Ant Farm - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:08:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Ant Farm - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 ELKS BUILDING HOLLYWOOD. 1974. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED & STAMPED SALKSCREEN PRINTS. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/elks-building-hollywood-1974-one-of-300-numbered-stamped-salkscreen-prints/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elks-building-hollywood-1974-one-of-300-numbered-stamped-salkscreen-prints Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:02:15 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=13233 Vancouver: Image Bank, 1974
35.5 x 35.5cm, four colour silkscreen on board. The image was created by Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov to commemorate the Decca Dance that took place in the same year. It is a landscape view of Elks Building Hollywood where the Dance took place.

The Decca Dance was held to celebration of the (fictional) 1,000,011th anniversary of Art (as decided upon by Robert Filliou) and was organised by Image Bank as well as by Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp, Ant Farm, General Idea and the Western Front. There was an ornate stage show,: "a parody of the Academy Awards, featured a male chorus resplendent in tuxedos and Shark Fin Bathing Caps moving in stately symmetry to the inimitable crooning of androgyne Pascal. It could be said to mark the peak of the mail art movement and for many signalled the end of it."

This is one of 300 hand numbered in pencil copies and is stamped Image Bank on the back - the work is titled in pencil also. VG+ condition and rather beautiful.

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35.5 x 35.5cm, four colour silkscreen on board. The image was created by Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov to commemorate the Decca Dance that took place in the same year. It is a landscape view of Elks Building Hollywood where the Dance took place.

The Decca Dance was held to celebration of the (fictional) 1,000,011th anniversary of Art (as decided upon by Robert Filliou) and was organised by Image Bank as well as by Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp, Ant Farm, General Idea and the Western Front. There was an ornate stage show,: "a parody of the Academy Awards, featured a male chorus resplendent in tuxedos and Shark Fin Bathing Caps moving in stately symmetry to the inimitable crooning of androgyne Pascal. It could be said to mark the peak of the mail art movement and for many signalled the end of it."

This is one of 300 hand numbered in pencil copies and is stamped Image Bank on the back - the work is titled in pencil also. VG+ condition and rather beautiful.

The post ELKS BUILDING HOLLYWOOD. 1974. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED & STAMPED SALKSCREEN PRINTS. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> SINCERELY YOURS GRANADA GAZELLE / MEMO FROM TURNER. 1972. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/sincerely-yours-granada-gazelle-memo-from-turner-1972/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sincerely-yours-granada-gazelle-memo-from-turner-1972 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:25:33 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=6986 Toronto: Carmen Lamanna Gallery, 1972
19 x 12.7cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a b/w image of Granada Gazelle in front of a bakers dressed in retro clothing. The card also mentions the involvement of Ant Farm and Willoughby Sharp in the video. A very early show. Fine.

The post SINCERELY YOURS GRANADA GAZELLE / MEMO FROM TURNER. 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> Toronto: Carmen Lamanna Gallery, 1972
19 x 12.7cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a b/w image of Granada Gazelle in front of a bakers dressed in retro clothing. The card also mentions the involvement of Ant Farm and Willoughby Sharp in the video. A very early show. Fine.

The post SINCERELY YOURS GRANADA GAZELLE / MEMO FROM TURNER. 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> ANT FARM THE PHANTOM DREAM CAR CRASHES THORUGH A WALL OF BURNING TELEVISIONS… 1975 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/ant-farm-the-phantom-dream-car-crashes-thorugh-a-wall-of-burning-televisions-1975/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ant-farm-the-phantom-dream-car-crashes-thorugh-a-wall-of-burning-televisions-1975 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:56:23 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=4374 San Francisco: Ant Farm, n.d. (1975)
7 x 10cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard displaying the famous performance when on July 4, 1975, the San Francisco art collective Ant Farm staged its highly media-savvy “Media Burn,” in which a revamped Cadillac would be driven through a wall of flaming television sets in the parking lot of the Cow Palace sports arena and entertainment venue. A significant and well critiqued performance this is an important document relating to the work of this collective. Fine. Rare.

The post ANT FARM THE PHANTOM DREAM CAR CRASHES THORUGH A WALL OF BURNING TELEVISIONS… 1975 appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> San Francisco: Ant Farm, n.d. (1975)
7 x 10cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard displaying the famous performance when on July 4, 1975, the San Francisco art collective Ant Farm staged its highly media-savvy “Media Burn,” in which a revamped Cadillac would be driven through a wall of flaming television sets in the parking lot of the Cow Palace sports arena and entertainment venue. A significant and well critiqued performance this is an important document relating to the work of this collective. Fine. Rare.

The post ANT FARM THE PHANTOM DREAM CAR CRASHES THORUGH A WALL OF BURNING TELEVISIONS… 1975 appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> RAYJOHNSON POST CARDS/ANT FARM. c. 1975. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/rayjohnson-post-cards-ant-farm-c-1975/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rayjohnson-post-cards-ant-farm-c-1975 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:47:00 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=3736 NYC: s.p., n.d.. (c. 1975)
28 x 21.5cm, 1pp. Original vintage b/w offset lithograph with the title text "RAYJOHNSON POST CARDS” alongside “LILPI CARD” on card. On the reverse is an original printed collage by the group Ant Farm in b/w and with one blue rubber stamping. Fine - possibly unmailed example. The post RAYJOHNSON POST CARDS/ANT FARM. c. 1975. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> NYC: s.p., n.d.. (c. 1975)
28 x 21.5cm, 1pp. Original vintage b/w offset lithograph with the title text "RAYJOHNSON POST CARDS” alongside “LILPI CARD” on card. On the reverse is an original printed collage by the group Ant Farm in b/w and with one blue rubber stamping. Fine - possibly unmailed example. The post RAYJOHNSON POST CARDS/ANT FARM. c. 1975. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]>