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Neo-Dada

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

Psychic Landscape, 1983

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21821-22232
Scope and Contents

Object consists of a box collaged with maps. A toy baby, crumpled balloon and card with letraset text are contained within the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

R.O.T.W., 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21852-22263
Scope and Contents

The two masks are identical and represent a frontal image of a male face with glasses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Small Glass, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21826-22237
Scope and Contents

Box consists of Polaroid film case with photograph of Baroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

the Book as a finished object, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36080-37857
Scope and Contents

The cover of a soft cover novel is painted in red, black, and silver paint with an abstract red figure as the main image. Except for the title page, the pages are screwed into the painted black board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Destruction of Mindfuck Diplomacy, 1990

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-26089-26551
Scope and Contents

The soft cover book has a smaller book bound into the back cover. The book and tape are housed in an envelope which is attached to and folded into the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Magnificent Seven, 2000

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-36011-37781
Scope and Contents

The ping pong balls are arranged in a row and are printed with the words Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results, and Findings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Thing, No. 10: Starlee Kine - Crying Instructions, 2008

 Item — Box 274: [Barcode: 31858072460607]
Identifier: CC-50951-72029
Scope and Contents

The text of the pamphlet deals with a bad movie entitiled "Garden State." The text laser etched into the wood block deals with the purchase and cutting of an onion. Kine states in the pamphlet that her object is a cutting board and recommends that the more the board is used, the less the text can be read, and if all goes as planned, "the quieter the ghosts of meals past will become." She also recommends that you first slice an onion on the board that will cause you to cry for as a mental cathartic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Thing, No. 22: John Baldessari - 2 standard pillowcases, 2014

 Item — Box 274: [Barcode: 31858072460607]
Identifier: CC-58542-10001766
Scope and Contents

The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

The Wakests, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-37930-39810
Scope and Contents

The first five cards provide documentation of this project that deal with line drawings of "Wakest" creatures on the recto with a two word caption on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Valenciennes, 1981

 Item — Box 214: [Barcode: 31858072459344]
Identifier: CC-22441-22865
Scope and Contents

The objects, cracked egg-shells in a paper cup, and fragmented mechanical components have both a neo-dada and fluxus flavor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Visual Poetry Poultry, 1998

 Item — Box 307: [Barcode: 31858073143616]
Identifier: CC-29604-30976
Scope and Contents

The sculptural image is a stylized chicken with mostly illegible, fragmented, writings and rubberstamped phrases with dada and fluxus content on its surface. The name of the bird/birdlike chararcter is Loplop who is featured in prints, collages and paintings by Max Ernst. Lopllop was an alter ego which Ernst developed and functioned as a familiar animal. Loplop first appeared in Ernst's collage novels La Femme 100 Tetes and in Une Semaine de Bonte in the role of a narrator and commentator. The cardboard box base has illegible handwriting on its lid, rubberstamped words DADA and stylized chicken heads on its sides, and rubberstamped, stylized heads of chickens within the inside bottom of the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998