George Maciunas | Flux Paper Events

George Maciunas

Flux Paper Events

Berlin, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1976

[16] pp., 21 x 14.6 cm., softcover

Edition of 500

An all-blank book (other than the cover graphic) that features physical alterations to each page. 

Maciunas proposed the title to Armin Hundertmark (see below, bottom) almost exactly as the final work would come to look, though with less "smely subtance[s]" like "gazoline". The hole punched corner in the bottom right of the book is there in the proposal, as is the cut off corner in the upper right side. The title of the work remains unchanged from this proposal, as do the folded, perforated, glued and torn pages. The proposed spices or sneezing powder in between the pages was probably deemed unfeasible. 

Maciunas spent considerably more time producing, designing and promoting the works of other artists, so this is a somewhat rare solo outing. Rarer still are works that he produced for other publishers, rather than under the banner of Fluxus or Implosion Inc., publishing ventures that he initiated. 

Flux Paper Events is in the collection of MoMA, MACBA, Emily Carr University, The Walker Art Centre, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty and countless other institutions. 

The work bears a striking resemblance to Dutch artist Marinus Boezem's Paper Events, published six years prior. The title is the same, the right corner is bent identically, and many of the treatments to the page are similar (see post here). 

The 1st Edition of Flux Paper Events is still available for 160 Euro, but the second edition of 500 additional copies (from 1998) can be had for less than a third of that price, at 44 Euro, from the publisher, here.