Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), 75 3rd Street, now redeveloped

Darryl Sapien with Michael Hinton, Tricycle-Contemporary Recreation (14th March 1976)

Description

Two performers wearing video camera headmounts and equipped with intercoms create two drawings on two gridded walls within a wedge shaped enclosure. Their markings are guided by a female director on the floor above them. She speaks in a code based on the clock and compass to guide each performer’s marker in the execution of their drawings. The director can see through the video eyes of each performer on two monitors facing her. On the lower floor the two performers act as her robotic hands, square by square creating what evolves into a child’s drawing of a man and woman. (Sapien 2013)