I still remember the night back in the late 1980's, when I was at the corner of 16th and Valencia in San Francisco (more than a little drunk), and this flatbed truck pulls up with what appeared to be a WWII V1 buzz bomb jet engine on it. And the damn thing lit up and emitted this horrendous sound and a huge tongue of flame. I thought - 'Well, damn, you don't see that every day!'
Turned out that it was Mark Pauline and his Survival Research Laboratories, fracturing a few more fire, health and safety laws. I think that one was advertising his 'Illusions of Shameless Abundance' show held under an overpass in San Francisco in 1989. They were all kind of underground word-of-mouth deals.
Here's the 'Doom' Show, Pier 70 San Francisco 1994. A dystopian vision of the future. This one's my favorite, I think,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM
He 'performed' (or his robots did) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Ground Breaking Show (until the police and fire departments busted him). Despite its recognition in the art world, SRL is now banned from San Francisco. Not sure how active it is any more.
Art on the edge.
Turned out that it was Mark Pauline and his Survival Research Laboratories, fracturing a few more fire, health and safety laws. I think that one was advertising his 'Illusions of Shameless Abundance' show held under an overpass in San Francisco in 1989. They were all kind of underground word-of-mouth deals.
Here's the 'Doom' Show, Pier 70 San Francisco 1994. A dystopian vision of the future. This one's my favorite, I think,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM
He 'performed' (or his robots did) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Ground Breaking Show (until the police and fire departments busted him). Despite its recognition in the art world, SRL is now banned from San Francisco. Not sure how active it is any more.
Art on the edge.