Ken Friedman
dal 2/4/2004 al 2/5/2004
Segnalato da
2/4/2004
Ken Friedman
The Centre of Attention, London
These works are designed as scores, which can be seen as proposal pieces or instructions for actions, performances, enactments or events. The score notation combines the authority of the artists' intention while being an Intermedia work that has the convenience of being easy to store and distribute, as a single A4 paper, able of being retrieved for future and repeated realisation.
12 structures
Fluxus concert conducted by the artist: Saturday 3 April, 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition runs 4 April to 2 May 2004, Fridays to Sundays, 1 to 6 pm at
the Centre of Attention, 15 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN
What's the score?
These works by Ken Friedman are designed as scores, which can be seen as
proposal pieces or instructions for actions, performances, enactments or events.
The score notation combines the authority of the artists' intention while being
an Intermedia work that has the convenience of being easy to store and
distribute, as a single A4 paper, able of being retrieved for future and
repeated realisation.
What's a Fluxus concert?
The idea of the Score suggests musicality. Like a score it is of an individual's
mind and intention. Like a score it can be realised by artists other than the
original creator. And like a score it is open to variation in realisation and
interpretation. On April 3, Ken Friedman will in person conduct the performance
of a number of his scores. Continuing on from ideas around popular culture, he
makes reference to concert and vaudeville and by association to the very origins
of performance art in European Dadaism.
Why the Centre of Attention?
The Centre has worked to realise this project with Ken Friedman as it underlines
ideas shared and examined by both him and us and Fluxus, in a general way at
least. These include ideas around intimacy, Networks and the City; gesture; and
the Fluxus desire to escape the boundaries of the art world and to shape a
discourse of their/our own. To be a laboratory of research is the goal and not
to follow the sterile professionalism encouraged by art institutions.
More about Ken Friedman?
Friedman has, on discovering himself an artist during the revolutionary ferment
of the 60's, been intent on creating meaningful work characterised by Humanism
and social responsibility. He views art as being functional with its production
of models for action and behaviour which can be used as a tool to enhance one's
daily lived life. He continually seeks and then directs us towards the
marvellous in the mundane. He combines a neo-enlightenment advocacy of the
experimental model with a spiritual accent that leads to work that could be
viewed as Prayers for a secular age. Wit and brevity, performance and
musicality, Duchamp and Zen, Surrealism and concept art, minimalism and gesture
all combine in the work of this truly unique artist fired in the furnace of a
revolutionary moment.
'12 structures', a Centre of Attention publication of the scores will be
produced for this exhibition.
The Centre of Attention
15 Cotton's Gardens, Shoreditch, E2 8DN London
tel 02077290699