Terry Fox Linkage 1982 NM Rare

$

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Terry Fox
Linkage
Label: Kunstmuseum Luzern
Catalog Number: RP 10 152
Format: Vinyl (LP)

One of Terry Fox's best soundworks and a gorgeous production, with beautifully printed gatefold jacket, bound-in, 36-page booklet, and laid-in, richly illustrated insert. Vinyl, booklet, insert, and jacket all very Near Mint. Released in 1982 in an extremely limited edition and increasingly scarce.

Track Listing
A1)   Drumming
A2)   Pulling
A3)   Bowing
A4)   Beating
A5)   Scraping
B1)   Ether
B2)   The News
B3)   The Vicar And The Cowboy
B4)   The Bear
B5)   Sign Off

Terry Fox, born 1943, Seattle/Washington (USA)

died  2008, Köln (Germany)

1961 Graduates from Issaquah High School. Works one year at Boeing aircraft company and saves money to study art in Rome. Attends evening art class at Cornish School Of Allied Arts, Seattle.

1962 Attends Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome, Italy until school is closed by strikes. Paints independently for remaining nine months.

1963 Moves to San Francisco. Paints independently, inspired by the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud until 1967. Works for U.S.Postal Service and saves money for a return to Europe.

1967 Moves to Amsterdam. Paints and begins first "actions" after becoming aquainted with Fluxus and "De-Collage Publications".

1968 Moves to Paris for one year. Makes drawings, rubbings. Begins "street actions" and  process sculpture. Forms interest in Antonin Artaud.

1969 Returns to San Francisco and creates Public Theater, four manifestations of events with posters, in public locations. Works in the field of Conceptual Art.

1970 First solo exhibition at Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco (using two audiotape loops). Begins work with sound. Isolation Unit, performance with Joseph Beuys in the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany (extended-play record produced).

1971 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant for one year. Purchases Porta-pack video and high-qualitity audio equipment.

1972 Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany,  Action for a Tower Room. All works for eight years (environments, performances, sculptures, drawings) based on the  configuration of the Labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral. Concentration on sound as a sculptural medium.

1973 First solo museum exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley, year.

1974 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant. Produces the Children's Tapes, a series of  34 videotapes for children. Solo exhibition of these tapes at Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York.

1976 First sound sculpture and large piano-wire instrument, Lunar Rambles, the Kitchen, New York City.

1977 National Endowment for the Arts. Individual Artist grant for one year. Discovers a method to cause piano wire to vibrate longitudinaly. Large rooms and spaces are transformed into sound boxes and resonating chambers.

1978 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.

1981/82 One-year grant, Berlin Künstlerprogramm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (D.A.A.D.). Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, exhibition with cat., containing an L.P. record, Linkage. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, exhibition with cat., Metaphorical Instruments.

Since 1984 Continuous work in the field of drawings, sculptures, sound installation, often combined with language and text.

1985 Kunstraum, Munich, Germany, exhibition with cat., Catch Phrases (text drawings), and book, Hobo Signs, with text by Christina Tacke.

1987 Artist in Residence, Capp Street Project; and Artist in Residence, the Exploratorium, both San Francisco. Exhibition at University Art Museum, Berkeley,California. Brochure.

1988 Via Toscanella, Florence. Permanent outdoor installation.

1989 Het Appolohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands. L.P.record, facsimile of notebook,Textum (Web); edition of audiocassette, The Labyrinth Scored for the Purrs of 11 Cats; exhibition.

1991 Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany, exhibition, cat., Objects(Texts)/Drawings (Texts).

1992 Traveling exhibition with catalogue, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles; Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, cat., Terry Fox: Articulations (Labyrinth/Text Works).

1996 Jackson-Pollock Grant for one year, New York

1998 First book focused on works with sound, Terry Fox:Works with Sound, produced in connection with an exhibition in the Statdtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany. The book is dedicated to deceased friend the Austrian poet and Jew's-harp player Georg Decristel.

2000 Terry Fox: 30 Years of Speaking and Writing about Art, book produced in connection with exhibition at the Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.

2001 Combining visual art and literature: drawings, word games and riddles, objects, sculptures environment and sound installation.

2002 Text environment based on a poem by Arthur Rimbaud and the concept of synaesthesia, Vocale Vocale, Gallery e/static, Turin, Italy.

2003 Retrospective solo exhibition in the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel,

Germany, cat., Sound Sculpture Narcissus and Echo inspired by „Metamorphoses“, Ovid

2004 The Salt Herring, Text- and Sound Installation based on a poem by

Charles Gros

2005 Teaching at the San Francisco Art Instiute, USA

2006 Artist in Residence, Worpswede, Germany

2007 Illuminations, Gallery Ronald Feldman, New York: drawings and objects

with Text, Installation

2008 Artist in Residence, Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria, 8 channel sound

installation „Acousticks“

„Looking for Mushrooms“, Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art San

Francisco 1955-1968, Museum Ludwig Köln

Keywords: John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Annea Lockwood, Eliane Radigue, Mirror, Ora, Andrew Chalk, Organum, David Jackman, Monos, Natural Snow Buildings, Jonathan Coleclough