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Correspondence art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:

Mixed Bag, No. 8, 1990

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-06155-6269
Scope and Contents

Contains Banana Rag No.27/Feb 1990 and Collage Quarterly Vol.1 No.1. Stored in Anna Banana Publications box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Mixed Bag, No.11, 1990

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-06215-6329
Scope and Contents

Stored in Anna Banana Publications box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Monthly Mailings (January): Tree of Life, 1997

 Item — Box 239: [Barcode: 31858072459377]
Identifier: CC-31954-33482
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997

muriendo me, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51997-73099
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [1114444], 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-31278-32749
Scope and Contents

The center section of the drawing is stamped with repetitive numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. The sides have column-like ink drawings and the corners list the letters W E I N. An abstract, design and dripped paint are positioned over the right side of the numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Nagging Questions and Aphoristic Remarks, 2008

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-48252-69277
Scope and Contents

Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

[No.31] , 1997

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-60279-10003279
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Onion/Union/Rayon, 1983

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-53396-57490
Scope and Contents The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'magic cloth.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson.Internet: Coco Gordon, born in Genova, lives and works from her NYC loft and her home in the red rocks of Lyons, Colorado. She emigrated to the United States in 1939. An Intermedia artist/ poet/ performer/ papermaker/ publisher of W Space artist book editions, she is also known as SuperSkyWoman. For the 2001 Venice Biennale Coco contributed her Superskywoman dialog "Forget Coming' to the Markers Project on Via Garibaldi and contributed her performance poem "Homage to the butterfly' to the Bunker Poetry Project at the Artiglierie of the Arsenale.13 SuperSkyWoman dialog posters showed at De Garage, Belgium May3-June 23 2002, curated by Luc Fierens. She has participated in the London and the Istanbul Biennales....
Dates: 1983

Onion/Union/Rayon, 1983

 Item — Box 299: [Barcode: 31858072460888]
Identifier: CC-53397-57491
Scope and Contents

The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'dildos & other games.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson. The documentation as to the edition size and number of this copy appears to have been lost. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Operation Round-Trip N.2417 (33 x 50), 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-18594-18966
Scope and Contents

Cavellini appropriated a manila envelope mailed to him by the Sackners as the support for a collage with typical Cavellini correspondence art imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Painting Frame Corner], 1998

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-31462-32952
Scope and Contents

The sample of a frame molding was stamped, addressed, and mailed to the Archive unwrapped without a return address. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Par Son Ecriture, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18825-19203

Participacion, No. 6, December, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38580-40488
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. It is stored in the box with Padin's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Participacion, No.1, June, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38381-40285
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Penis of Willendorf, 1997

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-28797-30108
Scope and Contents

This sculpture was a collaborative project between Hitchcock and Dyar.The former found an eggplant in the shape of the sculpture that was cast by Dyar to make the multiple. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997