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Primary Information Sale

For the next 24 hours, all titles at the Primary Information site are discounted by 50%. 

The above collection of three Something Else Press works is available for only five dollars, for example. The new Fluxus newspaper reprint is only ten dollars. 

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Philip Corner

Gamelan Fluxus

Berlin, Germany: Edition Conz, 1985

42.5 × 31.5 × 4.3 cm.

Edition of 13

A clothbound portfolio case hand titled by the artist in blue felt tip pen and bordered by five tiny photographs from the artist’s nude performance on a swing. The folio contains the performance score and ten original colour photographs of the performance at Cascata Nera mounted on paper board.

Philip Corner | SER'E·AL MUZIK/ FOUNTAIN

Philip Corner

SER'E·AL MUZIK / FOUNTAIN 

Cologne, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1998

Audio Cassette: 41:17

Signed and numbered edition of 100

Side A, "Ser'e·al muzik" (1967)

Length: 28'04"

Side B, "Fountain" (1972)

Length: 13'13"

Philip Corner | The piece of reality for today

Philip Corner 

The piece of reality for today

Düsseldorf, Germany: Edition Hundertmark 1983

11 x 11 x 3 cm.

Edition of 80 signed and numbered copies

A white box with an accordion-fold text and a circular mirror. The score proposes placing an object on the mirror and closing the box – reopening it later to find the object anew in enhanced three-dimensionality. 

Available from the publisher, here, for 190 Euros. 

Philip Corner | The Identical Lunch

Philip Corner
The Identical Lunch
Barton, USA: Nova Broadcast Press, 1973
46 pp., 22.4 x 15.3 cm., softcover
Edition of 1000 copies

In the late sixties, Philip Corner noticed his friend Alison Knowles ate the same lunch every day: “a tuna fish sandwich on wheat toast with butter and lettuce, no mayo, and a cup of soup or glass of buttermilk", leading the artist to turn her dining habits into a performance. She did this by inviting friends to join her at a local diner, to experience the same lunch as her, and to write about their experiences.

In 1971, Nova Broadcast Press released Knowles' account of the shared lunches as Journal of the Identical Lunch. The next title in the series (which had previously included books by William S Burroughs, Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins - Knowles' husband at the time) is Corner's own take on the lunch, using Knowles' original piece as a 'score'.

It would be the last in the Nova Broadcast series.

Philip Corner | Sotto Vuoto

Philip Corner
Sotto Vuoto
Cavriago, Italy: Pari & Dispari Editori, 1978
15 x 15 cm.
Edition of 16 signed and numbered copies

A glass bottle with a cork lid (originally with lacquer), containing writings on vintage 18th century paper (wrapping, writing and wallpaper). The texts are in English and Italian.

Artists' Books and Multiples discounted

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From The Thing Quarterly:

DAVID SHRIGLEY TRAVEL WALLET:  $40  (normally $95)
DAVID KORTY CERAMIC DICE:  $35 (normally $65)

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From Frog Peak Music:

Philip Corner. Ear Journeys: Water. Unpublished Editions. Cor01. $15
Philip Corner. Some Silences. Cor05. $36.

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Philip Corner

Philip Corner turns 83 today.

Philip Corner | Playing With The Elements

Philip Corner
Playing With The Elements
Bruxelles-Hamburg, Germany: Lebeer Hossmann, 1985
31.2 x 31.4 x 3 cm
Edition of 100 signed copies


A cardboard box containing:

"Terra cotta (Heated Stone)",
cotton bag and stone, 15.5 x 10 cm.

"Boiling Water",
drawing, blue serigraphy on white paper, 21 x 17 cm.

"Breath Rubbing Rock",
rubbed paper printed black

33 RPM vinyl record with "Breath Rubbing Rock", 1982, "Boiling Water", 1970, and"Terra cotta (Heated Stone)", 1982.



Corner celebrates his 82nd birthday today.