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A Circular Route
The performance took place in an empty warehouse approximately 40’ wide, 80’ long and 25’ high. Upon entering the space, you saw concentric circles measuring 25’ in diameter composed of words written in heavy chalk on the floor. The circles were…
The Artist-President delivers the keynote address for Media Burn
Kennedy appeared in a long black car with an American flag on each fender. Well-groomed men in dark suits trotted alongside. The car stopped behind the bunting-draped speaker’s platform, and the man introduced as Kennedy bounded up the stairs.…
TV Radiation Survey
Color television sets may be dangerous to your health.
On July 25, 1975, Ant Farm (Curtis Schreler, Chip Lord and Doug Michels) accompanied by Dr. Rlin Finston, Senior Health Physicist of Stanford University’s Health Physics Office, made random…
On July 25, 1975, Ant Farm (Curtis Schreler, Chip Lord and Doug Michels) accompanied by Dr. Rlin Finston, Senior Health Physicist of Stanford University’s Health Physics Office, made random…
Media Burn
On 4 July, 1975 members of Ant Farm will drive a Phantom Dream Car through a wall of burning television sets in an event called MEDIA BURN.
MEDIA BURN is not a sensational daredevil stunt, rather it is a way of alleviating the frustration of…
MEDIA BURN is not a sensational daredevil stunt, rather it is a way of alleviating the frustration of…
The Ballerina and the Bum
In The Ballerina and the Bum, 1974, a movie that Antin shot on videotape because it was more affordable than film, our romantic young waif of a heroin is, in Antin’s words, “a would-be ballerina from the sticks, who plans to walk across…
King's Meditation
The King came first, when I wanted to see what my male self would be like, who he would be. And I realized my bearded self was a king – a dead ringer for Charlie One – and kings must have a country, a kingdom – even if a lost one. He became my…
Ballerina
Antin’s second major persona was her idealized female self: the Ballerina – a nameless iconic figure, the mere image of a dancer. In a sequence of photographs the Ballerina assumes the idealized positions of the classical ballet and executes…
Past, Present, Future Tense
A multi-dimensional performance environment, it is my model for the unconscious, a triptych of simultaneous events separated by time, a metaphor built into a metaphor and then turned in on itself, predicated on the idea that the present is created…
Cup/Couch
Cup/Couch explores the difference between “telling an event” and :”doing an event,” using cups and couches to explicate this process in 20 scenes, each set up to exhibit by example, a variety of current linguistic practices for getting at this…
Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)