The score Mieko Shiomi sent out for Spatial Poem No. 4 (Shadow Event) (1971) included a piece of film printed with the word “SHADOW” that participants were asked to use in their realizations. As such, many of the reports she received included photographs of the resulting arrangement. To accommodate the heightened visual nature of the reports, this object edition, designed by George Maciunas, utilized inexpensive handheld film viewers similar to those he first incorporated into the Fluxus anthology Flux Year Box 2 in 1966. Here, both photographs and textual reports are reproduced on the individual cells of a microfilm reel, and the label refers to the work as a “fluxmovie.” This object edition was the final design Maciunas was able to complete for Shiomi’s larger Spatial Poem project."
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 118 frames of the microfilm in succession, and individual zoomable images of each frame.
Used by permission of Mieko Shiomi and Billie Maciunas.
