Video edited by Alan Kelley. More info, images, etc. of SRL at Under the Big Black Sun (California Art from 1974-1981)

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Anne Hathaway watches Mark Pauline de-manufacture some re-animated animals

October 11, 2011

Click on the link for a bigger version of the image Apparently the de-manufacturing machine is a big draw for celebrities. Back in it’s debut run in 1979 at the Chevron gas station in San Francisco, Karen Finley, RE/Search’s V. Vale, and members of Throbbing Gristle were in the audience! More images, press, videos of [...]

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Under the Big Black Sun: First SRL Machine at LA MOCA This Friday Sept 30 2011

September 29, 2011

Preparations for Under the Big Black Sun are underway. Please note that Mark will be operating the De-Manufacturing machine at the Members Only opening this Friday Sept 30 at LA Moca (the Geffen one). Normally memberships are about $60 (don’t quote us on that) but if you’re with a member you can get into the [...]

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Fish Prop for MOCA Exhibition Featuring 1st SRL Machine

September 25, 2011

Mark Pauline has been busy preparing for the LA MOCA exhibition Under the Big Black Sun with it’s public openingi on October 1. One of the props to be de-manufactured will be a circuit-bended, re-animated fish. This video shows the beginning of the prop-building process: Here is the double dog and chicken prop that we’ll [...]

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SRL in Modern/Contemporary Art

September 5, 2011

Thanks to SRL pal David Pescovitz SRL was BoingBoing’d today. The post is about the SFMOMA groundbreaking in 1992. For those in LA this October, SRL will be making another appearance at another museum. MOCA in LA for Under the Big Black Sun an exhibition showcasing the diversity of significant art from the mid to [...]

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Full video of A Deliberate Evolution of A War Zone (Graz, 1992)

August 24, 2011

Full video of SRL show Deliberate Evolution of a War Zone held at a toilet paper factory in Graz caused the Austrian military to go on high defense alert thinking the Serbs were attacking. This was in 1992 when the Serbs had just recently bombed nearby Vukovar. Note sproinging sound fx thanks to GX Jupiter-Larssen/Haters. [...]

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Re-edit of Carnival of Misplaced Devotion (Seattle, 1990)

August 24, 2011

Mark Pauline has updated another re-edited video from Carnival of Misplaced Devotion: Calculated to Arouse Resentment for the Principles of Order show in Seattle from 1990 in conjunction with COCA. Part of the “Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess” documentary. Directed and edited by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.

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SRL Show at the Shipyard in Berkeley 2001 Video

August 21, 2011

Another fine SRL show in a small enclosed space for extra added intimacy and intensity newly uploaded by Mark Pauline for your viewing pleasure. This was from the show at the Shipyard in Berkeley in 2001. Many thanks to Jim Mason for hosting! Video edited by Alan Kelley from footage by Dave Scardina and others. [...]

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SFMOMA Groundbreaking 1992

August 19, 2011

The SFMOMA groundbreaking in 1992 actually featured SRL but you wont see that in their archives most likely. Downtown SF was shut down for approximately 15 minutes. Video shot and directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo.

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A Million Inconsiderate Experiments

August 19, 2011

Another vintage SRL video this time from the Phoenix show in 1996. Footage from Dave Scardina, edited by Alan Kelley: Part 1: Part 2:

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