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Chair installation
Installation including furniture attached to ceiling, Acconci’s voice on audiotape, projected light. (Foley 1980: 181)
Hand Generated Light
The performance was situated in a room adjacent to the main exhibition space. Attached to the front of the door, the only entrance to the room, was a small light bulb. For the duration of the three-hour show, I was in the room with the door locked…
Sound Piece
Word sound piece installed at Breen’s Bar. (Lewallen in Foley 1980)
I Became a Secret Hippie
The piece began when I took my clothes off, jeans and a t-shirt, and lay on my floor on my back. A friend hammered a star-shaped stud into my sternum. I then sat in a chair and had all my hair cut off. Finally, I dressed in some FBI clothes I had…
Fire Roll
I began the evening watching television, smoking and drinking beer. The other artists were preparing their pieces. People were filling the museum and my activity went almost unnoticed. After about an hour I got up and went around the room turning off…
The Next Governor Lowell Darling: A Fund Raising One Thousand Dollar a Plate Dinner
Lowell Darling is the first performance artists ever to run for govorner of the state of California. In his honor, a fund-raising $1,000-a-plate-dinner was held at the Museum of Conceptual Art. Using a third hand and a pair of cotton lips, saving his…
Pisces
Fox attached string between two fish and the hair on his head and his teeth. He slept in an attempt to dream about the killing of the fish. (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 33)
Cell
Fox created a room permanently installed at MOCA in the form of a memento mori for the series, All Night Sculptures (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 76)
Push Wall
AV: What would you see as your earliest body work?
TF: The Push Wall piece. It was like having a dialogue with the wall, exchanging energy with it. I pushed as hard as I could for about eight or nine minutes, until I was too tired to push anymore. I…
Attica
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