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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

After Reasonable Research / Maher, Miranda., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34621-36322
Scope and Contents

This book consists of indications of battles and wars from the year 1 to 1999. The battles are printed in micrographic text vertically, with the yearly dates placed vertically in the center of the pages. Miranda Maher designates on the cover that "Years with No Acts of 'OPEN AND DECLARED ARMED HOSTILE CONFLICT' are Indicated with a Perpendicular LIne. Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace." Actually there is only one red, vertical line in the year 329, indicating no battles. The book is printed on light weight, beige paper with repeating, gilded Fleurs de Lis, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Redbook: A Book of Hours / Maher, Miranda., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-34619-36320
Scope and Contents

This book lists women's names in alphabetical order according to day and time on a daily basis over a year to symbolize the average annual estimate of reported forcible rapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Spend Me / Maher, Miranda., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35322-37056
Scope and Contents

The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Surveils / Maher, Miranda., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34670-36371
Scope and Contents

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996