29. Kubota, Shigeko. Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.
Reunion

N.P.: Takeyoshi Miyazawa, 1968
6" x 8 1/2". N.P.

Blue cloth cover with silver lettering to spine, all edges silvered. Mylar dustjacket. With 33 1/3 R.P.M. recording of the March 5th, 1968 Reunion at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto including "Teeny" Duchamp, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman & Lowell Cross. Black & white photographs by Shigeko Kubota.
Cage, John 1968. Reunion. This piece was performed in 1968 at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto. Lowell Cross constructed a chess board equipped with photoreceptors that served as a gating mechanism to transmit or cut off sound produced by other musicians and to control lights. John Cage and Marcel Duchamp played a game of chess. Other participants included Teeny Duchamp, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman. The book Marcel Duchamp and John Cage by Shigeko Kubota (1970) contains photographs and a recording of this performance.

200/300     SOLD: $631.35

Condition: Near Fine in near fine slipcase.