mischievous fluxus guide
Flux Year Box 2
Almost yearly compilation
The second yearly compilation of Fluxus works was curated by George Maciunas. It was like a miniature portable Fluxus museum. Objects are meant to be played with, laughed at, solved, or interacted with.
The available set is not complete, several objects, film strips, and a film viewing device that used to be included with the set are missing. The contents of the set varied, there is a good chance that there were no sets which were identical in their content.
Year of creation
1968
Fluxus events - scores of life
Fluxus events are the works with a concept similar to musical pieces with scores – musical instructions that allow a work of music to be repeated. Fluxus looks at the “intruction” aspect more broadly. Any event in life can be the score of a Fluxus event.
For example,
Omelette
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Cook an omelette
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Flip the omelet three times in the air while singing
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For the fourth time, throw the omelet over your head and stop singing
This event can be perfectly combined with the snow game created by Maciunas – Flux Snow Game. The game consists of a plastic box full of polystyrene grains – artificial snow. When you open the box it falls on your pants and the ground, thus allowing you to enjoy the snow and winter whenever you want.
Robert Watts - Snow event
It snows when you want it
Only Y.Wada knows how the stars must line up for you to be able to see your favorite celebrities, offering unauthorized tickets to see Jonas Mekas, John Lennon, James Stewart and others for one dollar.
Tickets are sold with a money-don’t-come-back guarantee.
Yoshimasa Wada - Unauthorised ticket to visit Jonas Mekas
Cheap tickets to (not)see celebrities
Have you ever wanted to kill someone with a look?
Did you succeed? Probably not. Because you haven't practiced. For this purpose, the tactical target to train your killing look by B. Vautier was created.
Ben Vautier - To look at
Kill by the look
Flux clinic patient card
Hi Red Center - RECORD OF FEATURES AND FEATS
George Brecht - Cloud scissors
8 works inside...
George Brecht - Events
24 works inside...
Ben Vautier - Theater D'Art Total
24 works inside...
Frederic Lieberman - Divertevents
9 works inside...
Willem De Ridder - Paper Fluxwork
Robert Watts - Playing cards
3 works inside...
Fluxus favourites
George Maciunas - Fluxus name labels
The most active Fluxus members had stylized signatures – logos / monograms – created by George Maciunas. These cards were added to Fluxus kits to identify the authors or used as labels for author flux-kits.
An interesting detail: Fluxus Yearbox 2 set had a card with a bare breast. It can be understood as an anonymous signature of all authors whose works were included in the set without mention.
Psychics are the people who have metaphysical powers, can read minds, talk to the other world or can see blindfolded. J. Riddle suggests developing the latter ability by using the Fluxus extrasensory kit.
James Riddle - E.S.P. flux kit
Text on the artwork
Instructions
Blindfold yourself securely and rub your fingers lightly over the colored papers. With practice you can learn to distinguish between the different colors.
James Riddle
Elementary Textbook of a Psychic
Text on the artwork
Instructions
Blindfold yourself securely and rub your fingers lightly over the colored papers. With practice you can learn to distinguish between the different colors.
James Riddle
A corsage is a little bouquet that was traditionally given as a sign of affection to a girl, who would pin it to the upper part of her dress at a wedding, anniversary, or prom.
In K. Friedman's kits, you can find the seeds of non-standard plants for growing these bouquets yourself, for example sunflowers, and maybe even corn.
Ken Friedman - Fluxus Corsage
Matchmaker’s bouquet kit
B. Vautier offers to purchase an anti product – holes!
Where to use them?
Imagine plugging budget holes by investing in B. Vautier's holes.
Ben Vautier - Fluxus holes
Would you like some holes?
If you have a collection of amber-encrusted puppy portraits given to you by your grandmother and you've been thinking about how to get rid of them for a long time, use the total art matchbox. You will be able to claim that you are transforming traditional art into total art.
Ben Vautier - Total art match-box
Text on the artwork:
Total art match-box
use these matchs to destroy all art museums art library's ready mades pop art and as I ben signed everything work of art burn anything keep last match for this match.
Art is on fire!
Text on the artwork:
Total art match-box
use these matchs to destroy all art museums art library's ready mades pop art and as I ben signed everything work of art burn anything keep last match for this match.
A movie of hypocrites
George Brecht - Nut bone
The flipbook film is telling story how a kitten appeared in the family's genealogical tree.
In addition, it cleverly included an advertisement for the Yam festival which was curated by G. Brecht and R. Watts.
Fluxus favourites
George Maciunas - Fluxus name labels
The most active Fluxus members had stylized signatures – logos / monograms – created by George Maciunas. These cards were added to Fluxus kits to identify the authors or used as labels for author flux-kits.