Happenings converted raw industrial spaces into participatory performance venues

Evidence

Even more than The Smiling Workman, the twenty-minute performance was a psychodrama—inspired by two car accidents the artist had survived the previous year. Dine whitewashed the performance space, still cluttered with shelves holding rolls of linoleum and cork, and added fifty folding chairs so that, as Jill Johnston noted in her Village Voice review, the audience was “an active component.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 179

Categorization

• XREF: Again the cheap-rent condition: the space retained its linoleum shelving — the genre literally grew out of a former flooring store’s leftovers. Ties to the reader’s test case for cultural stagnation claims. — connects to: Community theatre transforms isolated audiences into creators of original work — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1829