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OH, A BEAR!
The performance work of De Cointet (with Mary Ann Duganne, Monica Tenner, and Jane Zingale), involved props and spoken texts. The rehearsed texts are memorized or read, but always acted out in a dramatic fashion, borrowing form the theatre some of…
Flagellating Doppler
The performance lasted five hours. During this period I remained in the central ground floor space while De Cristal wandered throughout the open galleries of the museum, playing his jew’s harp, teaching others to play with them, giving them away, and…
The Ephemeral Nature of Madame de Sade
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I’m An Ass Man
Karen Finley demurely entered the performance area, wearing a 60’s beaded evening gown with an empire waist. Clearing her throat, she requested a glass of wine, which she politely accepted and dashed to the floor with a shriek, beginning the…
Kearny St Project: Department of Art works
The Department of Art Works constructs art on the streets in the same manner as other construction companies, though for different purposes. Leland Fletcher, responsible for a show consisting of many construction sites around San Francisco, feels the…
Asbestos Tracking
It took up the whole length of the room. I put my shoes in a pan of asbestos at one end and made there parallel tracks along the floor. The first was running. No, not running. Shuffling and skipping. Dragging, shuffling, and skipping. Shuffling was…
Opening My Hand as Slowly as Possible
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Halation
[…] took place in a large empty garage in San Francisco in November 1974. In the dark room I placed two candles bent into semi-circles on the floor to form a circle. Each candle was lit at one end so as to form double flames always burning…
552 Steps through 11 Pairs of String
552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings was a performance in my loft in San Francisco in which I stretched 11 pairs of piano wires of 11 different thicknesses across the wooden floor of my studio. These wires were attached to turnbuckles at each and…
Levitation
I wanted to create a space that was conducive to levitation. The first thing I did was to cover the sixty by thirty foot floor with white paper and to tape white paper on the walls. The floor had been dark but it became such a brilliant white that if…