{"id":18428,"date":"2020-07-30T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/?p=18428"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:04:13","slug":"allan-kaprow-herbert-kohl-other-ways-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/en\/society\/counterculture\/allan-kaprow-herbert-kohl-other-ways-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan Kaprow, Herbert Kohl, <em>Other Ways Project<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the eve of the publication of <em>The Making of a Counter Culture<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, which would be widely released and become the basis for theorizing the North American counter culture, Allan Kaprow was carefully writing an introduction to the collaborative project Other Ways. His solid argumentation for various versions of this artistic educational program was a testament to the passionate interest he held in pedagogy. \u201cThe title of this project,\u201d he writes, \u201cinsinuates a pluralist approach to education: no one way is correct in itself, there are always several options<sup><a href=\"#note-2\">2<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d Kaprow sought to demonstrate how happenings, as an art form, could revolutionize a common good such as education: \u201cAs an exclusively social art form, happenings show an expanding trend in art, away from the intellectual tradition of alienation and toward interpersonal relationships. What\u2019s more, the happening is already recognized as offering a method\u2014a game\u2014for students recently involved in traditional educational models<sup><a href=\"#note-3\">3<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources for the <em>Other Ways<\/em> project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This desire to reform education through play and games formed as Allan Kaprow was preparing his first happenings. During their years of study together, George Brecht, Bob Watters and their friend Allan Kaprow passionately referred to the innovative teachings of John Cage<sup><a href=\"#note-4\">4<\/a><\/sup> and their numerous applications. Improvisation and game-based sessions came to substitute the repetitive and laborious learning based on the principles of a master. For the students, Cage\u2019s pedagogical haikus sparked a more creative, collaborative and joyful kind of transmission. During the composer\u2019s classes, theory and music history gave way to experimental poetry imbued with Zen Buddhist philosophy. The \u201cmethod\u201d behind the happenings, as Kaprow mentions in his introduction, derives from this Cagian spirit, which is itself a relentless philosophical quest that begins with experimentation, a transversality of subjects and activating the sensory-sensitive in spectators and participants. \u201cThose who do, know<sup><a href=\"#note-5\">5<\/a><\/sup>\u201d, is what another of Allan Kaprow\u2019s intellectual fathers would say, the great visionary who saw noble relationships between pedagogy and art: John Dewey. In fact, this paradigm change in art consisting of John Cage\u2019s students, and Cage himself, collectively adhering to the gratuity of artistic doing and of artistic play, cannot fully be understood without examining the legacy transmitted by Marcel Duchamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1973<sup><a href=\"#note-6\">6<\/a><\/sup>, Allan Kaprow returned to the reasons why he so admired the French Dadaist, and explained precisely what about him heralded the <em>un-artist<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-7\">7<\/a><\/sup> , a term which appears in a three-part essay entitled <em>The Education of the Un-Artist<\/em>, published between 1969 and 1974. The pioneering experience of <em>Other Ways<\/em>, which aimed to recast schooling through the method of a happening, largely inspired the writings for Part I, the first essay in the trilogy. American art critic Jeff Kelley recalls how, according to Kaprow, artists found themselves in a delicate situation following WWII because the ideological and horrific human consequences led them to doubt everything, including the very definition of art. And so Duchamp represented, for Kaprow, the very prototype of an un-artist. Free to live the life he chose, far from representing the artist-martyr, Duchamp questioned the very idea of art. His attitudes, perceive as European\u2014his dandyism, the apparent disinterest in life\u2019s contingencies, his indifference to the exhaustion and sweat of work\u2014and his artistic gestures\u2014the ready-made, the secret, erasure, suspending judgments made on taste\u2014shook up the codes of recognition, validating or invalidating what art is made of and who makes it. And so Allan Kaprow admits: \u201cGeorge Brecht, Bob Watters and myself were all astounded by the liberating effect of questioning the entire idea of art<sup><a href=\"#note-8\">8<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d Moreover, Kaprow continues, the un-artist is the bearer of a fiction that could give rise to a personal mythology much like Duchamp\u2019s: \u201cThis is how I call it, today, in 1973. I\u2019m inventing my own Marcel Duchamp: my fiction, after all, if Duchamp interests us, it\u2019s because we each have our own fiction<sup><a href=\"#note-9\">9<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This two-fold liberating effect with regard to an ontological and historiographical position on art involves restoring the links between art, experience and daily life, which, until then, had atrophied. Precisely at this junction is where one can draw the cardinal lines of descent (Dewey, Duchamp and Cage) for the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> initiator. The <em>un-artist<\/em> must break from the modernist principle of art as an autonomous and isolated discipline. The <em>Other Ways<\/em> adventure worked hard at this. Play and imitation would become life-saving resources for art and pedagogy, whose contours grew in definition as the three essays on education by the <em>un-artist<\/em> developed. The texts persistently thwarted the spectrum of imitative literalness, opting instead for a strong affinity with pre-existing mimetic forms: \u201cIn this \u2018imitation of life\u2019, Kaprow divines a \u2018cosmic happening\u2019 in which everything imitates everything else: city maps are like circulatory systems, computers allude to brains, the dramatized children\u2019s games ape adult behavior<sup><a href=\"#note-10\">10<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d For the <em>un-artist<\/em>, the repeated task consisted of copying by pretending to imitate: the classroom turned into the perfect ground for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_18245\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/suppose.jpg\" alt=\"Allan Kaprow, Suppose\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allan Kaprow, Suppose, 1968-1969. Poster for &#8220;Project Other Ways\u201d<br>\u00a9 Allan Kaprow Estate, Courtesy Hauser &amp; Wirth<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SUPPOSE you use graffiti like a text.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After attempting in vain to bring the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> to schools and universities in New York, Kaprow\u2019s initiative was awarded a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation was the project\u2019s commissioner and originator for the team composed of Allan Kaprow, called in to fill the organizational needs for an \u201cartist-teacher\u201d, and \u201cwriter-teacher<sup><a href=\"#note-11\">11<\/a><\/sup>\u201d Herbert Khol. Thanks to Khol\u2019s professional network, <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> anchored itself in the California Public School System in the Bay Area, for five days a week throughout an entire school year, from September 1968 to June 1969. One to two times per week, upon the co-directors\u2019 initiative, different workshops were scheduled. Khol liked to remind that the counter culture context in California was an ideal setting for a new discipline to emerge: critical pedagogy<sup><a href=\"#note-12\">12<\/a><\/sup>. Throughout that school year, <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> was committed to bringing contemporary art forms and living artists to the heart of public education. The experiment\u2019s originality not only lied in encouraging the artistic talents of teachers and their students in different disciplines, but also, and more importantly, in nurturing the imaginary processes familiar to painters, composers, dancers, directors, poets, etc.\u2026 in primary school children and educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another characteristic of the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em>: artistic processes were envisioned for their organic virtues, the starting point for enjoyment. The directors were deeply convinced that learning could benefit from imagination and creating things oneself, rather than competing for diplomas and specialized skills. And so the campaign to call for participants, SUPPOSE, reflected the project\u2019s ambitions. In the halls of several primary schools hung a mysterious poster depicting a classroom empty of students and teachers, proposing equally mysterious actions related to the word: SUPPOSE. The poster read: \u201cSUPPOSE you could use graffiti like a text\u201d, \u201cSUPPOSE you couldn\u2019t write or take any photos\u201d, \u201cSUPPOSE you had to make music with just a rubber band<sup><a href=\"#note-13\">13<\/a><\/sup>\u201d, etc. The direct verbs in Kaprow\u2019s scores reflected the embodiment of the virtues of an un-artist education. The subversion of schooling was underway, through the guidance of Kaprow\u2019s forefathers: John Dewey, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. The revolutionary dimension of Other Ways made it the emancipatory banner of the late 1960s: \u201cWe were pioneers building a new and more just world by working with children, particularly children from poor families<sup><a href=\"#note-14\">14<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local communities.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The other important point that Kaprow and Khol committed to for the Carnegie Corporation had to do with involving artists in Bay Area local communities. Many people, including the artists, Kaprow included, had been recruited outside of these social groups: regardless, the interest in \u201creal environments\u201d and their \u201cinhabitants<sup><a href=\"#note-15\">15<\/a><\/sup>\u201d, for the most part Black Americans and Hispanics, was primordial. The Carnegie Corporation, concerned with social and cultural redistribution, surely modeled this on another unprecedented educational and artistic program initiated by assemblage artist Noah Purifoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 1965, the young artist Noah Purifoy participated in the violent riots in Watts, southern California, accompanied by his art students. Faced with this outpour of violence, injustice and impartiality, Purifoy felt the need to collect the shreds of cloth and shards of glass leftover from the confrontation between the black residents of the Watts neighborhood and white police officers. The artist wanted to believe in the redemptive potential, in the Dewey-an<sup><a href=\"#note-16\">16<\/a><\/sup> sense, of such an artistic practice. The classes taught at Watts Art Center had little to do with the essence of art, art history or even esthetic forms. Purifoy\u2019s educational goal was more collective and social than ontological, a position with clear affinities to those mentioned earlier. Purifoy was concerned with the images each person has of their environment and how they relate, and he suggested ways for these images to collectively co-exist. Using a principle similar to Paulo Freire\u2019s generative themes as described in <em>Pedagogy of the Oppressed<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-17\">17<\/a><\/sup>, he encouraged his students to build their own representations of a revolutionary world. He created a link between the art of naming then assembling, and creating a model for an imagination of the emancipated. Through the real-life application of what Noah Purifoy<sup><a href=\"#note-18\">18<\/a><\/sup> had, for the first time in 1967, theorized and designated <em>Junk Art<\/em>, the regulars at Watts Center could experience the self-transforming potential with others thanks to the new images and kinds of knowledge they catalyzed: \u201cWe believed that the art experience could be transposed to any other domain of their (daily) activities and if they had a nice experience with us at Watts, a positive one, they could leave us strengthened by this learning\u2026 off to school or elsewhere. We tried to see how that could be possible, how to connect the process of art with existence<sup><a href=\"#note-19\">19<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While reading the posthumous account of the <em>Other Ways<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-20\">20<\/a><\/sup> adventure as narrated by Kaprow, it\u2019s interesting how, three years later, on the California coast, the radical intentions had been similar to Purifoy\u2019s, and in the same context of powerful racial ostracism. Twenty years after the experience, Kaprow proudly recounts how the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> was committed to children, often Black and Hispanic, in school but relegated to the margins of knowledge by the educational institution because their teachers considered them illiterate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Four letters.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks in to <em>Other Ways Project<\/em>, Kaprow decided to hand a cheap camera to every student and as much film as they needed. During their excursions around the neighborhood where their showcase space was located\u2014with the school\u2019s permission, and granting <em>Other Ways<\/em> an opening onto the street and public space, unlike the closed space of the classroom\u2014Kaprow encouraged students to take pictures of whatever called their attention. On the one hand, they photographed each other, their shadows mixing with those of helicopters flying overhead or the silhouettes of army tanks. The repression at Berkeley in spring \u201969, ordered by governor Ronald Reagan, was omnipresent, recalls Kaprow. On the other hand, the students from this burgeoning school paid a lot of attention to graffiti. Kaprow found it curious that these slogans and names covering the walls in the street should fascinate them so, because if these children were truly illiterate, how did they manage to read them? Indulging their curiosity about graffiti of a more sexual nature, Kaprow had them visit public restrooms. He let the girls enter the boys\u2019 bathroom and vice-versa so they could take even more photos. It was clear that these elementary school children could read and understand what Kaprow modestly called \u2018four-letter words<sup><a href=\"#note-21\">21<\/a><\/sup>\u2019. He and Khol committed themselves to promoting an original way of teaching reading and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kohl and Kaprow then covered the <em>Other Ways<\/em> showcase room in brown paper and asked the students to bring in all their photos, hang them up, paint them and make drawings. Throughout the process, the young students had fun collectively creating links, much in the manner of Purifoy. Names of people such as Bobby Huey\u2014active member of the Black Panthers, at the time in prison\u2014, Hugo Chavez, then the head of the Bolivian Revolution, or Bobo, a leader of a Latino gang, became detached from the image-word arrangement.<br>Over the following days, students told real and fictitious stores that mixed with the hodge-podge of graffiti pictures. Kaprow and Khol managed to get a hold of some outdated reading manuals, the recently obsolete <em>Dick and Jane<\/em> books that were plainly vestiges of patriarchal white society. They asked the students to re-do the illustrations. Many illustrations were cut out and replaced by drawings. Dick and Jane, for example, turned into monsters with an impressive rainbow of hair colors. The texts were re-touched with pertinent irony. Proud of this experiment, Kaprow and Khol decided to exhibit the manuals, re-worked and corrected \u00e0 la <em>Other Ways Project<\/em>, in their showcase window.<br>The educational alternative was a frank success. Students on the verge of exclusion could re-enter the classic school curriculum. The <em>un-artist<\/em> education, which relies on playing and games, even called into question the final evaluations of certain teachers as to the irreversible illiteracy of marginalized children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bringing forms of counter culture to schools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolstered by their involvement with local communities, Kaprow and Khol launched publications to relay literature and cultures from the African-American or lesser-known communities such as the Nuyorican community (Puerto Rican culture in New York). Poet Victor Cruz, a recognized cultural actor in the Nuyorican movement, joined the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> through writing workshops. There, he brought in the emancipatory values of Puerto Rican poets, musicians, and intellectuals that had suffered insults and discrimination due to their immigrant background. Modeled off the slogan <em>Black is Beautiful<\/em>\u2014from the political culture of a Black community seeking to liberate itself, amongst others, from the pastoral rigor of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.\u2014, Cruz proudly distilled a fermenting, flamboyant cultural difference that shone in its desire to exist in intimacy and collectivity. With Allen Ginsberg\u2014an openly homosexual poet\u2014as his godfather, Cruz embodied the line of descendants from the Beat Generation\u2019s counter culture, heavily influenced by the Dadaists<sup><a href=\"#note-22\">22<\/a><\/sup>, to the growing liberation movements of communities struck by the repeated effects of a culture of whiteness<sup><a href=\"#note-23\">23<\/a><\/sup>. His collaborators questioned the spirit of John Cage, who seemed content to repeat at various conferences and in publications: \u201cWhy change the world, we might change it for the worse?\u201d In particular, Kelley associates many 1950s American artists\u2019 refusal to be politically engaged with the harmful witch-hunt enacted through Senator Joseph McCarthy\u2019s policies<sup><a href=\"#note-24\">24<\/a><\/sup>. And yet, contrary to the political positions of one North American east coast avant-garde figurehead, John Cage, also homosexual, on the west coast Allen Ginsberg was recognized and admired by the younger generations for his risky public stances on the muzzling of artistic expression. Incidentally, <em>beat<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-25\">25<\/a><\/sup> was a major inspiration for emerging assemblage practices\u2014including Purifoy and Kaprow\u2014and the idealism behind the <em>Other Ways Project<\/em> that mirrored the struggles unfolding at Berkeley in 1969. At the heart of this impressive history of critical pedagogy, the collaborations between Mike Spino and Sim Van der Ryn with Kaprow and Khol contributed to a renewal and hippie modernism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Spino was a world-renowned athlete who is still famous today for being the first to use meditation as part of his training. Invited by Allan Kaprow\u2014also a practitioner of meditation, the practice-based aspect of Zen Buddhist philosophy\u2014Spino designed an experimental laboratory where he maintained a spiritual and physical discipline while writing poetry. He invited primary school teachers, students of alternative pedagogy, and the children who participated in <em>Other Ways<\/em> to go onto the school basketball courts\u2014an essential part of the project\u2014to meditate in the fresh air and visible to everyone. The individual, reclusive practice of meditation turned into a game that could be just as popular and fun as basketball. In a later session, the entire team wrote what Spino conceptualized as <em>basketball poetry<\/em>, by playing basketball with complete spirituality. The poems were turned into a publication, in line with the editorial work of <em>Other Ways<\/em>.<br>Less known but equally as passionate, architect Sim van der Ryn proposed an inflatable classroom that filled the Other Ways Project showcase space. Sitting in a circle on air-filled cushions, artists, teachers and students of critical pedagogy discussed which environments encourage learning and student participation in producing content. The exhibit <em>Hippie Modernism: A Struggle for Utopia<\/em> at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis<sup><a href=\"#note-26\">26<\/a><\/sup> recently recalled the extent to which the environmental activist worked on architecture, described as hippie modernism, that, according to curator Andrew Blauvelt<sup><a href=\"#note-27\">27<\/a><\/sup>, would promote environmentally ethical (sustainable) thinking, local and collective. Environmentalism was one of the founding topics alongside other egalitarian ambitions advocated for by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) or those in the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., or even those associated with rejecting the imperialist war in Vietnam<sup><a href=\"#note-28\">28<\/a><\/sup>. These basic currents made Berkeley the heart of a counter-force, like a center of revolt in opposition to Washington. A new state at the heart of the federacy in which ecology, understood as a relationship to habitat and shared forms of life, was as visionary as it was pragmatic. Which is why the Walker Art Center exhibition connects the Bay Area modernist hippies to a new form of commune and communal living for whom architecture is less about obsessing over the strictness of form than a patchwork spurred by the social and empirical practice of communal living. As Canadian designer and art historian Lorraine Wild writes, these communal hippies were sustained by \u201ca dream of utopia that would designate the spaces for common good and for whom architectural esthetic codes were secondary<sup><a href=\"#note-29\">29<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d Their methods, she found, were not particularly linear or academic but returned to the language of improvisation such as it could be found in the \u201cgarage movement\u201d that preceded the \u201cdo-it-yourself\u201d ethos, where energy was more important than outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, the entire theoretical system of architect Richard Buckminster Fuller provided an infinite source of inspiration for the ecological and sustainable habitat movement. His concept of design science revolution acted as a guide for anti-capitalist and anti-monumental architectural principles. Just as a geodesic dome housed a shared living space inside the Ford museum, the library housed Fuller\u2019s work <em>Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth<\/em>, revolutionary discussions in the Bay Area rubbing elbows with transpersonal psychology, psychological mysticism, cybernetics and Zen Buddhism. As such, it is unsurprising that Kaprow\u2019s archives from the time show considerable documentation of an emerging technological revolution, cybernetics, associated with an expanding world sparked by American astronauts colonizing the moon. This earth revolution was the impetus for developing a universal language that might go beyond the limits Earth, an idea embodied in the <em>Whole Earth Catalog<\/em> edited between 1968 and 1972. Like many other readers, especially those interested in different forms of counter culture, Kaprow was inspired and motivated by the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog, which displayed the very first photo of the Earth taken from the moon in 1966. This iconic image displayed an impertinent holistic quest in which planet Earth became the symbol for interdependence and interconnectivity, echoing the <em>Global Village<\/em> by Marshall McLuhan, an important author for counter culture actors and often cited by Kaprow. Transposed to this context, McLuhan\u2019s <em>Global Village<\/em> embodies less the prophetic vision of an ultra-liberal world at the scale of the Internet than the desire to preserve our common social and environmental concerns, instilling an ecological current of sustainability, term used by Sim van der Rym during <em>Other Ways<\/em>. This counter culture vision and its modernist hippie applications called into question the dual separation of the geopolitical world marked by the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_18245\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18245\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.switchonpaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6ordinaryhappenings.jpg\" alt=\"Allan Kaprow, 6 ordinary happenings\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allan Kaprow, Poster for Six Ordinary Happenings (with scores) \u00a9 Allan Kaprow Estate, Courtesy Hauser &amp; Wirth<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Six ordinary happenings<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From March 2 to May 23, 1969, Kaprow proposed <em>Six Ordinary Happenings<\/em> in downtown Berkeley, each inspired by a new utopian or revolutionary idea with west coast roots. This series of actions also marked the completion of the <em>Other Ways<\/em> program. The first happening, <em>Charity<\/em>, consisted of washing second-hand clothes that had been stored in charity shops. The second, <em>Pose<\/em>, offered participants (teachers, students, artists and activists), to wander the city, each with their own chair, and take Polaroid photos of themselves, leaving behind their portrait when finished. involved parking in a prohibited zone, waiting for the police to arrive, being issued a ticket, taking a picture of the fine alongside a statement of facts and paying the fine, then returning all this documentation to the police. <em>Shape<\/em> consisted of leaving traces of one\u2019s silhouette outlined in spray paint in a public place. For <em>Give Away Dishes<\/em>, the second-to-last happening, huge piles of dirty dishes were left in the forgotten corners of the city\u2014like phone booths\u2014and then photographed. The final of the <em>Six Ordinary Happenings<\/em>, <em>Purpose<\/em>, was about creating small mountains of sand until it was all used up and then undoing, moving and rebuilding the ephemeral piles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These <em>Six Ordinary Happenings<\/em> were less theatrical than the ones that come before them, for example <em>Course<\/em> (1969) which was based on a human chain and instituted an important break in Kaprow\u2019s concept of action and participation. With <em>Six Ordinary Happenings<\/em>, it was not about an event that mobilized an anonymous ensemble of people, rather it was a public micro-action made up of identified people who understood and adhered completely to the idealistic goals of their collaborative gesture. In doing so, Kaprow became an \u201calogical strategist, no longer deliberately stopping the action, allowing it to follow its unpredictable course, observing where it led. It was at this very moment that Kaprow named what he was doing <em>un-art<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-30\">30<\/a><\/sup>.\u201d It is the beginning of the <em>un-arting<\/em> process, a broader movement than critical pedagogy and one that aims to de-professionalize the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of spring 1969 represents the apex of the counter culture revolution in the United States and, sadly, the end of the <em>Other Ways<\/em> experience. Kaprow and Khol have a rather violent divergence in opinion on how to proceed. Khol leans more toward direct action that would lead to an unprecedented revolution in institutions, which is precisely where Allan Kaprow was mistrustful with a rather un-Zen vehemence. The crux of their difference went on to nourish the three essays <em>The Education of the Un-Artist<\/em>, the cornerstone for a body of work that veered gradually away from the earlier happenings in favor of numerous <em>activities<\/em><sup><a href=\"#note-31\">31<\/a><\/sup>. The CalArts campus would go on to become the historical setting for this incredible change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation by Maya Dalinsky<\/strong><br>This text is from a conference given during the \u201cL\u2019\u00e9dition comme experience\u201d days, initiated by C\u00e9line Chazalviel at Villa Arson (Nice), March 12 and 13, 2018, and led to an online publication created by Open Source Publishing and a student group:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/villa-arson.xyz\/edition-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Villa Arson, edition experience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the publication of The Making of a Counter Culture1, which would be widely released and become the basis for theorizing the North American counter culture, Allan Kaprow was carefully writing an introduction to the collaborative project Other Ways. 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