A Happening – Kitty Finner

  • To create a happening don’t use your imagination, use day to day happenings part of your influence.
  • Don’t just take what artists have done as art.
  • What other things go on in your life apart from art that excites you?
  • Don’t just stick to imagination – old art.
  • Art and everyday life should blur.
  • Instagram – celebrating everyday life – quite consuming.
  • Pictures of everyday life – art.
  • Fake news.
  • Dancing in a lobby in Las Vegas – can count as performance for the statement.
  • Let things happen when they happen – spontaneous.
  • Create a piece of history that doesn’t exist.
  • Drunk art – in the moment.
  • Kitty – artist behind bars.
  • Art is the bar – performance.
  • Francis Alys.

 

During the alumni workshop, we were given a task; to create our own happening. The aim of the task was to create a happening as it happened, avoiding using our imagination. The happening could have been staged, and also as absurd as possible. I decided to take a photograph of a woman in a lift. Afterward, I told the group that I had spoken to her in Welsh and that the lift broke down and that she was stuck in the lift with me flustered. The group soon found out that I had staged the entire happening. This was an interesting task as it made me think of ways to use day to day life as an influence for creating art. And as I am interested in performance, it made me think of new ways of creating performance art.