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Attica
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Cows
Participants carried one hundred life-size cardboard cows along seventeen pedestrian overpasses of southern freeway approaches into San Francisco. The event was covered by television channels 2, 4, 5 and 7.(Foley 1980: 148)
Shoot 'Em Dead
Mel Henderson paced up and down the large loft with a 30-calibre rifle. He took aim and fired a single shot at a film image of a tiger being projected on a paper covered saw-horse. (Anonymous 1970)
Cow Line
Four thousand cardboard cows were placed at intervals along the highway. (Foley 1980: 173)
Yellow Cabs
Henderson arranged for one hundred Yellow Cabs to converge at a major intersection simultaneously, creating a traffic jam. Event was photographed, videotaped, and filmed from the ground, helicopter, and heliocourier.(Lewallen 1981: 131)
Surf Line
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13 Searchlights
Set up thirteen searchlights on Market Street and flares from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks: two airplanes flew overhead. (Lewallen 1981: 130)
A ten minute meeting, November 10, 1975, Union Square Between Roberta and B
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Roberta Look Alike Contest
Roberta Breitmore is a portrait of a woman in San Francisco: a collage of a person experiencing her environment. She is a contemporary heroine fashioned from real life and in real time. Her social identities – checkbook, licenses, handwriting and…
The Dante Hotel
Lynn Hershman: I think that was the first interesting thing I did. I just set up a hotel room you could go 24 hours a day, any day of the week. You could sign in at the desk, get a key, go up to the room, and trespass into this kind of alien identity…