Proposal for artists from the "Garage"

[Vladimir]

Today I received from the "Garage" an interesting newsletter:

The curators of the exhibition "100 years of performance" at the Center for Contemporary Culture Garage Klaus Bizenbah, RouzLi Goldberg, and director of the exhibition program "Garage" Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst invite Russian artists to take part in the "Festival of Performance"

Make a contribution to the world-famous collection of performances, happenings, actions and other social practices will all want: an application describing the project will be accepted until the end of August.
The most interesting Russian projects will be shown in the autumn, as part of the Festival of Performance "at the Center for Contemporary Culture Garage.

Applications should be sent to the address rsvp@garageccc.com. The application must contain a project description, photo and video documentation, if any. Also, please be mentioned in the application contact information. In the subject line please indicate "100 years of performance." The applications we also take in the Center for Contemporary Culture Garage: You can leave a copy of the draft at the information desk for Andrew Misiano.

Curators of the project:
Klaus Bizenbah - Director of the Center for Contemporary Art PS1, branch of the Museum of Modern Art New York, MoMA.
RouzLi Goldberg - art historian, critic, curator, which initiated the study of performance of his original book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, published in 1979.
Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst - Director of the exhibition program of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Garage ».

Suddenly, someone from the members of the forum would be useful.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Vladimir

happenings

Happening (born happening, to happen happens, happens) - is a trend in postmodernism, passed from the creation of aesthetic objects to works of processes, ie to the "artistic events, carried out either by the artist or the assistants and spectators, acting on his plan ; so called itself a product of an event or "action" (English action). It was a harbinger of a deliberately enigmatic, "unintelligible", sometimes scandalous actions of artists and poets, Futurism, Dadaism, group Oberiu, often accompanied by their public statements. Happening, in spirit are closely related to the theater of the absurd, can be a kind of mikrospektaklyami with elements of plot and complex props or more abstract rhythmic, dynamic or stable compositions. They consistently emphasizes free "space game", which should feel spectator-partner.
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The founder of happening as representations of the elements of chance is John Cage, who carried out the first happening in 1952. In accordance with his opinion about the importance of the case in art, happenings sometimes called "spontaneous plotless theater events.

The term in 1958, was proposed by Allan Kaprow, a disciple of Cage. Kaprow abandon traditional principles of artistic craftsmanship and permanence in art. In America, among the artists to develop art happening during the formative period, in addition to Cage and Kaprow include Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein. The idea of happening due to the principle of audience participation, often involves staged a demonstration to the socio-political propaganda, as many of the works of Joseph Beuys, or to shock the public morals.