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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
11/6/1988 San Francisco
Five members of The Haters were all dressed in white.
First, white paper was ripped. Then white fabric was
torn. Then white glass was smashed. Finally, white
metal objects, mostly large automotive fragments, were
thrown and bashed about. The pre-recorded sounds of
white noise & metal crushing were amplified.
Performance lasted 25 minutes. Untitled. (#71)
28/10/1988 Denver
Three members of The Haters performed by breaking
wooden objects, ripping paintings & mattresses,
smashing up metal objects and setting off smoke-bombs.
The audience joined in on the celebration by
destroying everything in the club. Pandemonium
epitomizing merriment. Performance lasted 25 minutes.
Untitled. (#72)
30/10/1988 Denver
There were eight members of The Haters involved. The
stage was an vacant lot. The props were four intact
motorcoaches. Using only crowbars, the buses were
smashed beyond repair. (#73)
19/11/1988 Boulder
Three members of The Haters performed by smashing up
metal objects and setting off smoke-bombs. Due to the
efficiency of the smoke-bombs, the performance was cut
short after only a few minutes, and the club as well
as the adjoining buildings had to be evacuated. Both
performers and audience members could taste the sulfur
in their throats for days afterwards. Untitled. (#74)
24/11/1988 Denver
Three members of The Haters were involved. The stage
was under a viaduct near the city centre. The main
props were numerous glass bottles, two sofas, and the
cab of an abandoned semi. The sofas were cut up. The
glass was smashed. And the truck was set on fire. The
smoke could be seen for kilometres around. The
performance lasted 15 minutes. Entitled "A Trapeze
Number". (#75)
The term "Trapeze Number" refers to the festivity of
air born refuse.
16/12/1988 Salt Lake City
Two members of The Haters were involved. A very large
pile of junk was overflowing on the club stage. As
soon as the performers started destroying the junk,
the entire audience joined in. Entropy in action. The
performance lasted 25 minutes. Entitled "A Trapeze
Number". (#76)
7/10/1989 Bordeaux
Three performances were staged as part of an art
festival. Two hundred people filled a theatre lobby to
watch GX Jupitter-Larsen dig a hole in a large carte full
of dirt. Entitled "Building An Empty Hole", this first
performance lasted 15 minutes. Following the
performance came affectionate applause & cheers of
"bravo!". (#86)
For the second performance in the lobby, two members
of The Haters were involved. During the whole of this
performance, pre-recorded "popping-tearing" sounds
were amplified while fabric was cut and paper was
ripped and wood was broken and glass was smashed. Some
audience members joined in on the celebration. This
untitled performance lasted 20 minutes. Following the
performance came affectionate applause & cheers of
"bravo!". (#87)
The third performance consisted a shovel being manipulated into an ear-piercing noise-scape. Entitled "The Potential", this
noise-as-theatre lasted 16 minutes. Following the
performance came affectionate applause & cheers of
"bravo!". (#88)
13/10/1989 Paris
While one member of The Haters tore paper, another
member was cutting fabric. After they were done with
this, they both turned to wooden, plastic and glass
props. The wood was broken. The plastic was crushed.
And the glass was shattered. During this 25 minute
untitled performance, tearing sounds & white noise
were amplified. Playful applause came from the east-
end club audience. (#89)
18/10/1989 Paris
While walking the corridors of La Grande Arche,
GX Jupitter-Larsen was counting the number of garbage-
cans he saw. He counted zero. Entitled "Ictanea All
Nyrris", this solo performance lasted a hour. (#90)
26/10/1989 Frankfurt
With reality understood as a void disjointed from the
state of nothingness, all things become a punctuation
in reality. As proof of this, GX Jupitter-Larsen
performed in a small urban park by digging a hole in
the ground. Entitled "Building An Empty Hole", this
solo performance lasted 20 minutes. (#91)
16/11/1989 Liverpool
The statement that all things are a punctuation in
reality implies that hard matter surrounded by empty
space performs the same function as empty space
surrounded by hard matter. This function being that of
a hole. This would suggest that one could only dig a
hole where one already existed. In a small urban park,
Jupitter-Larsen performed by digging a hole in the
ground. Entitled "Building An Empty Hole", this solo
performance lasted 35 minutes. (#93)
18/11/1989 Birmingham
Two members of The Haters were involved. Paper &
cardboard were torn. Fabric was cut up. Glass bottles
were smashed into the screen of a TV set. And trash
was playfully tossed all about the venue. The bulk of
the audience became inspired to an enraptured
violence. During the whole of the 20 minute
performance, a textural noise was amplified. Entitled
"A Trapeze Number". (#94)
19/11/1989 Birmingham
When people arrived that dark evening, what they saw
was a derelict site in a residential area of the city;
and within that site, a shipping container temporarily
converted into a gallery.
Inside this gallery, along one wall, a display of ten
paintings & two sculptures by Jupitter-Larsen. All of
these were assemblages of trash & refuse. Along the
opposite wall was a display of numerous detailed texts
on such subjects as the polywave, thought
probabilities & Kettleday. Both displays were brightly
lit with electric lights.
Erupting from the back of the container, a sound-
sculpture which consisted of various amplified
recordings of previous Haters' performances.
Outside the gallery were three larger junk sculptures;
two of which were illuminated with electric lights and
one lit with open flame.
Entitled "Urban Sensitivity", this exhibition of
entropy was open to the public for one night only.
Also in conjunction with this exhibition, a
performance. Towards the end of the evening, just
outside the container, two members of The Haters
performed by digging a hole in the ground. Entitled
"Building An Empty Hole", this performance lasted 20
minutes. The hole measured about 25 centimetres in
depth and some metres in diameter. (#95)
8/12/1989 Amsterdam
Two members of The Haters were involved. Fabric & foam
were cut. Paper was ripped. Wood was crushed. Metal
was thrown about. A refrigerator door was repeatedly
smashed into the screens of two TV sets. During this
22 minute performance white noise was amplified.
Untitled. (#97)
11/12/1989 Amsterdam
GX Jupitter-Larsen sat still and looked at an empty
garbage-can for 22 minutes. During the whole of this
untitled solo performance white noise was amplified.
(#98)