Sculpture consists of wall drawing, boom box, cut paper figures & there shadows.

Didactic Pyramid is based off of a performance where Persons B and C hold aloft Person A for the duration of a walk. While Person A is aloft, he suggests to everyone and everything he passes by, what they should  be doing.

The recording of Person A plays from the boom box.




Person A



Person B & Person C

 

Blockades (with collaborators)
March 14th- April 18
David Patton Los Angeles

Review of Blockades (with collaborators): Holly Myers, LA Times (4/3/09).


Collaborators include: Charles Irvin, Nancy Popp, Tom McKenzie, Jen Hofer, Elana Mann, Adam Overton, Michael Parker, Christian Cummings and Michael Decker.

The title, Blockades (with collaborators), refers both to the tactic of blockading spaces as well as the psycho-emotional state of being "blocked". The work aims to make visual what it feels like to act directly.

 In March of 2003 I was sitting in a cafe in Echo Park as the war in Iraq began full death. Meanwhile in San Francisco, people had banned together to close that city down. Over the intervening 6 years I've pondered the distance between these responses.

Working with amateur dancers, we work-shopped  tableaus with our bodies. We created formations from phrases that evoked group dynamics.

The goal of this project was to share the burden of history with other people. I was tired of seeing radical history only on the written page and in my mind. I wanted to have conversations with people about folks like Abbie Hoffman, the Plowshares Movement, and the feminists who took over the Rat (an underground newspaper).

(Paige Pours Her Blood on MX Missile, pencil on paper, 2002.)