KEN FRIEDMANEVENTS29.08 - 03.09.1975

KEN FRIEDMAN

Galerie S:t Petri, Lund — 29 August–3 September 1975

Ken Friedman from the USA exhibits at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from 29 August to 3 September 1975.
His EVENTS — documents of his own manifestations and performances during the 1960s and 70s — are presented along with photographs from various events and arrangements.
These events give a glimpse into the themes and fields of investigation with which he and other members of Fluxus have been engaged.

In the mid-1960s, Ken Friedman became a member of the Fluxus group and founded Fluxus West (California).
Other Fluxus centers existed in Denmark and France.
Fluxus is both an organization and an idea.
It exists primarily as a reference framework for the exchange of information, for publications, and for collaboration in collective contexts.

Thus, cooperation among the different members has taken place in the form of Flux events, Flux boxes, Flux kits, and Flux fests.
Flux events are, for example, small cards on which ideas for happenings are written — happenings that can, or perhaps only need to, take place in the imagination.
Some of these events are presented at Galerie S:t Petri.

Many of these “events,” says Ken Friedman, create a tension between the work and the viewer, where the latter simultaneously becomes both reflected and involved.
Events generate social interaction and can be varied and interpreted in many ways, while still remaining unified in theme.
They are materially simple yet intellectually complex.
They demonstrate unity rather than divergence among such art forms as correspondence art, process art, music, collage, electronics, and fields such as psychology, pedagogy, sociology, and so on.

Ken Friedman has communicated these ideas and thoughts in numerous exhibitions around the world.
He has had more than forty solo exhibitions in Europe and America.
His writings have been translated into nine languages, and he has given numerous lectures at various universities in the USA and Canada.

In his works, Ken Friedman avoids limiting himself to rigid, conventional structures within art.
Instead, he uses psychological, sociological, and environmental concepts as material for aesthetic creation and communication.

The exhibition is open weekdays from 3–8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 12–5 p.m.