A Flux Suicide Kit

Ben Vautier, French, 1935 - 2024

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1963

Clear plastic seven-compartment box with label containing matches, razor, fishhook, rope, electrical plug, shard of broken glass, straight pin, small metal ball

Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 1 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 2.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family

GM.986.80.235

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

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 30.

A Space for Dialogue 48, Discomfort Zone, Fluxus and Performance Art from the 1960's and 1970's, Kimia Shahi, Class of 2009, Levinson Public Relations Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-March 1, 2009.

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.

Kimia Shahi, A Space for Dialogue 48, Discomfort Zone, Fluxus and Performance Art from the 1960's and 1970's, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 1.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, pp.54-55, ill. p. 54, p. 97, checklist no. 30.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 508-509, no. 446.

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