Allan Kaprow

In This ground breaking piece named "Eighteen Happenings in 6 parts" Kaprow synthesized his training in action painting with his study of Cages work. Working from a carefully manipulated scripted score. This Piece is undoubtedly time based as it is durational and is also non scripted. It is also interactive as the audience were given programs and three stapled cards, which provided instructions for their participation: ‹The performance is divided into six parts...Each part contains three happenings which occur at once. The beginning and end of each will be signaled by a bell.

There is also a strong sense of documentation to the work, as there is a semse of personal expressionwithin it which comes from the refremces to his earlier work, which were painted on panals.

In contrast to Cage, whose encouragement of the participation of audience members was motivated by his desire to relinquish authorial control, audience members in many of Kaprow’s Happenings became props through which the artist’s vision was executed