Lot Essay
"Fluxus-art-fun should just be simple, entertaining and undemanding, it should be about insignificant things, it should't require special skills and countless rehearsals..." (George Manciunas)
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Fluxkit
Details
George Maciunas
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)
Provenance
Bianchini Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965