High, dear Ken!
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:13:42 +0200
>To: Eric Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Ken Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Response to your note
>Eric,
(...)
>It is no secret that I don't like you. Saying as much in a private letter
>to Tamas St. Jauby doesn't seem strange. It's no indication of bad
>character to state that I don't like you. It's a public fact.
(...)
>As it is, I didn't know that Tamas broadcasts private notes.
(...)
I will be careful of what I send Tamas.
(...)
I'm sorry, Ken, but these sentences of yours above [to Eric - e.n.] are
in polynomial contradictions with themselves and
in a total contradiction with
your sentences below [to IPUT - e.n.]:
(...)
>Private correspondence ought to be private.
(...)
>Please keep my private correspondence private if you wish to exchange email.
(...)
In between you wrote:
>In a note this morning, he [IPUT - e.n.] explained that this is his view of
>how the Internet should be used. I disagree with his view.
(This is what you disagree with,
defender of emil-property:
>High, dear Ken!
>
>On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ken Friedman wrote:
>
>> Private correspondence ought to be private.
>
>I'm sorry, Ken,
>IPUT doesn't believe in the notion of private.
>If one shares anything
>it is immediately ought to be collective
>in the holy name of Techne.
>Noone should, can oblige IPUT to keep
>the shared in private.
>IPUT enjoys glasnost.y.
>
>> He doesn't like you any more than he likes me.
>
>Yes, we know.
>It's because Mr Andersen doesn't trust. anymore
>the secretary of IPUT,
>because she knew, but
>- althought she had some obscure love-st.ory with him
>while they met at a Landsbergis-party some years ago in Toscana)
>didn't tell to him what
>Szaraz Belshar wrote to Ben Vautier about him:
>>Eric Andersen is a notorious liar,
>>he is not an artist.,
>>not even a non-art-artist.,
>>but a monomaniac, boring bureaucrat, who
>>thinks he is the only expert of Fluxus and all,
>>who is an uncurable solipsist.(.)
>(Well, the laughter exploded when Vautier wrote it to Benjamin Patterson
>who then wrote it to Mr. Andersen who wrote back that
>it was him who wrote it first. to IPUT
>about himself
>who then wrote to Ms. Belshar
>- and all this happened during one afternoon
>between 5 countries .
>Did you hear that?)
>
>> For my part, it seems to me I've treated you well ever since I first.
>> exhibited your work back in the early 1970s.
>
>Yes, indeed.
>We almost. forgot it.
>IPUT thanks it to you very much again so much.
>Apropos, do you know what happened to that note of an event
>(Bow - hommage a Ken Friedman)
>what IPUT have sent for request.
>to Jean Sellem to publish it
>in the Lund Art Press many years ago?
>
>>It's not a friendly gest.ure to
>> get Eric on my back when you know how he behaves.
>
>Sorry, but IPUT does think it is a basically friendly gest.ure
>towards both of you that
>the truth what
>you wrote about Mr. Andersen to IPUT
>is shared with the interest.ed.
>And just. look to the roots of all this:
>it is generated
>by the very simple and funny quest.ion of
>the effectivity of the net-petitions,
>Mr. Mondrian.
>
>> Please keep my private correspondence private if you wish to exchange email.
>
>IPUT was founded for the service of Big Sist.er.
>She has no wish for any secret.
>
>Please never write anything to IPUT
>what you don't want to tell to anybody!
>
>Mafia is an Arabic word.
>It means: "it does not exist.".
>
>The Fluxus-mafia does not exist.!
>
>Does Emil-art exist.?
>
>"The world is not a set of facts,
>but a set of rumors!"
> (Mrs. Kagebe Wittgenst.ein)
>
>Our best. wishes -
>
>Hugh!
>
>a1o1a)
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Globalist.-Cubist. St.Emil-Gossip St.atement?!
Can one emil privately the publicly known gossip,
or can not one emil publicly the privately unknown gossip,
or can one emil privately the publicly unknown gossip,
or can not one emil publicly the privately known gossip ,
or can not one emil privately the publicly known gossip,
or can one emil publicly the privately known gossip,
or can not one emil privately the publicly unknown gossip,
or can one emil publicly the privately unknowngossip,
or can not one emil privately the privately known gossip,
or can one emil publicly the publicly known gossip,
or can not one emil privately the privately unknown gossip,
or can one emil publicly the publicly unknown gossip,
or can one emil privately the privately known gossip,
or can not one emil publicly the publicly unknown gossip,
or can one emil privately the privately unknown gossip,
or can not one emil publicly the publicly known gossip?!
Our east. wishes -
Hugh!
a1o1a
