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Exhibition: (H)errata
A collaborative exhibition designed […] to correct the errors and omissions of women in local museum exhibitions (Hershman 1977)
Curator(s): Lynn Hershman Jo Hansen Pat Tavenner
Participants: Judith Barry, Priscilla Birge, Jo Hansen, Robbin…
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…
Exhibition: Installation and Performance Pieces, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Organized by SFMMA in conjunction with America 1976, a bicentennial exhibition organized by the United States Department of the Interior. October 15. Dennis Leon, untitled installation, Oakwood Valley, Marin County, constructed rope lattice in the…
Ghost Tower
Beginning at 8:00 PM OCTOBER 27 1978 at the San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Richard Irwin will perform an action taking place in SFAI TOWER. The entire action may be witnessed LIVE via Video on a monitor located inside STUDIO 10 (inside…
The Screaming Nun
I dressed as a nun, danced, screamed, and heard confessions at Embarcadero Plaza. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Garage Talk
For three days I talked to everyone who went by my garage. I was there from nine am to five pm. (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)
Assured Destructive Capability
An omni-directional slash in the face at Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, to which the Consulate General of Red China was invited. (Survival Research Laboratories 2013)
Bill Edmonson: Not long after Machine Sex, you did a piece called Assured…
Machine Sex
Machine Sex was done at a Chevron gas station, shortly after an OPEC price rise. I had built this de-manufacturing machine that was like a giant food processor, called The Shredder, It was made out of a big triangular shaped drum, with a plexi-gears…
Windows
The piece took place inside the display windows of the J.C. Penny building, downtown San Francisco, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The audience was anyone who happened to be walking by on the street.
I painted the windows black on the inside. About…
I painted the windows black on the inside. About…