Homage to Allan Kaprow:'On The Way To Un-Art'(Re-Imagined)-Richard Move/Mickey Sanchez-Trailer('10)

TRT 19min.17sec. (2010). Artist Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927-April 5, 2006) is one of the best-known creators of spectacle-like "Happenings" of the late 1950's and 60's. His large-scale events frequently involved other persons, various degrees of audience participation and elaborate configurations of "found objects." Kaprow also developed intimate, one or two person events he referred to as "Life-Like Art" or "Un-Art." Created primarily later than the large-scale Happenings, he developed these meditative experiences to call our attention to the potential beauty of Art as it appears in the most commonplace situations, locations and activities of daily life. "Homage to Allan Kaprow: 'On The Way To Un-Art' (Re-Imagined)" brings to transformative, cinematic life, 15 such events as described in Kaprow's "Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life." Echoing John Cage's concept that music must be understood to include all of the sounds that exist with us and around us at all times, including the beating of our own hearts, Kaprow also "becomes preoccupied with, and even dazzled by, the space and objects of our everyday life." In keeping with this spirit and to honor the influence of Cage upon Kaprow's work, Cage's seminal composition, "Suite for Toy Piano" (1948) accompanies the film's closing credits. For more information, please contact:
Film@Move-itProductions.com
and visit http://www.Move-itProductions.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Allan Kaprow
• John Cage
• Richard Move
• Mickey Sanchez
• Happenings
• Happening
• Events
• Performance Art
• Live Art
• Judson Dance Theater