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Split-Man Bisects the Pacific
Split Man Bisects the Pacific seemed an epic reenactment of some forgotten myth or legend. It took place on a foggy night at the bottom of the “Lands End” cliffs west of the Golden Gate. There Sapien had built a white wooden wheel nine…
13 Searchlights
Set up thirteen searchlights on Market Street and flares from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks: two airplanes flew overhead. (Lewallen 1981: 130)
Portable Park II
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…
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…
Public Lunch
With Public Lunch, which took place in the Lion House at the San Francisco Zoo, there were other concerns that developed. The piece was conceived, actually, in the Central Park Zoo. I had been invited to New York by Madamoiselle Magazine because they…
Polytox Park
Poloytox Park was a satirical tribute to the forces of urban blight and chemical poisons, featuring a mock toxic waste dump, and rats, a lizard and a dog cast from cement, all amid artificial, imported debris. (Pritkin and Searcy 1983: 63)
House of Cars
House of Cars was an “apartment complex” consisting of four car bodies transformed into monochromatic housing modules. The cars are stacked so that the viewer can move from one interior to the others. One bottom car has a stairway leading to a car on…
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…
Installation at his house
Bearing an address rather than a title, David Ireland’s major project of the past five years is an endeavor of distinctly personal archeology and architectural preservation. In 1975 Ireland became the third owner of a two-story Victorian house at 500…
Listening to the 80s: Inside/Outside
A twelve-hour event consisting of three actions repeated once every hour by the participants.
Each action:
Sitting - 1/2 hour
Walking - 15 minutes
Singing Past Guilts -15 minutes
These were performed in unison. The first two actions,…
Each action:
Sitting - 1/2 hour
Walking - 15 minutes
Singing Past Guilts -15 minutes
These were performed in unison. The first two actions,…