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The Floating Museum Phases I and II
The Floating Museum has no walls. It is an invisible system designed to exhibit works of art that do not fit into the traditional boundaries of museum and gallery situations. The Floating Museum facilitates and encourages artists whose work takes…
Exhibition: Space/Time/Sound - 1970s: A Decade in the Bay Area
Exhibition documenting performance and installation pieces from past ten years by twenty-one artists, through photo-documentation, installation and videotape. (Foley 1980: 197)
Curator(s): Suzanne Foley
Participants: Tom Marioni, Terry Fox, Paul…
Exhibition: Performance/Art/Artists/Performers
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Curator(s): Carlos Gutierrez-Solana
Participants: Richard Alpert, Kevin Costello, Linda Montano, Bill Morrison, The Women’s Performance Collective, Darryl Sapien with Michael Hinton, Alan Scarritt, John Woodall,…
Exhibition: Second Generation
This night of performances was a celebration of MOCA’s fifth anniversary and, according to Marioni, the last group exhibition at MOCA. (Foley 1980: 160)
In a wedge-shaped space with large rectangular grids painted on opposing walls, Sapien and…
Portrait of the Artist X 3
Taking place amongst the ruins of a demolished amusement park this three part performance drew a portrait of the artist at three crucial stages of development. The learning stage where the artist masters his skills, the middle period of hard work and…
Crime in the Streets: A Performance About Survival in the City
This was a street performance depicting a series of violent crimes against innocent and powerless victims. Among the crimes were rape, murder, suicide, and lynching. The city itself was identified as a voracious predator consuming its weakest…
Diffusion Capsule
Lived in two rooms connected by a small tunnel for several days. Set up different rules for behavior in each space and then attempted to subvert them.(Foley 1980: 145)
In Transit
Sapien’s wrapped body was suspended for four hours. Passers-by were unaware of identity and form.(Foley 1980: 141)
Within the Nucleus
Two performers wearing video camera headmounts assembled a thirty-two foot tall double helix ladder suspended on a floor to ceiling armature of tightened ropes. Inside a cylindrical plastic curtain each performer ascended his red or green ladder as…
Summer Offensive
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