In this short video, Peter Balestrieri, curator of popular culture and science fiction in Special Collections and co-curator of the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery, shares his take on work by German poet artist Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009).
The featured work from 1973, Kunst und Pangeometrie, appears in the Fall 2020 Main Library Gallery exhibition.
Objects on display in Sackner Archive are from The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Special Collections, The University of Iowa Libraries.
The Sackner Archive exhibition was curated by Timothy Shipe, Peter Balestrieri, and Margaret Gamm.
More information about this exhibition and the Main Library Gallery: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/