The abstraction and elegance of Kaprow’s programs often obscures the many practical problems involved in enacting a happening. At the same time, for him the moment of enactment was an essential part of the whole. On this copy of the poster for Transfer, Kaprow addresses many of these practical issues, such as location and timing, which, as a rule, he tried to iron out by phone with collaborators and students in the month before his arrival on campus.
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Poster for Transfer (February 1968)
Contract to prepare and present a “happening,”
signed by Carl A. Viggiani, chairman of the
Department of Romance Languages, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut (20 December
1967)
“Triumphal poses” of participants in Allan
Kaprow’s Transfer (February 1968)
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| Title | Poster for Transfer, with Allan Kaprow’s handwritten notes |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | February 1968 |
| Type | programs and flyers |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 14, folder 1 |
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Kaprow, Allan. Poster for Transfer, with
Allan Kaprow’s handwritten notes, February 1968. Getty
Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box
14, folder 1. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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