Flux-Objects

George Maciunas, Name card for Dick Higgins, c. 1964  

George Maciunas, Name card for Dick Higgins, c. 1964  

Name cards as they appeared in Fluxyearbox 1, Published by George Maciunas, 1964

Dick Higgins, Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage), 1965 Fluxus edition variation 1. Designed by George Maciunas. Plastic box with offset label, containing film loop and offset card with stamped ink additions. Available in Fluxkit, 1965

Dick Higgins, Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage), 1965 Fluxus edition variant 2. Designed by George Maciunas. Plastic box with offset label, containing film loop and offset card with stamped ink additions. 

Film loop inside plastic box for Dick Higgins, Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (for Stan Brakhage), 1965

Invocation of Canyons and Boulders (For Stan Brakhage) as it appears as Fluxfilm No. 2  in Fluxfilms (1966)

“INVOCATION is Higgins’ Satie movie… the purest attempt to clear art from any or all historical, esthetic, thematic, ornamental claptrap to regain the lost-eye consciousness.” - Jonas Mekas

Dick Higgins, Constellation No. 1, 1959 as it appeared in An Anthology of Chance Operations...(1960-63) edited by La Monte Young & Jackson Mac Low, designed by George Maciunas 

Constellation No. 4 &  No. 7 as they appear in cc V Tre (Fluxus Newspaper) #1, 1964. Edited by George Brecht and George Maciunas

Dick Higgins, Constellation No. 7  (1960) at Festum Fluxorum Fluxus: Musik und Antimusik, Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, 1963. L to R: Wolf Vostell, Tomas Schmit, Frank Trowbridge, Bengt af Klintberg, Arthur Køpcke, Daniel Spoerri, and Nam June Paik, with George Maciunas as the conductor. Photograph by Manfred Leve

Performance of Dick Higgins’ Constellation No. 4 at Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuestem Musik (14 Konzerte), Wiesbaden, September 8th, 1962. L to R: Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Unknown, Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams. Photograph by George Maciunas

Performance of Dick Higgins’ Constellation No. 4 at Fluxus - Musik Og Anti-Musik - Des Instrumentale Teater - 6 Pro- Et Contragrammer, Nicolai Kirke, November 23rd, 1962. L to R: George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, Unknown, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins as conductor.  Photograph by Jørgen Sperling. 

Performance of Dick Higgins’ Constellation No. 2 at Fluxus Concert, Berlin, October 4th 1966. L to R: Vagelis Tsakiridis, Tomás Marco, Alison Knowles, Juan Hidalgo, Claus Bremer, Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins as conductor. Photograph by Hans-Rüdiger Strey