Friday, April 3, 2015

Ben Vautier | Suicide Kit (Kit de suicide)





Ben Vautier
Suicide Kit (Kit de suicide)
Self-published, 1962
9.5 x 37 x 18 cm
Unique object

A prototype for the edition below.

Vautier told Fluxus curator Jon Hendricks "I used two live electric wires: you tie them to your ears and put your feet in a bucket of water, sleeping pills, rope. They were real systems. I never used nails or fish hooks, those were from [George] Maciunas".


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