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Title Dick Higgins performing George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62) at Fluxus–Musik og Anti Musik det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date 23 November 1962
Medium gelatin silver print
Type photograph

Dick Higgins’s performance of George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62) at the Nikolaj Church in Copenhagen in November 1962 consisted of Higgins climbing a ladder before pouring water from a tea kettle into a metal tub set on the stage floor. Higgins’s decision to utilize a ladder in his interpretation of the piece established a performance convention that continues to this day.

Photographed by Poul Hansen for Dagbladat AKTUELT newspaper. The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, 2008. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany. Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.

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Dick Higgins performing George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62) at Fluxus–Musik og Anti Musik det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 November 1962. . In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/359/.