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Anti-Art Movement
Fluxus exhibit blurs the boundaries
between art and life.
Suzanne Chessler
Contributing Writer
K
en Friedman, distin-
guished professor and dean
of the design faculty at
Swinburne University of Technology
in Melbourne, Australia, intermittently
immersed himself in the Fluxus art
— or anti-art — movement popular
in the 1960s and 1970s.
Friedman collaborated on three-
dimensional works (Fluxkits or games
in a box) that represented the life-
examining and humorous approach
that defines Fluxus, and he developed
Fluxus events.
His Flux Corsage, a plastic box filled
with flower seeds, will be among 100
pieces in "Fluxus and the Essential
Questions of Life an exhibit running
Feb. 25-May 20 at the University of
Michigan Museum of Art.
When Fluxus was in full gear,
Friedman developed 20 Gallons, a
recurring event during which he
cooked chicken soup for hundreds of
people. He thinks of the soup events
as reflecting his Jewish upbringing.
Friedman discussed his connection
to Fluxus during a phone conversation
from his Australian home.
"I think Fluxus is thoughtful and
very entertaining, and I enjoy a lot of
aspects of the work',' says Friedman,
62, whose interest started in his teen
years. "The people and what they
make are fascinating and fun:'
The exhibit, organized by the Hood
Museum of Art at Dartmouth College,
is designed to explain the initiative
that blurred the boundaries between
art and life. The New Hampshire
center holds the collection of the late
George Maciunas, who had been at
the helm of Fluxus and influenced
Friedman.
Visitors will view works by
Maciunas, Yoko Ono and Nam June
Pail( among others representing an
international network of artists,
composers and designers celebrating
collaboration, the ephemeral and the
everyday.
Divided into 14 sections, items are
arranged to answer questions playful-
ly according to themes, such as happi-
ness, health, freedom and danger. One
item, for instance, recommends more
jokes than drugs by showing a pill
bottle filled with capsules containing
humorous messages.
Friedman's piece is in the section on
change, and it suggests planting seeds,
nurturing them and giving blossoms
to someone who is loved. It implies
that although the plant will die, as
might the love, neither will disappear;
instead, they will change into another
form of energy.
"I had an idea for a corsage kit
with labels that had names of dif-
ferent flowers and pins to hold
them and sent the idea to George
explains Friedman, who grew up in
Connecticut and California, earned
advanced degrees at San Francisco
State University and the United States
International University and worked
in Finland and Norway.
"George came up with the idea for
the seeds, and the kit emerged from
the dialogue. Things happened like
that when you worked with George,
who designed the outside of the box."
Friedman, who never studied art
but developed a Fluxus-like project
before meeting others with similar
interests, has been to Michigan for
exhibits and lectures. At one time, he
drove a portable Fluxus gallery.
"I've been corresponding for 20
years with David Doris (an associate
professor in Ann Arbor and presenter
in one of many programs associated
with the exhibit)," Friedman says. "He
wrote a master's thesis on Fluxus and
Zen that I published in a book." ❑
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" runs Feb. 25-May 20 at
the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor.
Galleries are open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays and noon-5 p.m.
Sundays. Free admission. (734) 764-0395; www.umma.umich.edu .
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