HappeningAn anthology of site-specific art practices.

• Happening

• Performance Art

• Flash Mob

• Silent Disco

• Improv Everywhere

• Creative Task

• Workshop with Nick Atkinson (sound)

“What is a Happening? A game, an adventure, a number of activities engaged in by participants for the sake of playing.” (Allan Kaprow)

Allan Kaprow in his Environment “Yard,” 1967 Pasadena edition with participants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hzNKLx9jio

“Pose” Reinvented

John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg

Performance art refers largely to a performance which is presented to an audience but which does not seek to present a conventional theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not seek to depict a set of fictitious characters in formal scripted interactions.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art (Retrieved 09/10/2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys

Organizing a "flash mob" basically involves e-mailing a bunch of people with instructions to show up at a certain place for a few moments, then disappear.

Source: http://www.wordspy.com/words/flashmob.asp (Retrieved 09/10/2010)

Flash Mob

International Pillow Fight Day in New York City

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Learn-Oprahs-Flash-Mob-Dance-Steps

Another type of silent party, known as Mobile Clubbing, involves the gathering of a group of people in an unconventional location to dance to music which they provide themselves via a Portable audio player, such as an MP3 player, listened to on headphones. These flash mob gatherings may involve hundreds of people, transforming public spaces into temporary clubbing areas, in which dancers listen to their personal playlists. To an observer it would appear that the participants are dancing for no apparent reason. Mobile Clubbing events are organized using mass-emails, word-of-mouth and/or social networking websites such as Facebook.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_disco (Retrieved 09/10/2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1itHow0dY

Frozen Grand Central

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

Creative Task:

You got a message through facebook for a flash mob dance performance. Follow its instructions!