Allan Kaprow. Self-Service: a Happening by Allan Kaprow, 1967

Organized in connection with The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and The Pasadena Art Museum. Six mimeographed sheets printed one side, 28 x 21.1 cm, stapled. Top edge a little rough, tiny closed tear on right edge of cover, blank rear cover browned. Scarce script.

Self-Service, a piece without spectators, was performed in the summer of 1967 in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles over a period of four months. The document lists 'available activities' offered in each city to interested participants. The title sheet announces a meeting to be held at the Pasadena Art Museum on June 12 to discuss the performance and distribute the parts. Actions include, a.o.: people standing on bridges or street corners observing passing cars; after two hundred red ones, they would leave; torn pieces of paper would be dropped, one by one, from a high window while onlookers watched; in a supermarket shoppers began whistling in the aisles, then quietly resumed their shopping minutes later.