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...anyone can do it,” claims George Maciunas, the founder of the Fluxus movement. The 1960s saw Maciunas filling Fluxboxes with games, ideas, and art; Nam June Paik forging robot sculptures out of television sets; and the likes of John Cage and Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen at the Harvard Film Archive from...
Spontaneous though the happenings of today may be, the events are actually part of a formal tradition of public art that extends back to an October evening in 1959, when Allan Kaprow debuted his 18 Happenings in 6 Parts at New York’s Reuben Gallery. According to RoseLee Goldberg in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Kaprow built three small rooms in a loft, filled them with chairs, and herded the audience from room to room showing them disjointed actions like a woman standing still “for ten seconds, left forearm raised, pointing...
...over and done with and the museum-goer mulls over the leftovers, the photographs and documents, like a detective looking over a reopened file. It's tough to present artists who work in the medium of willful impermanence: pity the curators. And hear what three such artists-ALLAN KAPROW, inventor of the capital-H Happening, PAUL McCARTHY, the most scatological performance artist now working, and VANESSA BEECROFT, best known for her work with large roomfuls of naked girls-have to say about the exhibition of the traces of their work in a discussion at 2 p.m. on Saturday...
...stimulating array of sculptures, treatises, photographs and pieces of music. And the organization of the show into regions, each curated separately, effectively presents conceptualism as a global phenomenon, emerging independently throughout the world in response to local social, political and economic issues. While North American conceptual artists, like Allan Kaprow, started sending small pieces of art through the mail as a critique of the gallery system, artists in the Communist bloc used similar techniques as a way to get past the oppressive censors...
...Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts-Events, Objects, Documents _is on display at the List through July 2. The List is at 20 Ames St. on the MIT campus, near the Kendall subway stop. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 to 6 p.m. and 12 to 8 p.m. on Fridays. Admission is free._