Photo of Ken Friedman in front of the installation of Omaha Flow Systems

Ken Friedman: Flow System, 1972. Event score realized as Omaha Flow Systems at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, in April 1973. Source: Ken Friedman: 99 Events, Stendhal Gallery, New York, 2009.

Communications Art, article on Ken Friedman’s Omaha Flow Systems, in The Western Association of Art Museums Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 4, Spring 1973. The page introduces the participatory project at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, and reproduces Tadato Nadamoto’s Poster for a Play from the 1973 WAAM Exhibitions Catalog.

Continuation of Communications Art. The page includes a photograph of Ken Friedman during his April solo exhibition Distances at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; the original caption notes that the Sheldon also functioned as an orbital “FLOW SYSTEMS” location during Omaha Flow Systems. Photo credited to Butkus, Langdon, Larkin and Phillips.

Poster

Poster
A red-orange/pink diagrammatic map graphic with arrows, routes and city names forms the background, with black typography reading OMAHA FLOW SYSTEMS, BY KEN FRIEDMAN, APRIL 1–24, 1973, and JOSLYN ART MUSEUM – OMAHA, NEBRASKA – USA. Poster designed and edited by Friedman.

Reverse side of the Omaha Flow Systems folding poster/call. The text invites artists to submit drawings, collages, sculptural pieces, events, information, documents, films, tapes, videotapes, poems and related materials for display and exchange with the public. It also states that documentation concerning participation would be retained by the Joslyn Art Museum for future study.

Article

Bresette, James: Perfect Irony. Postal System Is Shaping Art Show, Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 16 April, 1973

Article

Olten, Carol: Art World: A Four-In-One Show, The San Diego Union, October 14, 1973, pp. 7–8.