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Email Subject: RE: Moorman exhibition / American Can proposal
Corinne D Granof Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 1:36 PM
Subject: FW: Moorman exhibition / American Can proposal.
https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CM_Release_20160427.pdf
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The early festivals were held at Judson Hall on Fifty-Seventh Street (not to be confused with Judson Memorial Church, site of many other important performances in the period). After a relatively “straight” first edition, things quickly gained steam the following year, when the US premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Originale, 1961, was chosen as the marquee event. Directed by Allan Kaprow, the German composer’s Happening-like theatrical spectacle featured a cast of experimental luminaries—Allen Ginsberg, Dick Higgins, Alvin Lucier, Jackson Mac Low, Max Neuhaus, Paik, James Tenney, and Moorman herself, among others. It was an important moment of both collaboration and conflict within the New York scene: As the performance unfolded to a packed house, a small group, led by artist and musician Henry Flynt and Fluxus impresario George Maciunas, picketed outside on the sidewalk.
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