I lived in a classroom as five different people, changing clothes everyday. A video camera monitored my events and projected the image to the next room.
Each day I made a three hour drawing as a different person.
I declared our house a museum and gave tours as different people, chosen by the person viewing the house. Notices were sent to papers advertising the tours. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
For three hours I laid in a baby crib and listened to tapes of my mother talking about me as an infant.It was All Souls Day and our dog Chicken died as I was performing. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
In Death and Birth: A Crib Event [sic], she…
For a week I stayed at home and sent invitations to friends to visit me. I announced my availability. While at home I documented all thoughts, activities, foods eaten, phone calls. I photographed all visitors. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
I performed a chicken dance in nine different outdoor places in San Francisco. The sites were museums, galleries, and the Golden Gate Bridge. The dances were on the third month at noon, three and six o’clock. I wore a blue prom dress, tap…
The site for the Location Project will be the south wall of the Paramount Theater as seen from 20th Street. I’ve been checking out the building and find it’s a good one to work with. The projector will be located across the street at…
Scene: The painting “Self-portrait as Pigpen” is wedged into an area between two buildings. It is fairly dark. Over the face in the painting is a white handkerchief. On the ground in front of the painting are two brushes, a jar of…
McCarthy built a 35-foot long, 7-foot high, 10-foot across human form out of chicken wire, covered with clear vinyl. In the performance the artist, dressed in a white diaper-like loincloth, and with his head completely masked, improvised for…