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SiteWorks: San Francisco performance 1969-85

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South of the Slot was a group show that took place in San Francisco during the months of October and November in 1974. It was a show that was organized by a group of artists as a much needed forum for a particular kind of work. Organised around a…

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[…] took place in a large empty garage in San Francisco in November 1974. In the dark room I placed two candles bent into semi-circles on the floor to form a circle. Each candle was lit at one end so as to form double flames always burning…

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The performance space was divided into a light half and a dark half. I began the performance by standing in the dark half, and kicking a ball into the light half of the space against the back wall. With each successive kick of the ball, I shortened…

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I made my first drum brush drawings in 1972 and I continue to make these drawings, which are inspired by the automatic writing of the surrealist movement. The drawings are the result of rubbing and beating with steel wire drum brushes ( like jazz…

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For three hours I laid in a baby crib and listened to tapes of my mother talking about me as an infant.It was All Souls Day and our dog Chicken died as I was performing. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered) In Death and Birth: A Crib Event [sic], she…

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