A Flux Suicide Kit
Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935
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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