A calendar of happenings: Allan Kaprow, counter-chronologies and cataloguing performance, c. 1970
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[1] University of St Andrews
University of St Andrews
Reino Unido
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- Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 39, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 568-599
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The performance artist Allan Kaprow influentially declared that the Happenings -a form he pioneered during the 1960s- were unrepeatable. This essay focuses on an overlooked calendar commission of performance photographs and scores entitled "Days Off: A Calendar of Happenings" that Kaprow worked on between 1968 and 1970, to argue that his understanding of the temporal relationship between performance art and its documentation is far more complex than has been fully accounted for to date. It situates the calendar within a network of contemporaneous initiatives spanning Fluxus and conceptualism, to show that Kaprow was actively re-thinking the temporal and spatial coordinates of performances towards the end of the 1960s, while moreover-conceiving the Happening as a social, pedagogical tool with mass media potential. Through analysing "Days Off", the essay reassesses the interplay between performance, documentation and archive in time-based art from the 1960s and 1970s as inherently open to reproduction and recreation
