Robin Page | Junior Fluxus Happening and Event for Kids

 

Robin Page

Junior Fluxus Happening and Event for Kids

Cologne, Germany: Edition Hundertmark, 1995

16 pp., 15 x 21 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 300

Robin Page was born in England in 1932 to a father who worked as an animator at Disney and a mother from Vancouver, where Page lived most of his childhood, making him the rare Fluxus affiliated artist to grow up in Canada. Page's time at an unnamed art school in Vancouver ended when he punched a professor he would later dub "King Shit of Turd Island.” 

That kind of antagonism continues in this publication, which seems to be a parody of the Event Scores that became synonymous with Fluxus artists such as Takehisa Kosugi, Robert Watts, Mieko Shiomi, Nam June Paik and countless others. Or at least a conflation of those terse texts with pranks an evil child might play. They are entirely devoid of the poetry of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit scores, or the economy of George Brecht's Wateryam works. And mostly mean-spirited. 

Things like "Hold a candle under a doorknob for 2 or 3 minutes before your father leaves for work" or "Put sugar in the salt shaker and put salt in the sugar bowl." And fourteen other ways to piss off your parents, siblings and neighbours. 

One of the 300 copies in the second edition is available from the publisher, here, for 12 Euro. The handwritten and collaged manuscript is also available, from the newer venture Hundertmark Art Fair, here.