Ken Friedman Collection
Mandeville Special Collections Library
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Descriptive Summary
Creator:
Friedman, Ken, 1949-
Title: Ken Friedman Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1964 - 1971
Extent:
7.80 linear feet
(9 archives boxes and 31 oversize folders)
Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts, conceptual and mail art work, and ephemera documenting Ken Friedman's affiliation with Fluxus
art movement spearheaded by George Maciunas. The collection includes examples of Friedman's Fluxus offset press, art work
of other Fluxus artists, publications by Aktual, and examples of work by the Cleveland poet d.a. levy. Significant correspondents
include George Brecht, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Milan Knizak, d.a. levy, George Maciunas, Jerry Rubin, and Paul
Sharits.
The collection is arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS, 3) COLLABORATIONS, 4) FLUXUS, and 5) D.A. LEVY.
Repository:
University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Collection number: MSS 0128
Language of Material:
Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Not Available
Preferred Citation
Ken Friedman Collection, MSS 0128. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Biography
Kenneth S. Friedman (born September 19, 1949- ) attended Shimer College (1966-1967) where he studied music theory and composition
with Richard Maxfield. He later received an MS from San Francisco State University in 1971 and, after that a Ph.D. from the
Graduate School of Human Behavior at U.S. International University in 1976. From 1967-1968, he was an instructor at San Francisco
State College Experimental College, where he taught course in the literature of surrealism, the avant-garde, and expanded
arts.
Ken Friedman experimented with many forms of conceptual art during the period covered by the collection, from the graphic
and concrete arts to music, writing and performance. While at Shimer College, Friedman directed an "underground" radio program,
"Garnisht Kigele." Later, he edited ephemeral magazines as a member of the Underground Press Syndicate and became Editor-in
Chief of Fluxus West Publications and General Manager of Something Else Press. Friedman founded Fluxus West in 1966 shortly
after becoming acquainted with George Maciunas and other members of the New York Fluxus coterie.
George Maciunas was the first person to use the term "Fluxus." In 1961, he sent out an invitation for an exhibition at the
AG Gallery, noting on the invitation that the $3.00 cover charge was to be used for publishing FLUXUS magazine. The term
came to designate an attitude toward art best exemplied in the work of Marcel Duchamp, the Dadaists, and John Cage. Indeed,
many of the participants in the movement during the 1960s had personally studied with Cage or one of his disciples such as
Richard Maxfield. Artistic values championed by principal Fluxus artists such as Friedman, Dick Higgins, George Brecht,
and Yoko Ono, included spontaneity and indeterminacy.
Besides Fluxus, Friedman also participated in Aktual and the New York Correspondence School, two other conceptual art movements
occuring during the time represented by the collection. Since the date of the collection, Friedman's work has appeared in
a number of exhibitions, and he has received commissions from the Joslyn Art Museum, the Western Museum Association, and the
University of Tulsa.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of the materials in the Ken Friedman Collection date from 1967 to 1970 -- for Friedman, a period of expansive production
of Fluxus materials and a continuing commitment to Happenings / events, collaborations, and the Unitarian Universalist Church
and its affiliate organizations of Free Religious Youth (FRY) and Liberal Religious Youth (LRY). The collection best documents
graphic design of the period (with many examples from Friedman's Fluxus offset press), works of the Fluxus group and publications
by Aktual. Numerous scenarios, musical compositions, prose and poetry works are also included. Another interesting facet of
the collection are the works and correspondence by poet d.a. levy and New York Correspondence School founder Ray Johnson.
The papers are organized into five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS, 3) COLLABORATIONS, 4) FLUXUS, and 5) D.A. LEVY.
Series One: Correspondence
The CORRESPONDENCE series arranges Friedman's communications alphabetically, with incoming and outgoing correspondence filed
together. The correspondence has been segregated by author and arranged in chronological order when materials are dated. Of
particular interest is the correspondence Friedman conducted with George Brecht, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Milan
Knizák, d.a. levy, George Maciunas, Jerry Rubin, and Paul Sharits.
Series Two: Writings
The WRITINGS are organized in five subseries, each organized alphabetically by title: MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, COMPOSITIONS
/ MUSIC, SERMONS, FRY/LRY, and EDUCATION ESSAYS . The folders contain holograph manuscripts, typescripts, carbons and photo
reproductions of Friedman' s productions from college writings of 1966 through Fluxus works of 1971. Of particular interest
are numerous scenarios for Happenings, Fluxus events, and musical scores. Many examples of lyrics, sermons, prose works and
poetry are represented, as well as the short novel: "O.K. Joe Sonata."
Series Three: Collaborations
This series is arranged in six subseries: MISCELLANEOUS (General, Catalogues, Events, Happenings), AKTUAL, GARNISHT KIGELE,
SURREALIST RESEARCH BUREAU, and COLLECTED WORKS, with each subseries alphabetically arranged. Numerous Fluxus related works
are evidenced in Series Three, with examples of offset posters, Aktual mimeograph books, a Radio Play by Dick Higgins for
Garnisht Kigele titled: "Die Fabelhafte Geträume von Taifun Willi," and an edition of Alan Kaprow's "Days Off."
Series Four: Fluxus
Work in this series is arranged into two subseries: FLUXUS WEST / UPS and COLLECTED WORK. The subseries are alphabetically
arranged. When titles are unavailable, offset graphic works are arranged by Friedman's numbering system, e.g. KF#31. This
series contains an important holding of Fluxus Posters and broadsheets gathered or produced from 1964 - 1971, with numerous
examples of oversized graphics produced by Friedman and other Fluxus principals including: "Spatial Poem No. 2", by Meiko
(Chieko) Shiomi (1965); "Communist Must Give Revolutionary Leadership" by Henry Flynt and George Maciunas (1965); "Fluxpost
17-17", postage stamps by Robert Watts (1964).
Series Five: d.a. levy Works
This series contains Friedman's collection of d.a.levy's small press works. Several drawings and silkscreen works are contained
in the series, along with single leaf mimeo sheets, limited editions, and documentation of levy's criminal prosecution for
obscenity.
SEPARATION NOTE
A number of items have been separated from the collection and cataloged individually for the Library's Rare or Archive For
New Poetry Monograph collections.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Friedman, Ken, 1949- -- Archives
Levy, D.A. -- Archives
Fugs (Musical group)
Liberal Religious Youth
Free Religious Youth
Mail art
Happening (Art)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, Modern -- 20th century
Fluxus (Group of artists)
Performance art
Contributors
Brecht, George -- correspondent
Cage, John -- correspondent
Higgins, Dick, 1938- -- correspondent
Johnson, Ray, 1927- -- correspondent
Kaprow, Allan, -- correspondent
Knizak, Milan, -- correspondent
Knowles, Alison, -- correspondent
Levy, D.A. -- correspondent
Maciunas, George, 1931-1978, -- correspondent
Rubin, Jerry -- correspondent
Sharits, Paul -- correspondent
Sohm, H. -- correspondent
Spoerri, Daniel, 1930- -- correspondent
Williams, Emmett, 1930- -- correspondent
Collection Contents
box 1, folder 1
Miscellaneous unidentified correspondence to Ken Friedman
1966 - 1968
box 1, folder 2
AAAB.A
1967
Note
A magazine edited by Friedman at Shimer College.
box 1, folder 3
Aktual
1967
Note
Correspondence regarding; for example of work produced under this imprint see series 3B.
box 1, folder 5
American MENSA Society
1968
box 1, folder 7
Anderson, Eric
1967 - 1971
Note
Exchange between Fluxus artist Anderson and Friedman.
box 1, folder 8
Asphodel Book Shop
1968
Note
Publicity announcements related to d.a. levy's suicide & the d.a. levy Anthology. Asphodel Book Shop is owned by James Russell
Lowell.
box 1, folder 9
Ay-o
1967
Note
Related to construction of Ay-o's Fluxus Fingerbox sets.
box 1, folder 11
Berner, Jeff
1967
Note
Exchange between Fluxus artist Berner and Friedman.
box 1, folder 13
Bory, J.F.
1967 - 1968
Note
Exchange between Bory, the Co-Publisher of APPROACHES magazine, and Friedman
box 1, folder 14
Brecht, George
1966 - 1968
Note
Photocopy reproductions of numerous exchanges between Fluxus artist Brecht & Friedman.
box 1, folder 15
Cage, John
1966 - 1967
Note
Correspondence with John Cage related to the publication or donation of Friedman's musical compositions and writing.
box 1, folder 16
Cazazza, Monte
Note
Postcard from West Coast Correspondence Art principle Cazazza proposing an "exchange" piece.
box 1, folder 17
Chase, Richard
1965 - 1968
Note
Correspondence with Richard Chase (Friedman's uncle), a folklorist.
box 1, folder 18
Congdon, Kirby
Note
A publisher of broadsides, magazines and books.
box 1, folder 19
City University of New York
1969
box 1, folder 22
de Vries, William
1967
Note
Related to the PROMETHEAN and Unitarian Universalist functions
box 1, folder 28
Egerer, Anna
1968 - 1969
Note
Correspondence with Anna Egerer and Jiri Tupler of Aktual detailing their flight from Czechoslovakia to West Germany after
the Russian repression of 1968.
box 1, folder 30
E.S.P.-Disk
1966
Note
Related to the Fugs and Friedman's duties as a publicist for the record company.
box 1, folder 31
Filliou, Robert
1967
Note
Correspondence with the Fluxus performance artist, poet and writer Robert Filliou.
box 1, folder 32
Fine, Albert
Note
Correspondence with Fluxus principle Fine. Several scenarios / works are represented in the Fluxus series in the Friedman
Collection.
box 1, folder 33
Fine Arts Society of San Diego
1969
box 1, folder 34
Flux / UPS
1967 - 1968
Note
Correspondence exchanged between subscribers and members of the Underground Press Syndicate, and Friedman and Sebastopol James,
as constituted as publishers of Flux / UPS.
box 1, folder 35
Fluxus West
1967 - 1968
Note
Press releases and correspondence related to the activities (education, events, performances, etc.) of Fluxus West.
box 1, folder 36
Foster, Don
Note
Foster was referred to Friedman by d.a. levy. In reply, Friedman sent a scenario for a Fluxus Performance / Event.
box 1, folder 37
Free Religious Association
1968
box 1, folder 38
Friedman to unidentified correspondents
1967 - 1969
box 1, folder 39
Friedman to Candida
1967 - 1968
Note
Correspondence with poetry submissions.
box 1, folder 40
Friedman to Ellen
1966 - 1967
box 1, folder 42, oversize FB00519
box 1, folder 43
Fugs
1966
Note
Correspondence related to the Fugs and the radio program GARNISHT KIGELE at WRSB at Shimer College.
box 1, folder 44
Garnisht Kigele
Note
Release in regard to the suspension of the radio program GARNISHT KIGELE for obscenity.
box 1, folder 45
Ginsberg, Allen
1966
Note
Request to A.G. for a submission to AAAB-A magazine.
box 1, folder 46
Graffiti
Note
Submission of SHAME ON YOU LYNDON JOHNSON to James R. Lowell.
box 1, folder 49
Heflin, Lee
1967
Note
Writer, filmmaker and sometime Fluxus contributor.
box 1, folder 50
Higgins, Dick (Something Else Press, dated correspondence)
1966 - 1969
Note
A large and varied holding of dated correspondence (1/9/66 - 3/19/69) with Dick Higgins: writer, publisher and Fluxus principal.
box 1, folder 51
Higgins, Dick (Something Else Press, undated correspondence)
Note
Undated correspondence with Fluxus principal Dick Higgins.
box 1, folder 54
Inner Space Magazine
1966 - 1967
Note
Correspondence and submissions for publication, including: "In the Palace of the King" and several unattributed poems.
box 2, folder 1
Johnson, Ray
1968 - 1969
Note
Exchanges with Ray Johnson, founder of the New York Correspondence School. Acknowledged to be one of the principal artists
of the Mail Art Movement of the 60s and 70s.
box 2, folder 2
Junior Fellowship Youth
1966 - 1967
box 2, folder 3
Kaplan, Philip
1967
Note
Collector of Surrealist works.
box 2, folder 4
Kaprow, Allan
Note
Correspondence with Allan Kaprow, founder of the Happening movement.
box 2, folder 5
Kirkeby, Per
Note
Founder of Fluxus North, Copenhagen. Supplemented with a brief CV.
box 2, folder 6
Knizak, Milan
1968 - 1969
Note
Photocopies. Friedman's collaborator on U.S. Aktual publications, and founder of Fluxus East, Prague.
box 2, folder 7
Knizak, Sonia
Note
Scenarios related to Aktual activities in Czechoslovakia and the U.S., in collaboration with Milan Knizak and Friedman.
box 2, folder 8
Knowles, Alison
1967
Note
Artist, performance artist and writer Knowles was a principal member of Fluxus. The folder includes a review of Knowles' BIG
BOOK by Friedman.
box 2, folder 9
Kupferberg, Tuli
1966
Note
Exchanges with Kupferberg, founding member of the Fugs and Birth Press. Folder contains two typed / holograph poems by Kupferberg:
FREAK FOR KNOWLEDGE and TEL-A-TYPE!.
box 2, folder 10
Landsbergis, Vytautas
1967
Note
Poems / Scenarios collected as Six Games (FLUXULF) and scores for "two piano-pieces for professional performance" (1962) by
the Lithuanian writer / musician.
box 2, folder 11
Lane, Brian
1967 - 1969
Note
Lane established a "branch" of the Surrealist Research Bureau in London and later handled Fluxus materials.
box 2, folder 12
Lauffer, Dan
Note
Some Fluxfest and Fluxus scenarios / proposals.
box 2, folder 13
Leman, Martin
1967
Note
Publisher of ARCADE.
box 2, folder 15
levy, d.a.
1967
Note
The collection also contains numerous books, mimeograph leaves, drawings and photocopies of news articles related to levy
and Jim Lowell in the d.a. levy Series. Some of the books have been separated and cataloged for the Archive for New Poetry's
monograph collection.
box 2, folder 16
Liberal Religous Youth
1965 - 1967
Note
One of three files related to the Unitarian Universalist organization.
box 2, folder 17
Liberal Religous Youth
1968 - 1969
Note
The second of three files related to the Unitarian Universalist organization.
box 2, folder 18
Liberal Religous Youth
Note
The third and last (undated) file of materials related to the Unitarian Universalist organization.
box 2, folder 19
Liberal Religous Youth - Pacific Southwest LRY Literary Review
1965 - 1967
Note
File includes: "Literature and Liberal Religious Youth" and "Ken Friedman --- artist or arty?"
box 2, folder 20
Liberal Religous Youth - WESCOM
1966 - 1968
Note
Unitarian Universalist organization.
box 2, folder 21
Liberation News Service
1968
Note
Includes Friedman's: A JOURNEY TO SINGING MOUNTAIN.
box 2, folder 23
Maciunas, George
1967 - 1969
Note
The founder of Fluxus. The file includes the proposed FLUXSHOW for Gallery 669 and Friedman's: FLUXMYSTERY and FLUXPOME.
box 2, folder 24
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1967
box 2, folder 27
Mon, Franz
1967
Note
A poet and distributor of TYPOS-VERLAG.
box 2, folder 28
Newcomb, Mike
1969
Note
Collected poems (Newcomb?) and fact sheet on Fluxus West and Free Religious Association publication by Friedman.
box 2, folder 29
Oracle
Note
Release for Oracle by Friedman typed on the verso of mimeographs for a "Human Be-In".
box 2, folder 30
Palazzoli, Daniela
1967 - 1968
Note
Fluxus material exchange with Edizini di cultura contemporanea.
box 2, folder 32
Promethean
1965 - 1968
Note
Regarding a publication of Liberal Religious Youth.
box 2, folder 33
Promethean - Editorial Staff
1967 - 1968
box 3, folder 1
Raifman, Judy
1967
Note
d.a. levy reference.
box 3, folder 2
R.J.S. (Asphodel Bookstore)
1967 - 1968
Note
Related to small press work in Cleveland, d.a. levy and James R. Lowell.
box 3, folder 3
Rubin, Jerry
1968
Note
Yippie news releases with a brief typed note by Rubin.
box 3, folder 4
Ryan, Phillip
1968
Note
Photocopies of originals by Mail Artist Ryan.
box 3, folder 5
Sander
1967
Note
Linoleum cut New Years card.
box 3, folder 6
San Francisco State College
1967 - 1968
Note
Draft board matters and letters related to instruction of Surrealism Course.
box 3, folder 7
Sharits, Greg
1967
Note
Member of the Experimental Film Group at the University of Colorado, Boulder..
box 3, folder 8
Sharits, Paul
1967
Note
Fluxus principal. The file includes: WHEN I DROP OFF TO SLEEP a poem by Friedman. Other works by Sharits are contained in
the Fluxus Series
box 3, folder 9
Shiomi, Mieko (Chieko)
1967
Note
Fluxus principal. This folder contains a letter by Friedman recording colors that he has collected for a Shiomi conceptual
work.
box 3, folder 10
Sohm, Hans (Archiv Sohm)
1967 - 1969
Note
German archivist of Happenings and Fluxus.
box 3, folder 11
Spoerri, Daniel
1967
Note
Fluxus principle. Folder contains Friedman's "salad recipefor you: recipe 4 FOUR U".
box 3, folder 13
Student Religious Liberals
1964 - 1969
Note
Unitarian Universalist organization.
box 3, folder 14
Sweigert, Gregory Howard (Captain Ohio)
1967
box 3, folder 17
Texts, miscellaneous by Ken Friedman
Note
Possibly drafts of letters.
box 3, folder 18
TwoOneTwo (212 group, or, Robert Linkola)
1967
box 3, folder 19
Underground
1966 - 1967
Note
Friedman's published works for UNDERGROUND are collected in oversize holdings.
box 3, folder 21
Underground Press Syndicate (affiliated)
1967
box 3, folder 22
Underground Press Syndicate (affiliated)
Note
Undated correspondence by U.P.S. members.
box 3, folder 23
Unitarian Universalist Association
1966 - 1969
box 3, folder 24
University of California, Santa Barbara
1970
box 3, folder 25
Vautier, Ben
Note
Fluxus principal. Folder includes an address list noting many avant-garde artist of the period.
box 3, folder 26
Vostell, Wolf
1967 - 1968
Note
Fluxus principal. Folder includes: notes on Vostell's ELECTRONIC HAPPENING ROOM, and UMFUNKTIONIERUNG at Documenta, also three
events by Friedman: FRUIT IN THREE ACTS; WITH LOVE FROM ME TO YOU; KEN! DON'T LICK!. Folder contains one Mail Art envelope
by Vostell with rubber stamping.
box 3, folder 27
Vucicevic, Branko
1967
Note
Fluxus member based in Yugolslavia. Folder includes: DOWN WITH ART, LONG LIVE LIFE! (MAYAKOVSKY) and FLUXUS MANUAL OF EVERYDAY
LIFE.
box 3, folder 28
Williams, Emmet
1966 - 1967
box 3, folder 29
Winchell, J. Talbot
1966
Note
Notes and manifesti on radical concerns; also an article on "Conflict Resolution".
box 3, folder 31
AB'DU HA'SHI -- MASTER MUSICIAN OF THE TOKI
box 3, folder 32
Achilo's Garden of Vegtables...
Note
Holograph on envelope.
box 3, folder 33
AFTER SOMETHING: WHAT?
1969
Note
Unitarian Universalist play / sermon.
box 3, folder 34
Ah, the wind the rain + the wind...
Note
Holograph on envelope.
box 3, folder 35
AMAZEMENT SERENADE
1968
Note
Annotated typed manuscript, signed KF '68.
box 3, folder 36
AMAZEMENT SERENADE in Ab Minor.
1967
Note
Three page annotated submission to Los Angeles Free Press.
box 3, folder 37
AMERICAN CAFETERIA
Note
Annotated typed manuscript with news articles.
box 3, folder 39
AND
Note
Poem with instructions for performance.
box 3, folder 40
ANTI-TIBETAN FREE BAPTIST BOOK OF THE DEAD...
box 3, folder 41, oversize MC04509
ANOTHER DAY by Julia McKail
box 3, folder 42
ARABS...
1967
Note
Four part prose poem with letter to "Margaret", dated 1/24/1967, attached.
box 3, folder 43
at first sparling words,...
box 3, folder 44
AT YOUR SERVICE
Note
Prose / sermon with Fluxus and Aktual cross references.
box 3, folder 45
Babe Ruth as a priest...
Note
Photocopy of drawing / poems.
box 3, folder 49
bibliography of feats and explorations
1968
Note
A record of writing and performance works by K. Friedman.
box 3, folder 51
BOLD SAAY YOU THEN
Note
Photocopy: annotated manuscript with separate sheet of rubber stamped figures.
box 3, folder 55
complex deformation of the Mind...
Note
Three color marker holograph.
box 3, folder 56
CONCRETE POEM IN REPLY TO NONPERFORMING POEM FOR OEW (BY DICK HIGGINS)
Note
Folder also includes: (VERSION NUMBER TWO) of the above; MYSTERY POEM FOR EVERYONE and NONPERFORMANCE POEM FOR OEW by Dick
Higgins.
box 3, folder 57
Cosmic Garbage Collector
Note
Published (?) version with illustrations by Jack Tipple.
box 3, folder 58
Courage?...
Note
Photocopies of an annotated manuscript, with cover drawing.
box 3, folder 59
CRISIS IN MY LIFE
Note
Two and four page versions of the manuscript.
box 3, folder 60
CULTURE IN CRISIS
Note
21 page manuscript with annotations.
box 3, folder 61
CULTURE IN CRISIS
Note
20 page manuscript by Friedman.
box 3, folder 62
da coda... ripetendo ------
Note
Two pages, typed manuscript.
box 3, folder 63
dadda itself
Note
Typed and anotated manuscript on index card from: THE DADALAND POSTCARD SHOW, mail art exhibition.
box 3, folder 66
(DREAMS AND ADVENTURES OF) PAPA LARABOURROU
1967
Note
Typed manuscript (chapters one and two) with notations and date in Friedman's hand.
box 3, folder 67, oversize FB00505
PAPA LARABOURROU
Note
Chapters 3, 4 and 5, with attached notes from Friedman's CV.
box 3, folder 69
dustmoon is bay hanging scenario...
Note
Holograph: notes, poems and graphics.
box 3, folder 70
EARPHONES
Note
See also Dick Higgins correspondence folder for manuscript.
box 3, folder 71
Every rare while...
Note
Unitarian Universalist prose / sermon.
box 3, folder 72
FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE
Note
See also Dick Higgins correspondence folder.
box 4, folder 1
FARTHER ALONG
1967
Note
Work submitted to Richard Maxfield under the Surrealist Research Bureau imprint.
box 4, folder 2
FARTHER ALONG
Note
Full title: FARTHER ALONG (or the Search for Heavy Water), holograph, 1 page.
box 4, folder 3
Farther Lemon
1967
Note
Noted as: automatic dream transcription.
box 4, folder 5
fiery indulgence of the sun...
box 4, folder 6
FIRST EPIC WORD STRING
Note
Photocopy: single word stanza poem, one-third sheet with rubber stamp.
box 4, folder 8
FLUXMYSTERY (SOLVED BY KEN FRIEDMAN)
Note
Scenario response to FLUXMYSTERY.
box 4, folder 10
FRIEDMAN
Note
Fluxus poetry / events.
box 4, folder 11
FROM HERE TO DAVIS
Note
Fluxus concrete / prose poem.
box 4, folder 12
FUGUE AND TOCATTA FOR THE EYE
1965
Note
Mimeograph book in collaboration with E.J. Kiechler.
box 4, folder 13
GOD'S EYE IS OPENED
Note
Surrealist Research Bureau manuscript.
box 4, folder 14
GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL (SOME MORE ?)
box 4, folder 16
Heads are 3, Tails are 4...
Note
Event scenario / music composition / score.
box 4, folder 17
HEAVY WATER
1968
Note
Mimeograph book, signed.
box 4, folder 18
He flew upon the sky...
Note
Poem / lyric, with holographic notation of chord progression.
box 4, folder 19
hermit there was who lived in the dell...
Note
Bawdy LRY limericks.
box 4, folder 21
if i could love you...
Note
Holograph of poem / lyric, with chord progression notation.
box 4, folder 24
IMPLICATIONS TO THE END OF THE LINE
box 4, folder 26
IN REPLY (FOR THE EAR FACTORY)
Note
Also: THE LAST OF THINGS.
box 4, folder 27
INSTANT DADA POME TWO
Note
Also: CONCRETE DADA.
box 4, folder 29
ITEM OF INTEREST
Note
Mimeograph book with graphic.
box 4, folder 30
It is all well and good...
box 4, folder 31
It is the golden voice...
Note
Offset press broadsheet with graphic elements.
box 4, folder 32
It is the golden voice...
1967
Note
As published in INNERSPACE magazine.
box 4, folder 34
Joyous nakedfoot wonderchildren...
box 4, folder 36
LANGUAGE OF THE IMAGINATION
Note
Offset, foldered and numbered by Friedman. Noted in pencil on obverse: S.D. Print, publ sim in NY, SF, SD, LA + Boston. See
folders 26, 27 for other extant examples.
box 4, folder 37
LETTER CONCERNING THE DUALISTIC NATURE OF THE GREAT ONENESS
1968
Note
Signed Jorge-Luis de Med-y-Ocre. Dated by Friedman, San Francisco 1968.
box 4, folder 38
let those who labor beneath...
1968
Note
Holograph, with notation: "An Affirmation. 1st Draft.", signed Ken Friedman, 1968.
box 4, folder 39
LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
1968
Note
Subtitled: THE LAST TRACE OF KEN FRIEDMAN'S ELECTRONIC IMPULSES.
box 4, folder 40
LIFE AND LOVES OF CLEOPATRA
1967
Note
Communication Company
box 4, folder 41
LOVING, ODE / HOMAGE / TO / d.a. levy
Note
Photocopy facsimile, and signed offset press sheet, double-sided.
box 4, folder 42
make me a shirt of rainbows....
box 4, folder 43
MANIFEST KUNST NO 1
Note
Manifesto by Friedr Wolfr Heubach.
box 4, folder 44
MANIFESTO OF JOY
1966
Note
As published in INNER SPACE, page 29, signed by Friedman.
box 4, folder 45
man of sun and moon...
Note
Holograph, xerox of spiral bound original.
box 4, folder 45
Manifesto of 12/6/64
1964
Note
By Friedman and Andrea Witl.
box 4, folder 47
METATHEATRE OR THE WORKSHOP OF IS
box 4, folder 48
METAZAHORSKAN FILMSCRIPT
Note
Annotated as "box" ( Fluxus ).
box 4, folder 49
METRECAL: SUCCOR FOR THE SLIM SUCCESS SEEKER
1965
box 4, folder 50
MOST ILLUMINATING AND SACRED BOOK OF PERCEPTIVE VISION
box 4, folder 51
MOUNT CARROLL BOOK OF THE DEAD
1966
box 4, folder 52
MOUNTAINS AND WANDERINGS
1967
Note
Typed and holograph manuscript for submission to the PROMETHEAN.
box 4, folder 53
MOUNTAINS AND WANDERINGS (VS 2)
1967
box 4, folder 56
Newcomb, Mike
Note
See Mike Newcomb correspondence folder.
box 4, folder 57
Niels Boar
Note
Photocopy of holograph with drawing.
box 4, folder 58
nobody's buying the flowers...
box 4, folder 59
NON-OB #1
Note
Also includes:CASTER POEM, HAPPY LITTLE WORD / FISH POEM, and INSIDE MIND.
box 4, folder 60
notes
1966
Note
"First notes by Ken Firedman on Daniel Spoerri's 'Anecdoted topography of chance", dated Spring 1966 in Friedman's hand.
box 4, folder 64
OF IMAGINATION
1968
Note
Paper submitted to Dr. Robert Leopold.
box 4, folder 66, oversize FB00505
O.K. JOE SONATA
1968
Note
Original with drawings by Friedman, signed and dated 1963 - 1968. Folder also includes expanded manuscript version.
box 4, folder 67
ONE HUNDRED BY KEN
Note
Concrete offset poem, "Boston" on verso in Friedman's hand.
box 4, folder 68
ONE WORLD TREE
Note
Essay in Friedman's name, age 17.
box 4, folder 69
Open Process
1968
Note
Manuscript dated April 1968, possibly published in Open Process as Skulls Like Eggshells.
box 4, folder 71
people who live...
Note
Holograph on Something Else Press letterhead.
box 4, folder 73
POLITE STORY ABOUT THE VEGETABLE FAMILY
box 4, folder 76
PURE IDEA IN THE ARTS
Note
Annotated manuscript. Stamped as K. S. Friedman, Shimer College, Mount Carroll Illinois 61053 U.S.A..
box 4, folder 78
RABBI'S POTATOES, A MODEST PROPOSAL
1967
box 4, folder 79
RELATIVITIES by Klaus Groh
1974
box 4, folder 80
RAMA LAMA OLD TIME TIBETAN FUNERAL BAND MARCHING AND CHOWDER SOCIETY
Note
See Dick Higgins correspondence folders.
box 4, folder 81
RUNES
Note
Annotated manuscript.
box 4, folder 83
secret message tickles...
box 4, folder 84
SHADOWS IN ONE KINGDOM
Note
Holograph on cardboard panel.
box 4, folder 85
SHAME ON YOU LYNDON JOHNSON, OR, TRIPE IS CERTAINLY WORSE THAN CHEWING GUM
Note
Play, with notes and directions.
box 4, folder 86
SKULLS LIKE EGGSHELLS
1968
box 4, folder 87
SOME GOOD QUESTIONS FOR OUR TROUBLED TIMES
1966
box 4, folder 88
SOME POSSIBLE AVENUES OF EXPLORATION
Note
Noted as: "ideas proposed by Ken Firedman".
box 5, folder 1
TAMALPAIS PROSODY
Note
Annotated manuscript.
box 5, folder 2
TEN
1967
Note
Also with: FRIEDMAN'S FOUR POINTS and IN REPLY (FOR THE EAR FACTORY)
box 5, folder 4
this is a slight explanation
Note
An explanation, of sorts, for several works of music by Friedman.
box 5, folder 5
thousand galaxies... / LOVE POEM
Note
Photocopy reproductions. "a thousand galaxies..." illustrated with pen drawing.
box 5, folder 6
Three Mountains
1967
Note
Holograph with drawings (possible mock-up for layout). Notation by Friedman: "score for see-pome, written in Spring of 1967
at Ann Halprin's house in Kentfield".
box 5, folder 7
THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO, BBBROKEENN CORCLE HAIKU
Note
Offset book by Hard Press, Ventura.
box 5, folder 9
Thesis
Note
Holograph with diagrammatic drawings and formulas.
box 5, folder 10
This is really it....
Note
Mimeograph sheet, noted as Experimental College.
box 5, folder 11
THREE METAPHYSICAL POEMS BY KEN FRIEDMAN
box 5, folder 12
time passes in...
Note
Cut paper poem with drawing. Notation in Friedman's hand: "Concrete love-note to Jody by Joe Kollowski '6516".
box 5, folder 13
TRANSPARENT EXPERIENCE: MOVING WITH IT
box 5, folder 14
TRANSPORTATION AND YOU
1965
Note
Also: TRANSPORTATION VARIATION, CHRISTMAS TREE EVENT (December 31, 1964) , and CHRISTMAS TREE EVENT (January 1, 1965).
box 5, folder 15
TRIAL BY FIRE
Note
Possible Happening or Fluxus scenario.
box 5, folder 16
TRILOGY
Note
Mimeograph broadsheet with drawing.
box 5, folder 17
TRIP THROUGH THE BIG BOOK
Note
Annotated manuscript of Friedman's review of Fluxus artist Knowles' BIG BOOK.
box 5, folder 18
uncle bob - - uncle bob!...
box 5, folder 20
VASTNESS: THE HOLDING OF HANDS
box 5, folder 21
VISIONS OF A GONE WORLD
1966
Note
Photocopy reproduction of a mixed media book.
box 5, folder 24
We gather here today...
1968
box 5, folder 27
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: SOME NEW BRACKETS
box 5, folder 28
Who would live...
Note
Annotated manuscript.
box 5, folder 29
WIND SONG
1967
Note
With attached notes by Friedman. Subtitled: "AN IMMEDIATE & SINGULAR POEM OF SURRELIST (sic) REVOLUTION AND LOVING ANARCHY".
box 5, folder 30
WIT AND WISDOM OF GOOD SANCHO GLASSCOE
Note
Holograph on blue cardstock.
box 5, folder 32
YAM SESSION
1967
Note
Manuscript with annotation.
box 5, folder 34
You, if (not)...
Note
Annotated manuscript.
box 5, folder 36
ASBESTOS FLEA
1967
Note
Score and text: (concert for five voices and random music / electronic music). Attached correspondence to Dick Higgins.
box 5, folder 37
BARBARA, SUZY AND THE TWO JIMS
1968
Note
Typed and holograph manuscript.
box 5, folder 38
CALCIUM BED
Note
Performance piece scenario and text, with stage directions and music cues.
box 5, folder 39
CARDBALLET FOR AUDIENCE
Note
An addendum to CARDMUSIC.
box 5, folder 40
CARDMUSIC FOR AUDIENCE
Note
Music score / scenario for performance.
box 5, folder 42
diagram
Note
Diagram on looseleaf paper.
box 5, folder 43
Did you ever...
Note
Photocopy of holograph on envelope.
box 5, folder 44
EAGLE
Note
Words by Friedman, music by James Alan. Lyric sheet with chord progression.
box 5, folder 46
how I wish she'd call me...
Note
Holograph with chord progression.
box 5, folder 48
if I were king...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 49
In the quiet tides of evening
box 5, folder 51
I once did live...
1968
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 52
It can be said...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 53
It is a century...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 54
it is the autumn...
Note
Lyric with chord progression.
box 5, folder 56
I've been...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 57
JUST LIKE THAT
Note
Typed and holograph versions of lyric.
box 5, folder 58
MOTORCYCLE BABY
Note
Carbon on looseleaf paper.
box 5, folder 59
Music (generic gathering)
Note
A gathering of musical works by Friedman, including: notes on the Fluxus work, SCORE 5; the score for WOODWORK (1967); FARTHER
ALONG symphony, and a letter to Richard (Maxfield?) outlining a three movement "Symphony".
box 5, folder 60
Notations, John Cage
Note
Facsimile of works by Friedman collected in NOTATIONS by John Cage, Something Else Press. Photocopies have been signed by
Friedman.
box 5, folder 61
notes for songs, Summer '66, San Francisco
1966
Note
Friedman's gathering of several lyrics with chord progressions.
box 5, folder 63
Once i used to live in New York...
box 5, folder 64
one October evening...
Note
Photocopy of holograph with chord progression.
box 5, folder 65
PIECE FOR 6 INSTRUMENTS IN 5:00
1966
Note
Folder also includes: SHRIEKS AND LAUGHTER, A PIECE FOR TWO VOICES. Holograph. "Sent as a gift to John Cage..."
box 5, folder 66
ROLL, TURN, SPIN
1967
Note
Photocopies of holograph and typed manuscripts.
box 5, folder 67
Said a friend...
Note
Words by Friedman, music by Bill Hull. Photocopies of typed manuscripts, some with chord progressions.
box 5, folder 68
SCORE 59
1967
Note
Offset press edition of graphic "score". "San Diego", on verso in Friedman's hand.
box 5, folder 69
score - treble clef
Note
Photocopy of holograph score, untitled.
box 5, folder 70
SCRIPT FOR FLUXSOUND - - KEN FRIEDMAN '66
Note
Fluxus music scenario.
box 5, folder 71
SEND YOUR CLEANING BILLS TO JESUS
Note
Photocopies of typed and holograph lyrics, some with chord progression.
box 5, folder 72
shall it not...
Note
Poor photocopies of holograph.
box 5, folder 75
Speak to me of love...
Note
Photocopies of typescripts and holographs, some with chord progressions.
box 5, folder 76
that which is yours...
Note
Photocopy of holograph with coversheet illustration.
box 5, folder 77
THREE DUETS - - KEN FRIEDMAN (A CANON AND SOME ODD PIECES)
Note
Noted as: CANTATA ATH FIFTH INTERVALS; CANON FOR CANNON; HYMNA FOR ONAN; GREGARIOUS GREGORIAN.
box 5, folder 78
Two eyes in the forest...
Note
Photocopies of holographs and typed lyrics with chord progressions. Credited as: "Words + Music by Ken Friedman, arranged
by Bob + Bill Hull".
box 5, folder 79
We'll meet again some day...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 80
well i once was a high old cowboy...
1968
box 5, folder 81
when you walked by,..
Note
Two versions of the manuscript, one titled: YOU PALE BLUE LOVELINESS, but considerably truncated. Photocopies.
box 5, folder 82
where is my...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 5, folder 83
dear, miss, case
1968
Note
Explanation of writings and performance scenarios in the form of correspondence.
box 5, folder 84
Education For Life -- 1969, notes
1969
box 5, folder 85
FLUX, RELIGION AS NOTHING ELSE
box 5, folder 86
FLUX: RELIGION AS NOTHING ELSE
Note
A release detailing Friedman's "view of a new religion" based on Fluxus and Aktual methods.
box 5, folder 87
FLUXWERKSHOP
Note
Offset press Fluxus poster.
box 5, folder 88
Kosher Nostra,..
Note
Holograph on paperbag.
box 5, folder 89
mystic signiture:.. (sic)
Note
Three mimeograph leaves.
box 5, folder 92
PRESS RELEASE
Note
Mimeograph release written by Sebastopol James.
box 5, folder 93
sermons are not lectures...
Note
Holograph on graph paper.
box 5, folder 94
SHORT STORY LESSON PLAN: "THE SOUTH"
1968
Note
"Plan by Ken Friedman used in workshop '68, PSLRY COnference of June"; in Friedman's hand. Mimeograph booklet with offset
press cover.
box 5, folder 95
some/Things (events) are sacred,..
Free Religious Youth / Liberal Religious Youth
box 6, folder 2
Avis coverpage booklets
1966
Note
Fluxus activities and sale of Fluxus pressworks and objects at a LRY gathering.
box 6, folder 3
BOOK OF UNCOMMON PRAYER
1969
Note
"A set of uniquely religious texts published by Fluxus in the Aktual Goodbook series." Two copies extant, numbers 1 and 21,
of an edition of 35 mimeograph books.
box 6, folder 4
CLF HORIZONS
1965 - 1967
Note
Contributions by Friedman to the publication by the Junior Fellowship Youth Church of the Larger Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist.
box 6, folder 5
EDUCATION FOR LIFE -- 1969
1969
box 6, folder 6
F.R.A. NEWS
Note
Free Religious Association newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2.
box 6, folder 9
Hello...
1968
Note
Mimeograph of an open letter dated June 30, 1968. Five pages.
box 6, folder 11
I want the Free Church...
box 6, folder 12, oversize FB00506
box 6, folder 13
LIBERAL'S ROAR
1964 - 1968
Note
Newsletter with contributions by Friedman.
box 6, folder 14
LETTER CONCERNING CONT. CONF. NEWS LETTER...
1966
Note
Mimeograph newsletter.
box 6, folder 15
MEMO (OF A SORT)
Note
Mimeograph newsletter.
box 6, folder 16
movement towards a new church...
Note
Photocopy of holograph.
box 6, folder 17
ODE TO CAPTAIN OHIO
1967
Note
Mimeograph book with graphic by Friedman.
box 6, folder 18
PROMETHEAN
1968
Note
Offset publication edited by Friedman and published by LRY, with Fluxus graphic contributions by Friedman, DeVries, J.F. Bory,
Yoko Ono and George Maciunas.
box 6, folder 19
Thanksgiving Day
1968
Note
Contribution to the "New Worship Manual".
box 6, folder 20
PRESS RELEASE
Note
Fluxus West release by Sebastopol James.
box 6, folder 21
WE WOULD BE ONE, AN ESSAY BY KEN FRIEDMAN
1967
Note
Printed in San Diego, 5th edition of the LRY essay.
box 6, folder 22
ENGLISH 177.02 EXPLORATORY COURSE IN SURREALISM AND THE AVANT - GARDE
box 6, folder 23
English lesson plans
Note
Papers compiled by Friedman.
box 6, folder 24
EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE ARTS AND LETTERS OFFERINGS
Note
Offset poster listing courses at San Francisco State College.
box 6, folder 25
FINAL PRIME IN EXPANDED ARTS...
1968
box 6, folder 26
HAPPENING AS EDUCATION
1967
Note
"Remarks of preparation to do a happening w/ student teachers at San Diego State College. Fall '67 Guest of Bob Poileman -
invitational lecture."
box 6, folder 28
INFORMATION SHEET FOR PUBLISHERS AND CORRESPONDENTS
Note
Exploration in Surrealism and the Avant-Garde.
box 6, folder 29
NEW ART SEMINAR SERIES
1967
Note
Seminar flyer in advance of San Francisco State College offering, graphic cover, two page ditto.
box 6, folder 30
Papers on conflict resolution
1966 - 1996
Note
Collected papers, including: SOME NOTES ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CONFLICT-RESOLVING GROUPS and THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
CONFLICT-RESOLVING GROUPS written by Friedman at Shimer College.
box 6, folder 31
Philosophy
Note
Two color mimeograph in advance of speaking engagements by Friedman and Sebastopol James.
box 6, folder 32
PROGRAM AND BIBLIOFILE
1966
Note
Artist's book and handout for HAPPENING AS EDUCATION at San Diego State College. Offset, signed as Fluxus '66 Friedman.
box 6, folder 33
Registration Card: Eng 177
Note
San Francisco State College computer punch card, ENG 177 Exp Sureal New Art.
box 6, folder 34
REPORT ON THE COORDINATORSHIP
1968
Note
LRY / education matters.
box 6, folder 35
SHORT STORY ARTISTICALLY DEFICIENT
1968
Note
Mimeograph, English 150.
box 6, folder 36
Surrealism in Everyday Life
1967
Note
Materials related to the instruction of English 177, at San Francisco State College.
box 6, folder 37
SURREALISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE
1967
Note
Course description with cover graphic.
box 6, folder 38
THIS IS REALLY IT! THIS IS REALLY IT! THIS IS?
1968
Note
Mimeograph with offset cover graphic. File also contains two examples of the graphic, Omaha penciled on the verso.
Misc. materials (Catalogs, Events, and Happenings)
box 7, folder 3
biography / bibliography
1964 - 1970
box 7, folder 4
BIRD IN FLIGHT : TRANS-CONTINENTAL EVENT
1967
box 7, folder 5
BRIEF LIST OF FACTS ABOUT KEN FRIEDMAN
1969
box 7, folder 6
BULL MOOSE PARTY
1965
Note
News clips from the MIRROR DEMOCRAT of Mt. Carroll, Illinois.
box 7, folder 7
CELEBRATION OF SUNS AND MOONS
box 7, folder 8
CONSORT OF GNU MUSIC
1968
box 7, folder 9
DADA IS NEVER RIGHT
Note
Rubber stamped Avery label and found tag by the group DADALAND.
box 7, folder 11
diagram
Note
Diagrammatic treatment of "status".
box 7, folder 12
DIRECTION
Note
Rubbing, with signature.
box 7, folder 13
doodles
1966
Note
Photocopy of drawing / text.
box 7, folder 14
eggshells drawing
Note
Photocopy of graphic from SKULLS LIKE EGGSHELLS.
box 7, folder 15
ENVELOPE W/LABEL
Note
Preparatory sketch for MESSY ASPECT SCORE 4. Signed in Friedman's hand " FLUX, KF ".
box 7, folder 16
ENVELOPE EVENTS
Note
Fluxus event scenario, typed and holographic manuscript.
box 7, folder 19
FESTIVALS AND THE UNICORN PRESENT UMBRELLA KOZLOWSSKY
box 7, folder 20
figurative drawing
Note
Photocopy of a figurative drawing.
box 7, folder 22, oversize FB00507
FLUXFEST (Baldwin and Berner)
box 7, folder 23
FLUXFEST : PRAGUE (1966)
1966
Note
Description of proposed Fluxus events.
box 7, folder 24
FLUX GARNISHT KIGELE FLUX TOWER (A CONSTRUCTION)
1967
Note
Offset poster with "GRAPHIC TOWERS" by John Furnival.
box 7, folder 25, oversize FB00508
Flux Mountain Concert Schedule
box 7, folder 27
FLY EVENT
Note
Offset poster. "Berkeley" on verso in pencil.
box 7, folder 28
FUNNY THOUGHTS FOR LITTLE HEADS
1965
Note
Photocopy of cover lettering, imprinted: "Mothuh's Press".
box 7, folder 29
Free wall painting
Note
News article on the apprehension of Friedman at San Francisco State College.
box 7, folder 30
graphic work
Note
Offset on, "Boston" on verso.
box 7, folder 31
GYPSY GUITARIST
Note
Photocopy of drawing with fragment.
box 7, folder 33
HAPPENING NEO-HAIKU EVENT
Note
Offset. One sheet contains a score fragment on the verso in pen.
box 7, folder 34
I speak to you children...
Note
Photocopy of figurative drawing with manuscript fragment.
box 7, folder 35
I'M YOUR PERSONAL WALRUS
Note
Photocopy of drawing.
box 7, folder 36
ink figurative / calligraphic drawing
box 7, folder 37, oversize FB00522
INVISIBLE WOUNDS by Tommy Mew
box 7, folder 38, oversize FB00509
box 7, folder 39, oversize FB00510
box 7, folder 40
LECTURE FOR SEVEN WITH LIVE CHICKEN
Note
Scenario by Lee Heflin.
box 7, folder 42
LIGHTS OUT IN GERM CITY, U.S.A.
Note
Photocopy of drawing and text.
box 7, folder 43
LONG LEGGED BIRD HE WAS
Note
Photocopy of drawing with text.
box 7, folder 44
MASS MEDIA COMMUNICATION THINGS
1963 - 1967
box 7, folder 45
MONKEY'S NIGHT OUT ( A NEW YEAR FLUXDRAMA )
box 7, folder 46
MORE EVENTS
1967
Note
Collected events: DOING HIS THING WITH YOU, DOING HIS THING WITH YOU - TWO, FIRST RESTAURANT EVENT, RESTAURANT EVENT, AKTUAL
TELEPHONE, AKTUAL TELECAR, AKTUALPHONE, BREATH, FLUXUS INSTANT THEATRE EVENTS, STRING QUARTET, OPUS 2 / 1967, SOLOS, RIFF,
GRAUNCHY WHOOP WHOOP, CAGE EVENT, END OF THE WORLD.
box 7, folder 47
MUGU ATMAN
Note
Graphic published in newsprint, signed in ballpoint by Friedman.
box 7, folder 48
NEO - HAIKU THEATRE
Note
Prose on various Fluxus events.
box 7, folder 49
Niagra Falls doesn't it...
Note
Photocopy of drawing with text.
box 7, folder 50
NYCSWB, Vol. 2, No. 1
Note
This issue of the Weekly Breeder was a two page, staple bound publication of the New York Correspondence School.
box 7, folder 51
NYCSWB
Note
New York Correspondence School Weekly Breeder: Vol. 2 No. 3; Vol. 2 No. 5; Volume 2, Number 10 (May 20, 1972). Works by Robert
Johnson, Monte Cazazza, Bill Griffith and the Dadaland Postcard Show.
box 7, folder 52
Ohio graphics
Note
Photocophy of graphic drawings.
box 7, folder 53, oversize FB00505
OPEN PROCESS ( Vol. 3, No. 1, 2-14-68)
1968
box 7, folder 54
pen drawing of Richard Chase
box 7, folder 55
POPE PIUS THE XII, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING
Note
Photocopy of drawing.
box 7, folder 56
PORTABLE - DISPOSABLE, SHIT SCRAPER
Note
Rubber stamp on popsickle stick.
box 7, folder 57
PROCESSION KIT ******** FRIEDMAN ( 4 FLUXUS )
Note
Text describing contents of: PROCESSION KIT and FRIEDMANFLUXKIT.
box 7, folder 58
PROGRAM AND BIBLIOFILE, HAPPENING AS EDUCATION
1966
Note
Artist's book. See Education series for uncut version.
box 7, folder 59
ROCK EVENT
Note
See Daniela Palazzoli correspondence folder.
box 7, folder 60
SELECTIVE VITA
1971
Note
Offset of Friedman's CV.
box 7, folder 61, oversize FB00511
box 7, folder 62
SOMETHING ELSE READINGS
1967
Note
Offset poster in advance of readings by Fluxus artists Knowles, Filliou and Vostell.
box 7, folder 64
STAR DOT
Note
Offset, Aktual event.
box 7, folder 65
THIS IS REALLY IT! THIS IS REALLY IT! THIS IS?
Note
Offset poster, also found in Education series.
box 7, folder 66
THIS IS THE FIRST DAY IN THE REST OF YOUR LIFE GOODBYE BROTHER MARTIN
Note
Blown ink lettering and typewriter, offset.
box 7, folder 67
THIS IS THE LETTER "A"
Note
Photocopy of drawing and holograph.
box 7, folder 68
tin lantern green horn...
box 7, folder 69
TONY TUSLER DOING HIS THING WITH YOU
Note
Fluxus West event poster, offset.
box 7, folder 70
TWO SHORT PIECES:
Note
Two events by Friedman.
box 7, folder 71
VAUTIER DAY / KNIZAK NIGHT
1968
box 7, folder 72
WAXWORK
Note
Holograph notes gathered by Friedman under the title above.
box 7, folder 73
WINGED ART
1967
Note
Scenario for "crzy arab-gypsy art-mongers".
box 7, folder 74
ZEN IS WHEN
Note
Photocopy of drawing.
box 7, folder 76
AKTUAL ART INTERNATIONAL
1967
Note
Photocopy of San Francisco Museum of Art Catalogue and other ephemera.
box 7, folder 77
AKTUAL ATENTAT PROJECT !
1967
Note
Mimeograph book, single staple, five pages.
box 7, folder 78
AKTUAL DEC. 29, 1968 EVENTS IN MOTION
1968
box 7, folder 79
AKTUAL IS HOLDING HANDS
Note
Offset poster. On verso, in pencil: "SD - print. Prague, CZECH - PUBL".
box 7, folder 80
AKTUAL IS LIFE
Note
Mimeograph book, single staple, five pages.
box 7, folder 81
AKTUAL " KEEPING TOGETHER MANIFESTATION "
1967
Note
A photocopy gathering of materials by Milan and Sonia Knizak.
box 7, folder 82
AKTUAL KEEP TOGETHER
1968
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (1), five pages.
box 7, folder 83
AKTUAL LITTLE BOOK ( BY SEBASTOPOL JAMES )
1968
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (2), four pages, "SF 68".
box 7, folder 84
AKTUAL LITTLE BOOK '68 - 7
1968
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (2), four pages.
box 7, folder 85
AKTUAL SCHEDULE
Note
Mimeographed scenario.
box 7, folder 87
AKTUAL USA
1967
Note
Poster in advance of the March 1967 KEEPING TOGETHER MANIFESTATION in cooperation with FLUXUS WEST. Four color offset (possibly
ditto) poster.
box 7, folder 88
AKTUAL U.S.A...ALL FELLOW BEINGS...
box 7, folder 89
Aktual / USA
Note
Compendium of Aktual materials in photocopy form.
box 7, folder 90
AMERICA DEDICATES THIS AKTUAL LITTLE BOOK TO!
Note
Mimeograph book, staple bound (2), four pages.
box 7, folder 91
CHOICES BY ROBERT BOZZI (AN AKTUAL GOODBOOK NUMBER 6)
1969
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (1), eight pages. Numbers 18 and 20 of an edition of 25. Copyright to FLUXUS and FLUXUS WEST.
box 7, folder 92
DOUBLE PUKE - SPD OF POLITICS
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (1), seven pages.
box 7, folder 93
For Alison
Note
Photocopy of book, filed by Friedman under the heading above, titled: 7 STUDIES OUTLINING THE BASIC MYTH.
box 7, folder 94
GOD IS A HAPPY NIHILIST
1969
Note
Mimeographic book by Dave Anderson, #5 in the AKTUAL GOODBOOK series, staple bound (1), six pages. Numbers 33 and 34 of an
edition of 35.
box 7, folder 95
IMPULSE TO BE A BEACHCOMBER
1969
Note
Mimeographic book by Richard L. Harris, staple bound (1), eight pages. Numbers 9 and 21 of an edition of 35.
box 8, folder 1
1 + 9 X A, A = Aktual, Aeric = A (ONE PAGE AND NINE POEMS)
1968
Note
Mimeographic book by Aeric Stratton, staple bound (1), 12 pages.
box 8, folder 2
PAPER BIRD (TEXT BY MILAN KNIZAK, GRAPHIS BY KEN)
1967
Note
Mimeographic book with offset cover, staple bound (1), ten pages. "dedicated to d.a. levy; jim lowell; rjs; & all the martyrs
of cleveland...". Published by Flux / UPS, and copyright by " FLUXUS NYC NY USA ".
box 8, folder 3
PAPER BIRD
1967
Note
Offset poster, same as the cover of the FLUX / UPS book of the same name.
box 8, folder 4
SOME FURTHER WORDS
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (1), four pages.
box 8, folder 5
SOME MORE OHIODES
1968
Note
Mimeographic book, staple bound (1), seven pages, signed by Friedman in ballpoint pen. Published in San Diego.
box 8, folder 6
TALES MY GRANDFATHER TOLD HIS KNEE
1969
Note
Mimeographic book by Thad Freeman, staple bound (1), 11 pages. Number 16 of an edition of 25.
box 8, folder 7
AAABA Magazine / Garnisht Kigele
1966
Note
Friedman's photocopy gathering of contributions to his publication AAABA at Shimer College, news articles related to the radio
program Garnisht Kigele, and press coverage of d.a. levy.
box 8, folder 8
DIE FABELHAFTE GETRAUME VON TAIFUN - WILLI BY DICK HIGGINS
1966
Note
A radio play with directions for staging and music. Related correspondence included in the file.
box 8, folder 9
FEATS OF EXHIBITIONISM
1968
Note
Offset poster in advance of an exhibition at the San Francisco State College Library.
box 8, folder 10
FEATS OF EXHIBITIONISM
1968
Note
A compilation of offset posters for the exhibition at San Francisco State College. Offset with graphics and hand lettering.
box 8, folder 11
GARNISHT KIGELE
1968
Note
Exhibition note from San Francisco State College Library show.
box 8, folder 12
GARNISHT KIGELE IS HERE
1966
Note
Mimeographic fact sheets.
box 8, folder 13
GARNISHT KIGELE RIDES AGAIN !!!
1966
box 8, folder 14
GARNISHTIK GARNISHT MANIFESTO - MANIFEST OF THE NOTHING PARTY
1966
box 8, folder 15
Garnisht Kigele stationary
1966
Note
Mimeograph with annotations.
box 8, folder 16
PHILOSOPHY
Note
Two color mimeograph poster / news release in advance of speaking engagements by Sebastopol James and Friedman.
box 8, folder 17
Shimer College Record
1966
Note
Article, page 13: RADI - STACHIO SHIMER PIONIRAS NOVAJN EDEOJN EN RADIA PROGRAMADO (SHIMER RADIO STATION INTRODUCES NEW IDEAS
IN BROADCASTING).
Surrealist Research Bureau
box 8, folder 18
BUREAU DE RECHERCHES SURREALISTES
1967
box 8, folder 19
DECLARATION OF 27, JANUARY, 1927
box 8, folder 20
FIRST SURREALIST CONGRESS OF AMERICA
Note
Mimeograph, includes: TRANSPARENT BRAIN MANIFESTLET.
box 8, folder 22
GOD'S EYE IS OPENED !
Note
Three page collection of writings: SAGE WORDS; TRANSPARENT BRAIN; TRANSPARENT BRAIN MANIFESTLET; GOODNIGHT, CHET.
box 8, folder 23
GRAW*OOOOR ANIMA MUNDI GRAWOOOOOOOOO!
Note
Surrealist Research Bureau materials, also includes: INSTANT BOOKS and MANIFEST !.
box 8, folder 25
PRESS CONFERENCE
Note
Mimeograph release by Sebastopol James.
box 8, folder 26
PRESS CONFERENCE FOR THE SURREALIST CONGRESS OF AMERICA
Note
Release highlighting event at San Francisco State College with a list of partcipating / exhibiting artists.
box 8, folder 27
SLATS [ SURREALIST LEAGUE OF ACTION FOR TIRED SCHOLARS ]
box 8, folder 28
SURREALIST RESEARCH BUREAU AND EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE PRESENT...
1967
Note
Offset poster with FLUXUS performance photograph.
box 8, folder 29
SURREALIST CKNGRESS (sic) OF AMERICA
Note
Newsrelease / poster.
box 8, folder 30
Surrealist Congress Events
1970
Note
A compendium of Events by Sebatopol James and recorded on Archiv Sohm forms. Originally filed under the SRB heading by Friedman,
and thus duplicated here.
box 8, folder 31
Surrealist Congress Press Coverage
1967
box 8, folder 32
SURREALIST PART TICKET ELECT KEN FRIEDMAN
Note
Four color ditto poster.
box 8, folder 33
Surrealist Press Clippings
1967
box 8, folder 34
SURREALIST RESEARCH BUREAU
box 8, folder 35
TRANSPARENT BRAIN MANIFESTLET
1967
Note
Also filed under DECLARATION OF MAY 27, 1967.
box 8, folder 37, oversize MC04510
box 8, folder 39
Calligraphic script with rubber stamp
box 8, folder 40, oversize FB00517
DAYS OFF by ALAN KAPROW
Note
A gathering of Happenings.
box 8, folder 41
DOWN WITH ART, LONG LIVE LIFE! (MAYAKOVSKY) by BRANKO VUCUCEVIC
box 8, folder 42
EPICKALL (sic) QUEST OF THE BROTHERS DICHTUNG AND OTHER OUTRAGES by DICK HIGGINS
1978
box 8, folder 43
EXTRAITS DE LA FEUILLE D'AVIS DE LAUSANNE, INFORMATIONS DE L' INTERMAGINAIRE
1971
box 8, folder 44, oversize MC04501
FUGS
1965 - 1966
Note
A compilation of materials related to the Fugs and Ed Sanders, including: Oversize posters, press releases, photographs, and
a 45 rpm single: ESP - Disk 4507A/B FRENZY b/w I WANT TO KNOW.
box 8, folder 45
KNIVES IN THE DRAWERS by MARVIN GARSON
1966
box 8, folder 46
Kupferberg, Tulli
1964
Note
Works published in the East Side Review and by Birth Press by one of the founding memebers of the Fugs. The CHRISTINE KEELER
COLOURING BOOK & CAUTIONARY TALE can be found in Special Collections.
box 8, folder 48
Lowell, James Russell
1967
Note
An ersatz Ralph A. Locher Poetry Award.
box 8, folder 49
POEM ABOUT ORKS by ROBERT BLY
box 8, folder 50
Radical Ephemera
Note
Radical political and environmental papers and graphics, some in the style of the New York Correspondence School.
box 8, folder 51, oversize MC04502
Rock Ephemera
Note
A collection of postcards, handbills and posters in promotion of concerts.
box 8, folder 52
SWEDEN COLLAGE by PETER BELOW
1975
Note
Artist's photocopy book.
box 8, folder 53
SWEDISH COLLAGE BOOK by PETER BELOW
1975
Note
Artist's photocopy book, unbound, 11 leaves.
box 8, folder 54
THIRTEEN TRAGIC TALES by MONTE CAZAZZA
1976
Note
Artist's book, pencil drawing on black construction paper; eight photocopy pages.
box 8, folder 55
TIME OF YEAR by F. RAY
1966
box 8, folder 56
UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH, INC.
box 8, folder 58
TRANSFER
1967
Note
A FLUXUS SEE - POME (sic). Offset poster.
box 8, folder 59
Address list of Fluxus people, etc.
box 8, folder 63
FLUX MOUNTAIN CONCERT
1968
box 8, folder 65
FLUX ENGLAND WEST
1972
Note
A collection of articles by David Mayor.
box 8, folder 66
FLUX MOUNTAIN CONCERT - FLUX WEST
1968
box 8, folder 67
FLUXNEWSLETTER, DECEMBER 2, 1968
1968
box 8, folder 70
FLUXUS WEST INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF FLUX PHENOMEMA
box 9, folder 1
Fluxus West news release (NEWS FROM FLUXUS WEST)
box 9, folder 3
FLUXUS WEST PAPER SALE
Note
Annotated mimeograph order sheet, notes in Friedman's hand in pencil and pen.
box 9, folder 4
GEORGE MACIUNAS
Note
Offset poster, "Boston" on verso in pencil.
box 9, folder 5
HIS MOST CATHOLIC MAJESTY
Note
Offset poster, "print San Jose, pbl SF" on verso in pencil.
box 9, folder 6
KF #42
Note
Offset poster, "San Jose, SF" on verso in pencil.
box 9, folder 7
KF #43
Note
Offset poster, "Pasadena" on verso in pencil.
box 9, folder 11
LANGUAGE OF THE IMAGINATION
1968
box 9, folder 15
SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER NOT TO CLIMB A POLE.
box 9, folder 16
TULIP CLAUSE
1973
Note
Offset titled and identified by Friedman, nine leaves.
box 9, folder 17
Unsigned graphic ( FLUXUS )
box 9, folder 18
VAUTIER DAY TOTAL ART THEO
box 9, folder 19, oversize FB00512
ASTRONAUTS OF INNER SPACE
box 9, folder 20
BIG BOOK by EMMET WILLIAMS
Note
Review of Alison Knowles' BIG BOOK.
box 9, folder 21
Birth Press
Note
Offset with rubber stamp on verso: "from YEAH 10, 99 cents, Birth Press, 381, E 10 St, NY9". See Tuli Kulpferberg (Fugs) folders
for other printed matter and correspondence related to Birth Press.
box 9, folder 22
CLOTHSEPIN SPRING by ALBERT M. FINE
Note
Double sided offset - Fluxus scenario.
box 9, folder 23, oversize FB00513
COMMUNIST MUST GIVE REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP IN CULTURE
1965
box 9, folder 24, oversize MC04503
COMMUNIST MUST GIVE REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP IN CULTURE
box 9, folder 25
CONDITIONS FOR PERFORMING FLUXUS PUBLISHED COMPOSITIONS, FILMS AND TAPES
box 9, folder 26
Eric Anderson
1975
Note
Photocopies of artwork and performance / site documentation.
box 9, folder 28, oversize FB00520
box 9, folder 29
FLUXHOUSE NO.1
Note
Photocopy, pieced and assembled with tape.
box 9, folder 30, oversize FB00514
FLUXUS IT'S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELATIONSHIP TO AVANT-GARDE MOVEMENTS
box 9, folder 31, oversize MC04504
box 9, folder 32, oversize FB00515
box 9, folder 33
FLUXORCHESTRA CIRCULAR LETTER NO. 2
box 9, folder 34
FLUXUS PIECE FOR G.M. by ALBERT M. FINE
box 9, folder 35
FLUXPOST 17-17 (DIY12W70640)
1964
box 9, folder 36, oversize FB00518
box 9, folder 37
Higgins, Dick - collected works
1959 - 1967
Note
Gathered scenarios by Dick Higgins.
box 9, folder 38
HI RED CENTER FLUXCLINIC
Note
Double-sided offset.
box 9, folder 39, oversize FB00516
box 9, folder 40
ICE CREAM PIECE by ALBERT FINE
box 9, folder 41
NORTHWEST MOUNTED VALISE
1972
Note
Offset press, mail art, rubber stamps, stickers, and ephemera.
box 9, folder 42
OPEN PROCESS - JOHN FURNIVAL: EUROPA AND HER BULL
box 9, folder 43, oversize MC04505
PERPETUAL FLUXFEST AT THE NEW CINEMATIQUE
box 9, folder 44
POSTMAN'S CHOICE LE CHOIX DU FACTEUR, FLUXPOSTCARD BY BEN, 1965
1965
Note
Double-sided offset.
box 9, folder 45
POSTMAN'S CHOICE LE CHOIX DU FACTEUR, FLUXPOSTCARD BY BEN, 1965 1967 BY FLUXUS
1967
Note
Double-sided offset.
box 9, folder 48
Shiomi, Chieko
Note
Two typescripts for performance works
box 9, folder 50
SOME GRAPHIS MIRRORS by Dick Higgins
1967
box 9, folder 51, oversize MC04506
box 9, folder 54, oversize MC04507
THREE NEWSPAPER EVENTS FOR THE PRICE OF $1.00
box 9, folder 55
These artifacts by hand are of....
box 9, folder 57, oversize MC45 08
box 9, folder 58
Charm to free the spirit from ignorance
box 9, folder 60
Egyptian Stroboscope
1966
box 9, folder 61
God bless our television
1966
box 9, folder 63
levy ephemera: Cleveland presses
box 9, folder 64
levy ephemera: press clippings
box 9, folder 66
marijuana ready-made
1966
box 9, folder 68
of the ink- pot and palette
box 9, folder 70
Poets at the gate, vol 1 #2
box 9, folder 73
What the Great Society will do for you
box 9, folder 74
You can have the fucking city bank
box 9, folder 75
Originals of preservation photocopies
box 9, folder 76
Originals of preservation photocopies
box 9, folder 77
Originals of preservation photocopies