Paul Sharits
Flux Wall Poem
New York City, USA: Fluxus, [circa] 1968
10 x 12 x 1 cm.
Edition size unknown
A thin plastic box with a label designed by George Maciunas containing six double-sided offset printed cards. The illustration above (by Harry Ruhe) indicates how they are to be hung on the wall, hanging from chains.
Maciunas said very little about this work, other than writing to a collector "Not very good"*. The below prototype is certainly baffling: why such a large box for six cards that would fit into an envelope. Jon Hendricks, in the Fluxus Codex, remarks only "Handy words, packaged by Fluxus".
The work is in the collection of Harvard Art Museums, The Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Bonotto Foundation.
*"Sharits wall poem is available, not very good...". George Maciunas to Dr. Hanns Sohm, late 1972.
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