Simultaneous Portraits or Danger Music for Dick
Simultaneous Portraits or Danger Music for Dick is a multi-channel video installation made in tribute to Dick Higgins, a co-founder of the Fluxus movement, whose most notable works are the Danger Music scores. Simultaneous Portraits or Danger Music for Dick features a journalist, a welder, a photographer, and others screaming until they reach exhaustion, which is inspired by the score for Higgins' Danger Music Number Seventeen: "Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream!"
'Simultaneous Portraits or Danger Music for Dick' : a multi-screen video/sound environment and tribute to the late Dick Higgins: 2006
by: David Colagiovanni.
Dick Higgins was an early proponent and user of computers, as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid 1960s. Higgins coined the term intermedia to describe his activities and those of other artist of his time. He was a poet, artist, performer, scholar and publisher. His most notable series of work is his Danger Music scores. This project is based on Higgins' performance score:
Danger Music Number Seventeen which reads:
Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream!
In this project non-performers (a gallery owner, a journalist, a welder, photographer, retail store manager,and others) were asked to scream until they couldn't scream anymore. The resulting videos are shown on multiple screens (one per person).