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Shoot 'Em Dead
Mel Henderson paced up and down the large loft with a 30-calibre rifle. He took aim and fired a single shot at a film image of a tiger being projected on a paper covered saw-horse. (Anonymous 1970)
Cows
Participants carried one hundred life-size cardboard cows along seventeen pedestrian overpasses of southern freeway approaches into San Francisco. The event was covered by television channels 2, 4, 5 and 7.(Foley 1980: 148)
Attica
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Sacramento Meditations: Meditations on the Sacramento River, the Delta and the Bays at San Francisco
Performance, Graffiti, Billboards, and Posters. Commissioned by the Floating Museum of San Francisco and exhibited first at the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a three-museum show that also included street posters, billboards and…
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…
The Tyrant's Last Dream
The installation has four central elements: a wind machine, an immense red flag, a small platform, which, when stood upon, initiates the wind machine, and two channels of video with audio that is distributed among four monitors. When activated by a…
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.…
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…
Chevrolet Training Film: the Re-Make
Lord and Philip Garner perform Chevrolet Training Film: The Remake at La Mamelle, San Francisco, and at Some Serious Business, Los Angeles. The live performance (and subsequent videotape) is a restaging of an actual 1962 sales training film.…
Long John Servil vs. Long John Silver
Fried, assisted by crutches, wove his way through the gridded streets of San Francisco from sunset to sunrise as the passive yet happy-go-lucky Long John Silver; then, from sunrise to sunset he portrayed the more willful Long John Servil, carrying a…