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SiteWorks: San Francisco performance 1969-85

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A twelve-hour event consisting of three actions repeated once every hour by the participants.

Each action:
Sitting - 1/2 hour
Walking - 15 minutes
Singing Past Guilts -15 minutes

These were performed in unison. The first two actions,…

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In conjunction with 80 Langton Street’s outdoor month, I installed a series of sidewalk drawings in tempera and powdered pigments. These “drawings,” created specifically for the corner of Folsom and Langton Streets were extended and modified weekly…

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An assault on leisure promenades complete with exploding glass. (Pauline 1983)

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Taking place amongst the ruins of a demolished amusement park this three part performance drew a portrait of the artist at three crucial stages of development. The learning stage where the artist masters his skills, the middle period of hard work and…

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Breen’s Bar, Salon of MOCA, the site of Marioni’s Café Society, where on Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m. artists would meet and exchange ideas and energy. Beer was free. Marioni’s “concept of Café Society is drunken…

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We completed a series of experimental light sculptures in the late ’70s that engaged the intersection between water and air. Our interest lay in the relationship between the dynamics of these two liquid forms. Tides, currents, and waves on one side…

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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 his first one person show, Kos placed seven thousand pounds of ice in front of the gallery entrance. The Fire Department declared it a hazard and broke it up to melt it faster. (Anonymous 1971: 6) Picture this: over a two-hour span on a hot…

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Henderson […] with Hawley and Young, brought attention to a massive oil spill that had taken place on January 29, 1969, along the Santa Barbara coast: the artists spelled out the word oil in biodegradable dye five times in San Francisco Bay off the…
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