13/10/2026
ICA BULLETIN. NR 152. 1965. FLUXUS AND HAPPENINGS.
SPATIAL POEM No 2
Around the time listed below what kind of direction are you moving or facing toward?
—either performance or spontaneous - please send me a report about it which will be edited on a world map. Chieko Shiomi.
From an interview with John Latham on his work BLINDS:
“Latham was asked some questions about this new development, or to put it another way here are some short answers to a short interrogation on blinds.
Q
Did you come to Blinds through a desire for a two-sided surface?
A
I um
Q
What is your idea of a Blind - is it a cover-up?
A
Yes
No
Q
To what extent is the ambiguity of the word reflected, you think in your work?
I don’t like ambiguity.”
A single number of this gallery bulletin which is notable for two things – firstly the English publication of Shiomi’s important score for Spatial poem Nr 2 which asks for submissions from artists describing their direction at a specified time and day, and an 8pp article by Robert Label on the Paris Happenings of that year accompanied by 4 b/w photographs including Schneemann’s Meat Joy. There are also 3 typewriter poems by dsh reproduced and a Kolar collage as well as a traditional Chinese typographic (concrete) poem: an exhoration forbidding “the killing and eating of oxen” which is drawn in the shape of an Ox. Inserted, two info sheets.
