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Esteish Fright (Stage Fright)
Installation steel wires, coffee grounds, drum machine, and red spotlight, dimensions variable […] Steel wire stretches taught at ankle height (tripping device) around 4 posts with a red light projected in the centre, seducing viewers to an…
The Museum of Conceptual Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
For a period of 6 weeks, aspects of the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), will be located at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Two rooms will be presented – one, a re-created MOCA environment which invites participation; another is a…
Jump
During office working hours, I drove around San Francisco’s high-rise financial district. (Bustos 1979: 59)
Windows
The piece took place inside the display windows of the J.C. Penny building, downtown San Francisco, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The audience was anyone who happened to be walking by on the street.
I painted the windows black on the inside. About…
I painted the windows black on the inside. About…
Machine Sex
Machine Sex was done at a Chevron gas station, shortly after an OPEC price rise. I had built this de-manufacturing machine that was like a giant food processor, called The Shredder, It was made out of a big triangular shaped drum, with a plexi-gears…
Assured Destructive Capability
An omni-directional slash in the face at Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, to which the Consulate General of Red China was invited. (Survival Research Laboratories 2013)
Bill Edmonson: Not long after Machine Sex, you did a piece called Assured…
Killing a Painting
Scene: The painting “Self-portrait as Pigpen” is wedged into an area between two buildings. It is fairly dark. Over the face in the painting is a white handkerchief. On the ground in front of the painting are two brushes, a jar of…
The Waitress, Act V, Andy's Donuts
As The Waitress I was a gregarious self and also an archetype. "Waitress" with a bouffant hairdo who wore a black and white nylon dress. As the "Short Order Cook" I also dressed and behaved appropriately. (Burnham and Sherk 1981: 66)
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…
OH, A BEAR!
The performance work of De Cointet (with Mary Ann Duganne, Monica Tenner, and Jane Zingale), involved props and spoken texts. The rehearsed texts are memorized or read, but always acted out in a dramatic fashion, borrowing form the theatre some of…