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40 x 31cm, printed plastic bag with the same artwork as the front of the record and verso publisher details. This is signed by boldly by Joseph Beuys in black felt tip on the front. This bag is far more rare than the record and very few examples still exist. Slight handling creases else VG+.

42 x 19.6cm, 2pp announcement leaflet/poster. A performance by Paik, Moorman, Chieko Shiomi, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Peter Moore, and others which included Electronic TV & Color TV Experiment, 3 Robots, Pop Sonata, 2 Zen Boxes and 1 Zen Can.  This was Paik's first one-person exhibition in the United States and the image on the front of the poster is of Paik's Robot K-456 (taken by Peter Moore). On the reverse is Paik's essay, "Electronic TV & Color TV Experiment." Charlotte Moorman performed ‘Pop Sonata’ for the second time, a piece which involved her removing her jewellery and clothes “before she lay down on the floor to finish the piece, her cello atop her like a lover” This leaflet was sent to Ray Johnson and the ink address on the reverse is in Moorman's own hand. Folded for mailing else VG+. Scarce.

37.5 x 21.5cm, 1pp. Black on white poster listing the full gamut of artists included in this annual event organised by Moorman. Lists many well known names such as Ay-o,  Al Hansen, Joe Jones, Takehisa Kosugi, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Carolee Schneemann, Lil Picard, Giuseppe Chiari, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Michael Snow, Tashi Ichiyanagi, Jud Yalkut, Bazon Brock, Tomas Schmit, Emmett Williams and many many more. Very good+. One of the scarcer posters from the event to find for some unknown reason.

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+.

Four pieces of ephemera -

7 x 10.5cm, 2pp typographic design - W(H)/ALE On View - small promotional card for the publication and portfolio noting works by Nam June Paik, Ay-o, Richard Hamilton, Allan Kaprow, Ann Noel, Jurgen O. Olbrich, Pavel Schmidt, Daniel Spoerri, Andre Thomkins, Emmett Williams amongst others.

15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for the exhibition with inner die cut card which can be removed from the outer card. The inner card has become separated from the main card but all is present.

21 x 10cm, 6pp, announcement  leaflet with mounted small photograph of a work by Emmett Williams and a list of editions to be found in "a remake portfolio". 

21 x 10cm, 2pp, typographic design announcement card listing the editions  in the portfolio. 

30 x 21cm, 4pp announcement brochure with an image of the beached whale and information on the exhibition inspired by that event. One slight corner fold and a small brown stain on the front.

INSERTED INTO THE BROCHURE:

18.5 x 27cm, unfolded and unused dental product box which is an unused element from Ay-o's multiple.

Apart from those condition issues noted all are VG+.

PRICE IS FOR ALL ELEMENTS AS A GROUP.

15 x 10.5cm, 1pp black on pink announcement leaflet for these two early gallery performances by Paik and Moorman including Robot Opera. Very scarce. Fine.

21 x 30cm, printed envelope content of 27, 30 x 21cm, 1pp offset inserted loose pages and one 42 x 30cm folded poster which wraps around the other sheets and a small 7.5 x 21cm, 1pp address card for the FIU. card . The catalogue for a Fluxus event which included contributions from Nam June Paik (here mis-detailed as Name Jun Paik (sic)) with the outer poster, Joseph Beuys - an artist designed postcard "Bonzenbybjer" reproducing a drawing and other collated page works.

The outer folded sheet has some wear around the fold (with small tears) else everything else is VG+ and the outer envelope is also VG+. A scarce item.

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, black and white silver gelatine photograph from original negative showing Charlotte Moorman performing a John  Cage work alongside Nam June Paik in 1965. The image shows Moorman "playing" the back of a topless Paik with her bow.

This image was originally taken by Fred McDarrah and his estate retains copyright on the image so this is sold for personal use and not for reproduction. This is in very good condition and a crisp modern print (post 1990s we suspect) from original negative. If this was a vintage print we would charge much more.