7 Kinds of Sympathy was sponsored by Vienna’s Museum of the 20th Century and realized there by a few couples in March 1976. The videotape of the program was shot and edited by Peter Kirby, an alumnus of the California Institute of the Arts, where Allan Kaprow had been a dean and a professor from 1969 to 1974. Kirby ran the Artists Post Production Facility at the Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, California, and founded an early video postproduction company in Hollywood (Video Transitions), where he worked on commercial music videos. Kaprow collaborated with Kirby on several additional videotapes for his activities, namely Time Pieces (1975), Common Senses (1977), and Private Parts (1977). The remaining components of 7 Kinds of Sympathy—Kaprow’s activity booklet and notes for the video—are also reproduced in the Archive section of chapter 11.
Produced by Peter Kirby and Anna Canepa Video Distribution, with performers Julie Steiny and Bryan Jones.
