Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the final fold-out page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the first pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Henry Martin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue descibes the site-specific, permanent collection of installation pieces at this museum that the Sackners visited during a trip to the Chateau country of France. The collection takes its inspiration from the 16th century cabinets of curiosities in which royalty and the learned men of the time would assemble collections of artifacts and natural objects. Ian Hamilton Finlay's installation was a sculptural work dealing with the battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In addition to a theater review, this issue includes reprinted examples of concrete poems from Material, a periodical edited by Daniel Spoerri. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheet prints a poem by Werner Duggelin. The prints are replications of letters sent by Tinguely to his patron, Maja Sacher. She was the heiress to the Hoffmann-La Roche fortune. The original letters consisted of drawings, collage, handwriting, found objects. The complete collection of drawings is reproduced in the book "Brief von Jean Tinguely an Maja Sacher" that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Cindy Daguenet, is the wife of Jacques Halbert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pages consist of fragments of pages from other Ecart books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet is a trade edition reprinting of a 1835 novel with marginalia by Spoerri and an introductory essay by Claus Bremer. It is stored in the Bremer box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This translates to English as the last is the first. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was published by Hansjorg Mayer. One of the copies is accompanied by a separate pamphlet that lists the works in the exhibition along with advertisements. The catalogue consists of questionaires answered by the artists along with visual documentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Using drawings by Charles Le Brun from 1670 as a background, Spoerri added found objects to the surface. The drawings are of animals and masculine heads which resemble those animals. The found objects are the same animals. The pamphlet contains a critical text by Spoerri. Jurgen Olbrich was responsible for the conception of this catalogue and exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The English translation of the print is "The Black Nipples." The name refers to a musical rock group led by Joel Hubaut's son; presumably this is a promotional poster. The Sackner Archive holds the maquette for this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.