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Tipping used the annoucement box from Ubu Gallery, New York [The Box: From Duchamp to Horn], to hold an enlarged replicate of an American penny. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The label states that Eighty Days was made during an Australian Visit from June 13 until August 31, 1997. The cloth bag is labeled Networkers are Miners on one side and Fossick Edition on the other. On one of the photocopied sheets within the bag, the meaning of Fossick is given as Australian or New Zealand slang for to rummage or to search. Its contents are 30 works produced by students of the School of Arts at University of Ballarat that explore the themes of mining, minerals and local history of Ballarat, Australia.The case also contains a catalogue entitled "Field Study Australia" documenting international mail art exhibited at the Courthouse Project in Geelong, Australia.The plastic case is a blue color with the Australian flag embossed on its lid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an assortment of works that Collins used in her contributions to mail art periodicals and projects. A fair amount of the work deals with contradictions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The box includes representative booklets, cards, and objects made by Collins, some for other mail art publications. A neck tie has a sewn label, Christian Boltanski (rather than Christian Dior). An accompanying typed pamphlet lists the publication where these works appeared along with the tirage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first of a planned series of monthly assembling mailings by Collins. In this issue, there is only one artwork and one contributor, Patricia Collins herself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sandals cover with newsprint from The Daily Telegraph and Bild.de are stored in the same shoe box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dyar writes on the label, "On Palm Sunday 1996 I picked up this palm branch at Saint Dominic's Church. It hung for one year on the wall in my studio & on Palm Sunday 1997 it was burned down to these ashes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The ping pong balls are arranged in a row and are printed with the words Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results, and Findings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. Kota issue utilized the entire THING. It was our first issue in which the issue itself was the whole. Much of Kota's work has been about interpretation and modes of translation. And his contribution to THE THING was not an exception to this. His issue consisted of the standard THING box stamped in Cyrillic (Russian), a letter from the editor translated in to Mandarin, and a simple white cotton baseball cap with Arabic Text embroidered onto the front. Subscribers were only given a very small clue as to what the translation might be (a URL in English, buried in the Mandarin text). The result for many became a search for meaning and an interaction with a text that had symbolic feel but little relevance to their daily lives (unless they spoke the languages). Many subscribers took the letter to their local Chinese restaurant and asked for help, or they wore the hat around for days and weeks until someone told them what it...

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. This issue is designated a back issue on the card accompanying this object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The maple syrup was produced by Mike Czok in Braintree Vermont from the trees that grow around his home.The image on the poster is such a tree.The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each isssue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published on a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The objects, cracked egg-shells in a paper cup, and fragmented mechanical components have both a neo-dada and fluxus flavor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.