This happening was commissioned by Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and realized there over two days in February. Kaprow drew and designed this poster, and it is an effective piece of advertising. It includes the program for Transfer in its entirety, but it also makes clear that readers will be initiated into the mystery only if they attend a preliminary meeting with Kaprow himself. There is just enough definition in the words and image on the poster to make a passerby curious about the details.
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Poster for Transfer, with Allan
Kaprow’s handwritten notes (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 |
| 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, 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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