Mari-Claire Charba: Art-Theater-Performance Art or (How it Happened) | Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) | Art Exhibits | Chronogram Magazine

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Mari-Claire Charba: Art-Theater-Performance Art or (How it Happened)

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She will discuss the overlapping, intersecting and merging of art, theater and performance art, especially in the 1960’s New York City with its American roots at Black Mountain College in the 1950s with John Cage and his innovative creation: “Work in Theater No.1.” Comprised of sound, text, film, painting, poetry, dance, silence, and objects this work has come to be regarded by many as the first Happening in America.