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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)
The Short Order Cook, Act V, Andy's Donut
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.…
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…
The Dante Hotel
Lynn Hershman: I think that was the first interesting thing I did. I just set up a hotel room you could go 24 hours a day, any day of the week. You could sign in at the desk, get a key, go up to the room, and trespass into this kind of alien identity…
The Creation, a Seven Day Performance
I lived in the gallery for a week making art actions each day that related to the creation of the world as described in the Bible.(Marioni 1997: 17)
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…
Rose Mountain Walking Club
I formed a walking club, sent out announcements and gave tours of San Francisco. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
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…
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…