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Deliberately False Statements:A Combination of Tricks and Illusions Guaranteed to Expose Shrewd Manipulations of Fact
Deliberately False Statements: A Combination of Tricks and Illusions Guaranteed to Expose Shrewd Manipulations of Fact was a totally irresponsible performance that took place at a parking lot in the South-of-Market area of San Francisco. “The…
Assured Destructive Capability
An omni-directional slash in the face at Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev, to which the Consulate General of Red China was invited. (Survival Research Laboratories 2013)
Bill Edmonson: Not long after Machine Sex, you did a piece called Assured…
Machine Sex
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…
Food For Machines
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:…
Noise, with members of Throbbing Gristle in attendance
An assault on leisure promenades complete with exploding glass. (Pauline 1983)
Useless Mechanical Activity
A running commentary on the psychology of acts of military aggression and their consequences. (Pauline 1983)
An Exhibition of Performance Machinery Guaranteed to Fulfill Your Most Far-Out Entertainment Fantasies
San Francisco Unified School District officials were caught off guard when a Richmond District resident complained that a local Avant-garde show producer showed a pornographic movie at Cabrillo School Saturday night.
Based on an anonymous…
Based on an anonymous…
Terrifying Scenes From the Battlefield of Tomorrow
A mechanical enactment of scenes from the battlefields of tomorrow with Factrix, Monte Cazazza, Tana Emmolo, and Cole Palme. A few short films were also shown including Letters to Dad by Scott and Beth B. (Survival Research Laboratories 2013)
Mysteries of the Reactionary Mind
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…
Night of the Succubus
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…