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PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, APRIL 28 1969. 1969.

paul robertson — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:26:47 +0000

Ohio: Ohio State University, 1969 27 x 21cm, 1pp blackon light blue mimeograph. The programme for a concert of "new music" by Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik with the list of works by George Brecht, Takahisa Kosugi, Guiseppe Chiari, Earle Brown, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Paik, Henning Christiansen (here "Christian Sen"), and Joseph Beuys. VG+.

EAST-WEST MUSIC. 1974.

paul robertson — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:09:15 +0000

Rome: L'AtticoGiorgetti, 1974

25 x 20.8cm, unpaginated (52pp) plus card covers. The programme for the Music Festival held at the Galleria L'Attico from June 3 to 15, 1974 with the participation of La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Philip Glass, TR Mahalingan, Charlemagne Palestine, Pandit Gran Nath), TN Ramachandra Iyer, and Terry Riley. The text includes a long interview by Mrs. Singh with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, an interview with Phil Glass by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear, and texts by Daniel Caux, David Reck, TR Mahalingan, and Charlemagne Palestine. Each of the main participants has a b/w photo-portrait reproduced.

This is a very rare publication with minor browning on the edges of the front cover else VG+.

INDIA – AMERICA: MUSICA E DANZA. 1977.

paul robertson — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:02:04 +0000

Rome: Sala Borromini, 1977 26,5 x 19.5cm, 16 pp plus card covers. The extremely rare program for a series of concerts and performances in Rome featuring La Monte Young, Joan Jonas, Ustad Salamat Ali Kahn, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Kumari B. Swarnamukhi, and Charlemagne Palestine, with lighting by Marian Zazeela. The program has texts from Jonas and Zazeela, alongside profiles on the performers edited by Fabio Sargentini. There are 5 b/w photo-portraits of participants and one of a telegram sent by Palestine. There is a brown mark on the first inner page which has slightly affeted the inside cover but else this is VG+. Very few copies exist.

ORACLE. 1987. PROGRAMME FOR ONE DAY EVENT.

paul robertson — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:10:00 +0000

NYC: Exit Art, .d. (1987) 30 x 21cm, 1pp printed programme for a one day evening event where every artist was given only 15 minutes to perform. Lists John Giorno, Lenny Pickett, Alison Knowles, Papo Colo (one of the organisers of Exit), Charlotte Moorman amongst others. VG+.

THREE HAPPENINGS BY DICK HIGGINS. 1965.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:54:00 +0000

Sunnyside Garden: Sunnyside Garden Ballroom and Wrestling Arena, 1965 30 x 21cm, 2pp mimeograph listing the programme for this performance by Higgins - listed are THE TART with a stellar cast which includes Ay-o, Meredith Monk, Joe Jones, Kawagami and Alison Knowles as well s Philip Corner. The “properties and situations" were designed by Ay-o. After an intermission the audience watched Higgin’s Solo for Florence and Orchestra and Celestrials for Bengt af Klintberg. Al Hansen, Higgins, Knowles, Monk all performed in the latter work. One the reverse there is an extensive “BLURB” by Higgins explaining the works. Evidence of past fioldng but else VG. Rare.

MIMEOGRAPH HANDOUT FOR UK PREMIERE OF EATING RAOUL. 1982.

paul robertson — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:27:00 +0000

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1982 30 x 21cm, 2pp black on yellow mimeographic leaflet - the handout for the UK premiere of Paul Bartel's dark comedy of urban living and cannibalism. VG. G+.

THE PROGRAMME FOR THE 15th NEW YORK AVANT GARDE FESTIVAL. 1980.

paul robertson — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:27:00 +0000

NYC: New York Avant Garde Festival, 1980

21 x 30cm, 16pp stapled offset b/w programme for the 1980 show. The programme notes a huge number of participants exhibiting art at the New York's Passenger Ship Terminal including Eric Andersen, Ay-o, John Cage, Christo, Philip Corner, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Knud Petersen, Otto Piene, Klaus Groh, Geoffrey Hendricks, Ray Johnson, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Takehisa Kosugi, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier and details of a "Group Hologram Show" and a "Group Audio Show" which included David Tudor, John Giorno, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoshi Wada and others.

Also there was "Six Sure Cycles of Poetry Performances" which included Jackson Mac Low and Opal L. Nations, and "Two Continuous 12 =-Hour Video Tape Shows" which included works by Jeff Byrd, Nancy Holt, Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman (Guadalcanal Requiem), Shigeko Kubota, and Les Levine. These are just a percentage of the huge number of artists who were involved in the Festival and one has to be impressed by Moorman's organisation of such an event. VG+.

A GROUP OF DOCUMENTS FROM THE 2IEME FESTIVAL DE LA LIBRE EXPRESSION. MAI 17 – 25, 1965. INCLUDES THE FIRST EXPRESSION OF A FAMOUS FLUXUS WORK BY FILLIOU AND WILLIAMS – THE PINK SPAGHETTI HANDSHAKE.

paul robertson — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:27:00 +0000

Paris: Centre Americains des artistes, May 17 - 25, 1965. Original poster/programme + three handbills and a 6pp programme along with 3 original b/w photographs from the event. Poster: 44 x 32cm, black on pink paper - folded with some paper loss (3 x 4 cm) bottom right and left. Programme notes participation of Alain Jouffroy, Robert Filliou, Emett (sic) Williams, Earle Brown and many others. Poster design includes a reproduced photographic image. Programme: hand out for the Earle Brown Lecture on "Composing Music by Chance" and the Filliou/Williams Extra-Sensory Misperception. 27 x 22cm, 6pp. Included in the stapled leaflet is a "souvenir sheet" which consists of a copy of the Filliou/Williams multiple "The Pink Spaghetti handshake" (each unique). The artists shook hands while holding painted spaghetti with a sheet of white paper between their grasps and the resulting "print" was allowed to dry and is included here stapled within the handout. This is a rare and important example of this famous work - which takes pride of place in both poet's oeuvre and is oft amusingly mentioned in William's autobiography as the poets' most important joint contribution to the history of art. Some folding and tears without any paper loss - a very good example of this first edition example of this rare work - later this work was produced as an editioned print. 3 handbills: uniformly 4to, all 1pp. Mimeotext on white paper. Programme details of the first two bills are respectively for the Ferlinghetti contribution ("Underwear") and a Lebel happening and le Groupe Panique International (a drama). Some small closed tears but no paper loss, previous creases where folded. The third hand out is the programme for a concert by Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman on 21 May 1965 where works by Paik, Chiari, Brown, Corner, Cage, La Monte Young, Dick Higgins and Ichiyanagi were performed. Interestingly the programme notes the loss of a Paik sculpture "Robot" as having "disappeared mysteriously on the way from Iceland to Paris in the international air labyrinth." Three original photographs - respectively 18 x 24cm, (image 12.5 x 18.5cm); 24 x 18cm (image 18.5 x 12.5 cm) and 9 x 13 cm (image 5.5 x 9.5 cm). All are b/w and press shots from "Chapman-Fotogram" Cignac, France (company stamps and hand written descriptions verso). The images are of a performance by Alexandro Jodorowsky (2 images) where he and his naked female co-performers had their bodies smeared with honey and hair and a 'sacrilegious' ceremony was performed where a 'priest' handed out hosts for consumption by the same naked participants. The third smaller photograph is a portrait of Label. All have very minor surface scratches but are otherwise very good. Images on request. Together - a rare group of material from this historic festival. The material is also with some significance to the works of several Fluxus affiliated artists (especially the bound in copy of the "Pink Spaghetti handshake") and despite the typical wear associated with such freely distributed material a very desirable group of material. PRICE IS FOR THE ENTIRE GROUP OF MATERIAL

LA NUIT DU CINÉMA. 1952.

paul robertson — Sun, 18 May 2025 13:12:20 +0000

June 1952, 
27.5 x 21.5cm 1pp b/w offset announcement for a night of Letteriste cinema which included sou's film "Traité de Bave et d'Eternité" from April 1951; Gil Wolman's "L'Anticoncept" (1952), Guy Debord's "Hurlements en faveur de Sade" from June 1952, Jean Louis Brau's "La barque de la vie courante" and Serge Berna's "Du léger rire qu'il y a autour de la mort" although the last two were still in production.
The leaflet ends with the statement "NOUS FAISONS LA REVOLUTION A NOS MOMENTS PERDUS". The leaflet as issued just as the Letterist movement was spliting apart with Berna, Brau, Debord and Wolman deciding to form the Letterist International. VG although some edge wear including a closed tear left and handling soft creases apxparent.

FESTIVAL DE FORT BOYARD. 1967.

paul robertson — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:46:35 +0000

Fort Boyard: Festival de Fort Boyard, 1967

17 x 12.5cm, 30pp plus card covers and printed dust-jacket. One of 500 such catalogues for a supposed art festival which was never intended to be staged. Works by Serge Beguier, Antonio Berni, Gianni Bertini, Julian Blaine, Henri Chopin, Nickos et Wolman are reproduced throughout. Mention of John Furnival and Mimmo Rotella's involvement on some page designs. Numbered from an edition of 1,000. A somewhat hard to find catalogue.

ARK: UNITED STATES V. 2024. PROGRAMME.

paul robertson — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:16:07 +0000

Mancehester: Aviva Studios, 2024 23 x 16.5cm, 32pp plus card covers - the "official programme" for Anderson's residential performance in Manchester of her fifth edition of United States. B/w images of the artist and drawings throughout with text in English by Anderson and a short interview. VG+.

FANTASTIO. 1969.

paul robertson — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:42:44 +0000

Amsterdam: Provadya, 1969

33 x 21cm, 4pp. Metal paper clip as issued. Circulated program of Fantasio for the coming week in 1969 with the program of Fantasio for one week in 1969. Fantasio was a short-lived project in 1968 organised by Willem de Ridder: it was a place for art (psychedelic) music and cannabis to which 'Provadya?’(contributed. Later it became a '"spiritual relaxation center" De Kosmos’.). A little dog eared but overall VG+.