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Five Habitats for Five Members
A truck load of particle boards was cut up during a week in the space and transformed into five habitats for five members of 80 Langton Street to occupy and use as they saw fit throughout the duration of the installation. The artists were: Suzanne…
The Lady and the Lamb or the Goat and the Hag
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The Perfect Kiss
Byars' works find their source in philosophy and theology rather than visual perception. The artist and poet William Blake once stated, "The eye envies the mind." Byars empathizes with such sentiments. His calculated actions and images serve…
Castle to Castle
A single invitation was sent out telling the receiver to arrive at the Art Institute at a given time and the guard on duty that night would direct the person to the bottom of the stairwell of the tower. The tower is seven stories high and has steep…
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…
A Wall in Venice/3 Women/Wet Shadows: A Performance Landscape
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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…
Elect Lowell Darling Governor: Last Chance to Influence the Candidate and Get a Campaign Button
We drove back to San Francisco for an afternoon cocktail party, and looking back after the events that took place, I would say San Francisco seemed empty […] I was standing alone near Farley’s car, the blue 1951 Studebaker of the future, when two…
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…
Coming and Going: BART
The general public and art community were invited to ride the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) from San Francisco’s Civic Centre to the Berkeley Station. The basic structure of the event encompassed the everyday experiences of the BART commuter: buying…