Dieter Rot[h]
Asshole
Heidelberg, Germany: Edition Staeck, 1972
10 x 15 cm.
Edition size unknown
The earliest response work to Yoko Ono's A Hole to See the Sky Through was published a mere year after the original (see below posts). This work transforms the original with a self portrait doodle and an alteration to the text, so that it now reads "D.Rot's Asshole Looking At Yoko Ono".
It's difficult to know if this was a loving gesture or an act of hostility. Roth was known to be dismissive of Fluxus ("It was the club of the untalented who made a verbal virtue of their lack of talent so that nobody could say they had no talent. The modesty that they ascribed to themselves was actually a good insight in that sense. Because they had to be modest because they were so incapable.") while maintaining close friendships with many Fluxus affiliated artists.
The fact that it was published by Edition Stack, who continued to produce Ono's original alongside the interventionist postcard, suggests it may have been amicable.
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