Jessica Higgins
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Jessica Higgins (born New York City, USA 1964) is an intermedia artist, performance artist and improvisational dancer. She is a twin daughter of Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins, who are founding members of the art movement Fluxus and the sister of Hannah Higgins a writer and art historian. Ms. Higgins is closely associated with curator Lance Fung, late Fluxus gallerist Emily Harvey, The International Artist's Museum, Construction In Process and has performed and collaborated as a youth in original Fluxus related events as a dancer and performer. She is a known visual poet for her cycle 'Poet Walk', an installation of visual poetry which maps the metrics of numerous haiku to many forms and spaces (sometimes revealing their texts, sometimes working only as a metric combining objects, spaces, video, process, etc.) and for performances of her own works and works by Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Mieko Shiomi, Larry Miller and Eric Andersen and dance performance with choreographer and film maker Elaine Summers. About her work she says “My work has taken form primarily as dance, action, installation and performance. Sometimes I include subtle olfactory materials. My interest is in the metaphysical and this can influence my choice of materials, thought and form of expression. My process tends to connect unusual objects with unusual materials. Movement and action usually find their way into performance works, so concepts that drive my works can take variable forms. I tend to go for an interactive quality that weaves the conceptual with the aesthetic. The genre is sometimes referred to as Intermedia, and this meets up with multimedia in much of my work.”
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