The happening’s architecture guaranteed no spectator saw the whole work

Evidence

Each of the three rooms featured six actions for a total of eighteen. The rooms were separated by plastic sheets. Thus, spectators were aware of happenings in other rooms but, Kaprow stressed, none would “fully” experience the entire 18 Happenings. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 67

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A deliberately fragmented, no-one-sees-all work is a striking narrative device for fiction — e.g., a mystery or unreliable-narrator structure where the audience’s limited view itself is the point.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s claim in the reading purpose about how material conditions shape cultural form: the plastic-sheet room divider is the material condition that generates the meaning — the anti-God’s-eye-view structure.