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Allan Kaprow , Some Recent Happenings , Great Bear Press, 1966

Happenings & Knowledge Promenades: Working Cross Discipline 17 December 2013 HEA funded workshop Co-facilitator Dr. Gordon Ramsay School of English University of Nottingham. Definition

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Allan Kaprow , Some Recent Happenings , Great Bear Press, 1966

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  1. Happenings & Knowledge Promenades: Working Cross Discipline17 December 2013HEA funded workshopCo-facilitator Dr. Gordon RamsaySchool of EnglishUniversity of Nottingham

  2. Definition A Happening is an assemblage of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place. Its material environments may be constructed, taken over directly from what is available, or altered slightly; just as its activities may be invented or commonplace. A Happening, unlike a stage play, may occur at a supermarket, driving along a highway, under a pile of rags, and in a friend’s kitchen, either at once or sequentially. If sequentially, time may extend to more than a year. The Happening is performed according to plan but without rehearsal, audience, or repetition. It is art but seems closer to life. Allan Kaprow, Some Recent Happenings, Great Bear Press, 1966

  3. Characteristics Simultaneity Indeterminacy Lack of script Lack of rehearsal (Plan) Mobile audience

  4. Spectrum of variations • Live football match phone interview • [ Live Q and A with director of Doll’s House] • Students acting out / Flamenco • intervention/Lecturer intervention 1 • Installation step round • Student intervention • Lecturer intervention 2

  5. Spectrum of variations Continued... • Seminar by occasion • Walking seminar • The lecture and work in progress • Performance as instructive game

  6. Forthcoming • ‘Flash byte lectures’ • Coachtour (lecture, installation, performance)

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