About Allan Kaprow

American artist Allan Kaprow (1927 – 2006) has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a progressive educator and one of the most influential artists of his day. Known for his ‘Happenings’, Kaprow coined the term to describe his anarchic gatherings in 1960s New York, in which the audience became participants. This summer, Scottish and international artists will reinvent artworks from Kaprow’s career, reimagining them for our extraordinary current moment and our new shared reality. These are not historic re-enactments of Kaprow’s work, but unique and original reinventions of Kaprow’s ideas and sculptural environments created in response to what’s happening in the world right now by artists Andrea Büttner, James Hoff, Peter Liversidge, Cinzia Mutigli, members of ORBIT Youth Council and the Wilson family. “Forget all the standard art forms—don’t paint pictures, don’t make poetry, don’t build architecture, don’t arrange dances, don’t write plays, don’t compose music, don’t make movies, and above all don’t think you’ll get a happening by putting all these together.” -Kaprow, 1966.