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Box 301

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

Probable Latitude 76'15' Longitude 113': A Minimal Monument, 1970

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-28100-29259
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two white cardboard cubes, each with the word, "silence" printed on their sides; in one the print is black, in the other white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Curvd H&Z, No. 434: Smokes: A Novel Mystery, 1996

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-28164-29327
Scope and Contents

Each chapter is printed on a small loose sheet which has been rolled to resemble a cigarette. The "novel" is a detective story. The printed box resembles the shape of a cigarette box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

dbqp, No. 101: An Introduction to the History and Data Base of dbqp, 1990

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-14502-14813
Scope and Contents

Provides chronology of Huth as a publisher and editor of dbqp, a listing of dbqp preswordks, an extensive analysis of the background and materials for each dbqp publication, a single page on items received for review, and duplicate issues of dbqp #102-106. Wooden object appears to have shape of a popsickle stick and is rubberstamped "dboocmarqp #2." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

dbqp, No. 133: th shlls (pt. 4 of the scentnces), 1991

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-14650-14963
Scope and Contents

Also designated Objecta #9. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Blue Lemon, 1998

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-35431-37166
Scope and Contents

This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Les Bebes de L'An 2000, 1999

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-35809-37568
Scope and Contents

The clock was commissioned by Groupe Clinivest for the year 2000. Albert Dupont designed the watch-face using the imprint of babies' feet for the numerals. Dupont wrote the label on the top of the metal container. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Survival Series, 1985

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-50907-71985
Scope and Contents

Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Onion/Union/Rayon, 1983

 Item — Box: 301
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

Do It Yourself / Homage To Malewitsch, 1968

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-59796-53474
Scope and Contents

Each of 10 cans contained a different color paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Frozen Sky, 1998

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-31488-32980
Scope and Contents

The title of the work is derived rom the cities of Floro, Norway; Zenag, Papua New Guina and Sandusky, Ohio. The face of the watch is covered with 25, three letter airline abbreviations of worldwide cities. Langlands & Bell focus of urban centers "in an abstract constellation evoking the persistent transience of contemporary urban life." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Cygnet, 1997

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-35384-37119
Scope and Contents

The inside of a Swan Vestas match box was modified to display an image of a sailboat on folded papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Museum of Modern Art, 1983

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-55720-53512
Scope and Contents

The keys presumably unlock the door of the museum. The colophon reads, ...is a box of mauricio nannuccci (1971) published by adlers editions in 30 copies signed and numbered in malmo sweden autumn 1983 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Words for the World, 1995

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-09826-10020
Scope and Contents

This a collection of watchwords inprinted on pencils to promote understanding and good will. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Two Horizons, 1998

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-31587-33085
Scope and Contents

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Museum of Penny Candy, 2000

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-35181-36915
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the candy object described by an ancient dictionary along with the candy itself. The presentation is reminiscent of early Joseph Kosuth works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Flotilla, 2000

 Item — Box: 301
Identifier: CC-35183-36917
Scope and Contents

The images on the clear acetate sheets are great sailing ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000