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Correspondence art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1831 Collections and/or Records:

one cent: Blips. No.376/Feb / David Aylward ; bill bissett ; bp Nichol ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; curry jw., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45299-47484
Scope and Contents

This booklet is a modified reproduction of an early Ganglia Press publication edited and designed by bp Nichol. curry recounts that it is likely that it was intended to appear as an issue of Ganglia Concrete series in 1967 - only four of the intended eight issues were published. All the poems by the three authors subsequently appeared elsewhere. The two duplicates are overinked and variants according to correspondance from curry. He indicated that 67 were clean copies, 4 had muddy rears, and 82 had printed creases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Onion/Union/Rayon, 1983

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-53396-57490
Scope and Contents The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'magic cloth.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson.Internet: Coco Gordon, born in Genova, lives and works from her NYC loft and her home in the red rocks of Lyons, Colorado. She emigrated to the United States in 1939. An Intermedia artist/ poet/ performer/ papermaker/ publisher of W Space artist book editions, she is also known as SuperSkyWoman. For the 2001 Venice Biennale Coco contributed her Superskywoman dialog "Forget Coming' to the Markers Project on Via Garibaldi and contributed her performance poem "Homage to the butterfly' to the Bunker Poetry Project at the Artiglierie of the Arsenale.13 SuperSkyWoman dialog posters showed at De Garage, Belgium May3-June 23 2002, curated by Luc Fierens. She has participated in the London and the Istanbul Biennales....
Dates: 1983

Onion/Union/Rayon, 1983

 Item — Box 299: [Barcode: 31858072460888]
Identifier: CC-53397-57491
Scope and Contents

The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'dildos & other games.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson. The documentation as to the edition size and number of this copy appears to have been lost. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Operation Round Trip / Cavellini, Guglielmo Achille., 1984

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Identifier: CC-16827-17183
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Operation Round-Trip N.2417 (33 x 50) / Cavellini, Guglielmo Achille., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18594-18966
Scope and Contents

Cavellini appropriated a manila envelope mailed to him by the Sackners as the support for a collage with typical Cavellini correspondence art imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Oraletica Analectica] / Biro, Jozsef., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30883-32335
Scope and Contents

Collage depicts fragmented images of nude women engaged in sexual intercourse as well as clothed portraits of a man and woman overlaid with Hungarian text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Original Not Copy / Calleja, J.M.., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43954-46065
Scope and Contents

Calleja wrote Original Not Copy over an abstract image of a work by Rnric Cormenzana, a Spanish artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Original Not Copy / Calleja, J.M.., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41072-43053
Scope and Contents

Calleja wrote Original Not Copy over a lake scene of a commercial Spanish postcard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Orworks: A Diary of Shy Song. No.175., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30737-32182
Scope and Contents

Edited by Don Milliken. Pages 1, 2 & 9 are paraphrased from sections of the Pillowbook by Sei Shonagon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Orworks: Flowers of Edo. No.173., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29373-30738
Scope and Contents

Edited by Don Milliken. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997