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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…
ALLMYDIRTYBLUECLOTHES
Fried arranged the clothes on the floor and marked the symbols on the wall in a carefully reasoned sequence […] In summing up his description of the work “Allmydirtyblueclothes” Howard Fried also stated:…
Long John Servil vs. Long John Silver
Fried, assisted by crutches, wove his way through the gridded streets of San Francisco from sunset to sunrise as the passive yet happy-go-lucky Long John Silver; then, from sunrise to sunset he portrayed the more willful Long John Servil, carrying a…
Synchromatic Baseball
Howard Fried's Synchromatic Baseball was performed one night in 1971 on a San Francisco rooftop. Fried selected the Dommy and Indo teams from among his friends and acquaintances according to whether they assumed dominant or "indominant" roles in…
The Return of the Agrarian Society
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Which Hunt
Maze-like environment for participants dealing with frustration and anger. (Foley 1980: 144)
Exhibition: 16 Rose Street
A building in San Francisco leased by Reese Palley Gallery and given over as studio space to artists such as Sam Richardson, Terry Fox, James Pennuto, Howard Fried, Barney Bailey, and Alex Lambie (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 54)
Reese Palley’s…
Exhibition: A Tight 13 Minutes
13 one minute colour video works
Curator(s): Tom Marioni
Participants: Richard Alpert, Dianne Blell, Kevin Costello, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Mel Henderson, Paul Kos, Stephen Laub, Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert, Masashi Matsumoto, Suzanne Spater, Irv…
Exhibition: Performances by Six Artists
No description available.
Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, Jim Melchert, Bill Morrison, Tyrus Gerlach, Marc Thorpe, William Wiley.
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…