Fluxholes
Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935
1964
Clear plastic box with label printed with a photographic image of human buttocks and white text: "FLUX HOLES GATHERED BY BEN VAUTIER." Inside, clear plastic tubes (drinking straws), of approximately the same length, laid out flat, filling the bottom surface of the box
Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 1/2 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 1.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family
GM.986.80.237
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, on label, in white, forming the shape of a circle: FLUX / HOLES / GATHERED / BY BEN / VAUTIER
Course History
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
RUSS 7.06, Doing Things with Words, Ainsley Morse, Winter 2020
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
PHIL 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, Jacob McNulty, Fall 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
Art History 83.06, Art and Life, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 16-August 7, 2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, September 9-December 3, 2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25-May 20 2012, check list number 70.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
Publication History
Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 111, checklist no. 70.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 505-506, no. 430.
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