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SiteWorks: San Francisco performance 1969-85

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“It is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of my rather unique experiences in the wilds have so often urged me to write an account of my…

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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…

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While reading text lamenting the end of the 1970s and the coming of the 1980s Labat rubs his eyes with cut onions. (Labat 2005: 199)

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This was a street performance depicting a series of violent crimes against innocent and powerless victims. Among the crimes were rape, murder, suicide, and lynching. The city itself was identified as a voracious predator consuming its weakest…

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Participants carried one hundred life-size cardboard cows along seventeen pedestrian overpasses of southern freeway approaches into San Francisco. The event was covered by television channels 2, 4, 5 and 7.(Foley 1980: 148)

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Four thousand cardboard cows were placed at intervals along the highway. (Foley 1980: 173)

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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…

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The Farm is a social art work and incorporates the divergent fields of all the arts and literature, education, appropriate technology, community service, public health, the environment, economics, city planning and real estate. It is a vehicle for…
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