Free Electronic Edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook

[anna balint]

(finally some of the Fluxus sources are freely available online
- great achievement of the history of Fluxus. Otherwise one would
have to collect these scores in several publications that are
difficult to find, other scores are unpublished and available
only as manuscripts in different archives spread in the world,
sometimes they exist as video documentation only.
It is also notable that the collection does not concentrate
exclusively on American Fluxus - which often happens in case of
major Fluxus publications - though it is not a complete 
collection of records. I don't see any event of Ben Patterson
or Oyvind Fahlstrom for instance. 
I wish that similar collections would be avialable about the
East European art as well. Apart from the Arteast collection
of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana that tried to collect
major works of the contemporary art from East Europe and also
made an affort to tie contemporary art back to the initiatives 
from the '70s, '80s, and apart from the New Moment initiative of
the Irwin group, there is not much going on. Also i am not sure
how far the New Moment project has developed, their webpage was 
not updated since ages: http://www.newmoment-irwin.com/)


From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman at bi.no>

 
Performance Research has released a free digital edition of the long 
unavailable Fluxus Performance Workbook, a collection of short 
performance works and event scores by over forty artists.

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 Fluxus issue of 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 expanded and updated edition of the Workbook contains scores by 
George Brecht, Jean Dupuy, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Bengt af 
Klintberg, Milan Knizak, George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Nam June 
Paik, Mieko Shiomi, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, and many more.

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/epublications.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