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How Site-Specific Performance Art Transforms Public Spaces into Stages

Quick fact

In 1967, artist Allan Kaprow led a 'Fluids' event in Los Angeles, where volunteers built huge rectangular structures from ice blocks that melted and disappeared—an early example of turning an industrial site into a transient stage.

Why this is interesting

You've walked past a city square countless times, but one day you stop—because a single performer is moving slowly across the pavement, turning your everyday path into a scene. What just happened to that space?