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ALLMYDIRTYBLUECLOTHES
Fried arranged the clothes on the floor and marked the symbols on the wall in a carefully reasoned sequence […] In summing up his description of the work “Allmydirtyblueclothes” Howard Fried also stated:…
40 Winks
On December 10, 1971 I staged a piece called 40 Winks for a show of free live performance at the Berkeley Museum. The piece had two parts. The first was a long involved message which was posed as a riddle and delivered by me. It began as I destroyed…
Synchromatic Baseball
Howard Fried's Synchromatic Baseball was performed one night in 1971 on a San Francisco rooftop. Fried selected the Dommy and Indo teams from among his friends and acquaintances according to whether they assumed dominant or "indominant" roles in…
Which Hunt
Maze-like environment for participants dealing with frustration and anger. (Foley 1980: 144)
The Return of the Agrarian Society
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Push Wall
AV: What would you see as your earliest body work?
TF: The Push Wall piece. It was like having a dialogue with the wall, exchanging energy with it. I pushed as hard as I could for about eight or nine minutes, until I was too tired to push anymore. I…
Yellow Duck and Tonka Beans
This performance was done in a small room illuminated only by the glow from the spiral coil of a hot plate. For a period of one hour, Nina Wise spun in circles with small battery powered lights attached to her wrists as I walked in large circles…
Public Theater #3: What Do Blindmen Dream?
In Public Theater #3: What do Blind Men Dream, Fox arranged for two blind street musicians who sang at the same downtown San Francisco corner every evening to appear instead at the corner of Union and Buchanan Streets and mailed invitations to the…
Blind Forces
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Cell
Fox created a room permanently installed at MOCA in the form of a memento mori for the series, All Night Sculptures (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 76)