Happenings List
Happenings, multi-media events, etc.
| 1954 | Proto-happenings, Cardiff College of Art |
| c.1964-1966 | Performances, including explosive works, at the Paperback Bookshop, Edinburgh and the DeMarco Gallery, Melville Crescent,.Edinburgh |
| 1966 | May: lecture-performance ‘movementdestructioncreation/creationmovementdestruction/destructioncreationmovement’, Auto-Destructive Art Symposium, Ravensbourne College of Art & Design, London |
| 1966 | 24th August: ‘Detonation Demonstration’, the Ballroom, Women’s Union, University of Edinburgh |
| 1966 | 1st September: ‘Prelude to Anatomic Explosions’, TA Grill Hall, Edinburgh |
| 1966 | September: International Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS), London. Involved in organisation and participant. Member of Honorary Planning Committee |
| 1966 | 13th September: ‘Anatomic Explosions’, London |
| 1966 | September:’Pyrophone’ experiments and constructions, London |
| 1966 | 30th September: ‘Silent Explosion’, Mercury Theatre, London |
| 1966 | 28th Octoberr: explosive happening to mark closure of Jim Haynes’s Paperback Bookshop, Edinburgh |
| 1967 | 4th March: final stage of ‘Beach’, a happening in three stages on different days, ending at Grantham Beach, Edinburgh |
| 1967 | 10th March: ‘Egg Piece’, with Edinburgh Experimental Group, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh |
| 1967 | June: ‘Still Life Story I’, with Edinburgh Experimental Theatre Group, Dunelm House, Durham University |
| 1967 | 30th June, July 5th-9th: ‘Still Life Story II’, with Edinburgh Experimental Theatre Group, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh |
| 1967 | 2nd November: ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’, Edinburgh College of Art |
| 1967 | 16th December: ‘Still Life Story III’, new performance, Bristol Art Centre |
| 1968 | January 21st: ‘Adam on the Eve of St Agnes’, Swansea University |
| 1968 | February ‘Mass in F’, Edinburgh University; Traverse Theatre, a joint performance by the Edinburgh Experimental Theatre Group, involving music, slides and film. |
| 1968 | March: Performances and experiments, Bradford and Leeds Colleges of Art, with Cornelius Cardew, Albert Hunt, and others. |
| 1968 | Designer, with Gerald Scarfe, for Ubu in Chains, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh |
| 2007 | January: Performance event, Opening of ‘Tywysogion’ exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy |
| 2004 | ‘Book of Revelation’ happening with Robert Alwyn-Hughes, Canfas Gallery, Cardiff during Alwyn Hughes’s The Horsemen exhibition |
The 60s multi-media works and experimental theatre events were reviewed in: Time (September, 1966); Life (Atlantic Edition, Spring 1967); Studio International (December,1966); Structure (Spring, 1968); and national newspapers | |