Instruction No.2
Date/ 1965
Artist(Credit Line)/ Benjamin Patterson
Classification/ Object
- Paik-Abe Video Synthesizer
- Homecoming
- 12 Piano Compositions for Nam June Paik by George Maciunas performer’s copy of score with annotations and instructions for performance at Nam June Paik Art Center in 2010 prepared and performed by Ben Patterson
- Message to Nam June Paik
- Chronicle of A Beautiful Dancer
- In Memoriam Geroge Maciunas
- Flux Reliquary
- Deck, A Fluxgame
- Closed on Monday, A Fluxgame
- Bead Puzzle
- Flux Rain Machine
- Events
- Living Fluxsculpture
- Instruction No.2
- Events
- Name kit
- Sinfonie Nr. 6 - in box (Violinparts and score), funkhaus köln, Neuss
- 2 1/2 TV
- Chair Black and White
- Colored Chair
- Hommage a John Cage
- 6 drawings on beertabs
- Fan
- MS-Fluxussus (symphonie Nr. 7)
- Cooking Pot (with Korean Recipe)
- First portable TV
- Untitled
Dimensions / 2.6x12x9.3cm
Medium / Plastic box, soap, paper towels, printed paper
Along with the idea of ‘Fluxkit’ that George Maciunas conceived in 1964, Fluxus artists produced multiple editions of kits encompassing a selection of miscellaneous objects and sheets of paper as graphic scores for the user to read or manipulate as with interactive games. The kits were packed together in a small attaché case for sale, which was first advertised in the fourth Fluxus newspaper, fLuxus cc fiVeThReE that also contained Nam June Paik’s essay, Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television. This Fluxkit is Ben Patterson’s Instruction No.2 with soap and paper towels that were rubber stamped with the instruction “Please wash your face.” Its actual performance was held in New York in 2011 where the audience came to the stage or to the bathroom to wash their faces, and afterwards there was a moderated discussion with the artist on the subject, ‘How is washing your face in public a work of art?’.
Medium / Plastic box, soap, paper towels, printed paper
Along with the idea of ‘Fluxkit’ that George Maciunas conceived in 1964, Fluxus artists produced multiple editions of kits encompassing a selection of miscellaneous objects and sheets of paper as graphic scores for the user to read or manipulate as with interactive games. The kits were packed together in a small attaché case for sale, which was first advertised in the fourth Fluxus newspaper, fLuxus cc fiVeThReE that also contained Nam June Paik’s essay, Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television. This Fluxkit is Ben Patterson’s Instruction No.2 with soap and paper towels that were rubber stamped with the instruction “Please wash your face.” Its actual performance was held in New York in 2011 where the audience came to the stage or to the bathroom to wash their faces, and afterwards there was a moderated discussion with the artist on the subject, ‘How is washing your face in public a work of art?’.
