Dick Higgins Voer een
gevoel, niet
een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
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,…