Allan Kaprow: Fluids

Fluids', a happening by Allan Kaprow, was originally staged in Pasadena and Los Angeles in 1967. About twenty rectangular enclosures of ice blocks, each measuring about 30 feet long, 10 feet wide and 8 feet high, were built throughout the city. Over the following days, the ice structures melted. Almost 40 years later, on 13 June 2005, Fluids was reinvented for the first time since 1967, enacted across three different sites in Basel to mark the opening of Art Basel Unlimited. This publication documents the reimagined performance through extensive photography, as well as a poster commemorating the occasion.