14th NY Avant Garde Festival Cambridge

14th NY Avant Garde Festival Cambridge

Avant-garde festivals; Fluxus; Performance art; Experimental music; Intermedia;
Public art; River festivals; 1970s American art

Poster for the 15th Annual Avant Garde Festival, organized and directed by Charlotte Moorman and held in conjunction with the Cambridge River Festival on the Charles River, Massachusetts, on 20 May 1978. The event brought together artists and performers from New York and Cambridge. The poster features a vivid, multicolored design combining photographic collage, painterly overlays, and bold typography. This edition marked the final large-scale iteration of Moorman’s festival.

Charlotte Moorman (director and organizer)

Original poster from University of Toronto, Robarts Library

Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York [Charlotte Moorman] / Cambridge Arts Council

1978-05-20

Participating artists and performers from New York and Cambridge; Charlotte Moorman, Gregory Battcock, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Jean Dupuy, Dick Higgins, Geoff Hendricks, Richard Kostelanetz, Suzanne Lacy, Jackson Mac Low, Eileen Myles, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Faith Ringgold, Carolee Schneemann; Cambridge Arts Council

Part of: Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York (series, 1963–1980); Related to: Cambridge River Festival; Fluxus and public art collaborations

Paper poster, color offset lithograph, 71 × 55.5 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Poster; Announcement; Event program; Ephemera; Festival poster

Spatial: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Temporal: 1978