Editing Performance art (section)

=== Happening ===
{{Main|Happening}}
[[Noah Wardrip-Fruin|Wardrip-Fruin]] and [[Nick Montfort|Montfort]] in ''The New Media Reader'', "The term 'Happening' has been used to describe many performances and events, organized by Allan Kaprow and others during the 1950s and 1960s, including a number of theatrical productions that were traditionally scripted and invited only limited audience interaction."<ref>Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds., ''The New Media Reader'' (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003): p.&nbsp;83. {{ISBN|0-262-23227-8}}.</ref> A ''happening'' allows the artist to experiment with the movement of the body, recorded sounds, written and talked texts, and even smells. One of Kaprow's first works was ''Happenings in the New York Scene'', written in 1961.<ref>Montfort, Nick, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. ''The New Media Reader.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts [u.a.: MIT, 2003]. Print.</ref> Allan Kaprow's happenings turned the public into interpreters. Often the spectators became an active part of the act without realizing it. Other actors who created ''happenings'' were [[Jim Dine]], [[Al Hansen]], [[Claes Oldenburg]], ''Robert Whitman'' and [[Wolf Vostell]]: ''Theater is in the Street'' (Paris, 1958).<ref>[[#Pavis|Patrice Pavis]], "Diccionario del teatro", p. 232</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Profesorado|title=El arte de la acción: happening, performance y fluxus|url=https://previa.uclm.es/profesorado/irodrigo/Esquema%20arte%20acción..pdf|publisher=Universidad de Castilla La mancha|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308041814/https://previa.uclm.es/profesorado/irodrigo/Esquema%20arte%20acci%C3%B3n..pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>