What The F*** is Happening Now?

Falmer Village, nr Brighton

What the F*** is Happening Now? was a day of art and music set in the grounds of a large country house in Falmer Village, Brighton.

Reconsidering artistic explorations from the 1960's to the present day, under the ubiquitous, or perhaps passé, banner of 'the Happening', the event brought artists and musicians together to turn an old-fashioned English countryside Mansion into a contemporary arena of ideas, attitudes and activities, forming a matrix of durations and spatial live and installation works.

The majority of the selected works were significantly extended across space and time. The presentation of works in parallel, spread-out across space-time, emphasised a non-linear and non-hierarchical structure, allowing the audience a more distended and free engagement with the works. The opportunity to circulate around the works dipping in and out, in a manner that reflects the free-movement of the mind at play, encouraged the audience members to actively make their own connections between events and ideas. There was also a programme of shorter performances across the day.