Coined by Allan Kaprow , a gifted wordsmith as well as an innovative artist, for his particular kind of nonverbal, Mixed-Means theatrical piece, this term came, in the late sixties, to characterize any and every chaotic event, particularly if it wasn't immediately definable. Especially because the epithet had been vulgarized elsewhere, it became, within the community of visual performance, exclusively the property of Kaprow, who defined it thus:
Like all good definitions, this excludes...