Anna Higgins: Total Montage
Anna Higgins’s work operates within a cinematic, layered logic of montage—an intricate interplay of history, memory, and materiality.
By Giles Fielke
Issue 1, Summer 2023/24
“I just want to be like Scott Walker,” Anna Higgins tells me. Later, she quotes from a profile of the musician to clarify what she means: “like Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen.” This description, offered by Simon Hattenstone, encapsulates Walker’s career trajectory — from a member of the sixties pop group The Walker Brothers, to reclusive solo artist and experimentalist prior to his death in 2019.
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