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Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)
Past, Present, Future Tense
A multi-dimensional performance environment, it is my model for the unconscious, a triptych of simultaneous events separated by time, a metaphor built into a metaphor and then turned in on itself, predicated on the idea that the present is created…
Really, I've Never Done Anything Like This Before, He Said
The main portion of the piece – the “live” portion – was in the rear gallery at Otis. In the middle of the space, Doug Hall and Jody Proctor, naked to the waist, had their heads bound together with string. The men were…
The Sound of Flight
I made my first drum brush drawings in 1972 and I continue to make these drawings, which are inspired by the automatic writing of the surrealist movement. The drawings are the result of rubbing and beating with steel wire drum brushes ( like jazz…
Arrowcatcher
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Hospital
Limited seating lining walls/Reynolds environment scattered throughout the center/3 beds/sawdust floor/handsaw suspended from ceiling/bathtub/scraps of lumber/black medical bags/rollerskates/Venetian blinds/swing music/enter performers/environment…
Waiting
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Residency at San Francisco Giants Spring Training Camp in Preparation for Videoape, Game of the Week
Deftly intercutting illusion and reality, Game of the Week is an affectionate look at America's obsession with baseball. As artist-in-residence with the San Francisco Giants, Doug Hall lived out a life-long fantasy of playing Major League baseball.…
Sylph
This piece took place in a darkened gallery space. Around two of the corners that protrude into the space, there were two green tape lights that circumscribed the 270-degree circular areas on the floor. In the larger circle, the tape light was facing…
Creativity
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