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TIME SAMPLES. 2006.

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

Venice: Galleria MIchela Rizzo, n.d. (2006) 10.5 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card with a colour image of a small sculpture in colour on front, internally gallery details. VG+.

WOMEN ON THE VERGE (FLUXUS OR NOT). 1995.

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

NYC: Elga Wimmer, 1995 21 x 15cm, 4pp. Announcement and catalogue for this curated exhibition with the work and co-operation of Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Michele Blondel and others. Short essay over central pages by Robert C. Morgan. Two slight marks on front else VG.

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+.

BY WAY OF CORRESPONDENCE. 2003.

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

Berlin: Barbara Wein, 2010 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card with an image of photo-image on cloth on front, verso gallery details. VG+.

BORN IN THE STATE OF FLUX/US. 2012.

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

Wiesbaden: Nassauischer Kunstverein: 2012 30 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card for a an exhibition of late Fluxus works by Patterson and an Alison Knowles performance of "Identical Lunch (Variation)" - colour image of Flying Bass from 2010, internally a text in German. Folded for mailing else VG.

THE BEAN GARDEN. 1981.

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

Geneva: Ecart, 1981 21 x 15cm, 1pp. Brown on cream announcement card with a design by Knowles for a series of performances at John Armleder's eEcart Gallery. The Ecart Performance Group were also due to present work. VG but a central fold line from storage is present.

FINGER BOOK/ CORNER PIECES. 1988.

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

Koln: Hundertmark, 1988 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a series of unique small sculptural works (CORNER PIECES) where wooden blocks were cut up into different shapes. Various examples of the works can be seen on the front of the card. VG.

SOMETHING ELSE NEWSCARD NR 4. 1965.

paul robertson — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:25:00 +0000

NYC: Something Else Press, n.d. (1965) 9 x 15cm, 2pp. The forth in a series of such "newscards" where Dick Higgins updated clients and friends about the activities of the Something Else Press. Here he promotes Robert Filliou's Ample Food for Stupid Thought and Alison Knowles being at work on a new book. And Tomas Schmit's new address. An unmailed copy. 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.

FILLIOU. VOSTELL. KNOWLES. KOPKE. HIGGINS. 1963.

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

Koln: n.p. (Atelier Wolf Vostell), 1963

43 x 30.5cm, 1pp poster/announcement for an exhibition at Spichernstrasse 18 in Cologne which is illustrated by various works by the Fluxus artists. Filliou’s work is a fridge that contains the complete works of Pierre Restany deep frozen for 10 years. Vostell exhibited a “Decollage comestible”, Knowles “Prints/Potatoes/Pins Pants/ Perhaps others” and Kopke (Koepke) Restebilder and Higgins a “Terrible Show”. Additionally Kopke suggests “Instead of doing a work of art send rice to India.” Folded twice for storage but else VG+.

UM-LAUT. 1992.

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

Koln: Galerie Schuippenhauer, 1992 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduced acrostic work on the front, gallery details on back. "With best regards XXX" written in an unknown hand on the reverse information side else VG.

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+.