Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the final fold-out page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the first pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Henry Martin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Cindy Daguenet, is the wife of Jacques Halbert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This translates to English as the last is the first. -- 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.

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The images on the cards consist of b&w photographs superimposed drawings as well as collaged with photographs of human body parts probablu done by Topor. Stored in Topor box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication which was also designated, "Le Petit Colosse de Simy," was edited by Daniel Spoerri and Kichka Baticheff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lists multiples, publications, prints and ephemera of Filliou and collaborators. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.