1960s

Festivals/Events:

1962 - Festival of Misfits - Various Fluxus artists organize the Festival of Misfits exhibition at Gallery One in London. The highlight of the show is the installation/performance piece Living Sculpture, in which the artist Ben Vautier (born 1935) moves into the display window of the gallery for two weeks and offers himself for sale for the price of £250

1963 – Mark Boyle ‘suddenly last supper’, Queensgate event/happening (the meal??), Edinburgh

1964 – the festival of Happenings org. by Michael White in Victoria(?) – closed down after the first evening because attacks in the Press. Series of Mark Boyle performances at ICA closed down after the first evening.

1966 - International Times was launched on 14 October 1966 at The Roundhouse at a gig featuring Pink Floyd. The event promised a 'Pop/Op/Costume/Masque/Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball and featured Soft Machine, steel bands, strips, trips, happenings, movies. The launch was described as "one of the two most revolutionary events in the history of English alternative music and thinking. The IT event was important because it marked the first recognition of a rapidly spreading socio-cultural revolution that had its parallel in the States" by Daevid Allen of Soft Machine.[2]

1966 DIAS