William C. Wonders Map Collection Map a-day-in May (a thirty one cabinet display) Image is facing East and shows a back-to-back row of 31 map cabinet tops. The map cabinets are stacked two high and have various base heights. Most of the cabinets are produced by -- The Steel Equipment Co. LTD. (Sales office Ottawa, Ont. -- Factory Pembroke Ont.) with a mix of cabinets from -- Burrows Manufacturing Ltd. (Toronto -- Montreal, established 1910). The geographic range of the cabinet drawers is Gibraltar/Greece -- Universe/Imaginary Places/Miscellaneous

William C. Wonders Map Collection Map a-day-in May (a thirty one cabinet display) May 1st, 2025 : Mieko Shiomi spatial poem no. 2[:] a fluxatlas[:]

William C. Wonders Map Collection Map a-day-in May (a thirty one cabinet display) A fluxatlas. Mieko Shiomi. Event design, George Maciunas. Reprinted in 1992. Single folded sheet 36.5x85, tipped and folded into a paper portfolio with 4 sections with a string and button closure 19x22. Created to document the directions in which a number of artists faced at a specific moment in time. With descriptions of each artist's movements appearing on a map of the northern hemisphere. The arrangement of words in the descriptions resembles a visual poem. A compass printed on the lower left side has copyright information and reads: "This is the record of various directions to which people were simultaneously moving or facing around 10PM (Greenwich time) October 15th 1965." the portfolio signed and numbered by the artist. Library has no. 243 in an edition of 500. From the David Rumsey Collection.

William C. Wonders Map Collection Map a-day-in May (a thirty one cabinet display) Mieko, Shiomi. (2013). Spatial Poems by Shiomi Mieko. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). post notes on art in a global context. Starting in 1965, Mieko Shiomi conducted a series of nine events that she called Spatial Poems. Each one began with an invitation to a large number of friends and colleagues to respond to a simple instruction, which often took the form of an intimate action poem that anyone could perform. The responses she received in the mail would then constitute the work. In 1975, Shiomi published a booklet documenting the nine Spatial Poems and including a collection of responses to each of these works. The accumulated responses give a glimpse of the wide network of artists who were connected through Fluxus activities, from those engaged in the eclectic arts and letters scene in New York City’s downtown to artists located in Tokyo, Łódź, Montevideo, and New Dehli. In this Feature, you’ll find entries from Shiomi’s 1975 booklet selected by post Editors. These entries reflect the nature and range of the responses to the Spatial Poems and the geographic dispersal of their authors. In several instances, Shiomi published maps that charted the locations of the respondents—a fitting visualization for a project that she considered a global event.

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