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Crime in the Streets: A Performance About Survival in the City
This was a street performance depicting a series of violent crimes against innocent and powerless victims. Among the crimes were rape, murder, suicide, and lynching. The city itself was identified as a voracious predator consuming its weakest…
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)
In Transit
Sapien’s wrapped body was suspended for four hours. Passers-by were unaware of identity and form.(Foley 1980: 141)
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)
Traveling Garage Sale
The Traveling Garage Sale was held on Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2, 1977, in La Mamelle’s garage. In keeping with its dual status as both a real sale and an exemplary work, it was advertised locally, in newspapers and papers, as a…
Five Habitats for Five Members
A truck load of particle boards was cut up during a week in the space and transformed into five habitats for five members of 80 Langton Street to occupy and use as they saw fit throughout the duration of the installation. The artists were: Suzanne…
Three Over Par: Structural Additions to Parcourse Fitness Program
The work was sited along the Golden Gate Promenade located in the Golden Gate Recreation Area near the Coast Guard Station at the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s popular with strollers, joggers, and photographers. Already built into this landscape was…
Hospital
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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