“As an artform, the Happening does not so much as address the audience as include the audience. It expects the audience to immerse itself in the “destructive element,” as it were. At various times in the history of the theater, the audience has been included in the show to a considerable degree. In the newspaper it is decidedly the audience that is the show. Such in large degree is the nature of language. It is a Happening that includes all publics and all past perceptions in an inclusive Donnybrook of coincidences and adjustments. Once Joyce discovered language in this way, he knew he had found the means to transform the entire human community into a work-force for the artist (McLuhan & Watson, 1970, p. 198).
11 June 2008
The Happening
“As an artform, the Happening does not so much as address the audience as include the audience. It expects the audience to immerse itself in the “destructive element,” as it were. At various times in the history of the theater, the audience has been included in the show to a considerable degree. In the newspaper it is decidedly the audience that is the show. Such in large degree is the nature of language. It is a Happening that includes all publics and all past perceptions in an inclusive Donnybrook of coincidences and adjustments. Once Joyce discovered language in this way, he knew he had found the means to transform the entire human community into a work-force for the artist (McLuhan & Watson, 1970, p. 198).
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