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The Restoration of a Portion of the Black Wall, Ceiling, and Floor of the Main Gallery of the Museum of Conceptual Art
In 1975 I did a show called “Second Generation” with artists who had been students of the artists of my generation. One of the artists [Daryl Sapien] painted a large section of the back wall, ceiling, and floor white to set up a space for…
The Next Governor Lowell Darling: A Fund Raising One Thousand Dollar a Plate Dinner
Lowell Darling is the first performance artists ever to run for govorner of the state of California. In his honor, a fund-raising $1,000-a-plate-dinner was held at the Museum of Conceptual Art. Using a third hand and a pair of cotton lips, saving his…
Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)
Tricycle-Contemporary Recreation
Two performers wearing video camera headmounts and equipped with intercoms create two drawings on two gridded walls within a wedge shaped enclosure. Their markings are guided by a female director on the floor above them. She speaks in a code based on…
Chair installation
Installation including furniture attached to ceiling, Acconci’s voice on audiotape, projected light. (Foley 1980: 181)
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…
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…
Attica
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I Became a Secret Hippie
The piece began when I took my clothes off, jeans and a t-shirt, and lay on my floor on my back. A friend hammered a star-shaped stud into my sternum. I then sat in a chair and had all my hair cut off. Finally, I dressed in some FBI clothes I had…