dance artist, educator, researcher

Happenings

These events purpose the Happenings* model to celebrate experiential, spontaneous, and collaborative creative situations. Happenings dispense with disciplinary divides to re-integrate art mediums and dissolve creator/recipient divides: Just as it is in our everyday lives, we are at once producers and observers.

Allan Kaprow, 1966: The fine arts traditionally demand for their appreciation a physically passive observer, working with his mind to get at what his senses register. But the Happenings are an active art, requiring that creation and realization, artwork and appreciator, artwork and life, be inseparable.

*Allan Kaprow coined the term “Happenings” in 1959 to describe these avant-garde productions. Read Kaprow’s essay in ARTFORUM journal Vol. 4 #7 (March 1966)

June 21, 2019 - Third Friday, CCB Plaza

May 31, 2019 - The Commons Festival at UNC

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