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Exhibition: Edited by Fire
Doug and I are driving back from work, Monday night, drinking beer and talking about art ideas to come, things yet to do. We park in front of Doug’s house, full of enthusiasm and after a visit from the muses, we’ve just had the art idea…
Really, I've Never Done Anything Like This Before, He Said
The main portion of the piece – the “live” portion – was in the rear gallery at Otis. In the middle of the space, Doug Hall and Jody Proctor, naked to the waist, had their heads bound together with string. The men were…
Residency at San Francisco Giants Spring Training Camp in Preparation for Videoape, Game of the Week
Deftly intercutting illusion and reality, Game of the Week is an affectionate look at America's obsession with baseball. As artist-in-residence with the San Francisco Giants, Doug Hall lived out a life-long fantasy of playing Major League baseball.…
32 Feet per Second per Second
April 26, 1976. San Francisco. Doug Hall and Jody Proctor of T.R. Uthco, a San Francisco art/performance group, sat 60 feet above the pavement in chairs bolted to the masonry wall outside the east windows of the third floor of La Mamelle Gallery on…
Social Experiment: The Avant Guard Security
In September 1975 President Gerald Fiord visited San Francisco. A few days before, “Manson Family” member, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme had attempted to assassinate him in Sacramento. For his protection San Francisco organized the…
Walking Mission Street
Meredith Tromble: In the performance Walking Mission Street (1976) you and Jody Proctor traversed the entire eight-mile length of Mission Street in San Francisco, walking in silence. Was the point of that piece to create an inner experience of the…
The Artist-President delivers the keynote address for Media Burn
Kennedy appeared in a long black car with an American flag on each fender. Well-groomed men in dark suits trotted alongside. The car stopped behind the bunting-draped speaker’s platform, and the man introduced as Kennedy bounded up the stairs.…
Media Burn
On 4 July, 1975 members of Ant Farm will drive a Phantom Dream Car through a wall of burning television sets in an event called MEDIA BURN.
MEDIA BURN is not a sensational daredevil stunt, rather it is a way of alleviating the frustration of…
MEDIA BURN is not a sensational daredevil stunt, rather it is a way of alleviating the frustration of…
Songs of the 80s
Based on a series of performances, the five episodes in Songs of the 80's examine themes of displacement, anger and containment. Metaphors for contemporary social and political tensions and the fragility of postmodern culture are realized with…
The Tyrant's Last Dream
The installation has four central elements: a wind machine, an immense red flag, a small platform, which, when stood upon, initiates the wind machine, and two channels of video with audio that is distributed among four monitors. When activated by a…