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        Date: 2023-05-23 07:17:50+00:00
        From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com>
        Subject: Fluxus Artist Ken Friedman -- 92 Events Free Open Access Book

Kalmar Art Museum releases the book 92 Events, a playful documentation of the
thought processes behind Ken Friedman's conceptual works.

92 EVENTS

Ken Friedman

“Good art often makes us understand the world and the people in it in a new and
sometimes unexpected way. (…) Ken Friedman’s 92 Events show that the things
around us and our everyday actions can be something other than they seem. An
event can appear exceedingly simple through its visual form and ephemeral
content, but upon closer reflection, simplicity hides radical possibilities. It
can challenge the way we see the world, the things around us and our actions,
thereby shifting our perspective and calibrating our gaze based on these new
insights. As Friedman urges us in Centre Piece (2003):

Imagine a life.
Live it.”

So writes art historian Magdalena Holdar of Stockholm University in her text
about Fluxus artist Ken Friedman, “The Sound of 92 Events” in the recently
published book 92 Events.

Ken Friedman’s events are instructional texts that navigate a fine line between
sculptural proposition, absurd action, and concrete poetry. The works are
deliberately playful and sometimes absurd. They describe actions that break with
traditional notions of art, leaving the realization of the works in the hands or
minds of the viewer. The book 92 Events publishes 92 conceptual, language-based
works spanning over six decades of Friedman’s practice. The book also includes
Friedman’s essays on several of the works as well as a biography of the artist
by Ditte Mauritzon. 92 Events is designed by Oskar Laurin and William Jokijärvi
Andersson.

Kalmar Art Museum has published a free open-access edition [MZ1] of the book in
.pdf format. You will find a copy attached to this email. You can also download
the .pdf from the museum:

https://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/en/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/friedman-2023-92-events-kalmar-art-museum_open-
access.pdf

It is hosted on the museum web site at the 92 Events exhibition psge:

https://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/en/exhibition/92-events/

Those who wish to purchase the hardback book edition can order it at Konst/ig
Books in Stockholm.

https://konstigbooks.com/art/ken-friedman-92-events.html

The book is accompanied by a separate box with all 92 of Friedman’s event scores
as postcards, also designed by Oskar Laurin and William Jokijärvi Andersson. The
postcard box is sold separately and will soon be available for purchase.

Ken Friedman was born in 1949 in New London, Connecticut. He joined Fluxus in
1966 as the youngest member of the original group. Friedman collaborated closely
with other artists and composers in Fluxus, among them Dick Higgins, Nam June
Paik, Bengt af Klintberg, and John Cage. Friedman was key in establishing Fluxus
West, a node for Fluxus related activities in the western states of the USA.
During the 1960s and 1970s Fluxus West expanded to Great Britain.

In 1976 Friedman completed a PhD in behavioural science while working as an
artist. In the 1990s Friedman worked as a management consultant and designer. He
later shifted to a career in academia: first as Professor of Leadership and
Strategic Design at Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, later as Dean of the
Design Faculty at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia,
where he is now Professor Emeritus. Friedman is now Chair Professor of Design
Innovation Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai.

For press photos and review copies, please contact:

Madeleine Petersson
Communications Manager
+46-709-593-242

madeleine.petersson@kalmarkonstmuseum.se


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