Salvage what is hard to access.

salvaged.work is an archive for texts, audio, and images that have languished within the confines of analogue media. The archive pays homage to these works through curation and digital restoration so that they may be shared with a wider, modern audience.

This project is independently supported and has no commercial interest in the materials shared.

42 articles across 4 creators are currently archived.

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Originale

Originale

Originale is a recording of the 1964 New York premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music theatre work of the same name, released on vinyl by Cyalume & Argonzer in 2018.

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Music Before Revolution

Music Before Revolution

Music Before Revolution is a 1972 quadruple-LP box set released on the Odeon label documenting radical American experimental music from 1939 to 1970, performed by the Ensemble Musica Negativa under conductor Rainer Riehn, with liner notes by critic Heinz-Klaus Metzger and recorded conversations between the composers themselves.

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Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort is a historical account of Lower Fort Garry, the oldest intact stone fur trading post in North America, written to commemorate the centenary of the fort's construction and published by the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg in 1928.

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Helhesten was a Danish art journal published over nine issues from April 1941 to November 1944 which featured the abstract expressionist art of the Danish avantgarde group of the same name.
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Asger Jorn Catalogue raisonné Series is a five-volume catalogue raisonné series on the Danish painter Asger Jorn by Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen.
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10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art is the title of Asger Jorn's ambitious but unfinished encyclopedic project to document the visual history of Scandinavian art from prehistory through the Middle Ages, conceived through his Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism.
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Asger Jorn

Asger Jorn

Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International.

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Henning Christiansen

Henning Christiansen

Henning Christiansen (May 28, 1932, Copenhagen – December 10, 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement.

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Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.

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Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus.

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