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The Floating Museum Phases I and II
The Floating Museum has no walls. It is an invisible system designed to exhibit works of art that do not fit into the traditional boundaries of museum and gallery situations. The Floating Museum facilitates and encourages artists whose work takes…
Living Art: Time Spent Artfully Alone or Not Alone
For four days, Pauline Oliveros, Nina Wise and I lived together and called that time art. Each of us had a separate environment and we laid motionless for long periods of time in the environment. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Rose Mountain Walking Club
I formed a walking club, sent out announcements and gave tours of San Francisco. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
The Waitress, Act V, Andy's Donuts
As The Waitress I was a gregarious self and also an archetype. "Waitress" with a bouffant hairdo who wore a black and white nylon dress. As the "Short Order Cook" I also dressed and behaved appropriately. (Burnham and Sherk 1981: 66)
Ordinary Life, Part Two
It begins with my friends Nancy Buchanan, Nancy Angelo and Karen Neubert coming in with me from the rear of the space and passing out the scripts flirtatiously to the men and ignoring the women seated there. Each of the 150 scripts had a different…
A ten minute meeting, November 10, 1975, Union Square Between Roberta and B
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Social Experiment: The Avant Guard Security
In September 1975 President Gerald Fiord visited San Francisco. A few days before, “Manson Family” member, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme had attempted to assassinate him in Sacramento. For his protection San Francisco organized the…
Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp Street
The first work that honored his identification of the ordinary as an idea for art was the repair of the sidewalk outside 500 Capp Street in 1976. His preparation of the site, mixing and pouring of concrete, and subsequent restoration of the sidewalk…
Re: Forming Familiar Environments
The piece took place in Eleanor Coppola’s home. Two museums wanted us to do something in her house and we just decided that instead of giving the a tour we would turn the entire house into a game board. So we used the floor plan as a kind of…
Jury Service
While I was performing as “The Waitress” I was called to serve on a jury. It was she who appeared for JURY DUTY. Once chosen and in the courtroom, wearing all my old clothes, I recognized that all of the participants were performing.…