15 x 10.5cm, 1pp. Announcement card for a two-week long radio project organised by Maurizio Nannucci - sound works by Weiner, Export, Goldstein, Sarkis, Nitsch, Baldessari, Hamilton, Beuys, Christiansen, Giorno, Kaprow, Sonnier, Lax, Heidsieck, Chopin, Hansen, Sonnier, Gette, Vautier, Kriwet and others. VG+.

This may well be an unique recording of a performance by Henning Christiansen in Scotland. The paper insert with the details of the event is hand-written by Christiansen and is signed with his initials alongside the date. Additional initials are UR and we believe this to be Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Henning's wife and sometime musical partner. This in any even is a very rare item of sound/musical art indeed. VG++.

Double album - two standard audio 12 inch LPs in gatefold printed sleeve and 21 x 30cm, 8pp inserted brochure with brown and black images after hand drawn scores by Christiansen for the work Gudbrandsdal 1- 6. There is also a link to a downloadable audio file. One of 500 examples released.

32 x 24.3 x 5cm, silkscreened wooden box with hinges and metal clasp content of 8 standard audiocassettes in plastic boxes and labels. A significant highly produced anthology of sound events created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the formation of Fluxus. Works recorded here include Marcel Alocco, Eric Andersen, Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Albrecht d, Jean Dupuy, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Takesisa Kosugi, Bob Lens, George Maciunas, Richard Maxwell, Gustav Metzinger, Larry Miller, Mieko Shomi, Carolee Schneemann, Paul Sharits, Wolf Vostell and Robert Watts. There are also eight booklets - the first containing texts and images by all artists and a foreword by Jan van Toorn who published and edited the production which is 30 x 21cm, and unpaginated (c.120pp) and further booklets on Robert Filliou, Vostell, Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Eric Andersen and Paul Sharits as well as a reprint of Henning Chistiansen' Spazio Misikale con Animali from 1984. The booklets are held in a velcro strap on one side of the box, the cassettes the other.

We understand this was one of  the 60 unnumbered copies given to the artists aside from the 200 numbered copies (the cassette inserts are in grey) which was then gifted by Al Hansen to the curator Caterina Gualco. Hansen has signed and dedicated the work to her on the inside of the large booklet.

This is in very good condition + with no obvious damage to contents or the box. There is only one other copy for sale online that we can find and it is much more expensive. Keen sought after.

30 x 21cm, 4pp (two stapled sheets both printed on one side only). The press release and programme for the two day performance by Moorman and Paik. The programme includes One for Violin Solo, Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens, Cinema Metaphysique, Cello Sonata No 1, Zen for Film, Film Fragments all written by Paik and other woks by Kosugi, Christiansen, Breer, Beuys and Cage. A film by Judd Yalkut was also shown. VG+.

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NYC: Annual Avant Garde Festival. 1971
28 x 21.5cm, 1pp. B/w offset leaflet/programme for the one day 24 hour screening of around 50 films from noon to midnight at the 69th Infantry Regiment Armory on Lexington. Listed are works by Takahiko Iimura, Jud Yalkut, Stan Venderbeek, Hollis Frampton, Robert Breer, and many others. Formerly folded else Vg.

25 x 18.5cm, 4pp announcement leaflet/small poster for the cassette edition (with cassette recorder) of Ich versuche dich freizulassen (machen)  which translates to I am trying to set (make) you free). The recording is of the title Fluxus concert by Beuys and Christiansen at the opening of the Blockade '69' group exhibition at Galerie René Block in Berlin. During the action, Beuys and Christiansen covered a music stand with sauerkraut.

One wrap around image of Beuys during the performance in b/w, inside edition details. VG+. Scarce. This announcement leaflet is not in the Wide White Space catalogue raisonne.

24.5 x 19cm, 36pp plus wrappers. The programme for this famous Danish early Fluxus festival complete held in June 1963 which was organised in part by Eric Andersen as well as Jens Jorgen Thorsen and Arthur Kopcke. Texts and poems by all three artists alongside b/w illustrations/collages and a short essay by Birger Hansen. Adverts include mention of a concert by Thorsen and Jorgen Plaetner. VG+.

JOINT WITH AS ISSUED

SOMMERUDSTILLINGEN 63. 1963. FLUXUS FESTIVAL.

Copenhagen:  Sommerudstillingen, 1963

24 x 19cm, 8pp. Programme for the week of events which notes a concert by John Cage and David Tudor as the main concert - with a Fluxus action evening two days later consisting of performances from Eric Andersen, Henning Christiansen (2), Dich (sic) Higgins and John Davidsen. And the day after more by Andersen. On the 12 June 1963 - there was a "Co-ritus Koncert" by Jens Jorgen Thorsen with help by Jorgen Nas and Allan Hardy Strid. And on the final night - "Fluxus - aften" by Arthur Kopcke, John Davidsen, Henning Christiansen, Eric Andersen. An exhibition of art works by various artists are also listed with prices.

An interesting very early coming together of Danish experimental artists who are usually more closely aligned with CoBra and the Situationists and with Fluxus participants.

Both items are in VG+ condition although the front cover of the programme has a browning across the front top sheet (see photograph).

Rare.