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The Berkley Oracle, 1997

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Identifier: CC-52674-73810

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Scope and Contents

Rinder writes in an introductory essay that Jochen Gerz, aka The Berkeley Oracle, "in homage to the questioning spirit of Berkeley in the 1960's, invited questions to be posted on a web-site, hosted simultaneously by the Berkeley Art Museum and the Center for Art and Media...Gerz' piece alludes to the Oracle at Delphi..In the spring of 1998, Gerz selected approximately forty questions from the Berkeley Oracle, printed them out, and placed them in various locales around the Berkeley Art Museum. Some were installed in the galleries, along side works of art, while others were tucked away in unexpected places." The questions are reproduced, one to a single sided transluscent page in this book. The printed red lettered sentences on translucent paper are philosophical questions that might be answered by an oracle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1997

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + 80 pages (translucent paper, offset) (207 pages) in dust jacket) ; 24 x 16.5 x 1.7 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

alpha shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Berkeley, California : Richter Verlag; University of California Berkeley Art Museum. Nationality of creator: German. General: About 1500 total copies. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

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

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