Fluxus Virus Box "Fluxus-Mini-Museum" (signed box edition)

A) Flux Box
B) Publication
C) Signed Flux Objects

A) Black flux box with white silk-screen reads "Fluxus Virus 1962-1992". Holds the metallic covered soft bound, 399 pages, black and white book. Under the book are 19 objects (originally 22). * refers to 3 missing objects and 1 unknown object.

Koln, August 1992
10" x 12" x 11" (tall)
Edition: X/ XXII, Signed Artists Edition.
(also exists as an edition of 100)

Eric Anderson "Uberlebenssackchen"
AY-O "Ay-O's Fingerbox"*
Henning Christiansen "Green Picnic"
Philipp Corner "Wirklichkeitspunkt"
Jean Dupuy "Singer"
Ken Friedman "Kolner Dom"*
Al Hansen "Car Bibbe"
Geoffrey Hendricks "This had was not..."
Dick Higgins "Destroy all Kitsch"
Joe Jones "Model for the Underground Project"
Bengt of Klintberg "Sternebrille"*
Milan Knizak "Triangle Disc"
Alison Knowles "Safer Hands"
Jackson MacLow "Thinking on Kitsch"
Larry Miller "Chewed Drawing"
Ben Patterson "Do you suffer from Fluxus?"
Takako Saito "Safety Concert"
Serge III "Unknown Object"
Mieko Shiomi "Water Music"
Anne Tardos "Ping-Pong Poetry
Ben Vautier "Don't Look"*
Yoshimaga Wada "Flute"

B) Fluxus Virus 1962-1992 (Publication)
1992

9" x 11" ; 19" x 11" (open)

Printed by Galerie Schüppenheir, Köln; Ken Friedman, ed.

GesAmtherStellung: Druck und Verlag Schufelen, Pulheim/Köln Publication editioned with Fluxbox of the same name. Mirror/reflective cover offers backwards text such as "Fluxus is too simple".

Published Book (w/ISBN). 41 artists (Fluxus) are listed with biographies and 21 (intermedia) are also listed. 17 essays in German and English by Ken Friedman, Peter Frank, Ina Conzen Meairs, Wilfried Dörstel/ Reier Steinberg, Hannah Higgins, Karen Moss, Owen Smith, David Doris, Dieter Daniels, Ina Blom, Mariane Hoffan, Michael Erlhoff, James Lewes, and Manfred de la Motte.

Documented performances, include Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins performing "Danger Music #2" by Higgins and "Piano Activities" sawing a grand piano in half, etc. (pp.82-83)

C)Fluxus Vivus 1962-1992 (Signed Flux Objects)
August 1992

Edition: X/XXII Artists Proof Edition (100 commercially editioned).

-Eric Anderson, "Uberlebenssackchen"
4" x 4" purple silk bag with black rope, draw string and green text reading "To find a Way in Fluxus - And a Taste of it" contains a (rusty) toy compass and 5 almonds.

-Henning Christiansen, "Green Picnic"
9" round "Green Picnic Product" fake marble paper plate with a bright orange decorative circle.

-Philipp Corner, "Wirklichkeitspunkt"
Random newspaper clipping of ads with red ink and one deckle edge.

-Jean Dupuy, "Singer"
German bottle of glue with Uganda Stamp.

-Al Hansen "Car Bibbe"
windup toy car

-Geoffrey Henricks, "This had was not..."
8" x 11" x 4" black felt bolder hat with labeled text "This hat was not bought at George Brecht's auction at Al Hansen's Loft in 1965"

-Dick Higgins, "Destroy all kitsch"
3" x 3" x" wooden rubber stamp: "Destroy all kitsch! - Dick Higgins"

-Joe Jones, "Model for the Underground Project"
8" x 11" white cardstock with ink text "Model for the Underground Project" with glued pen-like object, black/red/white striped and red ball. Believed to go with green car with white stripes.

-Milan Knizak, "Triangle Disc"
7" x 7" LP record cut into a triangle. "Tenkai" sound creator Kitaro spectrum, Victor Music, 1978, Japan.

-Alison Knowles, "Safer Hands"
9" x 5" pair of clear rubber gloves

-Jackson MacLow, "Thinking on Kitsch"
5" x 3" postcard of cats in swimsuits and lake. Back handwriting reads "imp. Liberia polyethylene debasement Ipswich"

-Larry Miller, "Chewed Drawing"
3" round glass with gold trim and 1" hole. Black handwritten marker "Chewed Drawing."

- Ben Patterson, "Do you suffer from Fluxus?"
8" x 11" white cardstock with wooden clothes pin given on Chinese diagram of acupuncture is centered over Maciunas diagram of partial history of Fluxus diagram. Text reads: 1) Do you suffer from Fluxus? 2) For relief, apply pressure as prescribed, 3) or call "Dr. Ben" (49)611-74508

-Takako Saito, "Safety Concert"
1" x 2" " box matches with Elephant illustration lighting a match via his trunk with text "Safety Concerts…Noodle Edition" on the back typewriter text: "take one or more at a time and strike them, if does not light it, say "Bo". When all the matches are struck, a concert is over"

-Serge III, "Unknown Object"
3" x 2" x 2". Heavily patinaed plaster cast, probably of glass jar.

-Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, "Water Music"
7" x 8" clear plastic bag with clear glass marble white label which reads "let the water lose its still form. Give the water still form - Chieko Shiomi Water Music… FluxusDDD".

-Anne Tardos, "Ping-Pong Poetry"
2" round ping pong ball reads 5 in marker ink "J'attends"

-Yoshimasa Wada, "Flute"
5/8" x 4 " copper tube

-Unknown, 12" x 12" plastic box of colored thumb tacks. Belongs to one of the following:
AY-O "Ay-O's Fingerbox"
Ken Friedman "Kolner Dom"
Bengt of Klintberg "Sternebrille"
Ben Vautier "Don't Look"