Scope and Contents The collage elements were made from cut black paper. This work or anything similar to it is not listed in the Silverman's catalogue, "Fluxus Codex." Internet: Mieko Shiomi grew up in a musical family and received a classical musical education at an early age. She began to study musical theory and music at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1957. In 1960, together with Takehisa Kosugi and others, she founded the group Ongaku (Music) and began to extend the radius of her own music to include improvisation and action. The group received stimulus from performances by artists such as John Cage, La Monte Young and George Brecht, who visited Tokyo in the early 60s. As from 1963, Shiomi had contact to Yoko Ono; through her, she got to know George Brecht's events, adopting the term "event" to describe her own works. On the invitation of George Maciunas in 1964, Shiomi went to New York, where she took part in the Fluxus events taking place there. Shiomi's events are characterised...

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This box contains original cards of varied dimensions that were first published in 1964.The author is listed as Chieko Shiomi, another name for Mieko Shiomi. The recto-verso cards are printed with one side English and the other side Japanese texts. The label on the cover was designed by George Maciunas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Many of these loose sheets, some printed in the early sixties, were used as labels for Fluxus boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Fluxus Balance was organized by Mieko Shiomi who sent out the following invitation: "Write down in one of the squares on the Balance what you want to balance with something which another person wants to balance. It can be either an object/s or a concept, indicating or not indicating its weight. 68 responded including Ay-O, Eric Anderson, George Brecht, Jean Brown, Philip Corner, Jean Dupuy, Esther Ferrer, Ken Friedman, Jon Hendrics, Dick Higgins, Milan Knizak, Alvin Lucier, Ben Patterson, Daniel Spoerri, Ben Vautier and Endre Tot among others. This editition comes with printed balance, 68 returned cards and weights for adjusting the balance. All are housed in an embossed cardboard portfolio. The edition consisted of 700 numbered copies but this copy is unnumbered and labeled "sample' on back cover of folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The stamp in the envelope on the cover was done by Bob Watts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains major listing of works by John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The collage elements were made from white paper. This work or anything similar to it is not listed in the Silverman's catalogue, "Fluxus Codex." Internet: Mieko Shiomi grew up in a musical family and received a classical musical education at an early age. She began to study musical theory and music at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1957. In 1960, together with Takehisa Kosugi and others, she founded the group Ongaku (Music) and began to extend the radius of her own music to include improvisation and action. The group received stimulus from performances by artists such as John Cage, La Monte Young and George Brecht, who visited Tokyo in the early 60s. As from 1963, Shiomi had contact to Yoko Ono; through her, she got to know George Brecht's events, adopting the term "event" to describe her own works. On the invitation of George Maciunas in 1964, Shiomi went to New York, where she took part in the Fluxus events taking place there. Shiomi's events are characterised by...

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This 1st edition has a larger page than the reprint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Records the results in visual/verbal form of instructions sent to 238 participants world-wide on poems that produced nine events, e.g., word, direction, falling, shadow, open, orbit, sound wind, and disappearing during 1965-1975. Examples of these instructions follow. For the word event, the instructions were "write a word or words on the enclosed card and place it somewhere." For the open event, the instructions were "open something which is closed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.