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Cry Baby
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)
Cup/Couch
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…
David Ireland's House
“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…
Defoliation Piece
The first performance I did as an art performance was at Berkeley in 1969 [sic], for The Eighties show at the old Berkeley Museum. It was the defoliation of jasmine plants […] It was specifically designed for the people that I knew would be there […]…
Deliberately False Statements:A Combination of Tricks and Illusions Guaranteed to Expose Shrewd Manipulations of Fact
Deliberately False Statements: A Combination of Tricks and Illusions Guaranteed to Expose Shrewd Manipulations of Fact was a totally irresponsible performance that took place at a parking lot in the South-of-Market area of San Francisco. “The…
Diffusion Capsule
Lived in two rooms connected by a small tunnel for several days. Set up different rules for behavior in each space and then attempted to subvert them.(Foley 1980: 145)
Don't Be Chicken Last Rites While Lying in my Own Shell
For three hours each day, lay in a "chicken" bed which had a twelve-foot wingspan, while wearing "chicken" costume. (Foley 1980: 145)
Drum Brush Lecture
I made my first drum brush drawings in 1972 and I continue to make these drawings, which are inspired by the automatic writing of the surrealist movement. The drawings are the result of rubbing and beating with steel wire drum brushes ( like jazz…
Elect Lowell Darling Governor: Last Chance to Influence the Candidate and Get a Campaign Button
We drove back to San Francisco for an afternoon cocktail party, and looking back after the events that took place, I would say San Francisco seemed empty […] I was standing alone near Farley’s car, the blue 1951 Studebaker of the future, when two…
Epidemic of Fear: The Relief of Mass Hysteria Through Expression of Senseless Jungle Hate
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