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Sitting Still II
In a series of performance entitled Sitting Still, Sherk created eloquent images of solitude, speaking to her viewers through the sheer power of her presence and sensitizing them to the particular site chosen for each work. This series took place in…
Sky and Water, Fort Point
We completed a series of experimental light sculptures in the late ’70s that engaged the intersection between water and air. Our interest lay in the relationship between the dynamics of these two liquid forms. Tides, currents, and waves on one side…
Slide Lecture
Acconci presented extensive slide recapitulations of his installation work of this decade, which have not involved his in-person participation. He stated that he felt his presence restricted the nature of his older pieces, and he felt the need to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)
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…
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…