[Barbara Bloom (attributed)]. "If you take an envelope (...)".

No place or date, letterpress card with explanation of a performance with 7 female candidates, 8 x 13 cm., with 7 closed envelopes cont. letterpress cards, each 6.5 x 10.5 with bellyband, loose in envelope (31 x 26 cm.) with "Barbara Bloom" in felt-tip pen.

"Top" and "bottom" envelop sunned on front/ back. Piece of tape of bellyband loose, but preserved. Ex collection Wim Beeren/ Dorine Mignot. Intriguing unused set of cards for an experimental experience (game) of a group of 7 women, of whom 6 are given the letters A-F during the performance: "If you take an envelope you are asked to sit in one of the seven chairs, wait until all of the chairs have been taken then, along with the others, open the envelope and reveal its contents. This is not some kind of nomadic travel but a much more common occurrence." Though the unnumbered envelopes are closed, the text can be read through the envelope. A few examples: (1) "Six women are little more than incidentally at the same place. Their names, though of some interest fall away and they are referred to by the first six letters of the alphabet"; (2) "Each woman goes directly to a particular location to pick up only one of the following objects. Stone, tune, glass, a friend, sash, tracing."; (3) "The woman looking for the sash departs into the passageway between the two plazas, leaving F to continue onto some site none of the others see".