Shiomi, Mieko - Spatial Poem with Spatial Poem II (1976 & 2015)
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Mieko Shiomi.
Spatial Poem.
With Spatial Poem II.
With Spatial Poem II.
Osaka: Mieko Shiomi, 1976 / 2015.
Softcover with dust jacket / unbound folded map.
70 pages.
Profusely illustrated.
Angers, France: Mieko Shiomi, 2015.
Unbound folded map.
14" tall x 5.5" wide folded, 28" tall x 38.5" unfolded roughly.
Edition of 200.
Edition of 200.
Very good,
Edge wear and rubbing. Bottom right corner creased.
Announcement card for the Spatial Poem book laid in.
Spatial Poem II has light unobtrusive edgewear and creasing.
Spatial Poem II has light unobtrusive edgewear and creasing.
"Starting in 1965, Mieko Shiomi conducted a series of nine events that she called Spatial Poems. Each one began with an invitation to a large number of friends and colleagues to respond to a simple instruction, which often took the form of an intimate action poem that anyone could perform. The responses she received in the mail would then constitute the work. In 1975, Shiomi published a booklet documenting the nine Spatial Poems and including a collection of responses to each of these works. The accumulated responses give a glimpse of the wide network of artists who were connected through Fluxus activities, from those engaged in the eclectic arts and letters scene in New York City’s downtown to artists located in Tokyo, Łódź, Montevideo, and New Dehli." - MOMA
Participants in the Spatial Poem project included Ace Space Co., Marian Zazeela, Lamonte Young, Benjamin Patterson, Barbara Moore, Tomas Schmit, Dieter Roth, Paul Sharits, Carolee Schneeman, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Walter Marchetti, Clemente Padin, Cavan McCarthy, J.H. Kocman, David Mayor, Jonas Mekas, Peter Moore, Michael Gibbs, Daniel Goode, Klaus Groh, Ken Friedman, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Peter Van Beveren, Irene Dogmatic, Maurizio Nannucci, Jiri Valoch, Patricia Tavenner, Paul Thek, Endre Tot, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, George Brecht, Christo, John Cage, Philip Corner, Fletcher Copp, Robin Crozier, Roberto Filliou, Juan Hidalgo, Dick Higgins, Douglas Huebler, John Baldessari, Jiri Kolar, Takehisa Kosugi, Ray Johnson, Bici Hendricks, Geoff Hendricks, and more.
Spatial Poem II was produced for the exhibition A Letter Always Arrive At Its Destinations at La Panacée, Montpelier, France in 2014 curated by Sébastien Pluot. This map was produced for the second iteration of the exhibition at ESBA TALM, Angers curated by Mark Geffriaud, Sébastien Pluot and Fabien Vallos.
200 copies were printed by the students from the seminar In Translation, 2015.
200 copies were printed by the students from the seminar In Translation, 2015.
14" tall x 5.5" wide folded, 28" tall x 38.5" unfolded roughly.
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