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Author
[Shiomi, Mieko, Maciunas, George]
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In 1964 Japanese artist Shoimi Mieko (Chieko) was invited to New York City by George Maciunas, founder of Fluxus network of artists to collaborate with him on a number of projects. This Fluxus map is the 1st. edition uncolored broadside issued in 1966, in 3 folds, with title on the cover "A fluxatlas. Mieko Shiomi. Event design, George Maciunas", now flattened. Includes outline maps of Japan, North America and Europe with notations indicating the locations of artists describing what they were doing at the time. In 1965 Shiomi conducted a series of nine events that she called "Spatial Poems" Each began with invitation to friends and colleagues to respond to a simple instruction, which took the form an intimate action poem, the accumulated responses she received constitute the work and give a glimpse of the network of artists who were connected through Fluxus activities. For Spatial Poem No. 2. Mieko contacted people around the world to record what they were doing and the direction they were facing in the morning Greenwich time on October 15, 1965.
Author
[Shiomi, Mieko, Maciunas, George]
Note
Single folded sheet 36.5x85, tipped and folded into a paper portfolio with 4 sections with a string and button closure 19x22. Created to document the directions in which a number of artists faced at a specific moment in time. With descriptions of each artist's movements appearing on a map of the northern hemisphere. The arrangement of words in the descriptions resembles a visual poem. A compass printed on the lower left side has copyright information and reads: "This is the record of various directions to which people were simultaneously moving or facing around 10PM (Greenwich time) October 15th 1965." the portfolio signed and numbered by the artist. Library has no. 243 in an edition of 500.
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