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The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.","The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. 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Collection apparently stored in a basement but no active mold. Some oversize materials were folded but these have been put in oversize folders or boxes and a few had preservation attention. Mylar L-sleeves have been used to protect some fragile materials.","Most of the collection is open for research. The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.","The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank).","Materials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.","This arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series.","Much of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection.","Petra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018).","This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. 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The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. 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These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. 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These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBefore 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\" \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. 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She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. 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While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. 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While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. 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Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. 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She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. 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She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePetra Vogt papers, MSS 16480, 1966-1978, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Petra Vogt papers, MSS 16480, 1966-1978, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. 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She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. 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Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\" \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. 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She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePetra Vogt papers, MSS 16480, 1966-1978, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Petra Vogt papers, MSS 16480, 1966-1978, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Content Description"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. 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Much much love: Vidhea.\" Inscription slightly obscured by bookworm damage.","Another inscribed photograph to \"darling Petra and Ira\" and begins \"Christmas fröhliche\" and is signed by Terez?","There are approximately 118 photographs of the Kathmandu scene, including passport photographs, staged shoots, and pictures of children. Includes Harold Norse, Angus MacLise, Hetty MacLise, Ira Cohen, George [Andrews?], Jimmy [Thapa], Marcia, and other local contributors to the scene.","Includes also: a photograph inscribed by Petra Vogt and Ira Cohen and a photograph of three people (Dana Young and others) inscribed by Ira Cohen, with Dana Young symbol at top: \"The photographer is upside down! For George [Andrews?], from Ira Cohen.\"","A photograph of young Nepali girl is inscribed \"Isn't she beautifull\" and signed Chaitanya [Upadhya].","Two photos of Marcia are inscribed \"For Petra especially\" and \"Marcia in Hollywood.\" There is also a photograph of a woman with a shag haircut, with Petra Vogt's writing on back: the word \"rapidograph\" and other notes in German.","There are many passport photographs including one inscribed \"To Petra: From the waxen wachen … love Loue.\"","One photograph inscribed \"November 11 / Flash / for Jimmy [Thapa] / with love from Jane [Falk?].\""],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978","Photographs by Ira Cohen"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978","Photographs by Ira Cohen"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1965/1977"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["circa 1965-1977"],"level_ssm":["File"],"level_ssim":["File"],"component_level_isim":[2],"sort_isi":80,"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"collection_ssim":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978"],"extent_ssm":["1 folder(s)"],"extent_tesim":["1 folder(s)"],"containers_ssim":["box 7","folder 5"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["Most of the collection is open for research. The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.","The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank)."],"date_range_isim":[1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThera are about sixteen photographs of female hippies, featuring Vidhea Shrestha, Petra Vogt, Miriam, and a few posed images on piles of bones. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA photograph of Vidhea Shrestha inscribed by her: \"Open the door – a crack … / bones would be the ultimate communication / but fruit is at least a catharsis … / see you in a hour …? / Happy 'Scorpio' Day. 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Much much love: Vidhea.\" Inscription slightly obscured by bookworm damage.","Another inscribed photograph to \"darling Petra and Ira\" and begins \"Christmas fröhliche\" and is signed by Terez?","There are approximately 118 photographs of the Kathmandu scene, including passport photographs, staged shoots, and pictures of children. Includes Harold Norse, Angus MacLise, Hetty MacLise, Ira Cohen, George [Andrews?], Jimmy [Thapa], Marcia, and other local contributors to the scene.","Includes also: a photograph inscribed by Petra Vogt and Ira Cohen and a photograph of three people (Dana Young and others) inscribed by Ira Cohen, with Dana Young symbol at top: \"The photographer is upside down! For George [Andrews?], from Ira Cohen.\"","A photograph of young Nepali girl is inscribed \"Isn't she beautifull\" and signed Chaitanya [Upadhya].","Two photos of Marcia are inscribed \"For Petra especially\" and \"Marcia in Hollywood.\" There is also a photograph of a woman with a shag haircut, with Petra Vogt's writing on back: the word \"rapidograph\" and other notes in German.","There are many passport photographs including one inscribed \"To Petra: From the waxen wachen … love Loue.\"","One photograph inscribed \"November 11 / Flash / for Jimmy [Thapa] / with love from Jane [Falk?].\""],"_nest_path_":"/components#2/components#7","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:41:34.507Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viu_repositories_3_resources_996","ead_ssi":"viu_repositories_3_resources_996","_root_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_996","_nest_parent_":"viu_repositories_3_resources_996","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/UVA/repositories_3_resources_996.xml","aspace_url_ssi":"https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/120842","title_filing_ssi":"Vogt, Petra, papers","title_ssm":["Petra Vogt papers"],"title_tesim":["Petra Vogt papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1966-1978"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1966-1978"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1966/1978"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978"],"text":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978","MSS .16480","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/996","Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)","Kathmandu (Nepal)","Spirituality--Hinduism","Spirituality--Buddhism","Bardo Matrix (Firm)","Counterculture","Photographers","collage","small presses","hippies","prints","poetry","Black-and-white photographs","drawings (visual works)","diaries","Good. Collection apparently stored in a basement but no active mold. Some oversize materials were folded but these have been put in oversize folders or boxes and a few had preservation attention. Mylar L-sleeves have been used to protect some fragile materials.","Most of the collection is open for research. The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.","The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank).","Materials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.","This arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series.","Much of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection.","Petra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. 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August 2002). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. 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These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. 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She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. 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While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018).","This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. 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The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. 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These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. 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These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. 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She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. 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(5 x 8 ½ in.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Nepal.\" Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Glasgow Printing Co. Pvt. Ltd. in Howrah, India., 1974. Tourist guide in red boards. Used for pressing flowers and Petra Vogt's collages and paintings, given inside front and back covers. (7 x 9 ½ in.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Pokhara Valley: Nepal.\" Tourist brochure. Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Glasgow Printing Co. Pvt. Ltd. in Howrah, India, 1974. (4 x 9 in.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Patan, Nepal: The City of Fine Arts.\" Tourist brochure with map of city. Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Jore Ganesh Press Pvt. Ltd. in Kathmandu, Apr. 1974.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Contains printed material in the possession of Petra Vogt, including the following list:","\"A Short Synopsis of Devayana,\" by Dr. Hajari. Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Pondicherry, India, 1962. Stamped with Spirit Catcher Books insignia, 1975. (7 ½ x 10 in.)","\"Guide to Learning Nepali\" (in Nepali), in paper wrappers with illustrations. (5 ½ x 8 in.)","\"Nepal: A Miscellany,\" by Madhusudan Thakur. Published by Uttam Kunwar at Rooapyan Press, Kathmandu, 1975. Inscribed by author to Petra (\"For Petra with Love, Madhu\"). In paper wrappers, with PV's notes on back cover. (5 x 8 ½ in.)","\"Nepal.\" Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Glasgow Printing Co. Pvt. Ltd. in Howrah, India., 1974. Tourist guide in red boards. Used for pressing flowers and Petra Vogt's collages and paintings, given inside front and back covers. (7 x 9 ½ in.)","\"Pokhara Valley: Nepal.\" Tourist brochure. Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Glasgow Printing Co. Pvt. Ltd. in Howrah, India, 1974. (4 x 9 in.)","\"Patan, Nepal: The City of Fine Arts.\" Tourist brochure with map of city. Published by His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Department of Tourism, Kathmandu, Nepal, and printed at Jore Ganesh Press Pvt. 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Collection apparently stored in a basement but no active mold. Some oversize materials were folded but these have been put in oversize folders or boxes and a few had preservation attention. Mylar L-sleeves have been used to protect some fragile materials.","Most of the collection is open for research. The single exception is a bank book for an account owned by Petra Vogt.","The bank book belonging to Petra Vogt, 1977-1978, has been removed and restricted until her death. It has been placed in the control folder for this collection in a sealed envelope. The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank).","Materials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.","This arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series.","Much of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection.","Petra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018).","This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Bardo Matrix (Firm)","Vogt, Petra","Cohen, Ira","English\n      Nepali\n      German"],"collection_title_tesim":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978"],"collection_ssim":["Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["MSS .16480","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/996"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS .16480","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/996"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)","Kathmandu (Nepal)","Spirituality--Hinduism","Spirituality--Buddhism","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"geogname_ssim":["Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)","Kathmandu (Nepal)","Spirituality--Hinduism","Spirituality--Buddhism","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"places_ssim":["Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)","Kathmandu (Nepal)","Spirituality--Hinduism","Spirituality--Buddhism","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"creator_ssm":["Vogt, Petra","Cohen, Ira","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"creator_ssim":["Vogt, Petra","Cohen, Ira","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Vogt, Petra","Cohen, Ira"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"creators_ssim":["Vogt, Petra","Cohen, Ira","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Bardo Matrix (Firm)"],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Petra Vogt papers were purchased by the University of Virginia Special Collections Library from Granary Books, Inc. on September 21, 2020."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Counterculture","Photographers","collage","small presses","hippies","prints","poetry","Black-and-white photographs","drawings (visual works)","diaries"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Counterculture","Photographers","collage","small presses","hippies","prints","poetry","Black-and-white photographs","drawings (visual works)","diaries"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Good. 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The bank book is from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank (short form: Hypo-Bank)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMaterials arrived organized by the dealer into the following four series and additional subseries: Series I. Correspondence; Series II. Petra Vogt files; Subseries II.1 Notebooks; Subseries II.2 Artworks and artist files; Subseries II.3 Collage files Series III. Ira Cohen and Bardo Matrix; Subseries III.1 Ira Cohen materials; Subseries III.2 Bardo Matrix publications; Subseries III.3 Flyers, ephemera, broadsides; Series IV Photographs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis arrangement has been simplified into three series, 1) Volumes, Journals and Notebooks, chiefly by Petra Vogt; 2) Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files; and 3) Photographs, chiefly by Ira Cohen. 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These series contain oversize materials that have been placed in more appropriate containers but are listed in the appropriate series."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhile Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. 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These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. 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Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\" \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. This shop cemented the centrality of the roles of Vogt, Cohen, Chick, and MacLise in the countercultural community abroad, and became both a tourist and local destination (Prawash Gautam, \"How a used bookstore in Kathmandu's Jhochhen captured the spirit of the hippie movement,\" \"The Kathmandu Post,\" December 18, 2018).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Much of this biographical and historical information was taken from the dealer description of the collection.","Petra Vogt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1943, during a particularly devastating year of World War Two airstrikes on the city. She took acting classes in Munich and then returned to Berlin, where she saw The Living Theatre for the first time and decided to join the group in 1962. She traveled and performed extensively with The Living Theatre, including in the performance, \"Paradise Now.\" She met Ira Cohen at its New Haven show (phone conversation between Ira Cohen and Carey Loren, which was transcribed on \"Blastitude, Eternity Blast Special,\" no. 13. August 2002).","In 1971, Vogt and Cohen finally landed in Kathmandu, after extensive traveling through Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, and India. Living in Kathmandu from around 1972 to 1978, Vogt was an artistic, photographic, and social muse to partner Cohen, as well as Nepali hippies including Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha.  While in Nepal, she produced numerous notebooks of poetry, diaries, and artworks, while illustrating Bardo Matrix Starstreams publications, as well as Cohen's work, including \"Poems from the Cosmic Crypt.\"","While Vogt is peripherally featured in the archives of Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Dana Young, and other Bardo Matrix collaborators, her own contributions to this important facet of the countercultural poetics scene are significantly understudied. While Mark Liechty's \"Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal\" (University of Chicago Press, 2017), acknowledges her centrality to the scene and describes her role in organizing events, performances, and generally contributing to the dramatically-dressed scene in Kathmandu, no further articles or monographs solidify the contributions of her writings, artworks, or aesthetic.","During the 1970s, Vogt was known for her foreboding dark outfits and makeup; her aesthetic marks her as an unheralded progenitor of goth style, which began to be codified in music scenes around the same time. Photographs of her from her time in Nepal in the 1970s were featured in a recent Photo Kathmandu festival in 2018. She continues to write and make art under a different name in Germany.","Ira Cohen (1935–2011) was a noted poet, publisher, filmmaker, and photographer, known especially for his Mylar photographs, which he created between 1968 and 1971 in New York City. These works were inspired by Jack Smith and Bill Devore's black light experimentation, and required subjects to enter his \"Mylar Chamber,\" a makeshift room comprised of the reflective film, which Cohen would then photograph to produce distorted and psychedelic images of his subjects.","This produced iconic images that Life magazine in 1969 said captured the \"euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics\" during the countercultural era, with participants such as Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles, and Petra Vogt, among many others. These photographs have been exhibited in the 2006 \"Summer of Love\" exhibition organized by the Tate Liverpool and featured at the Whitney Museum, and are the subject of a new book, \"Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber\" which was published by Fulgar Press in 2019 with text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgarten, and Thurston Moore, and edited by Allan Graubard.","Kathmandu, Nepal, held a vibrant expatriate community of poets, musicians, artists, and spiritual seekers in the 1970s, in large part due to the Bardo Matrix collective — a group that began in Boulder, Colorado as The Experimental Cinema Group, and initially included Angus MacLise, John Chick, Dana Young, and Ira Cohen. Bardo Matrix Press, and especially the Starstreams Poetry Series, created collaborations with Beat and countercultural poets and local artisans to produce books informed by traditional Nepali and Tibetan traditions, sharing new poetic ideas.","Before 1971, when Ira Cohen and Petra Vogt arrived, a small group of expatriates had already become involved making woodblock prints to sell to tourists. Cohen recounts the presence of Ian Alsop, Francis Brooks, and Simon White, who \"were to play an important role in the development of small press publications by myself, my old friend and comrade, poet-calligrapher, Angus MacLise, and other poets who quickly formed a community in the Kathmandu Valley.\"","MacLise's work with Piero Heliczer on Dead Language Press, \"making unique books from tree bark or fashioning long horizontal handmade books after the Tibetan or Indian style,\" proved influential: it was Angus who, \"working with local craftsmen and woodblock artists, really began the great rice paper adventure.\" (Ira Cohen, \"The Great Rice Paper Adventure: Kathmandu, 1971–1977.\" New Observations no. 106, May/June 1995. Online at Big Bridge, no. 5.)","In Kathmandu, on so-called \"Freak Street\" or Jhocchen Tole, John Chick opened a bookshop named \"The Spirit Catcher.\" The shop was open around 1972–1979, and provided a weekly forum for poetry readings, music, and community. 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