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Performance poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Lay-Out: Can I Borrow Yr Living Room ; 3 Locales, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-43189-45246
Scope and Contents

This is the lay-out for a poster announcing a poetry reading that was curry's first. curry and essary's contributions to the poster were photocopied fragments and Dudley's an ink drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Lecture/Performance

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
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Flyer promoting Jean-Paul Curtay's performance of Sound Body Poetry. Held in Venice, California. Admission was free.

Dates: -

[Letter to Clark (Coolidge?)] / Andrews, Bruce., 1995

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
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

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
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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

Notes For (from) Chamber Music / Cobbing, Bob., 1966

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-17591-17958
Scope and Contents

This handwritten manuscript is subtitled "how it all began." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Opium Marble: The Alley, 1990

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-59783-10002840
Scope and Contents

This performance manuscript apparently has never been published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990