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Flagellating Doppler
The performance lasted five hours. During this period I remained in the central ground floor space while De Cristal wandered throughout the open galleries of the museum, playing his jew’s harp, teaching others to play with them, giving them away, and…
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…
552 Steps through 11 Pairs of String
552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings was a performance in my loft in San Francisco in which I stretched 11 pairs of piano wires of 11 different thicknesses across the wooden floor of my studio. These wires were attached to turnbuckles at each and…
Halation
[…] took place in a large empty garage in San Francisco in November 1974. In the dark room I placed two candles bent into semi-circles on the floor to form a circle. Each candle was lit at one end so as to form double flames always burning…
Opening My Hand as Slowly as Possible
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Asbestos Tracking
It took up the whole length of the room. I put my shoes in a pan of asbestos at one end and made there parallel tracks along the floor. The first was running. No, not running. Shuffling and skipping. Dragging, shuffling, and skipping. Shuffling was…
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)
Corner Push
The Wall Push 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 any more. I used to park my car every day in that alley and I…