Departing from the map-based designs of Spatial Poem No. 1 (1965) and Spatial Poem No. 2 (1965), George Maciunas designed for No. 3 (Falling Event) a day calendar made of four simple bolts driven through a piece of leather to be mounted on a wall. The more than one hundred individual pages of the calendar, hung on the top two bolts, could then “fall” down to the bottom two bolts, or off the calendar altogether. Each page represents one realization of Mieko Shiomi’s event, originally performed between June and August of 1966. This calendar would surely be an erratic way to mark time, as many days are either repeated or missing.
It is made fully available in digitized form for the first time here, where you can view an overview image of the object, a sequence viewer to click and drag through all 147 pages of the calendar in succession, and individual zoomable images of each page.
Used by permission of Mieko Shiomi and Billie Maciunas.
