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Abess, Matthew

 Person

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Bizarre. No.1/May / Ionesco E ; Henry M ; Ray M., 1955

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Identifier: CC-46713-49443
Scope and Contents

Pages 49 and 50 present palindromes in French, English and German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Describing Labor / Shalev-Gerz E ; Abess M ; Lamonaca M ; Sackner RK., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55900-9999367
Scope and Contents

Esther Shalev-Gerz conceived of the exhibition and installation Matthew Abess and Marianne Lamonaca edited the catalog, curated the exhibition and contributed essays. Ruth Sackner participated in the personal selection of two prints and participated in the filming of selected interviews. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Lecture for Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You" / Sackner, Ruth; Abess M; Sackner MA; Goldsmith K; Traister D; O'Sullivan M; Cheek C; Bernstein C; Joris P; Celan P., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48182-69206
Scope and Contents

Ruth Sackner delivered this lecture at the opening of Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You." It focused on the relation of Mathew Abess, the curator of the exhibition and the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing B ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47112-49851
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition on the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing. The exhibition was curated by Matthew Abess who was the scholar in residence at the Sackner Archive during the summer of 2006 between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania. He also wrote the catalogue essay and organized a symposium at the Kelly Writers House with Maggie O'Sullivan and cris cheek, compatriates of Bob Cobbing, participating in the event along with Charles Bernstein and Marvin Sackner. All the Cobbing material for the exhibition came from the Sackner Archive. The three copies in the Sackner Archive will be considered varient copies as the final few pages were poorly printed. Marvin Sackner advised the attendees to hold on to these copies as special before a more perfect version is reprinted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing, Bob ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48181-69205
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. This is the second printing of the catalogue with the pages evenly printed throughout. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You [Varient] / Cobbing, Bob ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47381-68378
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. Since the printing was faded in various parts of sentences on the last pages, Marvin Sackner pointed out that this should be considered a varient and was reminiscent of Cobbing's photoduplicator books. The catalogue was subsequently reprinted appropriately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Sound Poems in Sackner Archive Transferred from Records & Tapes to DVD / Matthew Abess, editor., 2007

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Identifier: CC-49214-70256
Scope and Contents

This dvd records a large compedium of sound poetry held by the Sackner Archive that has been recorded on tapes and records. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Symphonic Concrete Cine-Text / Abess, Matthew; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Cobbing B., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62407-47546
Scope and Contents Matthew Abess, a second year undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, poet and scholar, spent the summer of 2006 researching the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing in the Sackner Archive. In honor of the Sackner's 50th wedding anniversary, Matthew conceived of a poetic interpretation by mining the letters R-U-T-H and M-A-R-V-I-N in Cobbing's bibliographic entries in their original positions on the page and reprocessing the letters on 50 pages on a photocopier so that the letters on the final page are completely obscured and abstract. Metaphorically, the letters take on a new beautiful life and interpretation. Also included are six pages of working notes. The poet's explantion of his process is as follows: Please see below my brief explanation of the piece. It is rather inarticulate, so please feel free to edit as you see fit! Respectfully, Matthew "Symphonic Concrete Cine-Text" Curated by: Ruth & Marvin Sackner Edited by: Matthew Abess, 24.06.2006....
Dates: 2006

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Sound poetry 4
Music 2
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