In advance of UCLA's Experimental Arts Festival in April of 1967 Kurt planned and organized a 24-hour long Seminar for his art department students, and roughly 20 of them participated. The seminar consisted of traveling to 20 different locations in Los Angeles, and documenting the entire event with notes, photographs and tape recordings. In short, Kurt staged "a happening."
Student reactions were mixed; "During this trip, there was a rather violent-argument between two of the passengers. One felt von Meier was crazy, the other worshiped him. Neither convinced the other of anything, and the rest of us began to feel extremely uncomfortable." Student documentation, a transcript of an end-of-event tape recording and Kurt's preliminary notes were in Kurt's archives, and are presented here.
