Dust Out Of Brain

Henning Christiansen / Ben Patterson / David Moss

Dust Out Of Brain

Frankfurt, Germany: Museum Für Moderne Kunst, 1993

Audio CD, 60'57’'

Edition size unknown

A single track CD ( 60'57’’, recorded in Hamburg in 1993) housed in a plastic wallet tied with a wool. 

The regular edition uses green thread and Christiansen's "Save the Nature - use Fluxus” is rubber-stamped on the back. The signed edition uses white thread, and features a collaged addition (rubber-stamped and signed "Henning Christiansen 95") on the front, and handwritten number and notes on back. 

Henning Christiansen and Ben Patterson were both members of Fluxus. David Moss is an American percussionist, born in New York City in 1949.

The title reportedly refers to cannabis use. 

Henning Christiansen | Jouez Ma Pipe

Henning Christiansen

Jouez Ma Pipe 

Askeby, Denmark: Edition Møen, 1991

32 x 32 x 6 cm.

Edition of 25 signed and numbered copies

Beautiful in its simplicity, this work consists of a vinyl record with a pipe affixed to it (a nod to Magritte, no doubt) painted with green acrylic paint and housed in a cardboard box. 

The work dates back to 1986 (and was featured in Ursula Block’s influential exhibition and catalogue Broken Music). The edition followed five years later. 

Stanley Brouwn | Send me a map of the city where you are living

Stanley Brouwn

Send me a map of the city where you are living

Copenhagen, Denmark: Self-published, 1970

7.1 x 10.1 cm.

Edition size unknown

A postcard soliciting maps from around the world, not dissimilar to the artist's This Way Brouwn project in which he invited passersby to sketch out quick provisional instructional maps which he then exhibited and published as 'drawings'. 

According to Harry Ruhe's Stanley Brouwn: A Chronology, cards were "send by Brouwn from Copenhagen to people and institutes all over the world."

A scarce piece of ephemera by an important and underrated artist, valued at upwards of a thousand dollars, depending on condition and provenance.