen. Its design of blue grey background with the title in printed white italics is reminiscent of contemporaneous, picture poems done by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Also, the 100 copies included a deluxe, numbered, signed edition. the size of the latter was not specified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Page from The Cardboard Junco / curry, jw., 1988

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Identifier: CC-20344-20741
Scope and Contents

The rubberstamped portraits include Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, and Rafeal Barreto-Rivero. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Pataphysical Hardware Company / curry, jw, editor ; Brock R ; curry jw ; Nichol bp ; Souster R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20059-20453
Scope and Contents

The press was founded by bp Nichol. This anthology contains reprints, originals and a copy of a booklet, Curvd H&Z no.235 that has been stored with the other issues in this series as well as the card, Gronk Intermediate Series No.19.The collaged page of Catalog Item #61 is a cellophane bag filled with powdered plaster of Paris in a stapled leaflet. Other Catalog Items from The Pataphysica Hardware Company include a pencil with erasers at both ends and one sharpened at both ends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

pauses to talk: 17 October 2006: a retrospective invitation / curry, jw ; Books, Jennifer ; Nichol bp ; Baker C ; Barlow J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-52026-73128
Scope and Contents

This is a digression that took place from curry's reading of bp Nichol's the martyrology conducted with Jennifer Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007