1/5/1979 New York
Smash a mirror, letting the pieces fall where they
may. The fractured mirror still functions.
Multidimensionally; reflecting different perspectives
of the subject involved. As an example of this very
principal, Jupitter-Larsen smashed up several video
cassettes by hitting them repeatedly with a video
camera. The fractured videos still radiated images.
Not by television, but by entropy. Staged at a small
gallery, this premiere performance lasted 18 minutes.
Entitled "Alluring". (#1)
1/5/1980 San Francisco
For 28 minutes, this solo performance consisted of
Jupitter-Larsen cutting up a film. With a pair of
amplified scissors. While the film was being
projected. With their backs to the screen, the
audience was seated facing the projector. The film in
this performance was the blinding light of the
projector; with the soundtrack being the amplified
cutting of cellulose. This film about entropy was
entitled "A Film By Jupitter-Larsen". This performance
was entitled "A Film By Jupitter-Larsen". (#2)
2/11/1982 Milan
While walking the city streets GX Jupitter-Larsen counted the number of
garbage-cans he saw. He counted 22. Inherent poetry;
inherent theatre. For if the mind and matter are
unconnected, then the act of doing anything is the
mind measuring or counting the involuntary motions of
the body. Entitled "Ictanea All Nyrris", this
performance lasted 3 hours. (#5)
4/11/1982 Pescara
In the centre of an enclosed piazza, a hundred people
showed up to watch GX Jupitter-Larsen tear up large
sheets of paper. This solo performance lasted 15
minutes. Entitled "Teeaarrr". (#6)
7/11/1982 Bergamo
There are those occasions in which potential arrives
in the form of a delay. There are those occasions in
which potential happens before it occurs. An occasion
that illustrates both these points happened in a small
gallery full of on-lookers. GX Jupitter-Larsen sat still
and looked at the dust on the floor. Entitled
"Observing Dust", this solo performance lasted 25
minutes. (#7)
10/11/1982 Kassel
In the company of a few, GX Jupitter-Larsen sat still and
looked at the dust on the floor of a friend's house.
Entitled "Observing Dust", this solo performance
lasted 15 minutes. (#8)
30/11/1982 Amsterdam
At a friends home, GX Jupitter-Larsen got a tattoo of
nothing on his right arm. The tattooist used needles
empty of any ink. Performance lasted 10 minutes.
Entitled "Tattoo of Nothing". (#9)
30/11/1983 Dallas
Nothingness is any substance which is neither abstract
or concrete. So as a means of touching nothingness,
GX Jupitter-Larsen did a solo performance at a gallery by
not showing up for the event. The posters for this
event made it clear why the performer wouldn't be
showing up. Out of a curiosity for such a thing, a
large audience did appear. And what they experienced
was an empty silent stage. Untitled. (#14)
1/12/1983 Rosenheim
GX Jupitter-Larsen did a solo performance by not showing
up for the event. Untitled. (#15)
30/11/1985 San Francisco
GX Jupitter-Larsen did a solo performance by not showing
up for the event. Untitled. (#21)
5/4/1986 Denver
Two performances. The first consisted of the sounds of
laughter being amplified from an open-reel tape deck.
There was no pick-up reel. So as the tape ran onto the
floor, GX Jupitter-Larsen would pick it up and use it to
tie up the three seated persons next to him. Whereas a
multidimensional joke consist of unaccompanied
laughter, this 12 minute performance was entitled "A
Multidimensional Joke about Bondage". (#30)
The second performance consisted of three members of
The Haters operating a variety of noise generators for
20 minutes. The performance ended when a few audience
members took it upon themselves to set off the
gallery's fire sprinklers. Panic, chaos, and laughter
followed. Untitled. (#31)
6/4/1986 Boulder
Presented in a small club, this untitled performance
consisted of three members of The Haters operating a
variety of noise generators. The performance ended
after 20 minutes when inside agitators led the
audience to riot. (#32)
12/4/1986 San Francisco
Four members of The Haters would take turns damaging
phonograph records and then operating them on a
stereo. After having been played, each record would
then be thrown into the gallery audience. After
awhile, the audience started throwing the records back
at the performers. Performance lasted 25 minutes.
Untitled. (#33)
13/4/1986 San Francisco
On a club stage, three members of The Haters sat
abreast. The middle performer was popping small
balloons, while each performer to either side of him
was cutting up a painting. Performance lasted ten
minutes. Untitled. (#34)
11/4/1987 Den Bosch
Four members of The Haters sat with their backs to the
gallery audience, watching blank static on a TV set.
Entitled "Ishittal", the performance lasted 25
minutes. (#48)
When one watches the orchestrated static of a TV
broadcast, one is really watching the distance that
the broadcast had to travel in order to reach the TV
set. But with the unorchestrated static of an empty TV
channel there is no effect of distance. This blank
static has such a physical presence that it functions
as a hole in the very condition that is the nature of
distance itself. The name for this kind of hole is
"ishittal".
15/4/1987 Nijmegen
The word "big" has many meanings. In order to create
"a big mess" one must first destroy discarded matter.
Only by destroying trash can a mess be genuinely &
truly "big". This is the meaning of "big" in entropy;
violence as neither positive or negative. Violence as
the liberation of energy. Violence as the
disengagement of energy from the entanglement of any
particular flow.
Full of on-lookers, the stage was the basement of a
cafe. While the pre-recorded sounds of auto-crashes
were amplified for 24 minutes, two members of The
Haters performed by tearing paper, breaking wood and
shattering glass. Entitled "Puinhoop". (#50)
17/4/1987 Den Haag
Four members of The Haters sat with their backs to the
club audience, watching blank static on a TV set.
Entitled "Ishittal", the performance lasted 24
minutes. (#52)
18/4/1987 Rotterdam
Three members of The Haters sat with their backs to
the club audience, watching blank static on a TV set.
Entitled "Ishittal", the performance lasted 24
minutes. (#53)
19/4/1987 Krefeld
The sounds of laughter were amplified from an open-
reel tape deck. There was no pick-up reel. So as the
tape ran onto the floor, Jupitter-Larsen would pick it
up and use it to tie up the upside-down nude male
hanging next to him. Entitled "Another
Multidimensional Joke about Bondage", the performance
lasted 15 minutes. (#54)
15/8/1987 San Francisco
The stage was a gallery full of on-lookers. Four
members of The Haters performed by tearing up numerous
large sheets of paper. During this performance, the
tearing and some pre-recorded sounds of fire were
amplified. Performance lasted 25 minutes. Entitled
"Teeaarrr". (#58)
19/8/1987 San Francisco
In the basement of an video production studio, for 24
minutes, A.M.K. watched Jupitter-Larsen watch blank
static on a TV set. Untitled. (#60)
21/8/1987 Berkeley
Four members of The Haters were standing behind
several huge pieces of foam that were hanging from
above, cutting their way through. As holes begun to
form on the audience's side, people started shoving
garbage through to them. Chaos soon arised, and the
club got trashed. Untitled. (#62)
10/10/1987 Colorado Springs
In a library room full of on-lookers, two members of
The Haters performed by ripping up a single mattress
with razor-blades. During this 25 minute performance,
the pre-recorded sounds of tearing were amplified.
Untitled. (#64)
11/10/1987 Colorado Springs
Two members of The Haters performed by using sledge-
hammers to smash holes through the brick walls of an
abandoned metal refinery. Performance lasted 15
minutes. Entitled "Building Empty Holes". (#65)
16/10/1987 Boulder
In a small gallery full of on-lookers, two members of
The Haters performed by popping hundreds of small
balloons, while pre-recorded "popping" sounds were
amplified. Performance lasted 25 minutes. Untitled.
(#66)
17/10/1987 Fort Collins
While the pre-recorded sounds of tearing were
amplified, two members of The Haters performed by
tearing up hundreds of books on a club stage. Shortly
after the beginning of this performance, several
audience members ran up on stage to take part in the
celebration. The air became thick with paper, as 125
people threw books at each other for 20 minutes.
Entitled "Teeaarrr". (#67)
23/10/1987 Denver
Two members of The Haters performed by destroying TV
sets and sofas. Inside agitators led the audience to
join in on the celebration. Everything in the gallery
was smashed to a dust-like rubble. Performance lasted
25 minutes. Untitled. (#69)
30/10/1987 Denver
Untitled noise. (#70)