Nye Ffarrabas (formerly Bici Forbes and Bici Hendricks), is an American artist and poet known for her contributions to the first generation of

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

. She participated in Judson Gallery shows at

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in 1966-1968. Nye Ffarrabas contributed to ''Women's Work'', a magazine edited by

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and

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, featuring text-based and instructional performance scores by twenty-five women artists from the Fluxus movement. In 1965, she founded the publishing company, the Black Thumb Press with her partner Geoffrey Hendricks. In 1964, a compilation of Nye Ffarrabas and Geoffrey Hendricks' journals were published in a series called ''The Friday Book of White Noise''. Ffarrabas and Hendricks were married in 1961, and have two children. In 1971, having decided to split up, Hendricks and Ffarrabas staged the Flux Divorce.

Notable exhibitions

Ffarrabas' first solo exhibition at Judson Gallery was ''Word Work'' in December 1966 for six weeks. Ffarrabas also performed at the 5th Annual Avant Garde Festival, organized by Charlotte Moorman in 1967.

References

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