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Maher, Miranda

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

100 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34625-36326
Scope and Contents

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

1000 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 2001

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Identifier: CC-48748-69782
Scope and Contents

The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

After Reasonable Research / Maher, Miranda., 1999

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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

Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms / Maher, Miranda., 1991

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Identifier: CC-34624-36325
Scope and Contents

The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Girls! Girls! Madwomen & Murderesses / Maher, Miranda., 1993

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Identifier: CC-34623-36324
Scope and Contents

This is a feminist book in which the author describes madwomen, murderous madwomen, and murderesses using press quotations, drawings amd photographic reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

How to Read and Write in the Dark / Maher, Miranda ; Henning, Barbara., 1996

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Identifier: CC-34622-36323
Scope and Contents

Miranda Maher composed the drawings and Barbara Henning wrote the text. The prose is diaristic with found text from the author's imagination and bits and pieces of material discovered by her. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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

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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

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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

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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

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Artist book (limited edition) 4
Political poetry 4
Artist book 2
Conceptual art 2
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