Allan Kaprow | Photoalbum : Moving, A Happening

 

Allan Kaprow

Photo Album: Moving, A Happening

Chicago, USA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1967

16 pp.,  21.5 x 14 cm., staple-bound

Edition size unknown

A slim Artists' Book documenting a happening which took place over four days, at six different sites. Designed by Kaprow, the booklet features seventeen black&white photographs by (Fluxus photographer) Peter Moore. 

 

"Some unused houses in different parts of the city. On each of four days, old furniture is obtained, and is pushed through the streets to the houses. The furniture is installed. On the first day, bedrooms are furnished, and slept in that night. On the second day, dining rooms are furnished, and a meal is eaten. On the third day, living rooms are furnished, and guests are invited to cocktails. On the fourth day, attics are filled and their doors are locked.” 

- Allan Kaprow

"In December 1967 Kapfow did an event in Chicago called Moving (sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art), in which participants were asked to furnish apartments with secondhand furniture that had been purchased for the event. The participants would briefly occupy one apartment—perhaps eating a meal together— before packing up their belongings and moving on to the next, rolling stacks of chairs, boxes, lamps, even a piano through the streets like bands of urban nomads. Moving was familial and friendly and required less labor than Fluids had, but it was just as fluid in its wanderings from

place to place.”    

- Jeff Kelley