15th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Passenger ship

15th annual NY Avant Garde Festival -Passenger ship

Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Public art; Experimental music; Hudson River events; 1970s New York culture

Two-sided poster for Festival taking place on July 20, 1980 at the Passenger Ship Terminal, 55th Street & Hudson River, New York City. This was the 15th and final festival in the Annual Avant Garde Festival series. Features a two-sided poster design, with maritime imagery on the front and text on the back.

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]

1980-07-20

Participating artists as listed; Ay-O, Christo, Barbara Ess, Simone Forti, John Giorno, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Nancy Holt, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, Les Levine, Jackson Mac Low, Ann Magnuson, Nam June Pair, Michael Smith; Fluxus network contributors

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (series, 1963–1980); Related to: Fluxus and maritime performance projects

Paper poster, offset lithograph in full color, vertical layout, approx. 89 × 58.5 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Poster; Announcement; Event program; Ephemera; Festival poster; Two-sided broadsheet

Spatial: Hudson River Piers, New York City (N.Y.), United States; Temporal :July 20, 1980