{"id":6422,"date":"2015-09-06T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2024-03-11T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:45:26","slug":"invitation-public-works-mills-college-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/islais-creek-watershed\/invitation-public-works-mills-college-art-museum","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to PUBLIC WORKS at Mills College Art Museum !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings Friends !<\/p>\n

I am very pleased to invite you, your friends and relations to the opening reception of Public Works – Artists\u2019 Interventions<\/strong> on September 16, 6-8 pm,<\/strong> a group exhibition at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California, curated by Christian Frock and Tanya Zimbardo, and the following week, to my illustrated talk on selected works – Past Present Future – on September 23, 7 pm<\/strong>, in Danforth Hall<\/strong>, adjacent to the Museum.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features Sitting Still l<\/strong><\/em> (pictured on attached pdf announcement) and the Sitting Still Series among other artists’ works. At the time that I created this work (1970), I was exploring the nature of what a performance could be, where it could be, and who could be an audience. With this work, I thought I was simply demonstrating how a seated human figure could easily transform an environment – but as it turns out, I was really doing much, much more.<\/p>\n

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What I learned some years later, is that I was actually facing my future:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sitting Still l<\/em> took place in a neglected garbage area where water had collected due to the construction of the 101 Freeway Interchange at then called, Army & Potrero.\u00a0 Sitting in the overstuffed armchair I found there, I faced the \u201caudience\u201d of people in slow-moving cars, and I also faced:<\/p>\n