Projects 1979
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Exhibition Space: Sidney Bienale, alternative space
Performance - Installation
Medium: 50,000 sharpened pencils
Duration: 30 minutes
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Performance: "Human Canvas"
Exhibition Space: Brisbane Art School, Brisbane, Australia, August 1979
Medium: Artist's nude body, five electric drills, 1,00 felt pens, chalk, crayons, color and graphite pencils.
Duration: Approximately one hour.
Documented: Color slides and video.
Description: student audience was invited to draw on artist's body for one minute in various media with drills. Performance resulted in court appearance and а charge of obscenity. Dean and five proffesors were forced to resign. Artist was exonerated.
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Performance: "Electronic pencils XII"
Exhibition Space: Adelaide Festival Centre Galery, 1979
Medium: Myself, 5 electric drills, 4 planers, 80.000 pencils, З photo enlargements 7' x 4' of Australian Prime Ministar Malcolm Fraser, opposition leader Bill Hyden and President of A.C.T.U. (Union) in the space of 5 x 5 x 3 meters.
Duration: 12 minutes
Documentation: Photographs, slides, video and film (Super S).
Description: Before Performance pencil structures have been balanced (this takes ten hours and five people).
I am buried with pencils after which I arise slowly. I am destroying pencil structures with electric planer and then slashing photographs with electric planer.
Performance and installation have seen 7200 people.