Allan Kaprow. El diseño experimental de los espectadores
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https://doi.org/10.69746/liminal.a12Keywords:
Happening, Kaprow, spectator, artistic experiment, liminalityAbstract
This article is an attempt to systemathize, throughout the theorical production of Allan Kaprow, the artistic conception and the performing consequences of the radical critique of the traditional notion of theatrical spectator.
Deriving from the experimental visual arts of the fifties, Kaprow coined the term “happening” for the performances conceived, at the very beginning, as gallery-situated, but then displaced to unespecific spaces. As soon as the performatic vector was developed, the radical critique to the spectator growed as a “nasty conscience” of the height of theatrical tradition and conventions over artistic audiences. According to this perception, and considering the renewed principles of historical vanguardy as the blurring of art and life, and the notion of intermediality, this american artist experimented with the “death of spectator” (in barthesian terms) as a way of renewing the roles of actors, audiencies and, last but not least, the author itself.
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