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.

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+.

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

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+.

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+.

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+.

Three stapled sheets (all 1pp) 30 x 21cm, the event programme for a seven hour continuous performance of mostly new music with works and performances by Nam June Paik, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Earle Brouwn, Tomas Schmit, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Sheff, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Edward Zajda, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Takahiko Iimura, Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Kenneth Werner, Gordon Mumma, Ben Patterson, Malcolm Goldstein, Robert Ashley, and Philip Krumm. The programme lists all the works in order and the musicians. Experiments in Art & Technology are thanked for their help in making the concert possible. VG++.  Very scarce.