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Cry Baby
While reading text lamenting the end of the 1970s and the coming of the 1980s Labat rubs his eyes with cut onions. (Labat 2005: 199)
Tags: Location unknown, Tony Labat
Elect Lowell Darling Governor: Last Chance to Influence the Candidate and Get a Campaign Button
We drove back to San Francisco for an afternoon cocktail party, and looking back after the events that took place, I would say San Francisco seemed empty […] I was standing alone near Farley’s car, the blue 1951 Studebaker of the future, when two…
Tags: campaigning, fight, kidnap, La Mamelle, Lowell Darling, site-specific, Tony Labat
Esteish Fright (Stage Fright)
Installation steel wires, coffee grounds, drum machine, and red spotlight, dimensions variable […] Steel wire stretches taught at ankle height (tripping device) around 4 posts with a red light projected in the centre, seducing viewers to an…
Tags: 80 Langton Street, Tony Labat
Fight: A Practical Romance
On 17 July 1980, I received a letter from a man named Tom Chapman, challenging me to a fight, to be determined by standard (California) boxing procedures, saying that “it would not be fun” and “the best illusion is no illusion.” HA! What a joke. I…
Tags: boxing, fight, Kezar Pavilion, site-specific, sports, Tom Chapman, Tony Labat
Kidnap Attempt
Lowell Darling, the artist, was running for governor of California in 1978. I think it’s important to mention that Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was running for mayor of San Francisco in 1978. I grew up with strong political beliefs, and…
Tags: fight, kidnap, La Mamelle, Lowell Darling, political, site-specific, Tony Labat
Red Nail
Labat nails a long pinky fingernail to the floor of the museum, tearing it off and leaving it behind. (Labat 2005: 198)
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
Tags: Cuba, MOCA, Tony Labat
Red Sunday
Performance with Karen Finley involving the manipulation and destruction of props which ends when all the props are destroyed. (Labat 2005: 198)
Terminal Gym
Labat became a licensed boxer in the State of California for the period of one year. The project culminated in a debut bout within an evening card of professional boxing. A video P.O.V. (Point of View), documents the project. (Labat 2005: 199)
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Tags: boxing, Location unknown, sports, studio, Tony Labat
Exhibition: The Motel Tapes
Five tapes created specifically to be shown during breaks between the usual showing of X-rated tapes in the motel rooms. Opening night screening of all tapes at the lounge of the Caravan Lodge for the art community. Subsequent screenings in he motel…
Tags: hotel, Jose Maria Bustos, sex, Tony Labat, video