Marta Minujín

Simultaneidad en Simultaneidad (Simultaneity in Simultaneity) was Minujín's contribution to Three Country Happening, a collaboration with Allan Kaprow and Wolf Vostell. Three Country Happening consisted of performances that took place simultaneously in the artists' home cities of Buenos Aires, New York, and Berlin, respectively, and were then broadcast back to back on television. It is one of the earliest artworks to utilize a coordinated broadcast. The archival materials here chronicle the planning of the Happening, and the photographs document the event. Minujín chose sixty public figures based on the frequency of their appearance in newspapers and magazines, on television, and on the radio. She invited them to an auditorium at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, where they were filmed and photographed as the process was relayed on closed–circuit television. Ten days later the same individuals were invited back to the auditorium, where the images from their previous visit were reproduced on banks of television sets. The multi–part Happening illustrates the increasing entanglement of spectatorship and production engendered by mass media, epitomized by the message Minujín sent five

hundred viewers by telegram: "You are a creator."