Higgins

[Otto]

the artist
a metadrama

artist: "i'm hungry."
someone else: "here are twenty two ounces of honor."
artist: "i'm still hungry."
someone else: "here are twenty two more ounces of honor."

buddhism
a metadrama

buddhist monk: "peace!"
sound of gunfire.

http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lhiggins.htm

"Dick Higgins | Intermedia <1962>
Fluxus artist Dick Higgins describes a branch of American post-modernism
from the 1960s that reflects the tumultuous social atmosphere of the era and
its impact on the arts. Higgins attention is focused on Intermedia, a myriad
of emerging genres that spilled across the boundaries of traditional media.
In the interseces between the arts, mixed-media forms coalesced: Happenings,
performance art, kinetic sculpture, electronic theater, as well as a variety
of deliberately uncategorizable works - such as in Philip Corner's Piano
Activities and his own Danger Music #2 from 1962.

Following the example of Marcel Duchamp, Higgins suggests that artists
explore the territory that lies between "the general area of art media and
those of life media." He calls for unusual combinations of art, including,
for instance, the mixing of painting and shoes (as in the art of Claes
Oldenburg). With Intermedia, any available object or experience can be
incorporated into the artwork."
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Higgins.html

Modernism Since Postmodernism (Dick Higgins)
http://colophon.com/umbrella/higgins_21.3_4.html

Otto



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