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SiteWorks: San Francisco performance 1969-85

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The Farm is a social art work and incorporates the divergent fields of all the arts and literature, education, appropriate technology, community service, public health, the environment, economics, city planning and real estate. It is a vehicle for…

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Maze-like environment for participants dealing with frustration and anger. (Foley 1980: 144)

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The third site was Maiden Lane, a downtown street near the major shopping area near Union Square. The whole street was closed for two days, covered with turf, trees, and even more animals (cows, goats, chickens, sheep, llamas). This was a greater…

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Portable Park I was situated on the dead end section of the freeway that was used primarily by the Highway Patrol for dispensing tickets. For one day the area was covered in live turf, live palm trees, a cow and myself. It was a living tableau which…

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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…

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The second site of the Portable Park […] was on two concrete islands underneath a freeway off-ramp. For this site there were more cows and also chickens involved, picnic tables, and bales of straw. It was a participatory piece for many…
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