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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…
32 Feet per Second per Second
April 26, 1976. San Francisco. Doug Hall and Jody Proctor of T.R. Uthco, a San Francisco art/performance group, sat 60 feet above the pavement in chairs bolted to the masonry wall outside the east windows of the third floor of La Mamelle Gallery on…
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…
A participation piece by Willoughby Sharp Opening the Museum of Conceptual Art
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Exhibition: (H)errata
A collaborative exhibition designed […] to correct the errors and omissions of women in local museum exhibitions (Hershman 1977)
Curator(s): Lynn Hershman Jo Hansen Pat Tavenner
Participants: Judith Barry, Priscilla Birge, Jo Hansen, Robbin…
Exhibition: 16 Rose Street
A building in San Francisco leased by Reese Palley Gallery and given over as studio space to artists such as Sam Richardson, Terry Fox, James Pennuto, Howard Fried, Barney Bailey, and Alex Lambie (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 54)
Reese Palley’s…
Exhibition: A Tight 13 Minutes
13 one minute colour video works
Curator(s): Tom Marioni
Participants: Richard Alpert, Dianne Blell, Kevin Costello, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Mel Henderson, Paul Kos, Stephen Laub, Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert, Masashi Matsumoto, Suzanne Spater, Irv…
Exhibition: All Night Sculpture
In ’73 there was a show at MOCA called All Night Sculptures, probably the most interesting show that happened there. It was very serious. Nine artists designed work for all night viewing: installations that had something to do with nighttime or…
Exhibition: Chinese Youth Alternative
All day exhibition of a floor in the same building as MOCA, which was vandalized by a Chinese youth group. When the group was evicted, Marioni opened the space for exhibition. (Foley 1980: 158)
In 1974 the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, my…