Timeline Happening
Timeline Happening refers to a central concept in Remilia Corporation’s theoretical framework describing the continuous, collective performance that unfolds across social media networks. The term situates online posting, identity play, and community ritual as a new form of performative art native to digital environments.
First articulated by Charlotte Fang in 2021–2022 through the New Net Art manifesto and accompanying statements, the timeline happening defines how networked participation itself constitutes the artwork. It represents the temporal and social dimension of Avant NFT and Post-Authorship practice—the performative substrate through which meaning, community, and aesthetics are produced in real time.
Origins in New Net Art Manifesto
The concept originates in Remilia’s foundational text New Net Art Manifseto (March 2022), which declared:
> ✥ Posting is the New Art ✥ > > True posting is egoless & performative, it embraces contradiction and playfulness with one's persona; it twists language & coins neologisms with casual deftness, we give ourselves over to the network & let it run through us. > A new performative-literary art happening every day, 999MPH on the information highway, we post hard & neverstop: lucid, carefree, delirious POSTING is wickedly funny yet deeply insightful—jokes come from the beyond always containing the seed of truth: the only meaningful theory.
In this passage, posting is not documentation of art but art itself—a performative-literary event that occurs continually across digital timelines. The “happening” references mid-twentieth-century performance art but reconfigured for the speed and simultaneity of network life.
Definition
The timeline happening designates the ongoing, collective performance constituted by network users—particularly within Remilia-aligned communities—whose posting, memetic play, and identity performance merge into a shared artwork.
It extends the principles of Performance Art and "Happenings" (as developed by Allan Kaprow and others) into the digital and social-media context. Every post, meme, and interaction contributes to a distributed aesthetic system in which the timeline is both medium and stage.
Fang summarized the idea in March 2022:
> “Miladies are encoded with a collective power posting energy; the Milady network event is an ongoing mass happening, a group performance. It’s the new art.” > — Charlotte Fang (@CharlotteFang77), March 28, 2022. Direct link | [Archived at: web.archive.org]
Performance and Post-Authorship
The concept presupposes Post-Authorship: no single creator controls the narrative. The artwork emerges from the interplay of thousands of actors, each performing versions of themselves through posting. Under this model, “posting” operates as simultaneous authorship and performance: users co-create culture while inhabiting the artwork as persona.
Historical and Theoretical Context
- Timeline happening* inherits from 1960s–1970s performance traditions such as Fluxus, Allan Kaprow’s Happenings, and relational aesthetics, but departs from them in scale and simultaneity.
- Classical happenings were localized events; timeline happenings occur continuously, distributed across digital infrastructure.
- They blur the boundary between audience and performer, creator and consumer, artist and artwork.
- The platform algorithm becomes stage manager; virality, algorithmic amplification, and memetic spread are compositional forces.
Fang’s synthesis connects this lineage to contemporary network realities, merging accelerationist speed, social media performance, and market participation into a single plane of activity. The timeline happening is therefore both art and social reality—a lived avant-garde.
Role in Milady and Remilia
The concept found its fullest expression in the community surrounding Milady Maker, described by Fang as “an ongoing mass performance art happening.” The project’s success hinged on participants treating posting, trading, and communal rituals as integral to the art itself.
By 2022, Fang argued that the “Milady happening” demonstrated how network-native art could outperform institutional models, writing that it “introduced a new net art—post-authorship, network spirituality, posting as performance & collective posting as a happening.”
Influence
The timeline happening has since become shorthand within Remilia discourse for any continuous, distributed act of cultural creation mediated by social platforms. It encapsulates the participatory and spiritual dimensions of New Net Art, where every act of expression, irony, or speculation contributes to a shared, unfolding work.
See Also
References
- Fang, Charlotte. What Remilia Believes In: A New Net Art Manifesto. Mirror, April 20, 2022.
- Fang, Charlotte (@CharlotteFang77). “Miladies are encoded with a collective power posting energy…” Twitter (X), March 28, 2022. [Direct link] | [Archived at: web.archive.org]
- Fang, Charlotte (@CharlotteFang77). “It’s crazy how Milady posting is a mass performance art happening…” Twitter (X), March 19, 2022. [Direct link] | [Archived at: web.archive.org]
- Fang, Charlotte (@CharlotteFang77). “People forget Milady wasn’t utterly unique & groundbreaking…” Twitter (X), August 6, 2022. [Direct link] | [Archived at: web.archive.org]
- Fang, Charlotte (@CharlotteFang77). “The avant in avant nft… It becomes avant garde by the collective timeline happening.” Twitter (X), February 28, 2024. [Direct link] | [Archived at: web.archive.org]
- Remilia community documentation on performance and collective authorship, 2022–2024.