EMAIL CONTRIBUTIONS
to 
"Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins"


submitted just before, during, and after
the Celebration at Judson Church


Contributors

- scroll down the page or click on a name to jump to that contribution -

Piotr Rypson - sending Dick an email
Clemente Padin #1 - Dick Higgins helped liberate me from jail in Uruguay
Clemente Padin #2 - "SILENCE"
Clemente Padin #3 - Photo of Dick performing in Mexico City
Miekal And #1 - Mesostic / 35 ply (live)
Miekal And #2 - Mesostic / 36 ply (live)
Miekal And #3 - Mesostic / 37 ply (live)
Miekal And #4 - Mesostic / 38 ply (live) 
Lisa Kahane - Remembering
Miekal And #5 - Mesostic / 39 ply (live)
Miekal And #6 - Mesostic / 40 ply (live)
Andrej Tisma - Watching the event in Yugoslavia
Lyx Ish - "yEArned by yEAR" 
Miekal And #7 - Deconstructing the egg picture
Charlie Baum - Dick Higgins' Last Journey: A work for piano
Owen Smith - Programme for Celebration in Bangor, Maine







From: Piotr Rypson 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Celebrating Dick Higgins Update

I have sent Dick an e-mail. And for the first time, he did not reply. 
I'll write him again.






From: Clemente Padin 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 12:29 PM
Subject: Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins

Diffused by postal mail and e-mail I hardly found out his death in Canada:

In relation to the Dick Higgins´s dead I want tell that all know that, such
which I made it know openly in the Biennial V from Mexico (1996) and in Eye
Ryhmes, Alberta, Canada (1997) in the face of his own presence that, mainly,
I owe my liberation of the jails of the Uruguayan dictatorship to him in
1979. It is known that in the mobilizations for my freedom many friends in
everywhere participated and highlight his help like decisive of that fact.
He achieved, next to another of my dear dead, Wolf Vostell, that the Arts
Academy and Letters from Federal Germany (DAAD) occur me a scholarship for 3
months in Berlin and he got the money in order to pay the prisons expenses
for my detention without which I could not have negociated the passport for
to travel. Also, I advise my participation in one of the most important
events on Visual Poetry of the world: Eye Ryhmes to him. The pain won't
prevent me from putting his life like paradigm of the true friendship and
his shade will accompany and will strengthen me next to my other deads,
like Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Guillermo Deisler, Dámaso Ogaz, Adriano Spatola,
Franco Beltrametti and Samuel Feijóo.

Fraternal greetings,
Clemente Padin
C.Correos Central 1211
ll000 Montevideo, Uruguay
clepadin@adinet.com.uy






From: Clemente Padin 
To: higgins@fluxus.org ; 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 12:29 PM
Subject: Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins


SILENCE 

In Memoriam Dick Higgins


All unspeakable
that mediates
between this verse
and the next one










is poetry.



---------------------------------------------------------------
Clemente Padin
C.Correos Central 1211
ll000 Montevideo, Uruguay
clepadin@adinet.com.uy








From: Clemente Padin 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 12:30 PM
Subject: Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins


Dear Alison Knowles:

This photo was taken to Dick in performance during the IV
Biennial International of Experimental Poesia/ Visual in Mexico
City, January 13, 1996, in the Museum of the Chopo:











From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 3:43 PM
Subject: new mesostics for dick higgins


created live at 2:47 cst Dec 27, 1998

mesostic / 35 ply

hunDreds
babbIt
exerCise
Kind

Hundreds
oblIvious
fraGments
everythinG
determIned
old-fashioNed
so-and-So

words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins












From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 3:49 PM
Subject: new mesostics for dick higgins


created live at 2:53 cst Dec 27, 1998


mesostic / 36 ply

Defilements
Insane
inCest
inK

Honouring
bewIlderment
Gaspers
diaGonally
audIence
recalcitraNce
eyebrowS


words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins










From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:04 PM
Subject: new mesostics for dick higgins

created live at 3:07 cst Dec 27, 1998


mesostic / 37 ply

During
thInketh
frenCh
Kinder

toxopHobia
rIfles
Gentil
sinGs
dIsfigure
fiNding
dieS



words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins








From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org ; dtv@mwt.net 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:10 PM
Subject: newer mesostics for dick higgins

created live at 3:14 cst Dec 27, 1998

mesostic / 38 ply

recorDer
remaInder
aCt
evoKe

rusHing
waitIng
startinG
offstaGe
childlIke
accideNt
Silent


words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins








From: Lisa Kahane 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:23 PM
Subject: Remembering

I remember Dick Higgins best through the respect
and admiration of his friends . LK








From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:40 PM
Subject: newest mesostics for dick higgins

created live at 3:43 cst Dec 27, 1998

mesostic / 39 ply

marrieD
wrItten
Colossal
booK

witHout
gracIous
uprisinG
Graduated
descrIbed
returNed
viSualized


words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins







From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:47 PM
Subject: newest newer mesostics for dick higgins

created live at 3:50 cst Dec 27, 1998

mesostic / 40 ply

treateD
oblIque
graCe
worK

pHysicals
hostIlity
reGard
recoGnition
prohIbition
aNonymous
preSumably


words extracted from "foew&ombwhnw" by dick higgins







From: Andrej Tisma 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 5:01 PM
Subject: Celebrating the Life of Dick Higgins

Hi there,

Nice to see you togeteher trough Internet all the way from 
Novi Sad,Yugoslavia. 

Dick passed away, that is sad news. But you who are alive, 
keep the Fluxus spirit for him too, and for all dead Fluxists.

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Andrej Tisma







From: miekal and 
To: FLUXLIST@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 5:07 PM
Subject: brand new old for dick at 4:11 12/27-98 from lyx ish

an untitled rubberstamped book made by elizabeth was sometime in the
80's she thinks, brought off the shelf and today dedicated to dick
higgns and now titled: 

"yEArned by yEAR" 
by Lyx Ish (formerly Elizabeth Was) 



1. PRIMERY

2. PRIMEARY

3. PRIMIARY

4. INTER me DIARY

5. RE MEDIAL

6. re DIAL

7. medea

8. MELOD I OUS

9. HIDEOUS

10. HIDEOUT

11. LE GO u T

12. THE GOV'T

13. VEHEmeNT

14. HUMUMENT

15. MONU ME NT

16. MOmenT

17. MOM, ME

18. OM HUM

19. EX HUME ME

20. HE GEM ONY H OM E ?

21. I'M hoM M e

22. ME

23. mee

24. M M E

25. M M E E 

26. LE ME ME CHOSE










From: miekal and 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 6:13 PM
Subject: live from dreamtime village at 5:17 pm, 12/27/98

dear alison - 
liaizon wakest & i just did a brief math exercise in dividing by 11 (the
number of letters in dick higgins' name) to find that there are enough
eggs to spell his name about 4 times....love, lyx ish & zon wakest


Miekal And was responding to the following picture 
--posted online during the celebration.


Click here to read Charlie Baum's description of this Egg Poem.






From: Lisa Null & Charlie Baum 
To: higgins@fluxus.org 
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 7:22 PM
Subject: Dick Higgins' Last Journey: A work for piano


Dick Higgins' last journey
a work for piano


The piano top is closed.
The urn containing the remains of Dick Higgins 
is placed on the piano top, 
in the honored position 
that a bust of a composer 
should be placed.
An empty suitcase or valise is placed next to it 
on the top of the piano.

The pianist plays the piano:
Throughout the piece, 
piano works by Dick Higgins, 
or excerpts from his works, 
are the primary music, 
but witty comments 
in the form of brief musical quotations from anyone else 
may be interspersed and improvised at will.

The piano is wheeled around the room to many spots.
As many people as are able should participate 
and help push Dick's piano about. 

Some destinations may have great significance. 
Others locations will be merely stops along the way. 
Anyone may suggest a place for Dick to visit, 
but it will require the coordination of everyone 
to take Dick there.

As it moves about the room, 
the piano stops when it reaches a spot. 

At each stop, 
it is played for between 7 and 60 seconds, 
and then the piano is moved onward to the next spot.

Eventually, 
the piano is moved to a spot in the middle of the audience; 
chairs may well have to be moved and reassembled 
to create a circle around the piano. 
Then, 
when the piano is surrounded by Dick's friends, 
it is announced that his journey is over, 
and the piece ends.

As an afterpiece, 
the empty valise may be opened and Dick's intangibles 
distributed among all present. 


by Charles Baum
27-28 December 1998







From: George M Machoonus 
Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Celebrating Dick Higgins Update


A Northeastern Celebration of the life of Dick Higgins was held in
Bangor, Maine starting at 1 PM, on Sunday December 27th, 1998.


Programme - In Celebration of the Life of Dick Higgins

I. Welcome and greeting

II. Performance of "Danger Music Number Thirty Eight"
(in memory of Dick Higgins)

III. Readings of texts by Dick Higgins

A. "An Exemplativist Manifesto."

B. "The Post-Cognitive Era: Looking for the Sense in it All."

IV. Open discussion and response

- Or, how do we respond to Dick's statement: (in B)
"An idea that has no use is dead - and the proof of the use is
the using. We have work to do."

v. Performances and Readings

Simultaneous performance of "Contribution No. 4" and a reading of

"idyllic landscape"

"Celestials - for Bengt Af Klintberg"

"Mallard Milk"

"Erdbeeren" 

"Four Poems to be Performed"
(to be performed by all participants at the conclusion of the
celebration)


The Celebration concluded by 3PM so that those who wanted
to participate on-line with the New York Celebration could do so.


Owen Smith