While the 1962–63 European Fluxus concert tour unfolded overseas, George Brecht presented his event scores in experimental performance programs in the New York area. In April 1963, Peter Moore captured Brecht’s realization of a dripping event at the concert Happenings, Events, and Advanced Musics, organized by Al Hansen at Douglass College, Rutgers University. The program indicates that Brecht was performing his Three Aqueous Events (1961), but Moore’s photograph is often identified as depicting a realization of Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959–62). Given that Brecht was not averse to simultaneous performances of his events, the confusion merely highlights the recurring thematics and tricky ontology of his works.
Photograph by Peter Moore; © Northwestern University.
