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Outcalls/Riptides
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Public Lunch
With Public Lunch, which took place in the Lion House at the San Francisco Zoo, there were other concerns that developed. The piece was conceived, actually, in the Central Park Zoo. I had been invited to New York by Madamoiselle Magazine because they…
40 Winks
On December 10, 1971 I staged a piece called 40 Winks for a show of free live performance at the Berkeley Museum. The piece had two parts. The first was a long involved message which was posed as a riddle and delivered by me. It began as I destroyed…
Sculpture in Three Parts
I sat on a small metal stool placed on a sculpture stand directly in front of the gallery entrance, an elevated door. A sign on the stand read "Sculpture in Three Parts. I will sit on this chair from 10.30am 9/10/74 until I fall off." About ten feet…
Great Moments
Great Moments by T.R. Uthco […] is their ironic, parodic, at times almost slapstick “revue” of performance art in general, the trademarked moves and strategies of its better-known practitioners in particular.
Nearly every major…
Composition in D
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Hand Generated Light
The performance was situated in a room adjacent to the main exhibition space. Attached to the front of the door, the only entrance to the room, was a small light bulb. For the duration of the three-hour show, I was in the room with the door locked…
Feed Me
There was a room in MOCA that had been a ladies’ lounge when the space had been a printing company before I moved in. It was a little room where the women employees would rest or smoke or put on makeup. Barbara Smith chose that room and set it up for…
Handcuff: Linda Montano and Tom Marioni
For three days Tom Marioni and I were handcuffed together. For ten minutes each day we made a video document of the event. The time together became a study in movement and mutual signaling.(Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
Linda Montano came to me…
Allan Fish Drinks a Case of Beer
In 1969 I had to have a way of exhibiting because I felt like exhibiting. It was too politically complicated to try to exhibit my work and be a curator at the same time for a combination of reasons which are probably obvious. So I had to exhibit…