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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…
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…
Outcalls/Riptides
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Tree
There would be a central image and theme of a tree. The visitor would walk through or around a variety of images and sequences of threes (sic) and find a set of instructions which direct him/her to a nearby site at the end of the interior tour. When…
Artists at Work
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Epidemic of Fear: The Relief of Mass Hysteria Through Expression of Senseless Jungle Hate
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The Tyrant's Last Dream
The installation has four central elements: a wind machine, an immense red flag, a small platform, which, when stood upon, initiates the wind machine, and two channels of video with audio that is distributed among four monitors. When activated by a…
Survival Research Laboratories Views with Regret: The Unrestrained Use of Excessive Force
This live event featured all new equipment, of an even more massive scale than previous SRL works, including the debut of the 30-foot-long Stairway to Hell and a bevy of numerous male robots. Also appearing was the Autonomous Crazy Machine, a ramming…
Polytox Park
Poloytox Park was a satirical tribute to the forces of urban blight and chemical poisons, featuring a mock toxic waste dump, and rats, a lizard and a dog cast from cement, all amid artificial, imported debris. (Pritkin and Searcy 1983: 63)
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Nancy Rubins constructed a twenty-five-foot high metal sculpture consisting of sections of vintage automobile trailers suspended from a metal frame. (Pritkin and Searcy 1983: 62)