Give up the whole idea of putting on a show for audiences. A happening is not a show - leave the show for theater people and discotheques. A happening is a game with a high, a ritual no church would want because there is no religion for sale. A happening is for those who happen in this world, who don’t want to stand off and just look. If you happen, you can’t be outside peeking in. You’ve got to be involved physically. Without an audience you can be off on the move using all kinds of environments, mixing in the supermarket world, never worrying what those out there in the seats are thinking. And you can spread your action all around the globe whenever you want. Traditional art is like college education and drugs: it’s fed to people who have to sit on their butts for longer and longer amounts of time to get the point, and the point is that there’s lots of actions somewhere else, which all the smart people prefer to just think about. But happeners have a plan and go ahead and carry it out. To use an old expression, they don’t merely dig the scene, they make it.
Allan Kaprow, How to Make a Happening
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