5th Annual NY Avant Garde Festival

5th Annual NY Avant Garde Festival

Fluxus; Avant-garde art; Performance art; Happenings; Video art; Electronic music; Experimental music; Kinetic light art; Computer art; Dance; Poetry; Jazz; Sculpture; Environmental art; New York art scene 1960s

Poster announcing the fifth Festival, held on board the Staten Island Ferry Boat, John F. Kennedy, during a 24-hour period, September 29-30, 1967
The poster features a light blue/cyan background with white circuit board or technological pattern design. The festival took place continuously for 24 hours on the Staten Island Ferry, with passengers paying a nickel each time they boarded to experience the performances.
Footer text describes: Chamber music, happenings, events, environment, poetry, kinetic light art, films, sculpture, painting, sound, videorecorder compositions, dance, television art

Charlotte Moorman (organizer/presenter)
Jim McWilliams (poster designer)

Original poster from University of Toronto, Robarts Library

Charlotte Moorman; Norman J. Seaman (producer)

1967

Max Neuhaus, La Monte Young, John Cage, Robert Moran, Robert Ashley, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Alvin Lucier, Karlheinz Stockhausen, with films by Stan Brakhage, and numerous others listed on the poster

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (series, 1963–1980); Related to: Fluxus and intermedia performance in public space

Paper poster, offset lithograph in blue ink, vertical format, approx. 74 × 18.5 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Still Image; Text; Poster

Spatial: John F. Kennedy Staten Island Ferry Boat, Whitehall Terminal, New York Harbor, traveling between Manhattan and Staten Island, New York, NY, USA Temporal: September 29-30, 1967 (continuous 24-hour period)