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Exhibition: The Motel Tapes
Five tapes created specifically to be shown during breaks between the usual showing of X-rated tapes in the motel rooms. Opening night screening of all tapes at the lounge of the Caravan Lodge for the art community. Subsequent screenings in he motel…
Cry Baby
While reading text lamenting the end of the 1970s and the coming of the 1980s Labat rubs his eyes with cut onions. (Labat 2005: 199)
Red Nail
Labat nails a long pinky fingernail to the floor of the museum, tearing it off and leaving it behind. (Labat 2005: 198)
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
I was looking at the way the first generation of video and performance artists in California treated the body, and then…
Terminal Gym
Labat became a licensed boxer in the State of California for the period of one year. The project culminated in a debut bout within an evening card of professional boxing. A video P.O.V. (Point of View), documents the project. (Labat 2005: 199)
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Red Sunday
Performance with Karen Finley involving the manipulation and destruction of props which ends when all the props are destroyed. (Labat 2005: 198)
Esteish Fright (Stage Fright)
Installation steel wires, coffee grounds, drum machine, and red spotlight, dimensions variable […] Steel wire stretches taught at ankle height (tripping device) around 4 posts with a red light projected in the centre, seducing viewers to an…
Kidnap Attempt
Lowell Darling, the artist, was running for governor of California in 1978. I think it’s important to mention that Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys was running for mayor of San Francisco in 1978. I grew up with strong political beliefs, and…
Elect Lowell Darling Governor: Last Chance to Influence the Candidate and Get a Campaign Button
We drove back to San Francisco for an afternoon cocktail party, and looking back after the events that took place, I would say San Francisco seemed empty […] I was standing alone near Farley’s car, the blue 1951 Studebaker of the future, when two…
Fight: A Practical Romance
On 17 July 1980, I received a letter from a man named Tom Chapman, challenging me to a fight, to be determined by standard (California) boxing procedures, saying that “it would not be fun” and “the best illusion is no illusion.” HA! What a joke. I…