Abstract:
This article argues that within the cultural field of American event-based art practices during the 1960s, artists were modeling forms of contingent non-hierarchical collectivity. I read West Coast artist Anna Halprin’s experiments in “Mutual Creation” through the anarchist lens of Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zone in order to demonstrate that her participatory events reconnected embodied experience to social experience and, in this way, exposed the violent nature of authoritarian collectivism.
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Ismail Lagardien
Nihil humani a me alienum puto