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What I Did on My Vacation: Artist’s Happenings in the Hamptons (1966)
August 31st, 2010 | 
Author: DVD | Color
28 min | Full Screen.
Directed by Gordon Hyatt:: Happenings are artist events that call upon public participation to produce real-time images and spectacle. A term coined by artist Allan Kaprow, Happenings were anti-art, audience-participation events that contributed to radical changes in the course of late 20th century art. Kaprow conceived Happenings throughout his long, inventive career. His purpose? To help men and women recognize how remarkable it is for people to have the freedom to playand to take their play seriously. Each Happening takes place but once–as recorded in this rare documentation of Kaprows art.
A noisy parade with people rolling steel drums and grasping massive balloons; a kids picnic in an automobile graveyard; passengers stringing clothesline and sheets across a circling ferry as nursing students anxiously beckon them to the dock. These are just a few Happenings captured on film, as bewildered spectators watch participants in acts that not even they quite understand.
Kaprows concept is scrutinized by art critics and collectors who help to explain his efforts in this engaging film, shot at the beach, the junkyard, the streets and the dump–yes, the dump–of eastern Long Islands Hamptons in the halcyon 60s.
What I Did on My Vacation: Artist’s Happenings in the Hamptons (1966)
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