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Performance poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Tell me about some possible approaches to fun / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-61910-10004384
Scope and Contents

Poem incorporates words having the stem, "fun" and synonyms or descriptions of "fun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Tell Me about Some Possible Approaches to Fun? / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17653-18021
Scope and Contents

Poem incorporates words having the stem, "fun" and synonyms or descriptions of "fun." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Temple , 2008

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-49395-70440
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 22 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss contributed the envelope and cover designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

TEXTS TO SPEAK W/ THE SHARKEY PEOTRY FILM SHOT ?140964, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56607-58870
Scope and Contents

John Sharkey's poetry film event was held in Bristol, England. Houedard writes in his introductory statement, "these texts consist of words and silences--any 2 words phrases or silences are connected directly thru what the film is about -- so the words &c can be taken in ANY ORDER." Houedard also writes in the text "CONCRETE POEMS ARE THINGS / LOOK THRU CLEANFORMS TO POETMIND CONCRETE PEOMS...CONCRETE POEMS CAN BE TOYS OR INSTSRUMENTS...CONCRETE IS AFTERBEAT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Four Suits, 1965

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Identifier: CC-27300-27864
Scope and Contents

The title of this book as described by Dick Higgins refers to the four authors of this book who are each identified in the introductions pages to their section by a suite of playing cards, e.g., clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades. Thus, what they have in common is that 1) each is essentially not operating in a media for which they were trained, 2) each is really operating in a medium or mode of activity of their own devising, which 3) lies somewhere between the conventional concept of the seven arts. The name Ben Patterson is used in this citation rather than Benjamin Patterson since all other references in this database refer to Ben not Benjamin Patterson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Jack Poem / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17628-17996
Scope and Contents

Poem consists of phrases which contain the word "Jack." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Lady and the Bird Odyssey, 1978

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-19492-19875
Scope and Contents

This is an original mock-up photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Maenads, 2011

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-52791-73928
Scope and Contents Wikepedia: "In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication. In this state, they would lose all self-control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear to pieces animals "” and, in myth at least, sometimes men and children "” devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a cluster of leaves; they would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes." According to the Basinski's inscription on the verso of the drawing, "the Maenads had ladder like tattoes groves on their arms And I...
Dates: 2011

The Massacre of the Innocents / Cobbing, Bob ; Rowan, John ; Nuttall J., 1963

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17989-18359
Scope and Contents

Designated Poets 2. The cover was designed by Jeff Nuttall. These are Cobbing's first published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Massacre of the Innocents: Working Copy / Cobbing, Bob ; Rowan, John ; Nuttall J., 1963

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17990-18360
Scope and Contents

Designated Poets 2. This copy was probably used by Cobbing for a performance/reading as it contains additional printed and handwritten poems pasted onto the pages as well as handwritten notes. The cover was designed by Jeff Nuttall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Poetic In(ter)vention , 1987

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-24498-24951
Scope and Contents

This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Printed Performance: Brian Lane Works 1966-99 , 2001

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Identifier: CC-54359-643247
Scope and Contents Stored in box with Gallery Number Ten publications.Internet: Brian Lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing began in the mid 1960s at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, South East London. This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and alongside its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing list of publications with poets and artists. In the late 1970s Lane issued many of his distilled performances in print and in the mid-1980s he worked extensively on the seminal exhibition The Artist Publisher and accompanying catalogue. Throughout all his work, there is the sense of a printed score to be performed, from the earlier days of experimental music through improvisations on small letterpress printing machines, to the use of photocopier and rubber stamp. This illustrated primer includes an extensive bibliography by John Janssen of all Brian Lane's published works, now held in the Tate Gallery Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...
Dates: 2001

Three Poems for Voice and Movement / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17489-17855
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum 'fours' number one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Traces of Invisible Performance, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21715-22126
Scope and Contents

Material in box is from an audio-installation in the Musee D'Art Moderne, Paris, 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Two Ensemble Works, 2005

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-52349-73472
Scope and Contents

The poems in this work are entitled "Elephants Ensembled Poem" and "80th Birthday Event for Jackson Mac Low." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005