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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

Hong Kong Tales, 1996

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-00677-693
Scope and Contents

Wolf writes that "the Asian appearance of the text is created by overprinting a German text, inspired by stories told by the artist's German speaking son, who lives as a journalist in Hong Kong." Five distinct, folded booklets are fastened to the front (black) and back (red) covers; there is no spine. The book is wrapped with 2 colored paper tapes which are held by the long wooden stick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Horizont, 1978

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-10648-10857
Scope and Contents

The poem is slanted downward to the right and translates as "My Horizon." Designated as blatt 55.78. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Hourglass: The Rhythm of Traces, 1998

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-30512-31940
Scope and Contents

The poet describes his work as visual/musical rhythms. The left pages are mostly composed of punctuation marks of varied type dimensions and the right pages are mostly poems with arrangements of words in clusters. Also designated Seeing Eye ooks Series II, Book 2. Some of the images in this book are also printed Sandri's "Capitolo Zero." a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Inter-Positions, 2006

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-45972-48678
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a photocopied image of a ink dot matrix printed computer image. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Leonardo da Vinci Labyrinth Book, 1989

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-28724-30030
Scope and Contents

This book object consists of black and gray printed text and labyrinths between plexiglas on fold-out pages. The opened object has a labyrinth structure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[M17], 1986

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23865-24313
Scope and Contents

Consists of neologisms and calligraphic equivalents in a made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

much ado for nothing, 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-60858-10003713

much ay ay aye, 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-60857-10003712

Murder Hat Box, 2002

 Item — Box 116: [Barcode: 31858073143707]
Identifier: CC-47960-68983
Scope and Contents

The collaged elements on the hat are taken for covers of old paperback novels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Naise dieu hal. A Round Dance / Cobbing, Bob., 1976

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-20190-20586
Scope and Contents

Designated minibooks number nine. One copy is a varient in that the size of the booklet is smaller than the other two copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Neo-Dada reading lamp], 1984

 Item — Box 148: [Barcode: 31858072458015]
Identifier: CC-21837-22248
Scope and Contents

Object is composed of a book with blank black pages and a small plastic reading lamp covered with letraset letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[oil war], 2003

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-41635-43625
Scope and Contents

The penultimate line states "This is a sad poem by Vittore Baroni." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

One of the Most Important Even If Unfortunate Things about Breathing Is That It Allows Us to Speak / jw curry., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18909-19287
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing Exhibition." A human silhouette painted on a panel silently points out a chest x-ray to another figure to emphasize the physiologic importance of breathing. Behind the door, a telephone is placed adjacent to a network of printed and handwritten, torn and fragmented texts appearing as a gigantic speech bubble (reminescent of a cartoon) to suggest babble, dependent on breathing, eminating from many telephone communications. The contrast is a metaphor for the title of this work. Five of the images show the current istallation as doors leading to one of the Sackners bathrooms, the sixth shows the original free standing installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Open Folios, 1993

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-20539-20936
Scope and Contents

Includes several texts from 1965 to 1968 that have been reworked and new texts from 1972 to 1993 that were not previously published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993