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Street Virus
In conjunction with 80 Langton Street’s outdoor month, I installed a series of sidewalk drawings in tempera and powdered pigments. These “drawings,” created specifically for the corner of Folsom and Langton Streets were extended and modified weekly…
States of Mine
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Splitting the Axis
Performance Proposal: Splitting the Axis The performance will consist of a single action on a vertical axis at point A on the diagram. Two men will climb a wood pole using metal lineman’s spurs and beginning at the top, thirty five feet above…
Split-Man Bisects the Pacific
Split Man Bisects the Pacific seemed an epic reenactment of some forgotten myth or legend. It took place on a foggy night at the bottom of the “Lands End” cliffs west of the Golden Gate. There Sapien had built a white wooden wheel nine…
Spent Time/Spent Energy
This piece took place in a store-front place over a period of seven days, at varying times and duration, once each day. One of the two windows was covered, while one was left clear. The piece could be viewed only from the outside. In the clear…
Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)
Sound of Ice Melting
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…
Songs of the 80s
Based on a series of performances, the five episodes in Songs of the 80's examine themes of displacement, anger and containment. Metaphors for contemporary social and political tensions and the fragility of postmodern culture are realized with…
Social Experiment: The Avant Guard Security
In September 1975 President Gerald Fiord visited San Francisco. A few days before, “Manson Family” member, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme had attempted to assassinate him in Sacramento. For his protection San Francisco organized the…
Snowjob
The San Francisco Museum of Art invited me to do a series for them, and I decided to create a Snowjobwhich would relate to the whole city as well as the Museum. For that piece, I brought 6,000 pounds of snow into the City and placed piles in the…