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)
17/12/1988 Salt Lake City
In between two acts of a punk rock concert, two
members of The Haters did a performance by bringing
out two mattresses, cutting them up with razor-blades,
and then walking off stage. During this ten minute
untitled performance, the 200 member audience laughed
and danced cheerfully about. (#77)
3/1/1989 Hollywood
Alone, GX Jupitter-Larsen walked around the city streets
for two hours, counting the number of garbage-bins he
saw. He counted 31. Entitled "Ictanea All Nyrris".
(#78)
29/7/1989 Seattle
Untitled noise. (#79)
5/8/1989 San Francisco
Staged in a gallery. A member of The Haters broke his
way out of a locked garbage-bin, while four other
members destroyed junk around it. Performance lasted
15 minutes. Untitled. (#80)
12/8/1989 Santa Cruz
In the centre of a club stage, GX Jupitter-Larsen sat
still and looked at an empty garbage-can. During the
whole performance, white noise was amplified. Entitled
"Observing Dust", this solo performance lasted 25
minutes. (#81)
2/9/1989 New York
As a means of touching nothingness, The Haters did a
performance by not showing up for the event. (#82)
5/10/1989 Nijmegen
Two performances were presented in a small club. The
first performance was entitled "Breaking". White noise
was amplified while GX Jupitter-Larsen stood over an open
garbage-can, breaking one raw egg every 30 seconds for
24 minutes. (#84)
The second performance was entitled "A
Multidimensional Joke about Bondage". The sounds of
laughter & white noise were 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 nude girl standing
next to him. Performance lasted 15 minutes. (#85)
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)
2/11/1989 Vienna
Alone, GX Jupitter-Larsen measured the different sizes of
a variety of pebbles that he'd found in an urban park.
The colour of the local dirt was also noted. Theatre
as privacy. (#92)
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)
17/2/1990 San Francisco
Phonograph records were mangled in an electrically-
powered box-shaped machine with two rolls of rotating
teeth. One after another, a record would be shoved
into the top of the device and get mashed in between
the teeth. Out from the bottom tiny little bits of
vinyl would spray out all over the place. Untitled.
(#99)
2/3/1990 San Francisco
Using different coloured jellied mixtures of gasoline
& detergent, abstracts were first rendered on a
variety of surfaces and then ignited. Painting with
napalm. This was the 100th performance and it was
entitled "Not an Image of The Totimorphous". (#100)
10/6/1990 San Francisco
In his 1964 book "Plat Rhif Car", Ross Rhesymolwaith
wrote "Zero is still louder than negative-one."
Rhesymolwaith is a
mathematician who's peace of mind was once said to
sound much like calculators being rubbed against
sandpaper. Calculation by disintegration as a
reference to "a beauty resorting from the wearing down
of numbers."
So as a performance entitled "The Thinking Ross Does",
two members of The Haters each rubbed a calculator
against very abrasive sandpaper. A contact-mic had
been mounted on each of the calculators. The sound of
the rubbing was amplified very loud! Staged for 25
minutes at a small gallery. The two of them, sitting
at a table; rubbing away. Strongly audible. (#101)
30/8/1990 Hollywood
Alone in a room at a friend's house, GX Jupitter-Larsen
enacts a solo performance by watching blank static on
a TV set from 02h00 to 04h00. Entitled "Ishittal".
(#102)
31/8/1990 Los Vegas
Alone, GX Jupitter-Larsen thought about zero as
unpolished elasticity. (#103) Later that evning he
thought about a yonder stream elapsed. (#104) No
conclusions were reached. Both performances were
untitled.
5/9/1990 San Francisco
Scratching a phonograph record with a knife resulted in a
big blob of noise. Like jelly, this thick mass of
sound engulfed the delighted audience for 30 minutes.
Entitled "The Potential". (#105)
7/9/1990 Santa Cruz
It was calculation by disintegration. One member of
The Haters was using a power-sander to grind away at
an amplified adding-machine, while another member was
grinding an amplified calculator against very abrasive
sandpaper. Both were sitting on stage behind two large
amplifiers. A video camera was hanging from above,
with three TV sets placed around the gallery so the
audience could view the said event. Lasting 21
minutes, this performance was entitled "The Thinking
Ross Does". (#106)
8/9/1990 San Francisco
Inside a long narrow gallery, three workmen built a
small house-like structure around five members of The
Haters. Both wood and metal were used as building
materials. As soon as the house was completed, The
Haters used crowbars to smashed their way out of the
confines, causing much debris to fall over the 80
member audience that occupied what little space was
left. Total chaos followed, and the whole place was
trashed. Entitled "A Trapeze Number". (#107)
9/9/1990 San Francisco
After ten minutes of watching the darken screen of a
large TV set turned off, a member of The Haters turned
on the TV to blank static. At which point he stood up
and started smashing up metal & glass & wooden objects
for another nine minutes. Two other members, who had
been cutting up fabric while the TV had been turned
off, quickly joined in on the breakage. Pink noise was
amplified during this whole performance. Entitled "A
Trapeze Number". (#108)
15/9/1990 Oakland
Four members of The Haters were involved. Centre stage
lay one mattress. At each corner of the prop sat a
performer slowly hacking away at it with a knife.
After 15 minutes of this cutting, each performer
stood, walking off stage to the determined applause &
cheers of the audience. Pink noise was amplified
during this whole performance. Untitled. (#109)
31/10/1990 San Francisco
Six members of The Haters destroyed a pile of garbage.
Much of the gallery audience helped out in making a
mess of the place. Entitled "A Trapeze Number". (#110)
15/12/1990 San Francisco
Four members of The Haters were involved. They erected
a wide lump of refuse. This was done by ripping,
smashing, breaking & throwing about various
ingredients of waste, trash & rubbish. The audience
helped out by tossing much of the props evenly around
the club. During this 15 minute performance a pre-
recorded fire-like textural noise was amplified.
Entitled "A Trapeze Number". (#111)