2014 Static: A Video Exhibition. Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery.
2014Personae: Masks, Photos, Video, Texts & Documents In Memory of Emily Harvey, Curated by Berty Skuber. Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice
2012PAPYRI, An exhibition of artists books and bookworms, curated by Berty Skuber. Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice
2011 International iPhoneography Exhibition, 2011. Online exhibition (FX Studio Pro/Soho Gallery for Digital Art organisers)
2009 Performance. Harvard University Carpenter Center. Evening of performance and discussion with Alison Knowles, guest professor for sculpture student crits.
2009 An Evening with Alison Knowles featuring a lecture performance by Alison Knowles and Alan Bowman. Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY, New York City, NY.
2009 Vendorbar. Drawing Performance with Alison Knowles. Curated by Kirkby Gookin and Robin Khan. E AB/Fair New York City, NY.
2009 Plah Plah Pli Plah. Experimental Music Performance with Alison Knowles. Printed Matter, New York City, NY.
2009 Beans in Paper Sound. Improvised experimental music and classic performances with Alison Knowles. Academy for Media Arts, Cologne, Germany.
2009 Loose Pages. Performance with Alison Knowles, Galeria Stella A, Berlin, Germany.
2008 Loose Pages and Other Performances. Unimediamodern, Genova, Italy.
2008 The Fluxus Long Weekend. Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Ay-O’s Homage to Emily Harvey, Homage to Emmett Williams and Homage to Fluxus Friends Who Have Gone to Heaven or to Hell. Curatorial and performance responsibilities for three evenings of performances in Venice in coincidence with the Venice Bienniale. Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy.
2007 Flux on A United Front. Performances and workshops for invited artists from Waygood Studios. Waygood, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2006 Time Samples. Museo Fortuny Venezia – A performance of various Alison Knowles scores and other Fluxus events. With Alison Knowles.
Two Poets’ T-Shirt. performance with Alison Knowles and Jessica Higgins, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice.
2004 Portrait of Secret Fluxus (curation and production of online exhibition)2004 Return To Sender (Postal Room Weekend) Waygood, Newcastle Upon Tyne; UK
2003 Festival Fluxus et Neo-Fluxus, Nice 1963-2003 Curated by Ben Vautier
2003 alan bowman's frozenrefrigeratedboiledfriedbakedand roasted events 2003 La Biennale di Venezia (50esima Esposizione d’Arte) June – Nov 2003
2003 Life Never Stops, Fluxus Group Show curated by Ben Vautier and Emily Harvey. Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, June-August 2003
2003 r+d, “an exhibition of nine new projects spanning photography, painting, video, installation, sculpture, computer-generated imagery, web-based work and performance”. Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, UK. Curated by Judith Winter and Alistair Robinson. June-August 2003
2002 Fluxlist Chess Game, October, 2002 (Culminating in the production/web publication of music generated by the chess game between Hal 9000 and Frank Poole in Kubrik’s “2001 - A Space Odyssey”)
2002 Fluxlist Phrase Event. September, 2002
2002 Travel Across Venice with a Ten Storey Apartment – Venice IX/02/II, 9th February 2002
“Octet for Wind” (G. Brecht, 1964) with Ben Patterson, Larry Miller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Philip Corner, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen and Alison Knowles. 10th February, 2003. Porto Antico, Genova.
Solo performance of Tomas Schmidt’s “Zyklus”. 15th February, 2003. Museo di Villa Croce, Genova
“Four Directional Song of Doubt”, (Emmett Williams) with Emmett Williams, Ben Patterson and Eric Andersen. 16th February, 2003. Museo di Villa Croce, Genova. During the above show in Genova, including associated events I also acted as translator, where necessary and was responsible for the filming of performances on behalf of Larry Miller.
2001 untitled event with Allen Bukoff (Fluxus Midwest) – performance with Yoshi Wada’s “Earthhorns” – Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, 30th September, 2001
2001 Rainbow Cake for Ay-O – Event for Ay-O’s 70th birthday party, NYC, 30th September, 2001
2001 Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running Around Emily Harvey Gallery, Personal Performance at EHG, 537 Broadway NYC 8/10/2001, 8th October 2001
2001 The FFFO New York Red Wine Incident. Performance/Drawing Project, October, 2001
2001 Barcodes for You - ongoing personalised bar-code project.
2000 FFFO Robert Fontenot Collection. Online Museum Project
2000 Electronic Mail Alterations
2000 Travelpics - ongoing documentation of various journeys by bus train and boat.
1999 Electronic Mail Alterations
1999 Instructions – Side on Gallery, Annandale, Sydney, Australia.
1998 Office Working environment/Installation. University of Sunderland.
1998 Untitled (Response #1, Plasticene Version)
1998 Response #1 - Invitation to alter a postcard and return it.
1998 Fluxus Influx Shoe Days – Sunderland, 5 Thursdays in February and March (with Fluxus Midwest, Michigan, Eryk Salvaggio, New Hampshire, Owen Smith, Maine)
1997 Printworks (with John Tilley) Industrial soundscape /noise-music performance, Riverside, Newcastle Upon Tyne
1997 (Ten thinking errors) Doing Your Own Head In May 1997 Video Installation @9 The Elms, Sunderland, UK
1997 Stars in their Eyes Group performance night as part of the “Twelfth Night” run at the GULBENKIAN THEATRE – Newcastle upon Tyne UK - July 1997
Essays and Publications
Y Así de Tantísimo Amor Nos Queremos a book of visual poetry for Bibiana Maltos Padilla. FFFO/Norfolk & Goode Press 2011
F.F.F.O. Archaeological Surveys Div. “The original 1966 documentation from the Freeformfreakout Organisation Archaeological dig on the Island of San Giuliano in the Venetian Lagoon. Drawings and brief descriptions of the artifacts found and background information on the Legendary Papal Banquet celebrating the Reversal of the Ex-Communication of Lord Byron.” FFFO/Norfolk & Goode Press, 2009
Before I was Aware of Fluxus &Fluxus & the Far End of the Freefromfreakout Organisation. (2 articles) Visible Language 40.1 – “Fluxus after Fluxus” (Ed. Ken Friedman, Owen F. Smith) Pub. Rhode Island School of Design, 2006.
Alan Bowman, Performance Texts 1998-2004 (2005-2006). A collection of performance scores, FFFO/Norfolk & Goode Press, 2006.
Stoke Poets on Weed/Shirt, Pants or Wodin. The Extraordinary Trouser and T-Shirt Combinations of Sol Nte. Biography of UK artist Sol Nte, FFFO/Norfolk & Goode Press, 2005
Inherited Phonetic Alphabet (Version for Emmett Williams), Venice, 2002
Ten Thousand Words on the Internet - Venice, 2002
Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running Around Emily Harvey Gallery, Documentation –NYC, New York, 8/10/2001. Edition of five each wrapped in an original drawing.
The FFFO New York Red Wine Incident – inappropriately named book documenting three bottles of red wine and half a bottle of prosecco – NYC, New York, October 2001
ART = START Artists Books Project – January 2001
Inherited Phonetic Alphabet (after Ray Bowman), Venice, 2000. “…16 page booklet (A5, Bubble jet printed with hand written text entries and cover design, on whatever decent quality paper is at hand. Authentic FFFO rubber stamp and signature on back.)”
Nine Hiding Events (booklet) – Venice, 1999
Fruitscores Illustrated, Venice,1999 (Limited edition of 11 colour copies)
Twenty Six Alterations for Jean Sellem – Lund, Performance documentation book – Venice, 1999
Ten Thousand Words on a Piece of String, Sunderland, 1998
The “Questions” Scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard, 1967, Performance script, Sunderland 1998
Twenty Six Alterations, Sunderland 1998
Thirteen Hours, Sunderland, 1998
Collections The Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC Collection Ben Vautier University of Sunderland Permanent Collection
Music 2007 - present: Udon Noodles: Ongoing experimental music performance - documentation here http://alonetone.com/alanfffo
As ‘Bowman’ Musica Ambindustriental. CD Musica Ambindustriental (Environment Sessions). CD
As ‘Udon Noodle Death’ Alpago Demos (Delirium Tremens Sessions). CD
As ‘Udon Noodles’ Trance and Mental Medication. CD Music From Films. CD Wednesday Interference/Mad Dala. CD Bang! Bang! Bang! CD
EXPERIENCE
2009 to Present – International School of Venice. Subject teacher responsible for I.T., Technology, English Mathematics and Art, middle school
1998 to 2009 - International School of Venice. Class Teacher, primary school
2006 Emily Harvey Foundation, Venezia. Gallery Manager. Responsible for the installation and organisation of Alison Knowles’ “Time Samples” exhibition. Assistant to Alison Knowles.
2008 – Present – Webmaster/Designer. Bertyskuber.com, responsible for design and production of website fro artist Berty Skuber.
2004 to Present – Webmaster/Designer. Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice.
Assistant to Alain Arias-Misson, November 2002. Responsible for the installation of the show “Little Shamanic Light-Bulb Theater” at Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice
Assistant to John Roloff, May – September 2002, in preparation for the installation of “Holocene Passage” at Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice. (As part of the Biennale di Venezia event “Intersecting the Space – Gordon Matta-Clark and John Roloff at AEH”
Assistant to Emmett Williams, responsible for the installation of the show “Emmett Williams - Storylines” at Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, April 2002
Assistant to Henry Flynt at Emily Harvey Gallery, April 2002. Responsible for the construction of the Emily Harvey Gallery website, in collaboration with Sara Seagull. (Ongoing project)
Fluxus Constellation, Genova, February 2002.. Performance evenings with Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Geoffrey Hendricks, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Ann Noel, Ben Patterson, Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams.
Assistant Director Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice, September 2001 – September 2002.
Assistant to Ay-O, October 2001. Responsible for the organisation and installation of Ay-O’s “Rainbow Mandala” show at Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, New York.
Assistant to Henry Flynt, at Emily Harvey Gallery, New York. October 2001
Assistant to Larry Miller, New York, October, 2001
Assistant to Emily Harvey and Davidson Gigliotti for the installation of the Fluxus group show, “537 Broadway Comes to Venice”. Emily Harvey Associazione Culturale, May – June 2001
1999 to Present – Emily Harvey Gallery / Emily Harvey Foundation. Web designer, web master.
Guest lecturer at Sunderland University (Art 202 Module, Faculty of Arts and Design – October 1997)