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13 Searchlights
Set up thirteen searchlights on Market Street and flares from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks: two airplanes flew overhead. (Lewallen 1981: 130)
40 Winks
On December 10, 1971 I staged a piece called 40 Winks for a show of free live performance at the Berkeley Museum. The piece had two parts. The first was a long involved message which was posed as a riddle and delivered by me. It began as I destroyed…
A Circular Route
The performance took place in an empty warehouse approximately 40’ wide, 80’ long and 25’ high. Upon entering the space, you saw concentric circles measuring 25’ in diameter composed of words written in heavy chalk on the floor. The circles were…
A Collaboration between Allan Fish and Tom Marioni
Richard Beggs taped my heartbeat – put it on a loop and with an oscillating machine speeded it up to a 4/4 tempo equil. to a heartbeat at its fastest. the piece was 34 mins. long. first 15 min. was the heartbeat slowing down to a Dead stop. while…
A Cruel and Relentless Plot to Pervert the Flesh of Beasts to Unholy Uses
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…
A Short Excursion into the Bottomless Pit of Everlasting Fire
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…
A Sonorous Monologue
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A ten minute meeting, November 10, 1975, Union Square Between Roberta and B
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A Trance-Formation
For six hours a day and for six days, Nina Wise and I played drums in order to change our consciousness by means of sound. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
A Wall in Venice/3 Women/Wet Shadows: A Performance Landscape
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