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SiteWorks: San Francisco performance 1969-85

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The second one was Food for Machines done in United Nations Plaza. The machines tore up and mutilated food. All kinds of food. It all got wasted. There was a big mess we didn’t even clean up. I forged permission to do that. (Cazzaza and Emolo 1980:…

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For three days I talked to everyone who went by my garage. I was there from nine am to five pm. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)

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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…

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An electric gyroscope winds up to its maximum rpm, and with its rotor whirring, slowly winds down. A drawing device, made up of a free swinging metal batten attached to a spindle that holds graphite, is spun as fast as it can be made to go. The sound…

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[…] took place in a large empty garage in San Francisco in November 1974. In the dark room I placed two candles bent into semi-circles on the floor to form a circle. Each candle was lit at one end so as to form double flames always burning…

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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…

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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…

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For a week I stayed at home and sent invitations to friends to visit me. I announced my availability. While at home I documented all thoughts, activities, foods eaten, phone calls. I photographed all visitors. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)

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Limited seating lining walls/Reynolds environment scattered throughout the center/3 beds/sawdust floor/handsaw suspended from ceiling/bathtub/scraps of lumber/black medical bags/rollerskates/Venetian blinds/swing music/enter performers/environment…

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House of Cars was an “apartment complex” consisting of four car bodies transformed into monochromatic housing modules. The cars are stacked so that the viewer can move from one interior to the others. One bottom car has a stairway leading to a car on…
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