Flux Generations

Abstract

This intergenerational conversation between Fluxus artists and their children was held on November 6, 1999, on the occasion of a concert/performance memorial for the late Fluxus artist Dick Higgins at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, organized to coincide with Part II of The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950–2000. The participants included Alison Knowles (Dick Higgins's wife) and their daughter Hannah Higgins and Geoffrey Hendricks and his son Bracken Hendricks. It was moderated by Janet A. Kaplan.

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Bracken Hendricks

Bracken Hendricks is an urban plannerworking on environmental policy within the federal government. He has a master's degree in public policy and urban planning from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives with his wife Alice and two children in Washington, D.C., and continues to make art.

Geoffrey Hendricks

Geoffrey Hendricks has been active with Fluxus since the mid-1960s and has participated in numerous exhibitions and performances worldwide. As Professor of Art at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he has taught since 1956, he continues to encourage the exploration of intermedia and performance with his students.

Hannah Higgins

Hannah Higgins is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book Fluxus Experience will be published by University of California Press in 2001. She continues writing articles, and curating exhibitions in the tradition of experimental art. With her twin sister, Jessica, she is co-director of the Estate of Dick Higgins.

Alison Knowles

Alison Knowles is a conceptual artist doing sound art, graphics, installations, books, and performance art. She is an original member of the Fluxus group, a Guggenheim fellow, and has exhibited her work most recently in Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950–2000 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).