Skip to main content

Neo-Dada

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

NAMBÉ, 1985

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-55729-60770
Scope and Contents

The printed instructions on the card within the plastic box read."Do not remove from box. Place on or about any household object." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

news shoez, 2013

 Item — Box 142: [Barcode: 31858072457959]
Identifier: CC-56641-10000040
Scope and Contents

Sandals cover with newsprint from The Daily Telegraph and Bild.de are stored in the same shoe box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

No News, No. 39: Schallhalla, 1997

 Item — Box 148: [Barcode: 31858072458015]
Identifier: CC-29735-31112
Scope and Contents

The main feature of this issue was a compact disc recording by Stefan Kurt with selections of music and sound poetry. The disc was produced by Jurgen Olbrich at the No Institute. The melodic music often incorporated street sounds, for example, a travelling, steam locomotive. the 84, 35mm, color transparency slides are labeled and depict landscapes, buildings and scenes of a marketplace somewhere in Africa. The can holding this material is an appropriated Danish cookie can onto which Olbrich has collaged paper, perforated with letters on its lid and side to read, No News 39. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Nothing [1], 2003

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-54593-990039
Scope and Contents

Tthe box is stamped with the word NOTHING on the inside bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Nothing [2], 2003

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-54596-990043
Scope and Contents

Tthe box is stamped with the word NOTHING on the inside bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Nothing [3], 2003

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-54597-990044
Scope and Contents

Tthe box is stamped with the word NOTHING on the inside bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Nothing Box, 2003

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-54252-643140
Scope and Contents

This is from a seies of "nothing boxes" as depicted in his posthumously published book, Bilder Bucher Editionen...(2012) that is also held by the Sackner Archive. None of these boxes were signed because they consisted of "nothing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[On Palm Sunday...], 1997

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-39438-41393
Scope and Contents

Dyar writes on the label, "On Palm Sunday 1996 I picked up this palm branch at Saint Dominic's Church. It hung for one year on the wall in my studio & on Palm Sunday 1997 it was burned down to these ashes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

Perfumer's Workshop, 1995

 Item — Box 67: [Barcode: 31858072538485]
Identifier: CC-37214-39058
Scope and Contents

The opened jars appear to have a fragrance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Pest Telephone], 2002

 Item — Box 162: [Barcode: 31858072458155]
Identifier: CC-39238-41184
Scope and Contents

The object is a decorated, old, wireless telephone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Photographer's Pharmacy, 1998

 Item — Box 69: [Barcode: 31858072538469]
Identifier: CC-36127-37906
Scope and Contents

The rolled paper in the jars provides an appearance of pharmaceutical content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998