KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ MOCA/FM: Museum of Conceptual Art: Opening of a New Space

Analog Audio

Event Type

Intermedia and Visual Arts

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MFM.1973.01.03

Program Series

MOCA/FM

Program Length

30 min

Dates

1973-01-10 | broadcast
| 1973-01-03 | created

Description

“On Wednesday, January 3, 1973, the Museum of Conceptual Art opened its doors across the street from its previous space in San Francisco. The new address (75 Third Street) is above the Breen’s Bar where many previous showings by MOCA have occurred. In this dingy loft, previously used by a printing company, about 500 artists and viewers gathered between 7pm and 11pm expecting to witness a startling new show by the museum’s curator Tom Marioni. Instead, they were left staring at each other and a less than adequate quantity of bottled Fisher beer. By the time I arrived at 9 pm, the two turkeys and other delicacies placed near the entrance were nothing more than grisly carcasses and empty plates. Here are the sounds of the crowd at that event, an interview with Director Tom Marioni and his mother from Cincinnati, Ohio, and a long recording of the opening and closing of the refrigerator door by thirsty members of the crowd looking in vain for another beer.” - Charles Amirkhanian

Genres

Modern Art
Performance Art

Subjects

Conceptual art
Art, Modern
Avant-garde (Art)
Ambient sounds

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Museum of Conceptual Art (San Francisco, CA)
Amirkhanian, Charles
Marioni, Tom, 1937-