R/S: What was a specific idea of your Fort Mason performance?
MARK: Specifically Mysteries of the Reactionary Mind: an exploration of the mechanics underlying reactionary thought. Everyone likes to think they have specific ideas about things like…
MARK: Well, if things that are dead make people feel funny, then what are people going to think if they see things that are definitely dead, but are moving around and look like they're alive? When we first made the little robot for the Night of The…
San Francisco’s locals were grimly amused after experiencing Mark Pauline’s explosive media extravaganza performed at June 26th [sic] at the Cadillac Parking lot on Van Ness […] “Trash and Delete Giant Robots” was the theme of this brilliant…
An Unfortunate Spectacle of Violent Self-Destruction was more intense, and very, very, dangerous. Besides using a lot of different machines, I employed a wide variety of weapons, and the most extreme array of explosives I could think of, or at least…
SRL machine operators ride through flaming tubs of gasoline, detonate bombs attached to their bodies, fire hand-held Flamethowers as a robot fuck machine with an expanding and deflating rubber head mates with a huge black bag in its flaming pen. A…
A parable of re-animated flesh, highlighted with fires of varying origin. Our most technically advanced show yet. Featuring a wide range of iconoclastic imagery: the huge Billy Graham robot, real robotized mummies, a military-type CO2 laser, a Mobile…
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…
Machine Sex was done at a Chevron gas station, shortly after an OPEC price rise. I had built this de-manufacturing machine that was like a giant food processor, called The Shredder, It was made out of a big triangular shaped drum, with a plexi-gears…