[Air-l] Free Electronic Edition of the Fluxus Performance Workbook

[Ken Friedman]

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, 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