Dear Colleagues,
Last week I sent out a note about the free digital
edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook.
While many people were able to download a copy,
I had notes from several colleagues that there were
problems. I am not sure whether this was a software
problem or whether the demand was too great at
any one moment.
If you had difficulties, this is an invitation to try
again. If site traffic is too great at any given moment,
please try later.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
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The first examples of what were to become Fluxus event scores date
back to John Cage's famous class at The New School where artists such
as George Brecht, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, and Alison Knowles began
to create art works and performances in musical form. One of these
forms was the event. Events tend to be scored in brief verbal notes
known as event scores. In a general sense, they are proposals,
propositions, and instructions for different kinds of actions.
To accompany a special issue of the journal Performance Research, Ken
Friedman, Owen Smith, and Lauren Sawchyn edited a fortieth
anniversary edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook. The workbook
is now available in a free electronic edition. This book can be
viewed on-line or downloaded. The download is a .pdf file that can
also be printed.
This edition of the Workbook contains scores by over forty artists,
including work by such classic Fluxus artists as Jean Dupuy, Dick
Higgins, Joe Jones, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan Knizak, George
Maciunas, Larry Miller, Nam June Paik, and Mieko Shiomi.
To get a copy of the Workbook, go to URL:
http://www.performance-research.net/pages/epublications.html
Then, go to the line reading:
Click here to view [or download] a printable PDF version of the Workbook
And follow the instructions on the next line:
to download and save the document, right-click (PC) or control-click
(Mac) the link above and choose 'Save target as...'
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For information on the special Fluxus issue of Performance Research, go to URL:
http://www.performance-research.net/pages/currentissue.html
And click on the line reading:
On Fluxus - PR 7:3 (September 2002)
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On Fluxus
Performance Research Volume 7, Number 3 (2002)
Issue Editors: Ric Allsopp, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith
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