On 6/3/03 12:20 PM, "allen bukoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ken! Hurray! So Happy! Ann K > 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 . > >
