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The Return of the Agrarian Society
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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…
Yellow Cabs
Henderson arranged for one hundred Yellow Cabs to converge at a major intersection simultaneously, creating a traffic jam. Event was photographed, videotaped, and filmed from the ground, helicopter, and heliocourier.(Lewallen 1981: 131)
Oil
Henderson […] with Hawley and Young, brought attention to a massive oil spill that had taken place on January 29, 1969, along the Santa Barbara coast: the artists spelled out the word oil in biodegradable dye five times in San Francisco Bay off the…
Richmond Glacier
For his first one person show, Kos placed seven thousand pounds of ice in front of the gallery entrance. The Fire Department declared it a hazard and broke it up to melt it faster. (Anonymous 1971: 6)
Picture this: over a two-hour span on a hot…
Food For Machines
The second one was Food for Machines done in United Nations Plaza. The machines tore up and mutilated food. All kinds of food. It all got wasted. There was a big mess we didn’t even clean up. I forged permission to do that. (Cazzaza and Emolo 1980:…
Sky and Water, Fort Point
We completed a series of experimental light sculptures in the late ’70s that engaged the intersection between water and air. Our interest lay in the relationship between the dynamics of these two liquid forms. Tides, currents, and waves on one side…
Café Society
Breen’s Bar, Salon of MOCA, the site of Marioni’s Café Society, where on Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m. artists would meet and exchange ideas and energy. Beer was free. Marioni’s “concept of Café Society is drunken…
Portrait of the Artist X 3
Taking place amongst the ruins of a demolished amusement park this three part performance drew a portrait of the artist at three crucial stages of development. The learning stage where the artist masters his skills, the middle period of hard work and…
Noise, with members of Throbbing Gristle in attendance
An assault on leisure promenades complete with exploding glass. (Pauline 1983)