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Includes a page noting the CD of Anabelle Hubaut, Joel's daughter along with a three statement by Joel Hubaut. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This extensively illustrated publication marked the 20th anniversary of The University of Iowa's Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts and was accompanied by 4 exhibitions of works from the ATCA collection. They were: Alice Hutchins - Arenas for Happenings: Artifacts of the Eternal Network; Ken Friedman - Art[net]worker Extra-Ordinaire: Latin American Realities/International Solutions. The catalogue is subtitled "Subjugated Knowledges and the Balance of Power." Several multiples, ephemera and periodicals that were exhibited are also hels by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the first pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Spoerri writes in his introduction that "the procedure of Topography, its modus operandi, is beautifully simple: a selection of objects and the associations they evoke are described, and these in turn give rise to further associations in the form of anecdotes. An apparently infinite process is unleashed, like a stroll taken in every direction at once...One might compare the Topography to other collective works in this century, from the experiments of the Surrealists to those described in William Burrough's The Third Mind...In the context of writing, rather than art, there is the process of annotation itself, which has given rise to a genre of literature all its own, a literature of digression and the forking narrative."Topography analyzes 80 different found objects in Spoerri's room. A map of these objects and a cubist photographic view of the room can be found on the final fold-out page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...

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Also designated Vol. 2, No.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Peter Moore's photograph appears on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is catalogue conceptualizing the marriage of Wallace Berman and Robert Watts, including a printed wedding invitation, illustrations from Semina by Berman, a reproduction on a typed letter from Berman to David Meltzer, correspondence art by Watts and a reproduction of a dollar bill by Watts. The book was designed by Jerry Lekky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book lists and depicts the holdings of art games (mostly fluxus boxes) collected by Hans Sohm and now held by the Stuttgart Museum. Ina Conzen prepared this catalogue that is an excellent source book for such materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.