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"Fluxworker" Lab Coat

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An altered readymade lab coat with "Fluxworker" embroidered above the left chest pocket. A small number of these coats were made as "costume" for the pseudo-medical personnel who acted as examiners at the Hi Red Center Fluxclinic at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on June 4, 1966. Similar coats were worn in the Hi Red Center street cleaning event and later performances of the Fluxclinic. This coat was worn by Barbara Moore for the 1966 event.
Rights: © George Maciunas Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Department of Prints Barbara Moore Bound/Unbound New York New York partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums June 28 2005. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
Title: "Fluxworker" Lab Coat
Description:
An altered readymade lab coat with "Fluxworker" embroidered above the left chest pocket.
A small number of these coats were made as "costume" for the pseudo-medical personnel who acted as examiners at the Hi Red Center Fluxclinic at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on June 4, 1966.
Similar coats were worn in the Hi Red Center street cleaning event and later performances of the Fluxclinic.
This coat was worn by Barbara Moore for the 1966 event.

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