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The Creation, a Seven Day Performance
I lived in the gallery for a week making art actions each day that related to the creation of the world as described in the Bible.(Marioni 1997: 17)
Performance
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…
Portable Park III
The third site was Maiden Lane, a downtown street near the major shopping area near Union Square. The whole street was closed for two days, covered with turf, trees, and even more animals (cows, goats, chickens, sheep, llamas). This was a greater…
Portable Park I
Portable Park I was situated on the dead end section of the freeway that was used primarily by the Highway Patrol for dispensing tickets. For one day the area was covered in live turf, live palm trees, a cow and myself. It was a living tableau which…
International Dinner Party
In another highly organized and publicized mass event, International Dinner Party, Lacy intermeshed the intimate character of early performance within a public setting. She contacted over a thousand women around the world by mail, asking them to…
The Bag Lady
When I was getting ready to do this piece, I went walking in downtown San Francisco to find a bag lady. I saw a woman in a worn blue coat looking through a vacant lot. I walked over and told her my name, and I said I was looking for a woman who was…
The Time and Life of Donaldina Cameron
The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron, a performance piece, grew out of two artists’ desire to deal with this historical controversy. As an art form, performance combines experience and ideas into enticing blends, in this case a narrative…
The Lady and the Lamb or the Goat and the Hag
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Cry Baby
While reading text lamenting the end of the 1970s and the coming of the 1980s Labat rubs his eyes with cut onions. (Labat 2005: 199)
Red Nail
Labat nails a long pinky fingernail to the floor of the museum, tearing it off and leaving it behind. (Labat 2005: 198)
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…