10th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Grand central

10th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Grand central

Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Experimental music; Public art; Transit-based performance; Site-specific art; New York railways

Poster announcing the tenth Festival, held in Grand Central Station on 20 Penn Central baggage cars on December 9, 1973.
The poster features Jim McWilliams's graphic design using train imagery. Multiple photographs of Penn Central baggage cars and railway tracks are arranged alongside large orange/red text and participant lists run in columns along the sides.
The festival transformed twenty Penn Central railroad baggage cars into individual performance and installation spaces within Grand Central Terminal.

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

Original poster from University of Toronto, Robarts Library

Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York [Charlotte Moorman]

1973-12-09

Participating artists and performers as listed; Nam June Paik; Yoko Ono; John Cage; Carolee Schneemann; Yoshimasa Wada and Barbara Stewart

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (series, 1963–1980); Related to: Fluxus and site-specific transit art practices

Paper poster, offset lithograph in black and orange, vertical layout, approx. 79 × 50.5 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Poster; Announcement; Event ephemera; Artist-designed poster; Collectible print

Spatial: Grand Central Station, New York City (N.Y.), United States; Temporal: 1973