Vision #4 - Word Of Mouth.
Subtitled prepared talks by 12 artists recorded on Ponape.
Box-set with LPs, 4 page booklet illustrated with black and white photographic portraits of the artists, edition of 1000,
published by Crown Point Press, Oakland 1980
With Tom Marioni, Robert Kushner, Marina Abramovic & Ulay, John Cage,
Daniel Buren, Joan Jonas, Bryan Hunt, Chris Burden, William T. Wiley,
Brice Marden, Pat Steir, Laurie Anderson
Vision is an art journal edited and curated by Tom Marioni of the Museum of conceptual art (MOCA) and published and produced by Kathan Brown of Crown Point Press. For this issue artists were given time on a phonograph record rather than pages in a magazine. Twelve artists from California, New York and Europe were each invited to prepare a twelve minute talk on any subject.
From the liner notes:
"This meeting took place on Ponape, one of the Caroline Islands in the Pacific ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Japan, a few degrees above the equator north of Australia. Thirty-seven people met together over a period of a week in January 1980. Prepared talks by the twelve participating artists were given in the evenings before and after dinner. The days were spent exploring."