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13 Searchlights
Set up thirteen searchlights on Market Street and flares from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks: two airplanes flew overhead. (Lewallen 1981: 130)
Attica
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Cow Line
Four thousand cardboard cows were placed at intervals along the highway. (Foley 1980: 173)
Cows
Participants carried one hundred life-size cardboard cows along seventeen pedestrian overpasses of southern freeway approaches into San Francisco. The event was covered by television channels 2, 4, 5 and 7.(Foley 1980: 148)
Oil
Henderson […] with Hawley and Young, brought attention to a massive oil spill that had taken place on January 29, 1969, along the Santa Barbara coast: the artists spelled out the word oil in biodegradable dye five times in San Francisco Bay off the…
Shoot 'Em Dead
Mel Henderson paced up and down the large loft with a 30-calibre rifle. He took aim and fired a single shot at a film image of a tiger being projected on a paper covered saw-horse. (Anonymous 1970)
Snowjob
The San Francisco Museum of Art invited me to do a series for them, and I decided to create a Snowjobwhich would relate to the whole city as well as the Museum. For that piece, I brought 6,000 pounds of snow into the City and placed piles in the…
Surf Line
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Yellow Cabs
Henderson arranged for one hundred Yellow Cabs to converge at a major intersection simultaneously, creating a traffic jam. Event was photographed, videotaped, and filmed from the ground, helicopter, and heliocourier.(Lewallen 1981: 131)
Exhibition: All Night Sculpture
In ’73 there was a show at MOCA called All Night Sculptures, probably the most interesting show that happened there. It was very serious. Nine artists designed work for all night viewing: installations that had something to do with nighttime or…