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Performance poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:

Improvisations, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44187-46313
Scope and Contents

This is a tour de force of mainly language and performance poetry. Frazer utilizes the word, "glossolalia" in a number of the poems. This is defined as strings of meaningless syllables made up of sounds taken from those familiar to the speaker and put together more or less haphazardly .... Glossolalia is language-like because the speaker unconsciously wants it to be language-like. Yet in spite of superficial similarities, glossolalia fundamentally is not language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Killing the Books: An Action 1971-2, 1972

 Item — Box 66: [Barcode: 31858072538493]
Identifier: CC-33342-34980
Scope and Contents

The handwritten statement on cardboard collaged to the back of the frame reads, The books are killed - by shooting - by burning - by drowning - by cutting - by gluing - painting white, or red, or black, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

La Solitude Sonore , 1971

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-25653-26111
Scope and Contents

Minor damage from paper clip imression at left upper edge along with a tear on left vertical edge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

La Testa di Giano, 1981

 Item — Box 326: [Barcode: 31858073143574]
Identifier: CC-22973-23410
Scope and Contents

Tape Cassette is a program broadcasted on Italian National Radio 1 on April 3, 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

L'Art en Transit, no. 1: Depanne Machine recontre Joel Hubaut, 1988

 Item — Box 123: [Barcode: 31858072458098]
Identifier: CC-14531-14842
Scope and Contents

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1988

L'Art en Transit, no. 4: Depanne Machine recontre Gilardi, Inverosimile, 1993

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Identifier: CC-16416-16766
Scope and Contents

The object in the box is a bunch of plastic grapes mounted on plastic grass. The cover print on the box depicts colored leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1993

L'Art en Transit, no. 6: Depanne Machine recontre Depanne Machine, Boite Noir, 1996

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Scope and Contents

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1996

last full word (210964), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56370-59677
Scope and Contents

The full title is "last full word in small type on each of 1st 10 pp of webster.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to Clark (Coolidge?)], 1995

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-32000-33529
Scope and Contents

Andrews related a performance that he gave in an art gallery that involved the playing of two 1 1/2 hour simultaneous tapes, various books and sequences on tables, couple dozen, separate, written pieces on wall and a 12' x 7' wall and adjacent 9' x 12' floor taken up by 150 poem cards. He also recommends Victor Ehlich's book "Russian Formalism" for reading as he believes it is relevant to Coolidge's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Letter to Peter Finch], 1972

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26151-26614
Scope and Contents

This letter provides an explanation of Adler's "Scenario," a prose piece which is an allegorical interpretation of his poem, "Alphabet Music." The manuscript of "Scenario" was attached to the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Mixage C.K.K. Epidemia, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-29922-31311
Scope and Contents

The drawing was done on the facing pages of the Table of Contents. The book consists of critical analysis of Hubaut's work by Restany, Lebel and Frank, reproductions of polaroid photographs featuring Hubaut performing in his white jacket painted with distinguishing signs, and comments by Hubaut on these photographs. Forty-eight reproductions of colored polaroid photographs constitute a section of this book. All have the identical format and are printed on a black background. The photographs are centered, one to a page. The caption "hobby or not hobby -- mon dada comme un violin" is printed at the top of each page in white. The caption "epidemie completement d'ingres" is printed in white at the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Mixed Bag (January), 1987

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-06154-6268
Scope and Contents

Contains Banana Rag No.19 & 20. Stored in Anna Banana Publications box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Mixed Media 1 (1967/68), 1968

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-37643-39503
Scope and Contents

This announcement was addressed to Dick Higgins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Music, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-28035-29191
Scope and Contents

The leaflets have either one to three letters, o's, a colon, a period, or a slash. The reader is instructed to speak every 'o' & clap every period sign. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

OCKSVTP: for actors and audience, 1973

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Gu-Ha: [Barcode: 31858072610375]
Identifier: CC-32463-34037
Scope and Contents

This was a play performed in a Birmingham pub. David Hart, poet, born in Aberystwyth, lives in Birmingham, England, has been (many years ago) a university chaplain, theatre critic and arts administrator, and now lives as a poet. He has held part time teaching posts at Warwick and Birmingham Universities. Residencies include psychiatric and general hospitals, Worcester Cathedral and the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, has co-tutored at Ty Newydd and Arvon centres. He was Birmingham Poet Laureate 1997-98; winner of the National Poetry Competition 1994, 2nd in 2003. Elected Member of the Welsh Academy. Poems widely published in magazines and anthologies. Books include Setting the poem to words, Crag Inspector (a poem of Bardsey Island), and Running Out (all Five Seasons Press), The Titanic Cafe closes its doors"¦. (Nine Arches, 2009). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973