Happenings deliberately assembled absurdist inventories of participants

Evidence

Nothing if not inclusive, Bayrak had invited “exhibitionists, inhibitionists, feminists, chauvinists, tourists, rapists, politicians, police, morticians, rednecks, parlour pinks, hangmen, firemen, homelessmen, pick-ups, men about town, commuters, butchers, soldiers, lechers, professors, swingers, equestriennes, pedestrians, pederasts, Bedouins, gypsies, Cypriots, and Wandering Jews” to watch or participate in his “undercover event.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1634

Categorization

• CANDY: The ludicrous guest-list invitation is a nearly tweetable artifact of 1970 downtown absurdism.
• XREF: connects to: Absurdity is conceptually defined as unfamiliar juxtapositions of familiar elements. — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 12; Conceptual art made performers follow absurd instructions in public — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 190; The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Absurdity is conceptually defined as unfamiliar juxtapositions of familiar elements. — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 12; Conceptual art made performers follow absurd instructions in public — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 190; The Theater of the Ridiculous foregrounded role-playing itself as its subject