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Exhibition: A Tight 13 Minutes
13 one minute colour video works
Curator(s): Tom Marioni
Participants: Richard Alpert, Dianne Blell, Kevin Costello, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Mel Henderson, Paul Kos, Stephen Laub, Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert, Masashi Matsumoto, Suzanne Spater, Irv…
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…
Passages
The corridor at Fort Point is a series of rooms receding into other rooms ending in an undefined dark space.
Waiting in the corner of the dark room, I watch your approaching shadow against the light in the video monitor.
As you pass into the room,…
Waiting in the corner of the dark room, I watch your approaching shadow against the light in the video monitor.
As you pass into the room,…
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.…
Tricycle-Contemporary Recreation
Two performers wearing video camera headmounts and equipped with intercoms create two drawings on two gridded walls within a wedge shaped enclosure. Their markings are guided by a female director on the floor above them. She speaks in a code based on…
Splitting the Axis
Performance Proposal: Splitting the Axis The performance will consist of a single action on a vertical axis at point A on the diagram. Two men will climb a wood pole using metal lineman’s spurs and beginning at the top, thirty five feet above…
A Collaboration between Allan Fish and Tom Marioni
Richard Beggs taped my heartbeat – put it on a loop and with an oscillating machine speeded it up to a 4/4 tempo equil. to a heartbeat at its fastest. the piece was 34 mins. long. first 15 min. was the heartbeat slowing down to a Dead stop. while…
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…