Carolee Schneemann, ABC - We Print Anything - In The Cards, 1977/ re-issue 1990

Re-issue of the work from 1977 with the original cards, but housed in a newly designed box (not the original blue cloth box), 8.5 x 13.5 x 9.5 cm. ABC- We Print Anything - In The Cards was a performance staged at Franklin Furnace New York and De Appel Amsterdam in 1977, which documented the turbulent relationship between the artist and two lovers. Schneemann recited texts from index cards while images were projected on a screen behind her. The performance piece was also conceived as a boxed set of cards, published by the Brummense Uitgeverij Van Luxe Werkjes, Beuningen (NL).

This lot contains the original set of 156 numbered index cards printed with text, each card accompanied by an identically numbered index card printed with an image. Printed in various colours of ink on cards in varying colours. As usual with the card set, it has some flaws in the compilation of cards. This copy misses 3 text cards (28, 102, 120), and includes all 6 introduction cards (2 glued to the box). The original set was made in a signed and numbered edition of 151. This is an unsigned and unnumbered copy that derives directly from the publisher, Geurt van Dijk, who commissioned Sacha de Ven to design a box in 1990. The handmade cardboard box has an original title card and end card mounted to the top and bottom, and the designer's name and production date printed inside the box.