SurVeils, 1996
Scope and Contents
The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1996
Creator
- Maher, Miranda (Person)
Full Extent
1 item : unbound pages (offset, laser printed, photocopied, rubberstamped, perforated) + sheet (stickers) in envelope (vellum) ; 10 x 22 cm (pages), 11 x 24 cm (in envelope)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Original Sackner Archive Location
box shelf
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Materials Specific Details
Published: Brooklyn, New York : Horse in a Storm Press. Nationality of creator: American. Copies: About 150 total copies.
Processing Information
Added by: RED; updated by: RED.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa
319-335-5921
