Avant-garde artists wanted to include the public in their actions.

Martin Krenn: Neala Schleuning

Nowadays we are used to these forms of aesthetics and we are familiar with all the avant-garde art strategies that started in the 1910s and 1920s. But at that time for DADA artists their art was an experiment, was new and the outcome was quite unknown. The same can be said about the Neo-Avant-garde and the Happenings of the 1960s. Futurists and Dadaists were pioneering these practices: they had this idea to confront the public with art and to shock the public. But they also wanted the public to take part, there were several participatory aspects to their work, which are often overlooked nowadays, I think.