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Correspondence art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 150 Collections and/or Records:

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

Not Everything Propaganda / Fox, Hugh., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-10919-11131
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry to Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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

[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

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

Probably Another Visual Poem by Vittore, 1989

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-21566-21977
Scope and Contents

Collage incorporates mailing receipts to Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

pulate a rupture, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51998-73100
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a written word in Bennett's unique style at the top, a brief sentence by McMurtagh in the middle, and an electocardiographic tracing consistent with an acute myocardial infarction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Pushing the Envelope, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35700-37451
Scope and Contents

Air mail envelopes, mailed to Kim Lieberman by herself, were returned from around the world from places she travelled. A chart documents the places and timing of the mailings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Random Sightings (With No One Around); letters from d.a. levy, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47224-49967
Scope and Contents

This book consists of letters in reproduction from d.a. levy to his friends. The originals were handwritten, typed, and mimeographed. In addition, several of levy's abstract expressionistic paintings are reproduced in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Real Correspondence - One, 1981-1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-22242-22664