Dick Higgins Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins: Pioneer of Intermedia and Danger Music Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) stands as a singular figure in the landscape of experimental art and music, inextricably linked to the Fluxus movement and its radical reimagining of artistic practice. Born in Cambridge, England, to American parents Carter Chapin Higgins and Katherine Huntington Bigelow—a lineage that would later include his murdered younger brother Mar
k Huntington Higgins—Higgins’s formative years were spent traversing America's New England region, fostering a worldview shaped by both intellectual curiosity and profound personal loss. This early experience instilled in him an unwavering commitment to challenging conventional artistic boundaries. His academic pursuits centered around composition with John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York during the late 1950s,…