The message on the left reads HOPE, (image of a flame): It's all over in an instant. On the right: (image of a whirlwind), Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, and PERFIDY. The work was received about 10 days prior to Hurricane Andrew, the most devastating natural disaster to the USA in the 20th century, that struck South Florida. The text and images are particularly relevant since the instantaneous destruction to dwellings was attributed in large part to shoddy construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hidalgo is a member of the Zaj group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This reproduces a 'paper' delivered to the American Society of Cybernetics in 1987, produced as the response to a call for a more socially beneficial information processor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bag that is printed "black dirt" contains contains the same. The bag that is printed "gold seed" contains yellow corn kernels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This object consists of a box tightly packed with scrolls printed with one sentence of a novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lotterie Romane 1, Second edition, revised and enlarged. Original published in 1964.

The pages of the booklets consist of photocopied typewritten texts. The box is addressed to P[atricia] Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each poem object consists of a box handmade by Biro into which has been placed a circular mirror on a cushioned bed with the following lines: 1) We Get On Well, 2) I Don't Look Anyone In The Eye, 3) I'm Obsessed With The Future, 4) It's Hard Not To Hate In A Situation Like This, 5) Often Feel Like Don Quixote and 6) Life Here Is Just Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

This is depicted on page 23 of Ducorroy's catalogue raisonne, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book object are blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a white pages telephone book of Brussels. The artististic contribution was the writing of her name, address, and telephone number on the side margin of the alphabetical page for Janssens. Born in 1956 in the United Kingdom, Ann Veronica Janssens lives in Bruxelles. She now has an international reputation, in particular for installations that plunge visitors into coloured artificial fogs that challenge our habits regarding perception and sense of direction (MUKHA 1997, Venice Biennale 1999, Kunsthalle Berne 2003, MAC Marseille 2003, Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, 1301PE gallery LA 2003.), her bicycles with reflective wheels (Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, Middleheim Museum Antwerp 2002, MUKHA Antwerp 2003) and other works making play with the parameters of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rifas indicates on the verso of the label, "This is an offshoot of a 1990's environmental piece called 'Fragile, Damaged, Extinct.' The word 'extinct,' in declining size letters, is etched into one of the open scissor blades. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A small soft cover book is wrapped in papers which include the text above and "Non-Archival Book Instructions: Light Fuse and Get Away." With the exposed string on top, this book object resembles a fire cracker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.