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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

scurryfunge, 1999

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-49524-70570
Scope and Contents

Sloy did the drawings and Dave made the box which they gifted to the Sackners in memory of their visit to their studio home in 2009. During this first meeting, the Sackners mentioned one of their favorite, unusual words that almost eveyone does at sometime in their house. Scurryfunge is an archaic English word that means "a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door." Sloy liked it so much that she did these fantastic calligraphic drawings that featured this word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Songs All over the Place / Cobbing, Bob, editor., July 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17535-17901
Scope and Contents

These poems were written by students at Epping Forest High School, Loughton, Essex, when Bob Cobbing was the visiting poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1986

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 Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World, 1999

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-32222-33777
Scope and Contents

This object was formed from by photocopied hand lettered text in the style Phillips uses for his text based sculptures, where each letter is physically linked to adjacent ones. The photocopied sentence of the title, glued onto the cube is repeated twice on each of its surfaces. The Sackner Archive also holds the hand-drawn maquette for this work. The text is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World, 1999

 Item — Box 166: [Barcode: 31858072458205]
Identifier: CC-40358-42329
Scope and Contents

For this piece, Tom Phillips lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein.Phillips writes, "The series of cubes began with a cage of wire made for The Globe Theatre's production of A Winter's Tale. A cage of wire words followed to exemplify Wittgenstein's proposition 'The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My World'. Printing this on an acrylic cube where the inside can be seen and, by an oddity of optics, experienced from the outside seemed to unite the reading of a statement with its perception as a metaphor. Reversing the text on the outside in a later version emphasised the trap of language that Wittgenstein describes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Limits of My Language Are the Limits of My World [maquette], 1999

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-32223-33779
Scope and Contents

For this maquette, Tom Phillips hand lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. He marked design changes in small, red symbols. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube and hand-drawn on each surface of the wooden cube. The maquette is slightly smaller than the finished work that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Vision Not Revision, 1999

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-33026-34648
Scope and Contents

The box was made by sloy's husband, Nicholas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Was Ist Mit Mir Heute Los?, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-03698-3768
Scope and Contents

On page 85, Riha publishes a poem entitled, gomringers schweigen (komplett) in which the empty silent space is filled with gomringer in version a ; in version b, gomringer substitutes for schweigen and the empty space is taken up by schweigen. In addition, 14 concrete poems playing upon the name of gomringer are printed on pages 87-96. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994