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SurVeils, 1996

 Item — Box: 613
Identifier: CC-34670-36371

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

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.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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