A square, wooden framed alarm clock with a paper label.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The square, wooden framed alarm clock has a paper label printed with the numbers zero through seventeen. Zero at the top of the circle of numbers, the letters CM are printed beneath it. Ten fine lines are printed between all the numbers, at the fifth line from the zero is printed 5m. The long metal hand is pointing to the seven, the shorter is point to the eight.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26421
People
Per Kirkeby, Danish (Copenhagen, Denmark 1938 - 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Designed by George Maciunas, American (Kaunas, Lithuania 1931 - 1978 Boston, MA)
Published by Fluxus, American
Title
Flux Clock (Distance Traveled in mm)
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
altered readymade
Date
c. 1969
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/28838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Altered readymade alarm clock with printed paper face
Technique
Mixed technique
Dimensions
6.9 x 6.9 x 3 cm (2 11/16 x 2 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Barbara Moore, Bound/Unbound, New York, New York, partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
Copyright
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26421
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jon Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), p.290
  • Jacob Proctor, Ken Friedman, and Hannah Higgins, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, exh. cat., ed. Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 124, cat. 104, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/16/2011 - 08/07/2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 09/09/2011 - 12/03/2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 02/25/2012 - 05/20/2012
  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/10/2019 - 10/04/2021

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