New York Annual Avant-Garde Festival (1963--1980).
In 1978 the Festival was held in Cambridge, Mass. There was no Avant-Garde
Festival in 1979. The last Festival was held in 1980 at the Passenger Ship
Terminal, pier 92. All the Festivals were staged and curated by Charlotte
Moorman, sometimes
Davidson
Thanks for this very interesting account. I'd never heard of Howard
Wise.
I'm curious, do you recall if there were other composers than Cage,
Behrman, Varese, Brown, Feldman and Rzewski? I mean any of the people
later to be associated with Fluxus? I'm thinking perhaps Maciunas had
Its very egalitarian nature told against it within the context of New
York's artworld, which tended to view the Festivals as a "fringe" event,
We never had an "Avant-Garde" Festival here, but there was the "christmas
artfair" of the local "Kunstverein" (art club), more or less at the same
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