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Exhibition: Performances by Six Artists
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Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, Jim Melchert, Bill Morrison, Tyrus Gerlach, Marc Thorpe, William Wiley.
Waiting
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Hypnosis, Dream, Sleep
For three hours I slept and dreamt in the Berkeley Art Museum. Whenever I had a dream, I would sing it into an amplification system.
Objects in the environment:
Chicken feathers
Cooked food
Uncooked chicken
A foam pad
Sheets
A baby…
Objects in the environment:
Chicken feathers
Cooked food
Uncooked chicken
A foam pad
Sheets
A baby…
Don't Be Chicken Last Rites While Lying in my Own Shell
For three hours each day, lay in a "chicken" bed which had a twelve-foot wingspan, while wearing "chicken" costume. (Foley 1980: 145)
A Collaboration between Allan Fish and Tom Marioni
Richard Beggs taped my heartbeat – put it on a loop and with an oscillating machine speeded it up to a 4/4 tempo equil. to a heartbeat at its fastest. the piece was 34 mins. long. first 15 min. was the heartbeat slowing down to a Dead stop. while…
Studio Berkeley
In Studio Marioni draws his life-sized shadow which is distorted by a piece of black velvet suspended between two yellow spotlights and the vertical drawing surface. In a recent conversation Marioni explained that he chose yellow light because it is…
lecture/demonstration
In 1973 at the University Art Museum Berkeley I made a demonstration about intention. I called it “lecture/demonstration” because I meant it to be instructional. I outlined a square area with masking tape on the floor of the museum’s central open…
Splitting the Axis
Performance Proposal: Splitting the Axis The performance will consist of a single action on a vertical axis at point A on the diagram. Two men will climb a wood pole using metal lineman’s spurs and beginning at the top, thirty five feet above…
40 Winks
On December 10, 1971 I staged a piece called 40 Winks for a show of free live performance at the Berkeley Museum. The piece had two parts. The first was a long involved message which was posed as a riddle and delivered by me. It began as I destroyed…
The Return of the Agrarian Society
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