Coaccident (3 results)

Condition: Very good. - Oblong small folio [10 inches high by 14 inches wide], softcover. Pictorial white wrappers bound along the top edge with a wire ring binder. The wraps are lightly bumped with some light creasing & some very minor spotting to the rear wrap. Unnumbered leaves printed on one side only, including black-and-white plates reproducing photographs by Sue Abramson. The leaves are slightly bowed & there is foxing to the title page. Very good. Limited edition of 1,000 copies.Abramson photographs "Disappearing Art(s)", part of a series of performances by the multimedia company CoAccident, led by Kirby Malone and Marshall Reese. She writes in an introductory note: "I mainly wanted to catch the flow of their energy, not for the sake of analytical study but as a direct reading of the performance at hand. Putting aside the conventions of 35mm and documentary photography, I became part of the event itself. I used continuous time exposures while hand-cranking the film through the camera.".

Condition: Very Good +. 205 x 252mm print. Layered collage of handwritten text and cut up photographs, printed in black on semi-gloss white. CoAccident were founders of the idea of Disappearing Arts and organisers of the 1st Festival of Disappearing Art(s) in Baltimore in 1979 (ref: Epod 7 / FDA Catalogue, Epod, Baltimore, 1979).Condition: minor signs of handling, pin hole marks on top corners, overall very good+.

Condition: Near Fine. 134 x 103 mm. Folded sheet containing six loose cards, printed black and white and illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. A promotional booklet including information on the CoAccident group, as well as sheets with photodocumentation of the group's performances. Likely sent out to European venues in advance of their European tour in 1979-80. CoAccident was an interdisciplinary art collective that formed in Baltimore in 1976. It's collabortive projects brought together over 50 artists from North America, South America and Europe, involving composers, musicians, performance and language artists, photographers, filmmakers, visual artists, and computer artists and mathematicians. CoAccident were founders of the idea of Disappearing Arts and organisers of the 1st Festival of Disappearing Art(s) in Baltimore in 1979 (ref: Epod 7 / FDA Catalogue, Epod, Baltimore, 1979). Condition: Near Fine.