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…
Henderson […] with Hawley and Young, brought attention to a massive oil spill that had taken place on January 29, 1969, along the Santa Barbara coast: the artists spelled out the word oil in biodegradable dye five times in San Francisco Bay off the…
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…
Paradise regain'dParadise lost
Paradise: lightDante's gainMilton's loss
I project my visions through the windowOf the dark room(the camera obscura)
inside - outinside - in
You enter the room- a progression ofstill color images &still ocean…
The corridor at Fort Point is a series of rooms receding into other rooms ending in an undefined dark space.
Waiting in the corner of the dark room, I watch your approaching shadow against the light in the video monitor.
As you pass into the room,…
A multi-dimensional performance environment, it is my model for the unconscious, a triptych of simultaneous events separated by time, a metaphor built into a metaphor and then turned in on itself, predicated on the idea that the present is created…
I arrived at the site early, finding a lone podium on a small mound in the sculpture garden, a mute monument to my apprehension. No marching bands, no placard-bearing youngsters, no old fools in straw hats, no giant pictures of my visage behind the…
The presentation was divided into ten separate programs, including Motel Stories, L.A. Itself, Reservations and SFO/LAX Corridor. The most intriguing piece was Executive Air Traveller, a document of the artist’s travels by air over a four-year…