Labat became a licensed boxer in the State of California for the period of one year. The project culminated in a debut bout within an evening card of professional boxing. A video P.O.V. (Point of View), documents the project. (Labat 2005: 199)
Installation steel wires, coffee grounds, drum machine, and red spotlight, dimensions variable […] Steel wire stretches taught at ankle height (tripping device) around 4 posts with a red light projected in the centre, seducing viewers to an…
On 17 July 1980, I received a letter from a man named Tom Chapman, challenging me to a fight, to be determined by standard (California) boxing procedures, saying that “it would not be fun” and “the best illusion is no illusion.” HA! What a joke. I…
Lowell Darling, the artist, was running for governor of California in 1978. I think it’s important to mention that Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was running for mayor of San Francisco in 1978. I grew up with strong political beliefs, and…
It consisted of two twenty-five-pound blocks of ice set side by side on the museum floor, and surrounded in a tight circle by eleven state-of-the-art, tremendously sensitive standing boom microphones.
These were fed into an immense amplifier system…
Remove the object in art, or so de-objectify it that the passing of money between patron and artist becomes the art. Process becomes art. Patron becomes artist. Artist becomes patron. Banks become museums. [...] 1. Cut out above check. 2. Fill in…
For his first one person show, Kos placed seven thousand pounds of ice in front of the gallery entrance. The Fire Department declared it a hazard and broke it up to melt it faster. (Anonymous 1971: 6)
Picture this: over a two-hour span on a hot…
This is Floating seminar #2, A Survey of Alternative Art Spaces. First of all I think I’d better define what we mean by “alternative art space,” because we don’t want any confusion (about that). We had a group discussion about…
In order to promote communication in the Bay Area art community and to provide an informal public situation for airing opinions about various issues, I propose to organize a “Floating Seminar” series. The program is designed to supplement the vast…