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Designated Beyond Baroque 702. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin was the curator. He was born August 27, 1949, in Budapest and is a Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism. In the 1970s, he studied medicine, but also participated in the underground arts scene of communist Budapest around Laszlo Beke as a folk singer. In 1976, he met the American prankster and Mail Artist David Zack at Art Club Budapest who then toured through Europe with his mail art collection. Zack encouraged Kantor to join him in America; Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978, lived one year with Zack and Blaster Al Ackerman in Portland, Oregon, encountering and working with artists from Mail Art and the industrial music scene. He was one of a couple of persons to whom Zack suggested to adopt the multiple identity Monty Cantsin, but only Kantor took this proposal seriously and adopted the Cantsin identity to the extent that it became chiefly associated with him....

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This is a documentation of a zany exhibition with the material consisting of names and addresses of mail artists, Fluxus artists, dealers and collectors along with comments and doodles. Zack also provides some diaristic content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Papers of prominent mail artist David Cole. Includes mail art, handmade rubber stamps, artists correspondence, zines, artists books, and cassettes.

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Marvin Sackner responds to the question "What do you remember about 23:6:83?" by stating, "It was the day before our wedding anniversary & I had to remind myself not to forget it!" David Zack replied on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Zack describes his reaction to the 'Homage to the Mad Diarist' exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner was told to respond to the question "What do you remember about 23:6:83?" He writes " It was the day before our wedding anniversary & I had to remind myself not to forget it! David Zack writes on the verso "Marvin Sackner as a name rings a bell but the memorysheds on light on who he is..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.