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IRONIC (w/Jakub Kalousek) Goodman 2, San Francisco CA 2011 This was the first of a series of competitions between Jakub and me for the title of World Champion. The "court" is an ironing board with ping pong net, and our 'rackets" are working, plu
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CHANGE San Francisco CA 2009 Just stood for an hour at a time with various signs at various sites in San Francisco, usually freeway off-ramps. These photos were taken on New Montgomery Street.
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ACTION IS INEFFABLE The Lab, San Francisco, CA 10/5/2001 I don't remember a lot about this one. It was probably short and probably part of an evening having something to do with 9/11. I know I burned a small USA flag and prototyped the attaching
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UP LATE WITH BILL & HILLARY (The Washington Hillbillaries Part 2) (w/Lise Swenson, Mingo 2000 & many others) Media Screening Room, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, 5/6/94 In the Spring of 1994, their popularity sinking
THE DREAMS OF ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN Part 2: WATER Devín Castle, near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 10/12/91 The rescue of Mark Steger from the cliff tower by Gulko and the Dutch cameramen was obviously to tough an act to follow, but I still reall
It was my simple intention to cross the pond (see red arrow representing my path) leaving a line of small fires. For me the piece referred to Wallenstein's conversions from one religion to another and back again, to the violence left (in the wake of
THE DREAMS OF ALBRECHT VON WALLENSTEIN: Part 3: BURIAL (with Shannon McMurchie & Mim Tewkesbury, aka Knee-Jerk Dance Project Stalin Monument, Prague, Czechoslovakia 10/20/91 In Plzeň, Shannon and Mim and I had liked each other’s work so much
THIS COMMEMORATION (w/Raegan Kelly) New Langton Arts, San Francisco CA 11/30/89
ROAD KILL (w/Margaret Crane) Artists Television Access, SF, 2/10/89 The story of a brother and sister (who are also lovers) who steal cars and kill people for pleasure. There was a lot of touching the audience, a lot of implied threats, a lot of
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HEIMLICH MANEUVERS Artists Television Access, SF, 1/6/89 Reckless shaving, go-go dancers and a western swing band. With Michele Simmerer, Roni Bowen, Steven Strauss and others.
MR. PHONEHEAD Komotion, San Francisco CA 12/19/87 Mr. Phonehead was a very very busy man. This one got a lot of laughs.
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BALLOONHEAD Artists Television Access, San Francisco CA 10/25/87 This was a nice, tight little performance in the basement of ATA. Character A would speak for awhile, turn the light off, and when the light came on two seconds later Character B wa
NECROMANCY (w/Michelle Soleau) Student Union Art Gallery, SF State University, 10/7/83 This was the first attempt at an evening length performance sort of built around the story of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. More like a staged reading at this
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BOOK BURN Clarion Café, San Francisco CA 9/25/83 I read my work from a burning copy of Violent Milk until the flames were burning my fingers.
THE MUMMY'S CURSE (w/Amy Elliott) Tattoo Rose Cafe, San Francisco CA 4/13/83 I wrapped poor Amy up like a mummy. First I read a long monologue about exploring Hatshepsut's tomb, then Amy briefly became possessed by the ghost of Hatshepsut. These
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