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A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art

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Al Hansen, Fluxus Artist was born and raised in New York City. He served as a paratrooper in WWII, gaining notoriety for pushing a piano out a sixth story window in wartime Europe. Congruent to his approach to art, Al Hansen took a flamboyant woman for a wife after the War. Their daughter became a Warhol girl. Their grandson became a Pop music star. In the postwar years Al Hansen developed association with the artists John Cage, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed and the actress Karen Black. With his friends, he helped develop Fluxus Art, wherein the structure of reality can be penetrated and perception changed through a presentation and participation in chaos and impulse. In 1962, Al Hansen began to create "Happenings" and in 1965 wrote: "A Primer of Happenings and Space/Time Art".

In 1977 Al Hansen co-founded the Punk Rock venue "The Masque" in Hollywood, California with Brendan Mullen. Minimalist Punk bands entertained there as particiapants with the crowd in a frenzied atmosephere. That same year, he managed the minimalist Punk bands The Controllers and The Screamers. Later, he managed Penelope Houston in San Francisco. In the 1980s Hansen moved to Cologne, Germany, where he continued his art in the Fluxus approach with The Ultimate Academy and wrote his "Introspective". Al Hansen passed away there in 1995.The Controllers