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IMPROVISED MUSIC & SOUND WORKS. 1980. AUDIO ARTS VOLUME 4 NUMBER 2.

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

London: Audio Arts, 1980

Standard two-sided audio cassette tape, with stamped/printed labels to both sides of cassette and original plastic two part cassette box and printed insert. The recordings are various musical works by Antonio Russolo, Ian Breakwell and Ian McQueen, Hugh Davies and David Toop.

The printed insert is 6pp with texts about each work and two b/w images. VG+ condition. Very scarce.

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ON SITE. 1977.

paul robertson — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:48:43 +0000

Bristol: Arnolfini, 1977

59.5 x 42.5cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of site specific and land/environmental works in and around Bristol by Andrew Eden, Bob Chaplin, Chris Jennings, Daniel Buren, David Nash, Doug Cocker, Eric Geddes, Gerry Whybrow, Glen Onwin, Hamish Fulton, Ian Breakwell, Jan Dibbets, John Brooks, John Harper, Mac Adams, Mark Frith, Nicholas Pope, Nigel Rolfe, Peter Randall-Page, Phillippa Ecobichon, Ray Smith, Robert Janz, Susan Bonvin, and Tim Head. VG+. Scarce.

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NO OTHER SUN. 1969. ONE OF 300 COPIES.

paul robertson — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:18:30 +0000

Allenton: Exit Publications, 1969

21.7 x 16.6cm, 16pp plus card covers. A poetry publication that has a cover illustration by Ian Breakwell. One of 300 copies. VG+_.

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IAN BREAKWELL. 1971.

paul robertson — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:37:47 +0000

London: Angela Flowers, 1971
21 x 20.8cm, 4pp. Exhibition catalogue with two images of works by the conceptual artist - this exhibition was the important show where Breakwell's and Mike Leggett's 'One' film was made. The film "documents a performance by Breakwell at the Angela Flowers Gallery on 10th February 1971, celebrating the gallery's first anniversary. The performance was filmed with Leggett on 16mm film and digitally reconstructed by him in 2003. The event coincided with the Apollo 14, third manned mission to the moon. Throughout an eight-hour 'working day', a group of labourers shovel dirt in a room on the second floor of the gallery. Each labourer stands before his own pile of dirt and work begins, shovelling from one pile to the next in a continuous circle. The activity was simultaneously broadcast via CCTV to a monitor in the gallery's street level window. As the day went on and the original piles merged into a layer of mud on the gallery floor, the live footage struck a striking resemblance to that being fed back from the moon, drawing the attention, and confusion, of several passers by. Over the footage, is a soundtrack spoken by Breakwell, in which he takes each part in a conversation about different kinds of employment, drawing a parallel between the quotidian, and futile labour in the gallery and the seemingly more glamorous and extraordinary labour on the moon. At the end of the day's activity, the workers stop to rest, exhausted, and celebrate the birthday with cake and a song." (Lengthy quote taken from the FTI-Io website). A scarce documentation in VG condition.

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TEUTONIC SCHMUCK. 1975.

paul robertson — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:54:43 +0000

Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1975
21 x 29cm, unpaginated, original printed wrappers. Edited by Ehrenberg & Mayor. Single number (the seventh in the series) of the British Fluxus related assemblage produced by the co-operative. Includes contributions by Dick Higgins, Michael Gibbs, Felipe Ehrenberg, Robin Crozier, Jiri Valoch, Takako Saito, Ian Breakwell, Paul Burwell, and others includes booklet: The Intermediary: The first lecture”. Very good example. Scarce.

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