This archive, from the collection of Jan van der Marck (1929-2010), who curated it, essentially duplicates the pamphlet that accompanied the limited edition box of the same title. It includes four announcement cards from Language I, II, III & IV exhibitions at the the Dwan Gallery 1967-1970 with artists that might have received his invitation to contribute to the "Pictures..." or "...Telephone exhibitions. The former is not included in the pamphlet catalogue nor is the invitation letter included in the Archive. Other missing elements from the Archive that are depicted in the pamphlet include correspondence from Al Howard & a found advertisement on bottle caps. Bauermeister writes a long rambling letter with her thoughts on her contribution according to van Marck's dictum, viz., an object with no intrinsic value that can be picked up in a dimestore, found on a beach or manufactured with little trouble - expressive of your likes & ideas, an element recurrent in your work or vocabulary. Brecht's letter includes a drawing of a wooden stick for labeling plants & instructions to make a rubber stamp with the text: "CHICAGO MUSTARD EVENT (for John Masturs) Push point of stick into earth, George Brecht." Kaprow contributes a drawing of a painted screw with instructions for mounting it. Kitaj suggests a photo of a print from his NYC Marlborough show with a drawing & instructions for mounting it. Subsequently, Kitaj writes that he misunderstood instructions for the box object and indicates that his contribution will be "A RED CRAYOLA CRAYON (preferably standing upright)." Vostell writes that he chose to contribute a de-coll/aged lightbulb "because i used it as a sound event in the first fluxus happening where i throw about 100 lightbulbs against a big window pane which was put between me and the face of the audience..." Accordingly, van der Marck included the remnants of two smashed lightbulbs in plastic envelopes within the complete plexiglas box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.