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Performance poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Events and Games / Shiomi, Mieko; Maciunas G., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-01939-1975
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1987

Probable Latitude 76'15' Longitude 113': Balance Poem on the Centrifugal Land. / Mieko Shiomi., 1970

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Identifier: CC-28103-29262
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1970

Spatial Poem / Shiomi, Mieko ; Knowles A ; Maciunas G ; Berner J ; Brecht G ; Brown J ; Cage J ; Crozier R ; Damen H ; Houedard DS ; Watts R ; Valoch J ; Padin C ; Porter B ; Roth D ; Sharkey JJ ; Novak L ; McCarthy C ; MacLow J ; Kolar J ; Coutts-Smith K., 1976

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Identifier: CC-03109-3157
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1976