fliers for my performances in late 1977 in the Centrum Gallery at Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.
Attendees entered the gallery to find me lying on banquette playing forty-fives on my little portable mono record box--Willie 'Loco' Alexander [Boston new wave], Brian Eno's "Seven Deadly Finns". The walls were lined with photo documentation of work that intrigued me--Cosey Fanni Tutti from Throbbing Gristle posing as a stripper, Marcel Duchamp's back-of-head with star-shape cut to scalp. Photographs were displayed like art but depicting magazine and book reproductions, and printed with an obvious carelessness, disregard. A group entered the gallery, a bunch of dancers with whom I prearranged the action, and began to discredit the work as dishonest, crap, an insult. They brandished spray cans and started graffiti-ing the photographs, tearing them off the walls. Then, just as quickly, the group and I turned on the audience and yelled them out of the gallery. "The show is over. Get out! You got what you came for!"
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