*Trading Dirt with Simon Rodia & Allan Kaprow 2008*

Trading Dirt with Simon Rodia & Allan Kaprow began as part of the Allan Kaprow “Art As Life Exhibition“ which was held at MOCA Geffen Contemporary March 23 - June 30, 2008. Allan Kaprow, an American painter, assemblage and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art developed a new art from that came to be known as a “Happening“. Just a few short years earlier. Simon Rodia, working alone for thirty-years, using tile setter’s took with no drawing board design, scaffolding, bolts or welding finished the largest single work of art created by one man-The Watts Towers In “Trading Dirt with Simon Rodia & Allan Kaprow“, Host Rosie Lee Hooks takes us on a Happening with Artists-Storytellers, Rogelio Acevedo, Augustine Aguirre. Domonique Moody. John Outterbidge, Margarita and Saul Pichardo, Kenzi Shiokava, Jacqueline and Roderick Sykes. Together, they share spontaneous conversations, storytelling, socialization and unrehearsed interactions while exchanging buckets of dirt. The production documents in