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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus Cookie added by Margaret English The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto (2026)
Description
An account of the resource
Fluxus Cookie added by Margaret English at The Department of Art History at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions on the manifest:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION.
(And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Margaret English
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2026
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon
Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Exhibition graphic for Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979. Features the distinctive Maciunas Fluxus logotype with alternating uppercase and lowercase letterforms within the single word FLUXUS, a graphic device used consistently across Fluxus publications from the mid-1960s onward
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
George Maciunas (attributed designer); Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 1979
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Offset printed card or sheet; black on cream; ruled border; mixed-scale Fluxus typography
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Printed matter; exhibition card; graphic design
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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Lyon, France; April 1979
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice
Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Invitation for Fluxus International & Cº, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, 59 Quai des États-Unis. Issued under the authority of Mayor Jacques Médecin. Opening: Thursday 5 July 1979 at 9pm with Action Fluxus at 9:30pm; official inauguration Friday 6 July at 6pm; exhibition runs 5 July – 23 September 1979
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice; Mairie de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1979
Relation
A related resource
Component of Fluxus International & Compagnie boîte-catalogue No. 15/100; paired with Lyon exhibition poster
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Offset printed sheet; black on cream; with figural illustration of man on ladder
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Printed matter; exhibition invitation
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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Nice, France; 5 July – 23 September 1979
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
-
https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/37b45e9855a5f0560feccab6c2070ac2.jpg
1bd78344a42c4a851434455a23443e11
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Black Paper Square
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8f205966fd5ccfe51eabeeaa18d8963b
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
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Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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Title
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UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER
A paper fork
Description
An account of the resource
A cream card bearing only the word FOURCHETTE (fork) in bold sans-serif type. This is the paper fork of the manifest title, in which language substitutes entirely for the physical object it names. Formally consistent with George Brecht's Water Yam event score cards in format and typography. Operates within the Magrittian tradition of the word as surrogate for the thing, and within Ben Vautier's practice of the printed word as artwork.
Creator
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Anonymous, possibly George Maciunas or George Brecht
Format
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Small offset-printed cream card; single word "FOURCHETTE" in bold sans-serif capitals, centred
Type
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Printed matter; artist multiple; word card; conceptual object
Relation
A related resource
Relates to George Brecht's Water Yam (1963); to Ben Vautier's text-based practice; thematically paired with the Spoerri futur tableau piège trivet
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Title
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Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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Title
A name given to the resource
The Box
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus; avant-garde; artist multiples; conceptual art; boîte-catalogue
Description
An account of the resource
Corrugated cardboard box printed in blue ink.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Produced for Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, 4 April 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979
Relation
A related resource
Container for Fluxus International & Compagnie boîte-catalogue contents, Nice, 1979; Fondazione Bonotto FXC0156; edition of 100
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Corrugated cardboard box; offset printed in blue ink on natural cardboard; four sides printed
Language
A language of the resource
French (primary); English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Three-dimensional object; artist multiple; packaging
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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Lyon, France
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS
A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts
Description
An account of the resource
Robert Watts (1923–1988) was an American artist and central figure of the Fluxus movement, known for his incisive humour, conceptual clarity, and radical rethinking of the everyday object. Trained as a scientist before turning to art, Watts brought an analytical yet playful approach to material and form, creating works that questioned authorship, consumer culture, and the boundaries between art and life. His practice ranged widely from sculptural multiples and found-object assemblages to mail art, happenings, and experimental collaborations with figures such as George Maciunas, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht.
Watts was also deeply drawn to natural and astronomical phenomena. His Flux Atlas was a box of pebbles collected from specific locations around the world, with Maciunas crowd-sourcing contributions from Fluxus members across multiple countries. The moon, like a pebble from a specific beach, is a natural object defined entirely by its location and moment of observation.
The manifest again uses "pour" (for Watt); not "de" (by Watts). So as with the beans for Knowles and the target for Knižák, this is an object placed in reference to Watts and his sensibility rather than contributed directly by him.
A metal washer or ring is a found industrial object, cheap, mass-produced, entirely functional, entirely anonymous, with a circular hole at its centre. It is the most minimal possible framing device: a circumference defining an absence. Held up to the sky on the night of a full moon, the hole frames the moon precisely, isolating it from its surroundings and transforming the act of looking into a performance, a score, an event.
This operates on the same logic as Kosugi's Theatre Music "keep walking intently",where the instruction transforms a mundane act into heightened awareness. Here, the instruction is implicit in the object itself: hold this up, find the moon, look through the hole. The washer is simultaneously a tool, a frame, a score, and a sculpture.
The object also rhymes beautifully with Watts's scientific background and his interest in optics, measurement, and the physical world. Watts sought to bring the universe into the home, and a washer through which you can see the full moon does exactly that, collapsing astronomical scale into the diameter of a hardware store fitting.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Anonymous / George Maciunas (likely selector); in reference to Robert Watts
Relation
A related resource
References the practice of Robert Watts (American, 1923–1988), founding Fluxus member; component of Fluxus International & Compagnie boîte-catalogue No. 15/100, Nice, 1979; relates to Watts's Flux Atlas and his broader engagement with natural phenomena as artistic material
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Metal ring or washer; found industrial hardware object
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Realia; found object; Fluxus multiple; object score
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
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Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
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Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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Title
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UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI
A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi
Description
An account of the resource
Mieko Shiomi was trained as a musician, graduating from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1961. In 1964 she travelled to New York where she met George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik and Ay-O, and participated in Fluxus performance events and concerts.
Water, wind, light and shadows became the material of her scored events, drawing attention to the ordinary flow of events and change in everyday life.
Shiomi's scores characteristically transform the performer's perception of the world rather than asking them to produce a sound or make an object. Her scores resonate with George Brecht's concept of the Event Score, eliciting the spectator to perform mundane tasks of the mind and body. One score, for instance, asks participants to open and shut their eyes at intervals and then look at their hands as the world itself becomes the performance space.
A red transparent filter handed to the recipient as a score for seeing the world in red is entirely consistent with this logic. You hold it up. You look through it. The world turns red. The score is complete. The performer needs no musical training, no special space, no instrument, only eyes. It is simultaneously the score, the instrument, and the performance all in one object, dissolved into a single gesture of perception.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Mieko Shiomi
Relation
A related resource
Related to Shiomi's Events & Games series and her broader Fluxus event score practice
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Sheet of red transparent plastic/acetate or theatrical gel filter
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; event score; object score
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Title
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Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
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UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO
An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo
Creator
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Juan Hidalgo
Format
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Print
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Periodicals in the Department of Art History Library
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Title
A name given to the resource
PATIO-Magazin "Fernsehen" (PATIO Magazine "Television")
Subject
The topic of the resource
Television; Literature; Caricature; Satire; Mass media and communication; football; soccer
Description
An account of the resource
A magazine published by the Department of Language and Literary Studies at the University of Siegen. Nr. 1 concerns Football (Fußball), Frankfurt, Galerie Patio Verlag (1968), 38 unnumbered pages.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Karl Riha (editor, born 1935)
Source
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OCLC WorldCat catalog record; Antiquarian book listing (ZVAB/AbeBooks)
12. Language
German (ger)
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Galerie Patio Verlag, Frankfurt; University of Siegen, Department of Language and Literary Sciences
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1968 (original publication, Nr. 1)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
University of Siegen, Department of Language and Literary Sciences (issuing body)
Relation
A related resource
Part of series: Massenmedien und Kommunikation, Vol. 94
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Print
55 pages; 21 cm
Language
A language of the resource
German (ger)
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text; Belletristic/literary presentation (Belletristische Darstellung); Illustrated work (Bildband)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvmJrcdq87xy9vxgC8jYP
OCLC: (DE-101)014407116 / (DE-600)796392-0
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
||||osm
Germany (Siegen); subject coverage includes television, literature, and satirical media
15. Rights
Antiquarian copy listed at €240.00 + €8.00 shipping (Germany); no explicit copyright statement in the record, institutional academic publication
FOOTBALL
SICCER
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
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UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI
A score by Giuseppe Chiari
Creator
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Giuseppe Chiari (attributed)
Format
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Offset halftone photograph on paper
Description
An account of the resource
While it is difficult to confirm the exact identity of this work as it bares no inscription, signature, or accompanying documentation, however stylistically and contextually the image may well be a score by Giuseppe Chiari, the Florentine composer, philosopher and sole Italian member of Fluxus. For Chiari the photograph was not merely documentation of art but art itself. Chiari's practice was built on the dissolution of boundaries between music, gesture, image and body, and he returned repeatedly to the female figure as his primary subject. His 1968 performance Don't Trade Here in Berlin, for instance, explored the sonorities of a young woman's body, and his score Per Arco, performed by cellist Charlotte Moorman in Valpolicella in the early 1980s, was published as a portfolio of photographs, confirming that for Chiari, a photograph of a body in relation to an instrument could function as a fully realized score. The halftone printing style of the image in this box is entirely consistent with Fluxus offset production of the late 1970s, while its subject matter, a woman, an instrument, an erotic charge, with no conventional musical notation in sight, fits squarely within Chiari's documented aesthetic.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; photographic score; printed matter
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE)
A unique pebble from the beach of Nice (reproduction forbidden)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Naturally occurring stone; single pebble; collected from the beach at Nice, France, 1979
Description
An account of the resource
Unique beach pebble collected from the shore at Nice, designated an artwork within the Fluxus multiple by its inclusion in the boîte-catalogue. The manifest's parenthetical reproduction interdite (reproduction forbidden) operates simultaneously as literal fact (given that a pebble formed by the specific geology and hydrodynamics of the Baie des Anges is by definition irreproducible), and as institutional critique, applying the legal language of copyright and reproduction rights to an object that requires no such protection. The absurdity of forbidding the reproduction of something nature itself cannot reproduce exposes the pretension of the art world's claim to authenticity and originality. The pebble needs no certificate, no edition number, no designation. It was always unique. The legal apparatus is the joke; the stone is the punchline
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Realia; Found Object
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE
A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
Exhibition poster for Fluxus International & Cº, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, 59 quai des États-Unis, 06300 Nice, 5 July – 23 September 1979. Two-tone design . Central image: Victorian gentleman in top hat holding flag reading "FLUXUS EST TOUT"; behind him a figure holds a placard reading "TOUT EST RIEN" containing a smaller image reading "FLUXUS EST RIEN", a recursive philosophical syllogism (Fluxus is everything / Everything is nothing / Therefore Fluxus is nothing) embedded in nineteenth-century engraving. Features Maciunas mixed-scale Fluxus logotype.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
George Maciunas (attributed designer); Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice; Direction des Musées de Nice; Action Culturelle Municipale
Relation
A related resource
Companion piece to Lyon exhibition poster (also in this box); Nice vernissage invitation (also in this box)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Large folded poster; offset printed in black on brown paper; Maciunas mixed-scale Fluxus logotype; folded to fit box dimensions.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Printed matter; exhibition poster
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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Nice, France; 5 July – 23 September 1979
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
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Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
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Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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Title
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UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON
A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition
Format
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Large folded poster; offset printed in red on cream/white paper; features squatting figure and spiral word-list; folded to fit box dimensions
Description
An account of the resource
Exhibition poster for Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, 4 April 1979. Printed in red on cream paper, colour variant of the blue-on-cardboard design used on the boîte-catalogue box exterior. Features the same squatting figure and cascading spiral word-list (jeux, films, kits, puzzles, musique, events, photos, machines, trucs, plaisanteries, livres, boîtes, tricks, définitions, partitions, performances, amusements, poèmes).
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
George Maciunas (attributed designer); Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain
Relation
A related resource
Companion piece to the Nice exhibition invitation (also in this box); design shares identical composition with box exterior but in red rather than blue
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Printed matter; exhibition poster
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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Lyon, France; April 1979
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Title
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Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
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Title
A name given to the resource
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN
A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Ben Vautier
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
2 paper vomit bags; rubber stamp impression in black ink reading "MUSIC N° 11 / SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ / Centre d'Art Total, Ben 63"
Description
An account of the resource
2 paper vomit bags bearing Ben Vautier's rubber-stamped score Music No. 11: Soufflez et tapez (Blow and Tap).
That is the complete score. Two words. Two actions. No duration, no instrument, no performer specified. Blow anything. Tap anything. Do both. The envelope is the score, the container, and the artwork simultaneously. Much like the Disque de Musique Totale also in this box, it transforms a completely ordinary found object into a philosophical instrument by the addition of a rubber stamp.
The number 11 places it within Ben's systematic series of musical scores. Together these two works in the box represent Ben's most sustained engagement with the concept of total music: the record explores 14 ways of listening to a record without listening to it; this envelope reduces music to its most atomic possible instruction.
Relation
A related resource
Part of Ben Vautier's Musique series; directly related to Disque de Musique Totale (Ben, 1963) also in this box.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; event score; printed matter; Fluxus edition
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III
A key ring containing "content" by Serge III
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Serge III (Serge Oldenbourg, French, 1927–2000)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Metal split-ring key ring attached with a short metal chain to a clear rectangular acrylic/perspex fob; single hexagonal metal nut encased and sealed permanently within the perspex
Description
An account of the resource
A key ring whose fob contains a single hexagonal nut sealed permanently inside clear perspex. It is visible but entirely inaccessible. The title's use of "contenu" exploits a deliberate bilingual pun: the nut is the content (contenu) and is also contained (contenu) held, enclosed, restrained. A key ring that cannot carry a key to anything; a container whose content is the condition of being contained. Consistent with Serge III's practice of radical inaccessibility and caustic wordplay, and with his broader involvement in the Niçois Fluxus and Art Total network centred on Ben Vautier's work.
Relation
A related resource
Created by Serge III Oldenbourg, Niçois Fluxus artist and close associate of Ben Vautier
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; Fluxus object; realia
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
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QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES
Some beans for Alison Knowles
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Dried beans; organic material
Description
An account of the resource
Dried beans placed in the boîte-catalogue in reference to Alison Knowles, American Fluxus artist for whom the bean has been a central artistic material since her Make a Salad performance (1962) and Bean Rolls multiple (1963). The manifest uses the word "pour" ( for), rather than "de" ( by ), indicating these were selected as a gesture of tribute to Knowles's practice rather than contributed by her directly.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Anonymous / George Maciunas (possible selector)
Relation
A related resource
References the practice of founding Fluxus member Alison Knowles (American, born 1933). Relates to the art works Make a Salad (1962) and Bean Rolls (1963).
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Realia; natural specimen; found object
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Title
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Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT
An inventory letter by George Brecht
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
George Brecht
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
5 July 1969 (written); 7 July 1969 (postmarked)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Typed letter on paper; British postmark dated 7 July 1969; handwritten marginal annotation
Description
An account of the resource
A typed letter from to Ben Vautier, Nice, containing a room-by-room inventory of objects hanging on the walls of Brecht's second-floor apartment. This functions simultaneously as personal correspondence and as a Fluxus artwork in the tradition of the domestic inventory as aesthetic form.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Ben Vautier (recipient; handwritten annotation in margin)
Language
A language of the resource
English (primary); French
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Manuscript; letter; artist document; unique work
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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London, England, 1969; Nice, France (recipient)
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Title
A name given to the resource
Fluxus & Chaos: une histoire qui n'a pas d'importance
a story of no importance
alternate title: Fluxus International & Cº; Boîte-catalogue à surprise No. 15/100
(Fluxus International & Co. Surprise Catalogue Box No. 15/100)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fluxus art movement; conceptual art; artist multiples; avant-garde
Description
An account of the resource
A boîte-catalogue à surprise (surprise catalogue-box) made for the "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" in Lyon, dated April 4, 1979. It is a cardboard box printed in blue. It is a rare, numbered Fluxus multiple, numbered 15 out of 100. The concept behind this box is, it enters the exhibition empty and then is filled with items throughout the course of the event. The handwritten "Nice 79" on the front indicates this particular box was associated with an exhibition in Nice. In fact, the items in this box were collected at an exhibition at Galerie D'Art Contemporain Des Musees De Nice (the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Museums of Nice, later in 1979). This was a well-documented 1979 exhibition, containing contributions from many of the movement's most important artists.
Table of Contents
Items listed in the manifest:
L'INCROYABLE SERIE DES NEUF JOURNAUX FLUXUS (REEDITION) (The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers [reprint edition])
including:
1. cc V TRE (January 1964).
2. cc V TRE / Fluxus (February 1964) The second of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
3. cc V TRE / Fluxus (March 1964) The third of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
4. Fluxus cc fiVe ThRee (June 1964) The fourth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
5. Fluxus Vacuum TRapEzoid. Number 5 (March 1965) The fifth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
6. Fluxus Vaudeville TouRnamEnt. Number 6 (July 1965) The sixth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
7. Fluxus. Number 7 (February 1966) The seventh of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
8. Fluxus. Number 8 (May 1966) The eighth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
9. John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers.
UNE LETTRE INVENTAIRE DE GOERGE BRECHT (An inventory letter by George Brecht)
QUELQUES HARICOTS POUR ALLISON KNOWLES (Some beans for Alison Knowles)
UNE PORTE CLEF CONTENANT "CONTENU" DE SERGE III (A key ring containing "content" by Serge III)
UNE PARTITION MUSIQUE 11 "SOUFFLEZ ET TAPEZ" DE BEN (A musical score no. 11 "Blow and Tap" by Ben)
UNE FEUILLE DE MAGNOLIA POUR TAKAKO (A magnolia leaf for Takako) - Missing
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE LYON (A Fluxus poster from the Lyon exhibition)
UNE AFFICHE FLUXUS DE L'EXPOSITION DE NICE (A Fluxus poster from the Nice exhibition)
UN PRESERVATIF SPECIAL ARTISTE FLUXUS (A special Fluxus artist condom)
UN GALET UNIQUE DE LA PLAGE DE NICE (REPRODUCTION INTERDITE) (A unique pebble from the beach of Nice [reproduction forbidden])
UNE PARTITION DE GIUSEPPE CHIARI (A score by Giuseppe Chiari)
UN "ETCETERA" DE JUAN HIDALGO (An "etcetera" by Juan Hidalgo)
UNE COMPOSITION "PATERN" DE FLUXUS (A "Pattern" composition by Fluxus)
UNE BILLE QU'ON PEUT REGARDER ROULER DE GEORGE BRECHT (A marble one can watch roll, by George Brecht) - Missing
UN DESSOUS DE PLAT FUTUR TABLEAU PIEGE DE DANIEL SPOERRI (MANGEZ DESSUS) (A trivet, future trap-painting by Daniel Spoerri [eat on it])
UNE PARTITION POUR VOIR LE MONDE EN ROUGE DE SHIOMI (A score for seeing the world in red, by Shiomi)
LES 2.850.000.000 MICROBES CONTENUS DANS LA BOITE VIDE SONT DE M. ALOCCO (The 2,850,000,000 microbes contained in the empty box belong to M. Alocco)
UNE CIBLE POUR MILAN KNIZACK (A target for Milan Knizak)
UN DISQUE DE MUSIQUE TOTALE DE BEN (A total music record by Ben)
UNE PARTITION FROISSEE POUR KOSUGI (A DEFROISSER) (A crumpled score for Kosugi [to be unfolded])
UNE AMPOULE CONTENANT LE GRAND AIR DE L'OPERA DE NICE (A bulb containing the fresh air of the Nice Opera)
UN TROU AU TRAVERS DUQUEL VOUS POUVEZ VOIR LA PLEINE LUNE POUR WATTS (A hole through which you can see the full moon, for Watts)
UN DESSIN (VERITABLE ART FLUXUS) DE FRANCOIS ET EVA (A drawing [genuine Fluxus art] by François and Eva)
UNE CARTE A JOUER, CELLE QUE LE HASARD VOUS A DESIGNEE (A playing card, the one chance has assigned to you)
UNE FOURCHETTE EN PAPIER (A paper fork)
UN FEUTRE OU CRAYON FLUXUS DESSINANT FLUXUS (A Fluxus felt-tip or pencil drawing Fluxus)
Items that are not listed in the manifest:
Black Paper Square
A printed sheet bearing a typewritten/offset image of an empty film strip, with the caption "From Festival Non Art, Japan TOKYO."
A French enamel door or room number plaque.
Une Invitation Fluxus de l'exposition de Nice (Fluxus invitation for the Nice exhibition)
Carte Fluxus de l'exposition de Lyon (Fluxus cart for the Lyon exhibition)
Fluxus Cookie added by The Department of Art History Library at The University of Toronto in 2026, as per instructions:
ET PUISQUE TOUT EST MUSIQUE, TOUT EST PEINTURE, TOUT EST A FLUXUS, AJOUTEZ A CETTE BOITE VOTRE PROPRE PARTICIPATION. (And since everything is music, everything is painting, everything is Fluxus, add to this box your own participation.)
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Espace Lyonnais D'art Contemporain (Lyonnais Contemporary Art Space);Collective Fluxus; George Maciunas
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Fluxus International & Cº travelling exhibition, 1979
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain (Lyon) / Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
April 4, 1979 (Lyon); July–September 1979 (Nice)
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Fluxus International & Cº; George Maciunas; George Brecht; Serge Oldenbourg; Ben Vautier; Daniel Spoerri; Mieko Shiomi; Milan Knizak; Giuseppe Chiari; François & Eva Vautier; Yoko Ono; Juan Hidalgo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Cardboard box, 34 × 27.5 × 4.5 cm, containing printed matter, found objects, scores, and ephemera
Language
A language of the resource
Lyon and Nice, France; 1979
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Artist multiple; boîte-catalogue; mixed-media object
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lyon, France (April 1979); Nice, France (July–September 1979)
Relation
A related resource
Fluxus & Chaos exhibition, Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain, Lyon, April 1979; Fluxus International & Compagnie exhibition, Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, July–September 1979
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
John Yoko & Flux 1970 The nineth of The incredible series of the nine Fluxus newspapers
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1970
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Print
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Fluxus