"Happenings in Belgium"
Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko
Antwerp - Brussels - Ostend
Chronological list (1965—1968)

07.09.1965
  Nu Happening ! Bezette Stad II en III, Happening Now ! Occupied City II and III, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko - Yoshio Nakajima - Wout Vercammen, Groenplaats, Antwerp.
08.06.1965   KYRPWWAWAX, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko - Yoshio Nakajima, Happening in een Heerlijke Nieuwe Stad, KYPRWWAWAX, Happening in a Brave New City, Casino-Kursaal, Ostend.
09.25.1965   Happening News, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko - Yoshio Nakajima - Wout Vercammen, Antwerp, Meir and Groenplaats, Antwerp.
10.02.1965   Godsdienst Vorst en Staat , Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko - Yoshio Nakajima - Wout Vercammen. Religion, King and Fatherland, Groenplaats, Antwerp.
10.09.1965   Happening in the Modern World, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Groenplaats, Antwerp.
03.12.1966   Het Lange Wapper Gasmonster terug in aktie, Air Base, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, The Lange Wapper Gas Monster in Action Again, Air Base, Groenplaats, Antwerp.

03.18.1966

 

MilkyWay Happening, Hugo Heyrman - Bernd Lohaus - Panamarenko. Opening exhibition of the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp.

12.16.1966-67   De Premiere van de Hersenexpansie in Kleuren! Stunt-Happening, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Premiere of the Mind Expansion in Color!, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp.
01.18.1968   Happening, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Brussels, Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels.
07.06.1968   Happening, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Stapel ijsblokken, Happening: Pile of Ice Cubes, Conscienceplein, Antwerp.
07.13.1968   Happening: 100 m3 graszone, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Happening: 100 m3 Area of Grass, Conscienceplein, Antwerp.
07.20.1968  
Groot Electronis Uitbazuincomplex, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Antwerp, Conscienceplein, Antwerp.
07.27.1968   Wereldpremiere, Maquette van Projekt Reservaat, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, (10 Hectarenplan) World Premiere, Model of the Reservation Project, (The 10 acres Plan) Conscienceplein, Antwerp.
08.03.1968   VAGARATZJI, Hugo Heyrman - Panamarenko, Groenplaats and Conscienceplein, Antwerp.

 

 
International Context / 1968-1970

1968
  • Fillmore East opens in New York
  • Robert E.L. Masters and Jean Houston, Psychedelic Art
  • Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test chronicles the exploits of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
  • Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Yellow Submarine, an animated film featuring The Beatles, is released.
  • The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on April 4.
  • Student uprising sees 30,000 students clash with police in Paris. Workers in France join students in a general strike.
  • U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles on June 5; he dies the next day.
  • Riots follow a police raid on the Stonewall Inn tavern in New York, ushering in the gay rights movement.
  • Violent clashes between demonstrators and police at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago are broadcast nationwide.

1969

  • Art Workers' Coalition founded in New York
  • Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider
  • John Lennon and Yoko Ono honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton with a "Bed-In for Peace."
  • "Battle of People's Park" at the University of California, Berkeley
  • The Woodstock Music and Art Fair draws 450,000 people to Bethel, New York
  • During a free Rolling Stones concert at Altamount Speedway outside San Francisco, Hell's Angels stab a man to death.

1970

  • The Beatles split up.
  • Jimi Hendrix dies of a drug overdose.
  • Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose.
  • National Guardsmen shoot dead four antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University, Ohio.