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Fluxus

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

An Introduction to Book of the Tumbler on Fire , 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-23789-24237
Scope and Contents

Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

An Introspective, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-52526-73654
Scope and Contents This catalogue includes a large number of ephemeral visual/verbal announcements and photographic documentation of happenings. There are several brief essays by artists, poets, and collectors celebrating the life of Hansen who died in 1995. Wikepedia: Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 -- 22 June 1995) was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American. Born in New York City, he was a member of the Fluxus art movement and friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II Hansen pushed a piano off the roof of a five story building. This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the Yoko Ono Piano Drop and inspired artists like Nam June Paik. Hansen was a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York. Hansen also studied with and worked with the composer John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Hansen was perhaps best...
Dates: 1996

[Artist in Residence] , 1972

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-13068-13363
Scope and Contents

Printed on a page of a newspaper, The Carillon, while Friedman was in an artist in residence at the Norman McKenzie Art Gallery in Saskatchewan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Belgium Fluxus, 1999

 Item — Box 307: [Barcode: 31858073143616]
Identifier: CC-39895-41862
Scope and Contents

The concept and design were done by Picasso Gaglione and the text by John Held Jr. The latter wrote, "The three rubberstamps in this boxed set are an ongoing tribute to the influence of Fluxus and its spirit of collaboration among international cultural workers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Boites Ben / Ben., 1997

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-29958-31349
Scope and Contents

This small wooden box contains what appears to be a smaller, "black box." It has a sliding top inscribed with the handwritten name, Ben. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Concept d'un Mouvement Perpetual, 1972

 Item — Box 76: [Barcode: 31858070812163]
Identifier: CC-15926-16259
Scope and Contents

Based on a reversed drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci, the image is reversed when reflected in the mirror at the correct angle. Dupuy installed a mechanism so that the clock runs backward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Corneal Abrasion, 1998

 Item — Box 280: [Barcode: 31858072460631]
Identifier: CC-31229-32699
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of objects that bears resemblance to Flux Kits. The shredded paper packing material in the box is part of the collection and is entitled, "Excelsior;" it consists of shredded dictionary pages. The rubberstamped citations on the objects are minimalist phrases, e.g., the keychain is titled, "burglar's apprentice" and the tongue depressor, "corrective diction device." Although the title page indicated that this box is signed and numbered in an edition of 100 copies, this identification could not be found. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Cuando Usted No Sepa Que Decir, Diga Zaj, 1989

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-08885-9061
Scope and Contents

Hidalgo is a member of the Zaj group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Das A und O - hidden and found in an attic, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-32712-34301
Scope and Contents

Milan Knizak, Ann Holyoke Lehmann, Rune Mields, Augustina Von Nagel, Jurgen Olbrich, Ingo Trauer, Emmett Williams, and Wolfgang Hainke all contributed objects to the box and signed some of their works. The book incorporates a magazine that reviewed the top ten black jazz and blues recording artists in 1956. The 24 blank embossed pages bear an imprint of a small nail or pin on the left center portion of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

do it yourself 1971 - 1974 / Valoch, Jiri., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-57396-63413
Scope and Contents

Each page lists one to four ideas for poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Dollar, 1989

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-14443-14752
Scope and Contents

This is depicted on page 23 of Ducorroy's catalogue raisonne, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Faux Fluxus/West Edition, Stamp Art Editions, 1995

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-28854-30173
Scope and Contents

The rubber stamps were designed by Ken Friedman, Chuck Welch, Bill Gaglone, Steve Random, Luce Fierens, and Ed Varney on the occasion of an exhibition by Ken Friedman, entitled, Rubber Stamps, at Stamp Art Gallery in San Francisco. The original Friedman rubber stamp was designed by Wolfgang Feelish and became among the most widely reproduced stamp in international mail art networking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Flux Holes Gathered by Ben Vautier, 1981

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-21598-22009
Scope and Contents

The first edition was made in 1964. As often occurs in the work of Ben as in the two copies held by the Sackner Archive, editions with the same title might have totally different contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Flux Medicine, 1987

 Item — Box 298: [Barcode: 31858072460870]
Identifier: CC-07751-7903
Scope and Contents

In box with Saito and Shioni -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987