Spatial Poem No. 1 / Word Event
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Japanese, born 1938
original 1965; artist's edition 1980
World map on white board, map drawn with black marker or pen, small printed flags, and straight pins
Edition made by Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Osaka, 1980
Overall: 13 × 18 1/16 × 7/8 in. (33 × 45.8 × 2.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
GM.989.12.4A
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
SPATIAL POEM No. 1 / word event / by Chieko Shiomi / This event was done through March, / April and May, 1965. Some of the / words already might not be at the / place described, some might change / its place in the near future, or some / might stay there for a long time from / now....some flags being monuments. / ....some still indicating the real place.
Label
Spatial Poem No. 1 is part of Shiomi’s larger Word Event series, a social collaboration that challenges the limits of geographical disconnection. After prompting participants around the world to write a word and share the location of where they wrote it, Shiomi created a three-dimensional poem map. The submissions, which were delivered through the postal system, were created in different places and at different times, making for a cumulative experience that reframes how we think about space and time.
From the 2024 exhibition [Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place, curated by Beatriz Yanes Martinez, Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow
Course History
FILM 48, SART 17, New Media Theory & Practice, Mary Flanagan, Winter 2012
PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014
PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Charis Boke, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
[Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8 -November 3, 2024.
Fluxibit, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 10, 1992.
Sculpture and Sculptor's Drawings, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 16, 21, and 73, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 20-October 7, 1996.
Publication History
Barbara Moore, ReFlux Editions, 351 West 30 St., New York, Catalogue no. 3, Fall 1988, no. 18/20.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.139, no.112.
Provenance
Bound & Unbound, New York; sold to present collection, 1989.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 479-481, no. 410.1.
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