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Title Ensemble performance of George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62), directed by George Maciunas at Festum Fluxorum, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Date 2 February 1963
Medium photograph
Type photograph

In February 1963, the European Fluxus concert tour came to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf on the invitation of artist Joseph Beuys. There, George Maciunas directed two performances of George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62). In the first, Maciunas imitated Dick Higgins’s earlier performance that incorporated a ladder. In the second, shown here, he directed an ensemble performance equipped with eye droppers. From left to right: George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Tomas Schmit, Bengt af Klintberg, Emmett Williams, Frank Trowbridge, Arthur Köpcke, and Daniel Spoerri.

© Estate of Manfred Leve. Digital Image Kunstpalast - ARTOTHEK. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany. Artists rights: © Nachlass Manfred Leve Estate. Photo: © Kunstpalast - ARTOTHEK.

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Ensemble performance of George Brecht’s Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62), directed by George Maciunas at Festum Fluxorum, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2 February 1963. . 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/361/.