Blog Post 8: How To Make A Happening
Blog Post 8: How To Make A Happening
How to Make a Happening taught me how to make a happening. Looking at the world around you to help orchestrate a happening. Things that would happen already in the normal world are combined with other things that happen in the world to create a curated happening that emerges from all the happening around. Kinda like a Rube Goldberg Machine. "Just take things as they come, and arrange them in whatever way is least artificial and easiest to do." That we should find doers who are already doing happening in the world and get them to be a part of the project.
One of my ideas takes place on campus when it is spring or summer and the lawn mower people are mowing the lawns.
Red flowers are planted in a patch of grass or pre-cut scattered across a patch of grass. The lawn mower person comes and mows the red flowers like there is nothing there. People in red hammocks near by are cut down and fall on picnic blankets with picnic baskets full of pealed pomegranate and red wine. Eating and covering themselves in the pomegranate and red wine. Sharing with others who pass in the handfuls. Spitting up the seeds as the lawn mower drives by. In motion handing off a glob of pealed pomegranate to the mower who stuffs their face while still in motion chopping up the grass and other growths in the ground. The picnic person gets up and walks over to the library like everything is normal and climbs into the library fountain to bath quickly. Climbing back out and walking home.
April 7, 2026