11th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Shea Stadium

11th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Shea Stadium

Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Experimental music; Public art; Stadium events; Pop art aesthetics; 1970s New York culture

Poster for the 10th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, organized and directed by Charlotte Moorman and held at Shea Stadium, Queens, New York, on 16 November 1974. The festival transformed the baseball stadium into a massive open-air environment for avant-garde music, performance, and installation. Participants included Allen Ginsberg, Arman, John Cage, Christo, John Giorno, Allan Kaprow, Beryl Korot, Anne Tardos, Bill Viola, and others. The poster features a vivid Pop-style photomontage of Shea Stadium’s circular structure rendered in psychedelic color variations, with text listing participating artists, sponsors, and contributors. The title appears vertically at center in blue and red typography, echoing stadium signage and scoreboards.

Charlotte Moorman (director and organizer); Jim McWilliams (designer)

Original poster from University of Toronto, Robarts Library

Charlotte Moorman; Norman J. Seaman (producer); New York Mets organization (venue partner)

1974-16-28

Participating artists and performers as listed;Allen Ginsberg, Arman, John Cage, Christo, John Giorno, Allan Kaprow, Beryl Korot, Anne Tardos, Bill Viola; Fluxus network contributors

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

Paper poster, offset lithograph in full color, horizontal layout, approx. 56 × 82 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Still Image; Text; Poster

Spatial: Shea Stadium, Queens, New York City (N.Y.), United States; Temporal: 1974