Emerged at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, happenings was popular in those years a form of dramatic action, which was born spontaneously, spontaneous improvisation to be the most urgent (preferably political) theme and have a direct impact on transforming reality itself. However Happening - it's not just theater, a special form of creativity, which, as was supposed to permeate all spheres of human life and activity. Ideally, according to its theorists Happening in general to be elusive and indefinable, to be the most complete expression of instinctive creativity of man and the least "alienated" art that is the result, "product" of creativity. He aspired to be a volatile and ever-present, fleeting and eternal. He himself was called upon to overturn well-known "art is long, life is fleeting," to put art print on every moment of life and dissolve every phenomenon of art in its flow, which is aptly displayed the deep desire to beat, and then counter-culture to a universal aesthetic reality. By the era of beatniks and goes back story happening.
From the first experiments in musique concrete collage and happenings later seeks to become a kind of universal way of life and work, accepted the principle categorical rejection of aesthetic differentiation and processing of the material you are working with an artist. The effect of "art", as was supposed, was born spontaneously from the collision of ordinary and even "low", unsightly elements from the perspective of happening, the noise passing truck on the street or in the toilet water is no less interesting than the birds or the noise of leaves . In essence, the role of the artist comes down to that, pushing, accumulating these different, but equally important elements of life (more than them, the better), open the door doer case. Already in this very formulation of the problem was hidden deep contradiction which later exploded Happening inside.
Major role in shaping happening, especially in the U.S., played a vulgar philosophy of Zen Buddhism, already extremely popular in the 50s to the artistic avant-garde circles and among the Beats, and then exerted a tremendous influence on all the youth counterculture of the 60s.
Ideally, it was assumed that the theater should be able to combine Happening strangers to each other people without any script and was directing, and awaken their creativity - and perhaps even revolutionary - in potency.

Emerged at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, happenings was popular in those years a form of dramatic action, which was born spontaneously, spontaneous improvisation to be the most urgent (preferably political) theme and have a direct impact on transforming reality itself. However Happening - it's not just theater, a special form of creativity, which, as was supposed to permeate all spheres of human life and activity. Ideally, according to its theorists Happening in general to be elusive and indefinable, to be the most complete expression of instinctive creativity of man and the least "alienated" art that is the result, "product" of creativity. He aspired to be a volatile and ever-present, fleeting and eternal. He himself was called upon to overturn well-known "art is long, life is fleeting," to put art print on every moment of life and dissolve every phenomenon of art in its flow, which is aptly displayed the deep desire to beat, and then counter-culture to a universal aesthetic reality. By the era of beatniks and goes back story happening.
From the first experiments in musique concrete collage and happenings later seeks to become a kind of universal way of life and work, accepted the principle categorical rejection of aesthetic differentiation and processing of the material you are working with an artist. The effect of "art", as was supposed, was born spontaneously from the collision of ordinary and even "low", unsightly elements from the perspective of happening, the noise passing truck on the street or in the toilet water is no less interesting than the birds or the noise of leaves . In essence, the role of the artist comes down to that, pushing, accumulating these different, but equally important elements of life (more than them, the better), open the door doer case. Already in this very formulation of the problem was hidden deep contradiction which later exploded Happening inside.
Major role in shaping happening, especially in the U.S., played a vulgar philosophy of Zen Buddhism, already extremely popular in the 50s to the artistic avant-garde circles and among the Beats, and then exerted a tremendous influence on all the youth counterculture of the 60s.
Ideally, it was assumed that the theater should be able to combine Happening strangers to each other people without any script and was directing, and awaken their creativity - and perhaps even revolutionary - in potency.