9th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

9th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

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

Poster for the 9th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, directed by Charlotte Moorman and held aboard the historic Alexander Hamilton riverboat. Taking place as a floating multi-level performance environment, the festival featured experimental music, performance art, film, sound works, installations, and intermedia events throughout the ship as it traveled along the Hudson River. The poster uses a multicolour photo-collage design (green, blue, and violet tones) depicting aerial and deck-level views of the ship, combined with vertical typographic headings and dense columns of participating artists and credits. The work reflects Moorman’s expansion of the festival into mobile, immersive infrastructural spaces.

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]

October 1972

Participating artists as listed on poster; Shuya Abe, John Alpert, Eric Anderson, Oliver Andrews, Eleanor Antin, Ay-o, Claudio Badal, Shridhar Bapat, Fred Barzak, Gregory Battcock, Bill Birch, Frank Braynard, Dennis Brennan, Brenda Bufalino, John Cage, Domenick Capobianco, Jackie Cassen, Laura Cavestany, Joel Chadabe, Rhys Chatham, Emanuel Ghent, Dick Higgins, Ralph Hocking, Wayne Hycle, Glenda Hydler, Takahiko Iimura, Iris, Sylvia Johnson, Joe Jones, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Shigeko Kubota, Joanne Kyger, Gilles Larrain, Standish Lawder, Francis Lee, Rick Lefrak, John Lennon, Carl Linder, Anna Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Mary Lucier, Stanley Lunetta, Ernest Lurker, Christo, Shirley Clarke, Beverly Conrad, Tony Conrad, Philip Corner, Bob Cowan

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival (series, 1963–1980); Related to: Fluxus marine & nautical performance events

Paper poster, offset lithograph in multicolour (green/blue/violet), landscape/rotated format, approx. 87.2 × 56.2 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Still Image; Text; Poster

Spatial: Hudson River, New York City (N.Y.), United States; Venue: Alexander Hamilton Riverboat; Temporal : October 28-30, 1972