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Rose Mountain Walking Club
I formed a walking club, sent out announcements and gave tours of San Francisco. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Roberta Look Alike Contest
Roberta Breitmore is a portrait of a woman in San Francisco: a collage of a person experiencing her environment. She is a contemporary heroine fashioned from real life and in real time. Her social identities – checkbook, licenses, handwriting and…
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…
Red Sunday
Performance with Karen Finley involving the manipulation and destruction of props which ends when all the props are destroyed. (Labat 2005: 198)
Red Nail
Labat nails a long pinky fingernail to the floor of the museum, tearing it off and leaving it behind. (Labat 2005: 198)
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp Street
The first work that honored his identification of the ordinary as an idea for art was the repair of the sidewalk outside 500 Capp Street in 1976. His preparation of the site, mixing and pouring of concrete, and subsequent restoration of the sidewalk…
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…
Re: Forming Familiar Environments
The piece took place in Eleanor Coppola’s home. Two museums wanted us to do something in her house and we just decided that instead of giving the a tour we would turn the entire house into a game board. So we used the floor plan as a kind of…
R-Byte ist wurst den R-B-Art (deep logic, nocturne, apollo jest)
Nocturne III will be a hybrid of several early performances – Nocturne I & II, which uses quadraphonic snoring to chorus the reading of exotic “dreams,” Ancestral Rotation, which is a personal tribute to my grandfather as on of…
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…