"Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins"

Contribute your "celebration." Send it to us at higgins@fluxus.org and we'll post it/link to it here.


"Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins"
Sunday, December 27 at 3 pm
Judson Memorial Church
New York, New York
Organized by Alison, Hannah, and Jessica

Dick Higgins (1938 - 1998)
Dick Higgins photographed by Carolee Schneemann
Emily Harvey Gallery 17 September 1998




The New York Times obituary.
Ken Friedman's eulogy on FLUXLIST.

The latest issue of Umbrella includes an homage to Dick Higgins with eulogies by Ken Friedman, Peter Frank, Piotr Rypson, Francesco Conz and others (vol. 21, nos. 3/4; December 1998). View Umbrella's Dick Higgins tribute online or obtain a paid copy from Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella, P.O. Box 3640, Santa Monica, CA 90408 USA.







CELEBRATIONS
 
Contribute your "celebration." Send it to us at Celebrate and we'll post it/link to it here. All pieces submitted prior to midnight, December 26th, will be printed out in a booklet entitled "FLUXLIST and SILENCE Celebrate the Life of Dick Higgins" to be available at the Judson Church celebration.

   We miss him--A Hansen Family Goodbye

Miekel And   mesostics for dick higgins by Miekel And

tartarugo   Silence/Memory by tartarugo

Thomas Bell   Everything is Simple I, II, and III by Thomas Bell

Tobias Berger and René Block   Dick Higgins by Tobias Berger and René Block

Joe De Marco and Picasso Gaglione   Thanks for the inspiration by Joe De Marco and Picasso Gaglione

David Kennedy   The Postcognitive Questions by David Kennedy

Owen Smith

  Danger Music Number 60 (for Dick Higgins)
  A New Song in an Old Style for Dick Higgins
  by Owen Smith

Pauline Oliveros   The King of Ties by Pauline Oliveros

Ione   Dick Higgins' Funeral by Ione

           Dick Higgins by Ken Friedman

Lawrence Upton   DIG IN by Lawrence Upton

Reiner Strasser

   It was a weird coincidence that I received the message
   of Higgins dying...while I was working on "the diver's grave"
   by Reiner Strasser

Loss Pequeno Glazier   For Dick Higgins by Loss Pequeño Glazier

Josh Ronsen   Art I made while thinking of Dick Higgins by Josh Ronsen






WINDWORDS:
A ONE-WORD CELEBRATION AND PERFORMANCE

If you had to capture the essence of Dick Higgins, his work, what he means to you, what his loss means to you, in ONE WORD, what would it be? Please think of and submit ONE WORD (or a very short phrase) to higgins@fluxus.org. This collection of words (so far)is posted below and will become one of the performances at the Judson Church celebration.




                  SIMPLEXITY

                               InterDangerFunnyHaHaMusicMedia    
    oh.


		 flow
						flux!
							
			          pilgrim


         many


	mesomesomesosososososostostostostostshtikshtikshtik

							Flannel

			PRODIGIOUS

	      ELEGANT        LARGE




					minesweeper


 Patience Yoga
			REVOLUTION






							    Big Hands


		library

				mountain

                                         


            gargantuanmann


                                           Intermedia


	Inspiration
	              glasslass





							glass

   questionnaire


				the divers

       magnifico

					nexus


								humanist


                   DANGER


  Hershey    
				Olivetti       
		

		Pagemaker

						Khabballah
                        

							Richard Hamilton
      Pop Architecture
		
	      

          YANG

                  indelible
 
						  lark


                                     Ed	


                        cathecolumbysm


							DIG IN		



  ohflake


			polypatadadaextramediapoeta




								magnificent

			          ENERGY


                                          Encyclopedic


                                                   Majestic



		kin-geeolina


					  Yoni

                         

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Contribute your "celebration." Send it to us at higgins@fluxus.org and we'll post it/link to it here.