Carp

Concentrate/Break-Up

Artist Michael Brewster
Date Jan. 28-30, 1977
Location San Francisco
Type Performance, Sound

Michael Brewster teamed with Carp Jan. 28-30, 1977, during a site-specific soundwork installed in the 1928 pedestrian tunnel where Taraval Street meets the Lower Great Highway in San Francisco. Visitors approached and departed the beach area through said tunnel, wired by Brewster for sound. The Museum of Conceptual Art also supported the piece.

Related Projects
In his first show on the West Coast, Dennis Oppenheim presented through Carp a sequence of color slides accompanied by audio in the afternoons of April 29-30, 1977.
Gordon Matta-Clark expressed to Carp in 1977 that he wanted to do a major piece in Los Angeles where he would cut through a house prior to its demolition.
In a performance by Alexis Smith in coordination with Carp, Scheherezade the Storyteller delivered a series of readings at Roger Wong's studio in Los Angeles.