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Performance poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 886 Collections and/or Records:

Language to Cover a Wall: Visual Poetry through Its Changing Media / Steve McCaffery, curator ; Karen Mac Cormack, curator ; Michael Basinski, curator ; Sackner MA ; Dutton P ; Kubota J ; Sutherland WM ; And M ; Beaulieu D ; bissett b ; Bok C ; Bory JF ; Bradley Df ; Broudy H ; Carroll L ; Chopin H ; Cinicolo-3 D ; Claire P ; Cobbing B ; Coolidge C ; Copithorne J ; cummings ee ; curry jw ; Cutts S ; Daniels D ; Danon B ; DeCampos A ; Plaza J ; deCointet G ; Dellafiora D ; Vigo EA ; Drucker J ; Dudley M ; Endwar ; Etlinger A ; Federman R ; Finlay IH ; Fritton C ; Furnival J ; Grumman B ; Gut E ; Halsey A ; Heidsieck B ; Herbert G ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Houedard DS ; Howe W ; Huth G ; Jaeger P ; Jess ; Jirgens K ; Joe ; Johnson R ; Johnson Ro ; King R ; Knowles A ; Kostelanetz R ; Kriwet F ; Kruger B ; Lax R ; Leftwich J ; levy da ; Logue C ; Lora-Totino A ; MacLow J ; Mayer HJ ; Mon F ; Monk G ; Nichol bp ; O'Brien G ; Padin C ; Patchen K ; Paz O ; Phillips T ; Rosenberg MR ; Royer R ; Serafini L ; Todorovic M ; Spoerri D ; Valoch J ; VanHorn E ; Watt B ; Weiner H ; Werschler-Henry D ; Williams J ; Glazier LP., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-54719-990153
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner presented the opening night address entitled "jw curry's Exemplary Archive" for the symposium that also included a performance by a group of Canadian sound poets. Many of the works in this exhibition were lent from the collection of McCaffery and MacCormack. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

L'Art en Transit, no. 1: Depanne Machine recontre Joel Hubaut, 1988

 Item — Box 123: [Barcode: 31858072458098]
Identifier: CC-14531-14842
Scope and Contents

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1988

L'Art en Transit, no. 4: Depanne Machine recontre Gilardi, Inverosimile, 1993

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Identifier: CC-16416-16766
Scope and Contents

The object in the box is a bunch of plastic grapes mounted on plastic grass. The cover print on the box depicts colored leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1993

L'Art en Transit, no. 6: Depanne Machine recontre Depanne Machine, Boite Noir, 1996

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Scope and Contents

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1996

last full word (210964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56370-59677
Scope and Contents

The full title is "last full word in small type on each of 1st 10 pp of webster.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Lay-Out: Can I Borrow Yr Living Room ; 3 Locales / curry, jw; Dudley, Michael; Essary, Loris., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-43189-45246
Scope and Contents

This is the lay-out for a poster announcing a poetry reading that was curry's first. curry and essary's contributions to the poster were photocopied fragments and Dudley's an ink drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Lay-Out: I'm Going to The Abbey / curry, jw; Ross, Stuart; Laba, Mark., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-43190-45247
Scope and Contents

This is the layout for a poster announcing a poetry reading at The Abbey Bookshop. The background is a page from a porn magazine. According to a letter written from curry to the Sackners, about 75 were made but Ross' "feet got chilly" and most ended up destroyed. Ross made his own poster for the event to curry's dismay. Writing in 1994 to the Sackners, curry was sorry that the poster was not used since this was "a hilarious poke at The Abbey, a venue as staid as they come, bound in the honourable chains of hypothesized tradition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Le Cahier Pedogogique / Hubaut, Joel., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36148-37927
Scope and Contents

This book includes a description of Hubaut's city performances and his personal glossary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Le Lieu Unique / Hubaut, Joel., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36367-38158
Scope and Contents

This event was also entitled "Clom Trok-Lu PInk-Pink" and this catalogue documented activities organized by Hubaut in which all resident performers and participants were dressed in pink. Th activities included theatre, contemporary dance, and festivals of electronic and experimental music, and, the book and art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Le Petit Bleu] / Hubaut, Joel., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34729-36435
Scope and Contents

The front page of this journal depicts a photograph of Joel Hubaut dressed in blue and surrounded by blue articles. The double page middle spread consists of a scene of a large group of people dressed in blue and several statements and articles related to the word blue. The headers of the articles in this issue are printed in blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Lebenszeichen un Andere Sachen / Schmidt, Wolfgang., 1981

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Identifier: CC-01929-1965
Scope and Contents

Wolfgang Schmidt was born in 1929 and died in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Letter to Ann Zimmerman] / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17822-18192
Scope and Contents

The greeting at the beginning of this letter is similar to Parola in Liberte. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to Clark (Coolidge?)], 1995

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-32000-33529
Scope and Contents

Andrews related a performance that he gave in an art gallery that involved the playing of two 1 1/2 hour simultaneous tapes, various books and sequences on tables, couple dozen, separate, written pieces on wall and a 12' x 7' wall and adjacent 9' x 12' floor taken up by 150 poem cards. He also recommends Victor Ehlich's book "Russian Formalism" for reading as he believes it is relevant to Coolidge's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Letter to Dom Sylvster Houedard] / Jackson, Babs; Medalla D; Tzara T; Houedard DS., 1967

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Identifier: CC-55641-9999243
Scope and Contents

Babs Jackson, the Director of Tristan Tzara's farciful play, "The Gas Heart," discusses the progress of the rehersals for it. This letter is filed in the houedard binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to Jean-Paul Curtay] / Keppler, Joseph., 1983

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Identifier: CC-07869-8022
Scope and Contents

Invites Curtay to give a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to Mary Luft] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17839-18209
Scope and Contents

This is a draft of a letter relating a telephone conversation with the Sackners about visiting them in Miami Beach and giving a performance in their home as well as in the New Music Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Letter to Peter Finch], 1972

 Item — Box Adler: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26151-26614
Scope and Contents

This letter provides an explanation of Adler's "Scenario," a prose piece which is an allegorical interpretation of his poem, "Alphabet Music." The manuscript of "Scenario" was attached to the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972