Distinctions between theatrical tropes and task - oriented performance art, in fact, often pivot on these points, particularly when instructional score - like texts and
photo documentation becomes a genre unto itself, as reflected in the somewhat recent art history of Allan Kaprow's intimate Life Art «happenings» which aestheticized normal human activity while blurring the boundaries between art and life.
He eventually continued his studies in Germany, where he experimented with performance art, and then
became interested in the history of the avant - garde in Japan, going so far as to organize an exhibition, «Dada in Japan: The Japanese Avant - Garde 1920 — 1970: A
Photo -
Documentation» at Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, before returning to Japan and settling in Maebashi.