<the press threw together all of the works as "happenings"
<the works however had almost nothing to do with each other and none of their artists agreed to this name, but it stuck because it worked
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'Yam' and 'You'
<the Yam Festival lasted an entire year and was held in New York
<in April 1964, Vostell presented You in Great Neck
<according to Vostell, You was meant to "bring the public 'face to face... with the unreasonable demands of life in the form of chaos'"
The element of place
<when an art piece is created, the artist must pick a place for the art to be displayed or shown to the public
<this placement can become an important element for the piece itself and can influence the artwork
<like they say, location is everything
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The new dance
<the influence of dancers in New York was essential to the evolution of art and the artists
<dancers began incorporating experiments into their work which added a new dimension to performances by artists
Dancers' Workshop Company, San Francisco
<it was formed in 1955 outside of San Francisco
<here dancers were encouraged to explore unusual choreographic ideas, usually in an outdoor area
<free association became an important part of the company
The Judson Dance Group
<after some of the members of the Dancers' Workshop Company left and arrived in New York, they translated what they had learned from their experience at the Dancers' Workshop Company into public performances
<Robert Dunn later found them and brought them together to form a class whilst teaching them through experimentation
<later they became the Judson Dance Group and had many performances
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Dance and minimalism
<much experimentation was done to manipulate the space around the art and see how it could be worked to coexist and become a part of the artwork
<minimalism was the exact opposite of this however and focused on the simplicity
<both ideas were explored
Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni
<Yves want to find a vessel for a "'spiritual' pictorial space" led him to live action
<he enjoyed the idea of Monochrome paintings and they freed him
<for him, art was a view of life
<Manzoni's actions and works were less a declaration of 'universal spirit' and more a validation of the body as a piece of the art
<his art focused more on his observations of the everyday actions of the body
<Klein made his artwork by pressing live models against canvas while Manzoni's works eliminated the canvas altogether
Joseph Beuys
<a German artist who believed that art should transform people's everyday lives
<in his work, objects and materials became something more, they became metaphorical
<meditative conversation with himself was essential to his works
<sometimes he went to extreme lengths to get his point across, such as when he spent a week in the wild to understand the persecution of the Native Americans
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BY: Samantha Lassiter
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