Photo by Chris Bishop 
Photo by Polly Eltes 
Photo by Anne Bean 
Photo by Chris Bishop 
Photo by Chris Bishop | Butlers Wharf (1976-1979) |
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I put on many events in and around my studio in Butler’s Wharf and was involved in numerous collaborations and improvised sound sessions (see PULp Music and Bongo Fury). For one of my solo actions, I looked into each person’s eye and asked various improvised questions based on what I sensed from them, all beginning : Are you the one? Are you the one who thinks we are in touch? Are you the one who thinks this is uncomfortable? Are you the one who senses my own misgivings? Are you the one who wishes you hadn’t come? Are you the one who isn’t sure what this is? Are you the one whose mind is meandering? Are you the one having paradoxical sensations? Are you the one who is unable to meet my eyes? I also experimented with projection surfaces such as throwing talcum powder to ‘catch’ drifting images as well as smoke and steam to project images such as my head singing underwater. The vast roof space was used for several films and performances including Nude Ascending a Staircase (Duchamp meets Matisse) and a collaboration with Harald Uccello, Under the Bamboo Tree, which used the rhythmic language of T.S. Eliot’s Sweeney Agonistes : One live as two Two live as three Under the bam Under the boo Under the bamboo tree Where the breadfruit fall And the penguin call And the sound is the sound of the sea Under the bam Under the boo Under the bamboo tree |
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