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In this video documentation of a 1979 concert of “historical Fluxus pieces” at The Kitchen, Dick Higgins performs George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62), reprising a piece he performed in similar fashion in a Fluxus concert in Copenhagen in November 1962, shortly after the collective’s founding. Higgins arranges the props himself—ladder, bowl, pitcher filled with water—and announces the title of the piece before performing it in a task-like manner. We see and hear a stream of rapid, steady drips that eventually slows and ends—all within less than sixty seconds. Camera flashes and murmurs from the audience are overtaken by clapping and appreciative laughter by the performance’s end.