There was a time when the term “Happening” took an important place in artistic and philosophical conceptions. By fostering the desire to break the boundaries between art and life, Allan Kaprow embarked on the adventure of “art as an experience”, according to the words of John Dewey. As a young painter, he attended seminars from John Cage at the New School for Social Research in 1956 and 1957 and developed an interest for the works of Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie and Antonin Artaud. Kaprow later became the leader of those who reject every assumption about art, thus erasing the boundaries between art and non-art. Assembling and gluing his pieces, he became one of the first artists to propose installations to the rest of the world