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This tape by Dick Higgins, released by Counter Culture Chronicles, documents a 1977 interview conducted by Michael Gibbs in Barton, Vermont. A crucial Fluxus figure, Higgins reflects on intermedia, publishing, and experimentation, creating a vivid self-portrait where personal recollection and artistic theory flow into one another.
Counter Culture Chronicles presents a rare recording of Dick Higgins in conversation with Michael Gibbs, taped in Barton, Vermont in 1977. Higgins, co-founder of Fluxus and the originator of the term “intermedia,” was an artist, poet, composer, and publisher whose work continually challenged the borders between disciplines. The recording captures Higgins at a moment of reflection, speaking with Gibbs about the cross-pollination of art forms, the ambitions of experimental publishing, and the lived energy of the Fluxus network. What emerges is both interview and performance: a spontaneous weave of anecdotes, theory, and commitment to the idea of art as process rather than product.
Unlike formal lectures, the tape preserves the raw immediacy of conversation—pauses, hesitations, and flashes of emphatic clarity—giving listeners direct access to Higgins’s voice and thought. For contemporary ears, it stands not just as a historical record but as an enduring provocation, reminding us how artistic practice can thrive in the interstices between sound, language, and life itself.
