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.

Two from a series of 20 separate postcards published by Wilson the artist's close friend posthumously. These both reproduce images of Johnson standing next to typographic works from 1965 and 1968. Fine.

Price is for both cards together

One 20 x 25cm offset litho page - folded mechanically for mailing out.  This was one of a number of sample pages issued by Johnson and the Something Else Press to promote the Paper Snake (as mail art as they were mailed out). None of the pages appeared in this format in the final printing of Johnson's famous book as they were created by over printing pages on each other.  All the pages were designed by Johnson and were the result of mail art sent by him to Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins who later collated the whole (with Johnson's assent) and created the artist's second book (The Paper Snake).  These pages are all indicated verso as "sample pages" and were intended to be sent out by the press to promote the book - thus, de facto, returning the printed page to the original medium of postal art! Here we offer the last of these pages that we held (at one point we had 13 different ones) in fine condition.  A scarce publicity item for Johnson's book. Fine condition.

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+.

58 x 43.5cm, 4pp broadside. The second of the eleven issues of the official Fluxus newspaper designed by George Maciunas in his mix of vintage clipart and photographs and experimental typography and with contributions by George Brecht, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, and others. Folded for mailing as issued else VG++. Very scarce.

58 x 43.5cm, 4pp broadside. The third of the eleven issues of the official Fluxus newspaper designed by George Maciunas in his mix of vintage clipart and photographs and experimental typography and with contributions by George Brecht, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, and others. Folded for mailing as issued else VG++. Very scarce.

The work followed an exhibition of  Hyde's photographs of artists' hands in the windows of Tiffany's (New York). This is one of only 150 examples numbered and signed by Filliou on the colophon. VG+.

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.

24.5 x 17.5cm, 180pp plus pictorial boards. Exhibition catalogue for a show of instruction drawings from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Texts in Danish and English by Jan van der Marck and Gilbert Silverman (who had been collecting drawings and texts relating to works constructed by someone other than the artist him or her self since 1970.

Full page colour images of works from Acconcim Andre, Antin, Bochner, Boltanski, Brecht, Buren, Cage, Christo, De Maria, Flavin, Gabo, Gober, Golub, Graham, Haacke, Hesse, Horn, Johnson, Judd, Kaprow, Kelley, Kounellis, Lewitt, Long, Magritte, Man Ray, merz, Moore, Morris, Nitsch, Ono,  Oppenheim, Picasso, Poirier, Rauschenberg, Sandback, Smithson, Stella, Vautier and others. VG+.

JOINT:

30 x 21cm, 1 typed letter signed from Gilbert Silverman to Paul Robertson discussing various works being offered for the collection. Folded and slightly worn at extremities.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebæk, Oct.-Nov. 2001. Loosely inserted: 21pp. German-language translation of the text to accompany the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremen, June-July 2002. Presentation copy, inscribed by the collectors.

[Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a showing of the film about Ray Johnson, verso screening details. VG+.