Description
Performance piece performed by Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California on August 26, 1975, as part of the exhibition entitled Performance/art/artists/performers, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton, in construction worker outfits, heavy boots, helmets and goggles, were strapped to a 34 foot telephone pole and worked their way down in an hour and a half, slowly splitting the pole as they descended by driving wedges into the wood.
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