Projects

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    Bengt af Klintberg

    The Cursive Scandinavian Salve

    A collection of event scores and scenarios by Klintberg, a Swedish folklorist who was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus.

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    Dick Higgins

    A Book About Love & War & Death: Canto One

    The first section of this major work by Higgins, a sprawling prose poem meant to be read aloud.

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    John Cage

    Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued Part Three (1967)

    A roving poem/essay also conceived as a “piece” for the printing press as instrument.

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    Wolf Vostell

    Berlin and Phenomena

    Two large-scale performance works from the mid-60s, as chronicled by Vostell himself.

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    Various Artists

    A Zaj Sampler

    A survey of works by the Zaj group, with contributions from Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, José Luis Castillejo, Ramiro Cortés, and others.

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    Al Hansen

    Incomplete Requiem for W. C. Fields

    The full poem as recited by Hansen in a legendary 1958 performance in New York, at the intersection of the “backwash from the San Francisco Poetry Revolution” and the dawn of Happenings.

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    Alison Knowles

    By Alison Knowles

    An overview of Knowles’ seminal early performance/event pieces (1961-65).

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    Jackson Mac Low

    The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois

    A pair of structurally identical plays, each composed through the use of chance operations within a highly restricted lexicon.

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    Jerome Rothenberg

    Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events

    A collection of event scores and descriptions adapted from a range of ethnographic sources, Ritual also implicitly functions as an examination of the contemporary Happenings scene in an expanded historical and anthropological context.

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    Emmett Williams

    The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems

    A short but potent collection of poems by Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series.

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    David Antin

    Autobiography

    A prototypical work by the pioneering poet and critic; one of his very first publications.

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    Various Artists

    Manifestos

    The de facto centerpiece of the Great Bear series, an expanded “double-pamphlet” with contributions from a range of key artists and poets of the period.

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