Accept / Do Not Accept

Accept / Do Not Accept (1974) was a performance that took place at noon on two consecutive Thursdays outside a busy mid-town office building in Atlanta (GA). On the first day, a stack of 100 8.5-by-11-inch flyers printed with simple block text reading “Accept this sheet of paper” were offered to passersby. On the second day at the same time, a stack of 100 8.5-by-11-inch flyers printed in the same font but with the text “Do not accept this sheet of paper” were distributed. The performance ended each day when all of the 100 sheets had been distributed. (The duration to distribute the “Accept” sheets was 38 minutes; the “Do not accept” sheets took 51 minutes.)