Allan Kaprow likely composed this text to accompany an exhibition of his videotapes and activity booklets. Here he explains how photographic media can be used to create something like “music scores,” or “notations which one or more persons can carry out” after looking at them. The “How to” of the title of this text is a nod to Kaprow’s irreverent idea that artists’ scores belong to the ordinary social world of educational films and product packaging.
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| Title | “How to Use these videotapes and booklets” |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | January 1981 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 34, folder 10 |
Cite
Kaprow, Allan. “How to Use these videotapes and
booklets”, January 1981. Getty Research Institute,
Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 34, folder 10. 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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