6th Annual NY Festival of the Avant Garde
Title
6th Annual NY Festival of the Avant Garde
Subject
Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Parades; Street art; Experimental music festivals; Urban performance
Description
Poster for the Sixth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival: A Parade, organized and directed by Charlotte Moorman in 1968. The event took the form of a live procession through New York City streets, merging avant-garde performance, music, and public art. Participants included Nam June Paik, John Cage, Phillip Glass, Ay-o, Jacques Delacroix, Robert Watts, Robert Ruman, Bill Carruthers, George Brecht, and numerous others. The poster is printed in red with a map of Manhattan as background, overlaid with the event title in lowercase typography and facsimile signatures of participating artists arranged in vertical columns.
Creator
Charlotte Moorman (organizer/presenter) Jim McWilliams (poster designer)
Source
Original poster from University of Toronto, Robarts Library
Publisher
Charlotte Moorman; Norman J. Seaman (producer)
Date
September 14, 1968
Contributor
Participating artists and performers as listed on the poster.
Relation
Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (series, 1963–1980); Related to Fluxus performances and public art interventions
Format
Paper poster, offset lithograph in red and black ink, vertical orientation, approx.78.5 x 18 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)
Language
English
Type
Still Image; Text; Poster
Coverage
Spatial: New York City (N.Y.), United States; Temporal: 1968
Files
Collection
Citation
Charlotte Moorman (organizer/presenter) Jim McWilliams (poster designer), “6th Annual NY Festival of the Avant Garde,” Exhibits, accessed April 3, 2026, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/29633.