The Dick Higgins Collection at UMBC
Sept 8 - Dec 13, 2003
Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery
Opening Symposium:
October 16
<ilayer src="info_blurb.html" width=400px height=300px> <!--- add blurb here: short lines, (span class="news_text") ---> <span class="news_text"> <!-- paste text here --> The Dick Higgins Collection includes rare Fluxus objects, prints, drawings, musical scores, performance documentation, games, books, letters, and other works by a wide circle of avant garde visual artists, musicians, writers, and performance artists, such as John Cage, Alison Knowles, Claes Oldenberg, Allan Kaprow, and of course Dick Higgins.<br> <br> While diverse, the works featured are concerned with breaking barriers between genres, media, "high" and "low" culture, artist and viewer, museum and society, the ephemeral and the permanent, and between art and everyday life. Fluxus artists remain forever tricksters, non sequiters, and iconoclasts, but their work fostered an accessibility, humor, and playful simplicity which has seen increasing influence over the last 30 years of contemporary art. <br> <br> This online archive presents extensive documentation of the collection, the artists' lives and experience, and their ideas. Fluxus art insists on direct experience, on art as a communal and proactive gesture, and this site invites deeper exploration of a rarely exposed but vital movement. <br> <br> The collection and show are curated by <br> <br> <a href="http://www.research.umbc.edu/~lmoren/" target="window" class="nav4">Lisa Moren</a>, Assistant Professor, UMBC<br> Cynthia Wayne, Curator, <a href="http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/SpecColl/" target="window" class="nav4"> Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery</a>, UMBC <br> and in association with artists Hannah Higgins, Alison Knowles, and Larry Miller.<br> <br> [ site design by <a href="http://research.umbc.edu/~jperry3" target="window" class="nav4">j l p</a> ] <!-- stop pasting here --> </span> </ilayer>
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