Zero Flux Given
Zero Flux Given intervenes directly in a Fluxus history book, working on torn pages to overprint bold red and blue typographic statements across archival photographs, event scores, and documentary text. The book is not treated as a reference. It is treated as material.
Fluxus valued live action, simple instructions, and temporary gestures over fixed meaning. But once those actions are written into history books, they become images and explanations organized and interpreted by institutions. This work interrupts that process while admitting it cannot escape it. By inserting blunt declarative language into the pages, the series examines how radical gestures become stabilized through documentation, framing, and pedagogy.
The typography does not illustrate the archive; it competes with it.
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8.5 x 11 inches
Fluxus by Jon Hendriks and Thomas Kellein (1995)
2025 (ongoing)