8th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

8th annual NY Avant Garde Festival

Avant-garde music; Fluxus; Performance art; Intermedia; Experimental music; Public art; New York City cultural history

Poster for the 8th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, directed by Charlotte Moorman and held at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue and 26th Street, New York, on 19 November 1971. The poster features a stark black-and-white photomontage resembling xeroxed or newspaper-halftone imagery, including industrial seating, television monitors, and architectural fragments of the Armory interior. Text indicates event details and lists participating artists. The festival included intermedia performances, sound installations, film screenings, kinetic works, and conceptual art, featuring both Fluxus artists and a broad experimental community.

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]

1971-11-19

Participating artists as listed on the poster;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.

Part of: Annual New York Avant Garde Festival series (1963–1980); Thematically intersects with the 1913 Armory Show histories and Fluxus intermedia performance practices.

Offset print/poster, black-and-white xerographic aesthetic, approx. 89 × 61 cm; digital reproduction (jpeg, 600 dpi)

English

Still Image; Text; Poster

Spatial: 69th Regiment Armory, Manhattan, New York City (N.Y.), United States; Temporal: November 19, 1971