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Bio
American artist, lives and works in New York and Massachusetts. Formative dance studies in her youth at Juilliard and Joffrey. She has direct experiential knowledge of Fluxus, having early formation in that culture by way of the original members and by participation in historic Fluxus events. B.A. from Suny, New York. Attended Art Students League and Parsons School of Design. “My work is intermedia using action, dance, installation and visuals.”
Based in Manhattan
email: jh jessicahiggins org
Recent Activities
2014
“Loose Pages” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, La Panacee, Centre De Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, France
2014
“Newspaper Music” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins and others, La Panacee, Centre De Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, France
2014
“Make A Salad” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, David Teeple and Mark Bloch, PS1 MoMA, New York City
Solo Exhibitions
2002
“Poet Walk, Diamond Forest” Lance Fung Gallery, New York
1999
“How It Sometimes Goes In Kangaroo Land” Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
1998
“Riddles” Lance Fung Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2016
“Altered Books” Curated by John Landino, Eastworks, Mill Arts Project room, “Tangled Haiku”, Easthampton, Massachusetts
2013
“A Thin Red Line” City Hall, Reach Fest, Holyoke, Massachusetts
2012
“The Napkin Art Show” Eastworks Selection Gallery, “Wholly Holy Napkin,” Easthampton, Massachusetts
2008
“Fueled Overtones” The Wassaic Project,”A Soldier’s Tale [Histoire Du Soldat]” Wassaic, New York
“Camoflash” Patio Art Center, “Poem Song,Interpretation Two” Pozen, Poland
“Camoflash” Patio Art Center, “Poem Song,Interpretation Two” Dresden Germany
2007
“Camoflash” Patio art center, “Poem Song” Lodz, Poland
2006
“Fluxus Letters and Poet Walk: The Dove” Art Center “Cabaret Voltaire, Dada ”
Poughkeepsie, New York
2004
“Poet Walk: The Dove” Cambio Constante, Casa De La Mujer, Zaragoza, Spain
Art Center,”Cabaret Voltaire” Poughkeepsie, New York
2001
Hopper House, “Going Home” New York
Lance Fung Gallery, “The Smell Of Fear” New York
2000
O.C.C. - Hunt, New York
1998
“Extract” Aggregatzustand, The Artists Project, Berlin
“Ocean” Malsch, Munich
“Births” A Collections Of Actions, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
“Portrait Of My Mother” Frauen Museum, Bonn, included in the Alison Knowles retrospective, Indigo Island
1997
“Specimen” J+J Donguy Gallery, Paris, included in the Alison Knowles exhibit Sea-Change
“Portrait Of My Mother” J+J Donguy Gallery, Paris, included in the Alison Knowles exhibit Sea - Change
“Extract” Five, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
1996
“14 Hooks, 14 Hats, 5 Elements” Site-ations Festival, The Artists Project, Cardiff, Wales
1995
“Handwritings” Construction In Process, Mitzpa Ramon, Israel
“Births” The Artists’ Museum, New York
Solo Performances
2007
“Poem Song” Camoflash, Patio Gallery, Lodz, Poland, composer Tomasz Ogrodowczyk, assisted by Erika Knerr
2001
“Madam Butterfly” Performance Festival Odense, Denmark
1998
“Handwritings” the Jessica Higgins exhibit, Riddles, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
“Handwritings” Ultimate Akademie, Cologne
“Box” Gallery One Twenty Eight, New York
“Portrait Of My Mother” Frauen Museum, Bonn, included in the Alison Knowles retrospective, Indigo Island
1997
“Portrait Of My Mother” J+J Donguy Gallery, Paris, included in the Alison Knowles exhibit Sea - Change
1996
“Reflections” Site-ations, The Artist Project, Cardiff, Wales
“Braille” Kage Cabaret, Anthology Film Archives, New York, program with Yoshi Wada, Larry Miller, Alison Knowles, Joshua Selman, Maciej Toporowicz and others
1995
Alison Knowles “Parisol For Marisol” Al Hansen Memorial, Judson Church, New York
“Handwritings” Kage Cabaret, Shelter 209, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yoko Ono “Cut” Soho Arts Festival, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
1994
“Interpretation One” Site-ations Festival, The Artist Project, Cardiff, Wales
Group Performances
2014
“Loose Pages” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, La Panacee, Centre De Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, France
“Newspaper Music” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins and others, La Panacee, Centre De Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, France
“Make A Salad” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, David Teeple and Mark Bloch, PS1 MoMA, New York City
2012
“Loose Pages” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, Museum Wiesbaden, Fluxus 50, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Proposition #2, Make A Salad” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins and others, The Highline, Manhattan, New York City
2011
“Loose Pages” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, PERFORMA 11, Forever & Today, New York, New York
2010
“Pick Up Sticks” by Jessica Higgins & Mary Averill, Performers: Jessica Higgins, Mary Averill, Erika Knerr, video art by Denis Luzuriaga, original music by Joshua Selman and Matt Waugh, Live Action New York 2010, Scandanavia House, New York City (pic soon)
“Loose Pages” by Alison Knowles, performed with Jessica Higgins, Ryerson Theater, Nuit Blanche 2010, Toronto, Canada (pic soon)
“Pick Up Sticks” by Jessica Higgins & Mary Averill, Performers: Jessica Higgins, Mary Averill, Erika Knerr, video art by Denis Luzuriaga, original music by Joshua Selman and Matt Waugh, Emily Harvey Gallery, Elaine Summers Intermedia Series, New York (pic soon)
“Speaking Bodies” with Alison Knowles, “Loose Pages” Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2009
“Pickup Sticks” Jessica Higgins, Mary Averill and Erika Knerr, randomized haiku texts from the Poet Walk series as Intermedia Movement
“Block Party” Wonderland curated by Lance Fung, published action events by Jessica Higgins, Erika Knerr, Joshua Selman,Tenderloin, San Francisco
“Fluxus Around The Clock” Alison Knowles, “Loose Pages” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Making Rainbows” Elaine Summers Dance Co., Anthology Film Archives, New York
2008
“North, Water, Song” Saint Marks, New York, New York, reading Alison
Knowles, Music Joshua Selman, dance Jessica Higgins
2007
“North, Water, Song” The Good Shepard, Seattle,Washington, reading Alison
Knowles, Music Joshua Selman, dance Jessica Higgins
“Hidden Forest” by Elaine Summers, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors, New York
“Bean Concordances” by Alison Knowles, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York
“Breath Poem” Emmet Williams Memorial, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
“Zen for Head” by Nam June Paik [Yin Yang Version by Larry Miller] James Cohan Gallery, New York
2005
Fluxsweet: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City
2002
Fluxus Festival, with Alison Knowles, Larry Miller and Joshua Selman, The Uptown, New York
2000
Checked, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, Happening style event
1999
“Friday Apple Blossoms” Whitney Museum, New York, reading of “Glass Lass” by Dick Higgins program with Eric Andersen, Geoff Hendricks, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Joshua Selman, Anne Tardos, Yasunao Tone, Jackson Mac Low and others
1998
“Onion Skin Song” Indigo Island, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Alison Knowles
1996
“Balloon Music” Kage Cabaret, Art Omi, New York, collaboration Maciej Toporowitz, Joshua Selman
1994
“Bread and Water” with Alison Knowles at Seoul NyMax Festival, Nam June Paik and Anthology Film Archives, New York, Larry Miller, Joshua Selman, Jeff Perkins, Philip Corner, Phoebe Neville, Mieko Shiomi, Ay-o, Hermann Nitch, Geoff Hendricks, Ken Friedman, Eric Andersen, Dick Higgins and others
1992
“Loose Pages” The John Cage Memorial, Bard College, New York, Alison Knowles
Fluxus à la Carte, Judson Church, New York, Larry Miller, Joshua Selman, Rebbecca Moore, Clarinda Mac Low, Zoran, and others
Anthology Film Archives, performing “Zen For Head” by Nam June Paik and “Photo Event for Two” by Mieko Shiomi, Fluxus Excellente Festival, New York, Clarinda Maclow, Larry Miller, Joshua Selman, Rebbecca Moore, Jeff Buckley and others
1990
“Bean Sequences” American Audio Art, WDR Radio, Cologne, with Alison Knowles
1988
“North Water Song” Neuberger Museum, New York, with Alison Knowles
1989
“Fishes of the Philipine Seas” Paul Panhuysen’s Apollo Huis, Eindhoven, Holland, with Alison Knowles
1986
“Natural Assemblages and the True Crow” Franklin Furnace, New York, reading and performance with Alison Knowles
1985
“Aspersions Cast” with Daryl Chin, Theater For The New City, New York, and others
1983
The Flux Festival, Suny Purchase, by Fluxus, Neuberger Museum, New York, including “In Memoriam Adriano Olivetti” by George Maciunas. Program with Jean Depuy, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Yoshi Wada, Yasunao Tone, Christian Xatrec and others
“Loose Pages” Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, with Alison Knowles
1982
Wall to Wall John Cage and Friends, Natural Assemblages and the True Crow, Symphony Space. New York, with Alison Knowles, program with Walter Zimmermann, Margaret Leng Tan, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
“Bean Sequences” WDR Radio, Cologne, with Alison Knowles
1979
“Natural Assemblages And The True Crow” by Alison Knowles, The Kitchen, New York, Saturday, March 24, 1979, program with Alison Knowles, Jessie Higgins, Malcolm Goldstein, Phil Corner, Peter Frank, Ken Friedman, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Carla Liss, Larry Miller, Yasunao Tone, Peter Van Riper, Yoshi Wada, Simone Forti, Joan Mathews and others.
“In Memoriam Adriano Olivetti” by George Maciunas, The Kitchen, New York, Saturday, March 24, 1979, program with Alison Knowles, Jessie Higgins, Malcolm Goldstein, Phil Corner, Peter Frank, Ken Friedman, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Carla Liss, Larry Miller, Yasunao Tone, Peter Van Riper, Yoshi Wada, Simone Forti, Joan Mathews and others.
1977
“The Birth Of Venus” The Grommet Theater, New York, with Alison Knowles, program with Jean Depuy and Olga Adorno and others
1972
“In Memoriam Adriano Olivetti” by George Maciunas, The Kitchen, New York, program with Philip Corner, Jean Depuy, Geoff Hendricks, Peter Van Riper, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Larry Miller, Yasunao Tone, Ay-O and others
Performance Programs
2009-2013
Creative Director of “SWITCH”, an intermedia art series for public access television, also streamed on the internet. SWITCH included other artists’s performance works, video art & events as well as her own.
Reviews, Articles and Catalogues:
New Observations Magazine #129, Out of the Box, The Way of Art on the Loose: “Fluxus50 with Ben Patterson” spring/summer 2013
World Art, 3/1995, “Construction In Process”
Village Voice, “Five” December ‘97 Listings
Sunday New York Times, “Five” Group Show Picks, 1997
Village Voice, July ‘98 “A Collection Of Actions” Listings
New Observations Magazine, “Fertility” Summer ‘98, New York
Wendy Geller, “That Which Cannot Be Contained” Catalogue, Canada, ‘98
“Malsch” Catalogue, Munich, ‘99
Fergusen, Pamela (2000). Take Five. Goldenbridge, Dublin: Newleaf Gill & Macmillan Ltd.
Odense Festival 2001, Denmark, 2001
New York Times, “Poet Walk” Art Guide, November 29, 2002
Artist Organized Art, Poet Walk, The Dove, June 15, 2004
Artist Organized Art, Zen For Head, April 19, 2007
Site-ations International, Europe, 2005/2006, University Of Wales Institute Cardiff, Sense in Place
Mediations Biennale, Poznan, 2008