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Exhibition: Space/Time/Sound - 1970s: A Decade in the Bay Area
Exhibition documenting performance and installation pieces from past ten years by twenty-one artists, through photo-documentation, installation and videotape. (Foley 1980: 197)
Curator(s): Suzanne Foley
Participants: Tom Marioni, Terry Fox, Paul…
Exhibition: Performance/Art/Artists/Performers
No description available.
Curator(s): Carlos Gutierrez-Solana
Participants: Richard Alpert, Kevin Costello, Linda Montano, Bill Morrison, The Women’s Performance Collective, Darryl Sapien with Michael Hinton, Alan Scarritt, John Woodall,…
Exhibition: Second Generation
This night of performances was a celebration of MOCA’s fifth anniversary and, according to Marioni, the last group exhibition at MOCA. (Foley 1980: 160)
In a wedge-shaped space with large rectangular grids painted on opposing walls, Sapien and…
Exhibition: South of the Slot
South of the Slot was a group show that took place in San Francisco during the months of October and November in 1974. It was a show that was organized by a group of artists as a much needed forum for a particular kind of work.
Organised around a…
Exhibition: Performance Festival 1973
No description available.
Curator(s): San Francisco Art Institute Museum Techniques Class
Participants: Richard Alpert, Stephen Laub, Jim Melchert, Linda Montano, Bonnie Sherk.
Exhibition: 1975-76 Art Institute Annual
The San Francisco Art Institute had an annual exhibition every year that was important to the community because artists curated it. It was called the Art Institute Annual, and it was usually a month-long exhibition. In 1976 it was literally an…
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…
Sylph
This piece took place in a darkened gallery space. Around two of the corners that protrude into the space, there were two green tape lights that circumscribed the 270-degree circular areas on the floor. In the larger circle, the tape light was facing…
Finger
This piece was a static installation. The room was in general darkness except for lights aimed at several areas in the space. An unidentifiable sound could be heard from the rear of the room. The first illuminated area approached upon entering the…
Spent Time/Spent Energy
This piece took place in a store-front place over a period of seven days, at varying times and duration, once each day. One of the two windows was covered, while one was left clear. The piece could be viewed only from the outside. In the clear…