FLUXLIST: Please welcome Ken Friedman

[allen bukoff]

FLUXLISTers, please welcome back Ken Friedman.

Ken Friedman needs no introduction to FLUXLIST...he helped start this email 
list way back in April of 1996.

But let me just tell you a FEW of the things I think I know and do admire 
about Ken Friedman.  He has been all over and in Fluxus since he was a 16 
year old kid from Illinois who met the likes of George Maciunas, Dick 
Higgins, and Alison Knowles in New York in the middle 1960s and recognized 
that something huge and wonderful was going on.  Dr. Friedman is now 
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design, Department of 
Knowledge Management, in the Norwegian School of Management.  Besides being 
a major participant in and scholar of Fluxus, Ken has probably done more 
than anyone else in the world to promote awareness of Fluxus in the 
"hinterlands" and beyond its origins in the art world.  I like to think of 
Ken as being the Johnny Appleseed of Fluxus.  Many of us here--whether we 
know it or not--found Fluxus because of the Fluxus seeds scattered by Ken 
Friedman.

One of Ken's recent projects (with Owen Smith) is worth repeating 
here:  The free-to-download revised and expanded version of the Fluxus 
Performance Workbook, a collection of short performance works and event 
scores by over forty artists.
http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html .