• Fonds: Collection Gordon Matta-Clark, 1914-2008
•    Série(s): Gordon Matta-Clark's Textual Records, [ca. 1962]-2008, predominant 1970-2008
•      Sous-série: Writings, 1970-1978

• Gordon Matta-Clark (author)
• Jane Crawford (compiler)

Writings

1970-1978

Binder contains writings by Gordon Matta-Clark that take the form of letters; short texts about his projects; cards of various sizes that have short phrases about life, art, or politics; the transcription of interviews; and some drawings, either on separate sheets or drawn on the same pages as texts. Binder contains cards, drawings and textual records.

ring binder (closed): 31.7 x 34 x 9 cm (12 1/2 x 13 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.)

PHCON2002:0016:001

- Binding consists of green plastic-covered boards and spine, with a typed label attached to the spine in a clear plastic sleeve. Endleaves are of white paper. Objects within binder are housed in plastic sleeves and separated by white tabbed dividers.

© Succession Gordon Matta-Clark © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

Contient:

• PHCON2002:0016:001:001, A Matta's Proposal, 1 August 1971
• PHCON2002:0016:001:003, List of Agar Ingredients, ca. 1971
• PHCON2002:0016:001:004, Caroll runs away, ca. 1974
• PHCON2002:0016:001:006, Text and drawing related to Time Well, 1971
• PHCON2002:0016:001:007, Notes on "Space ifications", c. 1972
• PHCON2002:0016:001:020, Note entitled "Anarchitecture 4"
• PHCON2002:0016:001:022, Notes on "Reserved Space"
• PHCON2002:0016:001:023.1, Passing through and around to complete a space / Not building but restoring changing the directions of a load / Working with an eye between the surfaces, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:023.2, Trees are for the Birds / Fences " " " / Fences and Birds make Trees / People live in dead Trees / Birds live in live Trees, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:024.1, Reorganizing structure by drawing through it / A place devorced the space a view fell out the back window / A space devorced of place a view that fell ..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:024.2, Keys / A catalogue and appology of locked spaces to be carried in the pocket, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:024.3, The suspense of cutting the rigid parts free of its whole., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:024.4, Rethinking a building awakening new stresses... All parts works a part a part works all parts / not taking a part to suit the whole / Transporting a structure by drawing through it, ca. 1973
• PHCON2002:0016:001:025.1, Anarchitecture: Liberating our mine from over theirs, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:025.2, Anarchitecture-a building with a view, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:025.3, Drawing through the whole to summerize its parts. / The sub-total of all the parts equals the whole., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:025.4, Opening up view to the invisible -, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.1, The distant horizon constantly inaccessible space / The horizon she is away 'der or (just out here), 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.2, Drawers full of time and [illegible] / 10 oz glass of water and false teeth. [verso] 10 oz of glass eyes, contact lenses, false teeth and 'co-cola.', 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.3, Anarchitecture attempts to solve no problem but to rejoice in an informed well-intended celebration of conditions that best describe and locate a place, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.4, Trees make their own best neighbors / A neighbor's best friend: Trees ...., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.5, Anarchitecture - working in several dimentions / Making the discussions the show and the work. - / Keeping it an ongoing open process. not finishing just keeping going and strarting & over and over, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.6, The boundries of a cities buried parts, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.7, No problem gained in loss of detail..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:026.8, Standing on your own shoulders while holding you head up in out stretched hands to make sure no one will walk all over you. / Rubbish !!, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.1, The first and last steps of anywhere, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.2, Drop your pants / Hand your hat / Tie your shots / Buckle your boots. / Make your face (face up) / Dropping the other shoe / Where, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.3, Two index pages from any architecture book - ., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.4, Dealing with nothing more complex than the limits of human space, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.5, A bearly endurable discomfort / Anything to loose a few pounds., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.6, [The Space] The air [Falls] behind you as you move -, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.7, The New York Dept of healths definition of suitable surfaces impermeable and washable, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.8, (Requesting the ideas) / Not as alternatives to architecture - but as a playful metaphoric departure from the rigid structurees of that tradition., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.9, Architecture as a foreground nature or the city a back drop., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:027.10, A response to cosmetic design / Completion through removal / Completion through collapse / Completion in emptyness, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.1, If the best of architecture is building towards a neutral matrix then the human experience becomes the object, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.2, Traffic traps - A fixed spot surrounded by dangerous motion, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.3, A primary architectural failing / A systematized consistant approach to a world of total "wonderful" chaos., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.4, Steping in as many directions at once, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.5, The pockets that carry you through the day [verso] Identity papers & keys is a an ultimate context in society especially before the law that gives you a constant fixed position, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.6, Bore Holes, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.7, Proposing a non science-fiction of housing (problematic), 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.8, Life is a bowl of cheeries or carrots...., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:028.9, Cyclotron impact drawings. Translated to incorporate, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.1, The area trees occupy is from the bottom up...; verso: The forest leaves its way on down the street, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.2, Ghosts - wind - and grand st. store fronts. / Windagoes the wind will eat you - / The street chases you until [verso] The need to save you life is nothing more than a sound solid wall. / The worst wind noises will eat your brain., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.3, High voltage and danger zones. ! / A radio active landscape / A room with a wasp in it, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.4, Originally I had the notion of a special kind of confrontation in mind but as the differences between the pervasiveness of architecture and the delicate personality of our ideas I feel more and more like [verso] a urban gorilla - only using words ..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.5, Methods of occupation (a term for transforming space to suit ones needs) / by superimposition / by envelopement / by consumpsion / by digestion, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:029.6, Dealing with the limits (of man made space) / [Limits], 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.1, Mangé management / Buildings are for eating the raw old beams lay served in generous piles better co-habited where they fall than taken out to lunch. [verso] Management mangé / Buildings are for eating the raw old beams lay served in generous pile.., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.2, Reversable housing - / House pouch shake a rough condeminium [ill] point look down to turn your insides out. [verso] Adult hygene cult floors on all fours window wipers spash down limbering up the well swept smile off de face of clean old men / Go and ..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.3, Dynamic abode - violent space speed - machines - impact / The collision of a building on wheels with a bridge - / A railroad de railment, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.4, Social mobility; verso: is a clearly architectural concept, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.5, In designing buildings we have been fed copious reminders about light's perfect pay with architecture of this it is obvious that most consideration si driven to sun'light as it effects shades and sizes most seems forgotten of those 'watchers of the night', 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.6, Manholes expose edges of the working urban substrata - / A cloud of steam, a burnout back ups, over flow, explosion !, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.7, Making the right cut some - where between the supports and collapse, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:030.8, Not as much an architecture as spacism ? / or space ification, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.1, A The space between moving objects / D The sound between sounds / C The space of sound of sound passing / B The sound between objects., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.2, 4D Housing / Room kitchen bath / Room change with speed time, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.3, Space at the bottom of your check to sign your name - / Just sign on the dotted line or after the X., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.4, Proposal to a Wall St. stock broker: To cut thru a tax shelter., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.5, If architecture is privelegded in needing the past then for modern arch. the greatest of the past qualities order + measure are found in the machine these are admirable qualities law and order - but anarchitecture is a search for qualities beyound the..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.6, In the realm of 'unfromulated needs', 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.7, To the nature of materials anarchitecture adds a notion of non material events, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.8, Being uncomfortable in your own skin... / Someone ready to do anything to loose a few pounds., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.9, New Yorks oldest cast iron facade / Dismantled, layed out and waiting, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:031.10, Handy bone hole / MPRN MPN non stop, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.1, A building with a view, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.2, Home is where you hang your hat, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.3, Wall Slivers, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.4, The artists studio an exuberant search for escape space beyond the sad prison towers that at best are clean cells. It is good because we live and work here working for ourselves. / A pure need for space, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.5, Directory of available spaces in the whole earth catalogue (Look -, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.6, The perfect place -, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.7, A pile of anything, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.8, We don't go fishing together we do this to gether / Anarchitecture is a game we envent as endear ourselves each to each other and to our ideas, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.9, Nature of popular building even with materials / let it be an auto - recyle built to decay colapse from trees and ashes to home shrubs trees and ashes, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:032.10, Moment to moment space, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:033.1, Making the right cut somewhere between the supports adn collapse, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:033.3, Centering on a critical point of stress., ca. 1974
• PHCON2002:0016:001:034.1, Cyclotron impact drawings and photographic drawings translated from black boards to film and painted or reworked, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:034.2, The invisible 5th demen..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:034.3, I fell, you fell, all fell monuments mumps and mothball fleets, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:034.4, [Out] to shallow or emotional and unclear, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:034.5, Being all alone (Standing alone), 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.1, Socks sticking between your toes / Leather boots stews more nose than hoses, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.2, Wear houses wear your house-/well, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.3, Fishing holes sinker & line hook bucket, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.4, Object - Determine the space they occupy - object containing space and space as an object / Every space has its accoustical boundries; [verso]: Intimate space /place / Economics = the wonder of survival, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.5, Ambiguity - Placement as a spacial determinant -; [verso]: Music is a non-lumina space - Anarchitecture is closer to the perfect play of voids, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:035.6, Lost once and forever., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.1, A building that has its parts hanging unattached / The moment when all parts hang free / A crane delivering a building its parts, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.2, Transmitted transmitter fixed point beyond which space is variable according to presence of receivers, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.3, Buses parked in a tight defensive ring ar[r]ound the white house during Peace March Washington D.C., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.4, Something for Vitruvius to be proud of roll of vitruvious the year Bernini rolled over in his grave, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.5, Building materials as natures food / Build to feed the worms an organic eat-a-tecture, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.6, Putting your teeth to sleep in a glass, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.7, Dealing an order for the the universal solvant magnam opus - clear spit., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.8, Bedding down for the night., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.9, Wichita line man Jim Web Glen Camble standing under the high tension lines listening to the wires humming, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:036.10, Eat your way home from the moon, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.1, The space of the road makes between moving objects also the sound of moving the space of sound passing ...; verso: Short term eternity, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.2, Ringing telephones fills the whole space as telephone books catalogue the existing limits of telephone - Soho - New York city by city or block by block has its listings the bokk measures, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.3, Flags starched and anchored on the moon..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.4, The deepest man made point [in a city.]..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.5, The way of this celebration...; [verso]: Method-intent-process..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.6, Recurrent dream spaces. Mental areas existing within just beyond a familiar place / 1st The known space is visualized then an addition of substraction is make to it / 2nd Positive negative mind space !, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.7, The first step on the moon...., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:037.8, Neads work, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.1, Security systems is the first ultimate social enclosure..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.2, Security measures being locked out your own [safe]/safe..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.3, Tonight August 3rd 1973 my only known cousin died in an incredible way...; [verso]: In LA time is space and a wheel to steer it by..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.4, The state of becoming conditions...the transformation from two to more dementions, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.5, Complete denial of mega-determinism starts with each person gesture as extreme or simple as a celebration of sp-place; verso: Edgyness - dealing with an extremity - dwelling in a condition of conflict and change / The hole is a front door desires will do, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.6, A Picture of mule or goat eating part of a house -, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.7, Plato - shadow on the wall of a cave / Depth in the wall of a cave / Depth of meaning adn definitions of layered reality. / A way of thought a system of play, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:038.8, The plague contagion / A whole life ending in a flea bite / A flea bite / The space shared between its parasite and host, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.1, The close comfort of blindness; [verso]: In the night you hear-see all, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.2, An end is near the end is now in site hollow be our end / An end is near ending in site hollow be our end, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.3, Building systems circuiting recycling short circuits longitudinal lots cross (ill) placing, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.4, Move motive to have gotten so far that one can move to change and be affect by other places ...; [verso]: A Sauna - an exquisitly unconfortable space - saunas are beautifully escapable..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.5, A large machine or something highten dangerous fears and wonder..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.6, Photographs of blackboard drawings translated from cloud chamber and cyclotron impact analyis. The photographs reworked to bring the original information up to date, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.7, Walking in the wind we were chase by Chamber St., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:039.8, The decoration that was so good..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.1, Musical focus moveable mucous focus, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.2, The dark space begins in light and dark...; [verso]: Water gate brings the search for credibility the gull circle..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.3, In the history of modern near modern building why should the roof be as delicate as lace...; [verso]: Action - reaction phenomena..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.4, To keep clear to work without getting lost or side tracked to hold the road to wander the discover spots along the way. To help others by ; [verso]: Being clearly one person to help yourself by sewing what that person wants looks like the direction..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.5, Better wraught in the heart than too over done; [verso]: Not building giveth by taketh away..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:040.6, Clarifying the issues for myself for my work, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.1, Critical - response a passing sad reminder to dear johns whose critical arts and seal of approval..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.2, Working at several dementions/ Working in memory of my brother / Drawing about my single most important relationship; [verso]: Thinking of Carol learning about herself through drawing. Realizing how shut off from love of others love of my brother..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.3, Waiting for a train to flushing in a 4 track..., 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.4, Corbusier is a classist whose faith in the past is restated in a machine aesthetic perhaps the faith we place in our past needs re examination, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.5, Psychic - Emptiness peace and order versus constant threat / The search for a fruitful void clearing a place to plant to (ill) to work us being abandoned / An empty street in Europe is a De Chirico in New York it is a mugging (ill), 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.6, Mezzo-cosmic space / Gods great plan hollow be the end with out putting yoru foot in it, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.7, It more interesting to learn from instinctual shelters than from the infinite texture designers, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:041.8, Drawers full of time / Human places beyond memory / The elephant burial ground, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.1, A simple manipulation of metaphoric ideas loosely related to a specific category. In this case architecture, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.2, In image of the volume you displace in a days movement, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.3, The avant-guard beating a steady path of retreat to their rear, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.4, Fear- realization of a new unknown / Edgyness fear & disconfort emotional space; [verso]: Anarchitecture is about making space without building it / A nice place to fuck, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.5, Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form - confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.6, A place for Gods and Dogs / God Dog it / Old God God, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.7, We will have to work together to unravel the unfound, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.8, An almost official post the parasited host / A flea bitten ape an ape fed flea, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:042.9, The oppression of the races si spacism (what about tomatoes and bats in the bell fry), 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:043, Letter from Gordon Matta-Clark to the Meeting, 10 December 1973
• PHCON2002:0016:001:044, Letter from Gordon Matta-Clark to the Mob, 10 December 1973
• PHCON2002:0016:001:045.1, Transmitted Kilowattage / A fixed point whose radius is defined by an audience, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:045.2, Buses parked in a tight defensive ring around the White House during Washington D.C. Peace March, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:046.1, The limits of a buried place, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:046.2, The New York Dept of Healths definition of a suitable surface impermeable and washable, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:047.1, ...A forest is a completely woven underground, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:047.2, Traffic traps a spot fixed by the danger the surrounds it, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:048.1, Recurrent dream spaces / Mental areas existing just beyond the familiar / A known space is visualized then added to or subtracted from, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:048.2, Needs work / Don't elaborate just pin it down, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:049.1, Not the work...the worker, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:049.2, No.Thing works, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:050.1, Reaching in your pockets to proove who you are, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:050.2, A Pile of Anything, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:051.1, Eat your way home from the moon, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:051.2, Manholes exposed edges of the working substrata - A man break, burnouts over flow - explosion, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:052.1, Ringing telephones filling the whole place as telephones fill their books / never being beyond the sound of a telephone, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:052.2, Moment to moment space, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:053.1, Dynamic abode / violent space / a train derailment, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:053.2, G.hosts - wind and wind a goes - the wind will eat you, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:054, Making the right cut somewhere between the supports and collapse, 1970-1978
• PHCON2002:0016:001:060, Text for the publication "Artpark: Program in the Visual Arts", July 1975
• PHCON2002:0016:001:061, Text for a publication describing building cuts, 1975
• PHCON2002:0016:001:064, Notes on "Light you see is the space you make...", 1974
• PHCON2002:0016:001:065, Sketch for “An anarchitectura politics ical poster”, 1974
• PHCON2002:0016:001:070, Descriptive text for Etant-D'Art pour Locataire or Conical Intersect, 1975
• PHCON2002:0016:001:078, Transcript of an interview between Donald Wall and Gordon Matta-Clark about his Building Dissections, late 1975 or early 1976
• PHCON2002:0016:001:018:001, An. An. Atom I.E. of a Roof, 1973
• PHCON2002:0016:001:018:002, Roof Top Atrium, 1973
• PHCON2002:0016:001:019:001, Notes on Anarchitecture, ca. 1973