HAPPENINGS

I wrote a little bit about this on the class blog, but I am going to go into more detail here. I just loved this article by Kaprow. LOVED IT. It made me want to paint on the walls. A wall is a fabulous canvas.

I like the fact that these happenings have no structure. They don't seem to point you to what is important, but rather let you figure it out yourself. If there is even anything to figure out. Perhaps I should substitute the word, "experience" for the phrase "figure it out." I think that we live in a society where many people need to be told how to experience something or how to "figure it out." Here is problem A, here are some tools and hints, now go to town. Like a puzzle, it was all put together once, you just have to do it yourself this time. I think this also relates back to the arboreal way of thinking that I wrote about in the last blog. I think this is some of the reason that people have a hard time with new technology. With new technology there are no specific rules in place.

Kaprow also takes about "the creator as an indomitable hero who exists on a plane above any living context." For some reason this got me thinking about the "reader-response" theory and how that might relate to the Internet. Or if it even does. I am going to contemplate that and see if I can't write about it at a later date on this blog.