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Lying in a Crib for Three Hours Listening to My Mother Talk About Me As An Infant
For three hours I laid in a baby crib and listened to tapes of my mother talking about me as an infant.It was All Souls Day and our dog Chicken died as I was performing. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
In Death and Birth: A Crib Event [sic], she…
Jury Service
While I was performing as “The Waitress” I was called to serve on a jury. It was she who appeared for JURY DUTY. Once chosen and in the courtroom, wearing all my old clothes, I recognized that all of the participants were performing.…
States of Mine
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The Short Order Cook, Act V, Andy's Donut
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.…
lecture/demonstration
In 1973 at the University Art Museum Berkeley I made a demonstration about intention. I called it “lecture/demonstration” because I meant it to be instructional. I outlined a square area with masking tape on the floor of the museum’s central open…
Adaqtation and Imbulgence, part two, a narration
With this piece I took the idea of indulgence more literally, and created a piece about selfishness, or self-fullness. At that time, in the early Seventies, there was a ot of talk about a certain kind of artist being very self-indulgent, I think you…
Marking the Dilemma
On that evening I created an “Action” called Marking the Dilemma. There is a thing that I build into all my work, a kind of difficulty. I try to disorient myself in some way so as to add a degree of surprise. The event that I did was…
Summer Offensive
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Home Endurance
For a week I stayed at home and sent invitations to friends to visit me. I announced my availability. While at home I documented all thoughts, activities, foods eaten, phone calls. I photographed all visitors. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Fire Roll
I began the evening watching television, smoking and drinking beer. The other artists were preparing their pieces. People were filling the museum and my activity went almost unnoticed. After about an hour I got up and went around the room turning off…