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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…
Exhibition: South of the Slot
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…
Exhibition: Performance Festival 1973
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Curator(s): San Francisco Art Institute Museum Techniques Class
Participants: Richard Alpert, Stephen Laub, Jim Melchert, Linda Montano, Bonnie Sherk.
Exhibition: 1975-76 Art Institute Annual
The San Francisco Art Institute had an annual exhibition every year that was important to the community because artists curated it. It was called the Art Institute Annual, and it was usually a month-long exhibition. In 1976 it was literally an…
A Circular Route
The performance took place in an empty warehouse approximately 40’ wide, 80’ long and 25’ high. Upon entering the space, you saw concentric circles measuring 25’ in diameter composed of words written in heavy chalk on the floor. The circles were…
Gyro
An electric gyroscope winds up to its maximum rpm, and with its rotor whirring, slowly winds down. A drawing device, made up of a free swinging metal batten attached to a spindle that holds graphite, is spun as fast as it can be made to go. The sound…
States of Mine
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Hand Generated Light
The performance was situated in a room adjacent to the main exhibition space. Attached to the front of the door, the only entrance to the room, was a small light bulb. For the duration of the three-hour show, I was in the room with the door locked…