12th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

12th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Experimental music; Public art; 1970s New York art; Video art; Environmental art; Site-specific installation

Poster for the 12th Annual Avant Garde Festival. September 27, 1975. Gateway National Recreation Area/Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn.
Jim McWilliams's design features circular elements in red, blue, green, and white against a black background. Each circle contains photograph of Floyd Bennett Field's aviation infrastructure, as well as performance documentation images. The design further features text listing festival participants.

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]

September 27 and September 28, 1975

Participating artists as listed; including Nam June Paik, Eric Andersen; Robert Filliou.

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival series (1963–1980); Related to: Fluxus and intermedia performance in architectural sites

Paper poster, offset lithograph in full colour (RGB tonal grid), approx. 91 × 61 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Poster; Announcement; Event ephemera; Artist-designed poster

Spatial: Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway National Recreation Area, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA Temporal: September 27, 28, 1975