Installation and Live Art

CRIMINAL ARTIFACTS
2006 San Antonio, Texas
Criminal Artifacts consisted of a large sand mandala thumbprint on sugar, the same thumbprint on the wall of the silo, glow in the dark breaking-and-entering tools, and a stolen set of sketches from artist Adam Manzaroli.

SUGAR SHOW
2006 San Antonio, Texas
Installation with gumdrops.

THE REJECTION SHOW
2005 San Antonio, Texas
The launching point for this show was composed of 30 some odd letters of Rejection from Top U.K. Arts venues. The Rejection Letters were combined with a group of whip-like objects. These dangerous and ugly-looking blackened, rusted whips I consider the interior detritus of rejection, the "whips and scorns of time". I made them in Kansas City (1993) from anything with a handle. I used black tape, nails, screws, tv antennae, pins, and found objects and combined them with salt and brillo pads in order to corrode them. After setting up this show, it struck me how negative the baggage was that I carried and was presenting to the public. On impulse and intuition, I scattered around the room and sprinkled all the whips with jasmine rice in a gesture of blessing. Once more this reminded me that an Artists' role can be to manipulate the difficult, abstract or emotional material in a life, and transmute it to exemplary, demonstrative or even de-realized aesthetic forms for the viewer.

NANCY SINGS LOVE SONGS TO PUBLIC MONUMENTS
1995 Mexico City, Mexico
A warming exercise in the spirit of Joseph Beuys. Nancy is singing love songs to public monuments in Mexico City with an Artista Conceptualista sign.

MEASURED SILENCE
1995 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
A private theater piece. Costumes designed by Nancy McGalliard. Scenes performed by Pamela Prescott, Adam Manzaroli and Nancy McGalliard. Photography by Adam Manzaroli and Tania David.
Note: Some of these photographs contain nudity.

ST. AUGUSTINE'S BOX
1994 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
he writings of St. Augustine were written inside boxes in silver ink. Viewers had to put them over their heads and spin them around creating a gallery full of box-headed creatures.

CIRCE COLLECTS THE RENT
1992 Kansas City, Missouri
An audience-activated environment designed to turn people into pigs. There were bunjee rides, mud pits and lasagna troughs, mud facials and hooves, a recorded installation A Thrill Kill Circle, and a station for the audience to cook toast, eggs, bacon and pigs feet breakfasts.

MISTAKING THE IMAGE FOR THE IDEAL
1992 Kansas City, Missouri
Two famous images, the Venus of Willendorf and a priapic faun from an ancient Greek vase were rendered in thick charcoal on each side of a board. Underneath the charcoal silhouettes were messages like "Fear of Images", "Titillation" and "mistaking the Image for the Ideal". The faun and Venus were suspended over a pastel-dust drawing of an American flag. Rubber erasers surrounded the flag, inviting the public to step on the flag in order to censor the images. By stepping on the flag and erasing the offending image, the messages appeared.