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David Ireland's House
“It is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so often urged me to write an account of my…
Installation at his house
Bearing an address rather than a title, David Ireland’s major project of the past five years is an endeavor of distinctly personal archeology and architectural preservation. In 1975 Ireland became the third owner of a two-story Victorian house at 500…
Ghost Tower
Beginning at 8:00 PM OCTOBER 27 1978 at the San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Richard Irwin will perform an action taking place in SFAI TOWER. The entire action may be witnessed LIVE via Video on a monitor located inside STUDIO 10 (inside…
Floating Seminar #1/Art as Theory as Art
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…
Floating Seminar #2/A Survey of Alternative Art Spaces in San Francisco
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…
Richmond Glacier
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…
Quid Pro Quo-Process Sculpture
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…
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…
Kidnap Attempt
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…
Fight: A Practical Romance
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…