Giorno Poetry Systems: Big Ego

(Various Artists)
Big Ego
New York City, USA: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1978
Double Vinyl LP set with gatefold sleeve
Edition size unknown

Includes songs, audioworks and poetry by John Giorno, Meredith Monk and Philip Glass (who appear on the cover together, photographed by Les Levine), as well as Patti Smith, Robert Wilson & Christopher Knowles, Robert Ashley, Claes Oldenburg, Laurie Anderson and William S Burroughs.

Stream the individual tracks at Giorno's website, here.

George Maciunas | Breath Flux Test

George Maciunas
Breath Flux Test
New York City, USA: Fluxus, [circa late '60s]
6.7 x 6.7 x 5 cm
Edition size unknown

George Maciunas
Breath Flux Test
New York City, USA: Fluxus, [circa late '60s]
9.4 x 7.5 x 2.7 cm
Edition size unknown

A labelled plastic box containing various useless mechanical objects that Maciunas found in Canal Street surplus stores.

Announced in correspondence from Maciunas and in several Fluxus newsletters and price lists dating from 1972 to 1976, the work is thought to date back to the late sixties. The same graphic is used for both rectangle and square boxes (the white square, top, seems to be the same as those used for Yoko Ono's Box of Smile).

"A friend of mine who is paid restitution from the German government must go to the Consulate every six months to sign an affidavit that she is still alive. Perhaps the intention of Breath Flux Test is to show that you are still alive."

- Jon Hendricks, Fluxus Codex

Fischli & Weiss | Small Bucket

Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Untitled (Small Bucket) 
Zurich, Switzerland: Parkett, 1994
195 x 80 mm. (diameter)
Edition of 32 (+10 AP)

Produced for Parkett Magazines's 40/41st issue, these carved object are uniquely painted with acrylics and polyurethane to resemble buckets used in the artists studio. They are signed in black felt-tip pen, with the ten artist proof copies numbered in Roman numerals.

With an auction house estimated value of between five and eight thousand dollars.

Greg Allen on Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier's Typings

http://daddytypes.com/2014/03/12/typing_by_michael_dumontier_and_neil_farber.php

Stacks of SEP

All of the books published by Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles' imprint The Something Else Press. More info here. 

People and Things

Visit The Thing Quarterly here, and take their new survey on survey monkey, here.

Joe Jones | Music Box

Joe Jones
Music Box
Reggio Emilia, Italy: Pari Editori & Dispari, 1974
16 x 103 x 39 cm.
Edition of 35 signed and numbered copies

A wooden case containing a guitar, mini-motor with rubberband beater and electrical material. Six photographs by Peter Moore documenting the work are also included.

For more images, visit Continuo Docs, here.