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Neo-Dada

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

1 Cent Life in NY, 1995

 Item — Box 252: [Barcode: 31858072460458]
Identifier: CC-01682-1718
Scope and Contents

Tipping used the annoucement box from Ubu Gallery, New York [The Box: From Duchamp to Horn], to hold an enlarged replicate of an American penny. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

3rd Place Abstract Expressionist: Sackner, 2001

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-36460-38254
Scope and Contents

The badge is attributed to Candyass College at the Robert J. Schiffler Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

9 of Spades, 1984

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-07873-8026
Scope and Contents

This print depicts an enlarged image of the 9 of spades playing card but with only eight spades on the card. It was exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

1976/1996, 1996

 Item — Box 191: [Barcode: 31858072459617]
Identifier: CC-27263-27786
Scope and Contents

This limited addition multiple was made in commemoration of the 20 years that had elapsed since de Charmoy had exhibited in this gallery (an anouncement of the 1976 exhibition is held by the Sackner Archive). It consisted of a bread roll onto which was applied an icing reading, 1976/1996 HC2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Bicentennial Piece of Mind: Prophets of Twenty Decades of History, 1976

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31553-33048
Scope and Contents

A single neo-dadaistic phrase is printed for each year from 1776-1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Acme Novelty Library, vol. 1, no. 3. , 1994

 Item — Box 659: [Barcode: 31858072464948]
Identifier: CC-39563-41521
Scope and Contents

This is the first issue (although numbered 3) of a made-up library periodical newsletter that consists mostly of comic strips rendered by Ware. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Best Concrete Poet: Marvin, 2001

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-36459-38253
Scope and Contents

The badge is attributed to Candyass College at the Robert J. Schiffler Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Black Sound Box], 2000

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-39547-41505
Scope and Contents

The sound it makes when the box is moved could be a single, round object like a playing marble. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Book of Nails, 1992

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-11013-11228
Scope and Contents

The authors aka Elizabeth Was and Miekal And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Botschraft einer Toilettenpapierrolle, 1982

 Item — Box 39: [Barcode: 31858072460771]
Identifier: CC-22814-23249
Scope and Contents

The object is toilet paper roll onto which is printed a poem that continuously repeats itself. The original poem in Russian existed as a text only; here the text has been translated into German and as part of the only unique object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


The title of this piece can be translated to "Message of the Toilet Paper."

Dates: 1982

Box of Old Mythologies, 1998

 Item — Box 92: [Barcode: 31858072538295]
Identifier: CC-30729-32174
Scope and Contents

The piece consists of a small suitcase collaged with overlaid pages from a small format encyclopedia that has been printed on wood based acid paper as evidenced by the discolorations. The inside of the suitcase is also collaged with the same pages. Eight cardboard boxes are placed within the suitcase. Their labels related to their contents. For example, a box with the dictionary definition of camouflage contains a paper butterfly cut from a dictionary page that is pinned onto a dictionary page fitted to the bottom of the box. A box labeled lent contains ashes. A box labeled trinity contains an insulated electric wire with three smaller insulated electric wires against a black paper background. According to a letter from Collins, the other copy is in a Hungarian collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Canali Homo, 2000

 Item — Box 278: [Barcode: 31858073143400]
Identifier: CC-56438-9999848
Scope and Contents

Aside from Klassen and Olbrich, four other artists appear to have contributed to this object. However, their names are illegible.

Dates: 2000

Corneal Abrasion, 1998

 Item — Box 280: [Barcode: 31858072460631]
Identifier: CC-31229-32699
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of objects that bears resemblance to Flux Kits. The shredded paper packing material in the box is part of the collection and is entitled, "Excelsior;" it consists of shredded dictionary pages. The rubberstamped citations on the objects are minimalist phrases, e.g., the keychain is titled, "burglar's apprentice" and the tongue depressor, "corrective diction device." Although the title page indicated that this box is signed and numbered in an edition of 100 copies, this identification could not be found. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998