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Round Trip

MONDAY, MAY 19, 1–4pm
6th and Gladys Street Park
6th and Gladys Ave., Los Angeles (starting point)

In this version of Round Trip (1968), participants will construct a small ball of string, paper, and cardboard and roll it down the street for a few blocks. As per Kaprow’s instructions, they will continue to add more material, until the ball becomes too large to roll. They will then reverse the process until there in no material left. This event is coordinated with the Los Angeles Poverty Department and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
INFO 213/413-1077

UPDATED ROUTE INFO from the Los Angeles Poverty Department here.

Round Trip (1968)
Participants begin Round Trip with a small ball made out of found material—such as paper, cardboard, or string—and begin to roll it around a city. After several blocks, the ball grows with the addition of more material and then continues rolling and accumulating material until it is too large to continue rolling. The process, then, reverses, by removing material, rolling several blocks, and removing more material until the ball no longer exists.

LAPD 03.24.08 / 3pm

OUR 2008 TRIP

6th and Gladys Ave., Los Angeles (starting point)
Follow 6th Street west to San Julian Street.
North on San Julian Street to 5th Street.
5th Street, west to Los Angeles Street.
Los Angeles Street north to Winston Street.
Winston Street west to Main Street
Main Street north to 4th Street.
4th Street west to Broadway.
Broadway south to 6th Street
6th Street west to Hill
Northwest diagonal through Pershing Square,
Exiting on 5th and Olive Streets
5th Street west to 5th and Flower
From Central Library turn south to 7th Street
West 1 block to Figueroa
Reverse Direction: ending at Gladys Park, (6th and Gladys)
An odor of crushed strawberries, a letter from a friend, or a billboard selling Drano; three laps on the front door, a scratch, a sigh, or a voice lecturing endlessly, a blinding staccato flash, a bowler hat—all will become materials for this new concrete art. Young artists of today need no longer say, “I am a painter” or “a poet” or “a dancer.” They are simply “artists.”

All of life will be open to them. They will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. They will not try to make them extraordinary but will only state their real meaning. But out of nothing they will devise the extraordinary and then maybe nothingness as well. People will be delighted or horrified, critics will be confused or amused, but these, I am certain, will be the alchemies of the 1960s.
-Allan Kaprow

Round Trip

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