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The Dante Hotel
Lynn Hershman: I think that was the first interesting thing I did. I just set up a hotel room you could go 24 hours a day, any day of the week. You could sign in at the desk, get a key, go up to the room, and trespass into this kind of alien identity…
Cow Line
Four thousand cardboard cows were placed at intervals along the highway. (Foley 1980: 173)
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)
Pretending to Be a Gargoyle
For the series All Night Sculptures, Sherk occupied a rooftop and assumed the attitude of a gargoyle while looking down. (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 75)
Pig Sonata
The pig, who had come from Half Moon Bay, was in the corner of the room, covered up, and no one knew that she was there. It was a very formal piece. I was dressed in an evening gown, and began the performance with an assistant, by emptying brown…
Synchromatic Baseball
Howard Fried's Synchromatic Baseball was performed one night in 1971 on a San Francisco rooftop. Fried selected the Dommy and Indo teams from among his friends and acquaintances according to whether they assumed dominant or "indominant" roles in…
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…
Pisces
Fox attached string between two fish and the hair on his head and his teeth. He slept in an attempt to dream about the killing of the fish. (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 33)
Portable Park II
The second site of the Portable Park […] was on two concrete islands underneath a freeway off-ramp. For this site there were more cows and also chickens involved, picnic tables, and bales of straw. It was a participatory piece for many…
The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
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…