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PERFORMANCES

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cake & eat it, too

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shared fear

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beet surgery

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conjuction/opposition

J o h n  S t u r g e o n  -  s e l e c t e d

V i d e o  P e r f o r m a n c e  W o r k s

 

Brood-X, 2004 performance, collaborative video/sound,

      Bradley/Sturgeon, InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Assemini, Sardinia (with

      North Italian TV-simulcast)

Esperanto, 2004 collaborative video/sound performance,

      (Bradley/Payens/Sturgeon), InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Assemini,

      Sardinia

Cake & Eat It, Too, 2002 video projection and performance (TV simulcast),

      Kulturetage, Oldenburg, Germany

Saturn Return, 1998 video projection and performance, Castle of

      Imagination-6th international meeting of performance artists, Bytów,

      Poland-1998 & InterAzioni, Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia

Shared Fear-the dance denial, 1998 video projection and performance,

      World Image, Metzingen, Germany

Confessions of Addiction, Love & Surgical Musings, 1997 performance,

      with interactive CD-ROM and poetic text, ISEA97 (International

      Symposium on Electronic Arts), School Art Institute of Chicago

Caldera, 1997 (sound & video/performance collaboration w/ Michael Pestel),

      Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA

Symposium Moor 1992, (Performances, Site Specific Works and Collaborations

      on the moors in northern Germany), 1992, Oldenburg, Germany

      Narkose, (solo) solo video & performance, Wittemoor, Germany

      Falling Moor, 1992, solo performance, Wittemoor, Germany

      Moor Battery, (collaboration with Jörg Haberland), video & performance,

      Wittemoor, Germany

      Fishing Moor, (collaboration with Insa Winkler), video & performance,

      Wittemoor, Germany

More Moor, 1993 (collaborative video, laser & performance event in

      conjunction with Symposium Moor 1992), Haaren River site, Oldenburg, Germany

Ghost Story from the 1960's (moon walk), 1992, Live & Pre-Recorded Video,

      Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA

Beet Surgery & Pole Camera, 1984-87, Video-Live & Pre-Recorded with

      Interactive Computer Graphics: Chicago Art Institute, University of

      Wisconsin-Madison, & Minneapolis MN, (set of solo performances by John

      Sturgeon included in Fragments, Quinn/Sturgeon)

No Earth/No Earth Station (Collaborative with A.Quinn), 1982-83, Color Video

      Live & Pre-Record, with Live Chroma Key Environment, (1983 commission,

      Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Atari is the New Parent, 1982 (collaborative, linked Satellite Video

      Performance, Sturgeon/Quinn/Lloyd), Iowa City-Los Angeles Link

      Up), Artists in Television Conference, National Cablecast- Learning

      Channel, University of Iowa

Uroboros, 1979, live perf. & pre-recorded color video, Krannert Art Museum,

      with PBS Television Simulcast, WILL Champaign, Illinois

Conjunction/Opposition II, 1977, B&W Live Cameras and Pre-Record, L.A.

      Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, 1977

Spinning Dream, 1977, B&W Live Cameras and Pre-Record, AND/OR Gallery, Seattle, WA

Conjunction/Opposition, 1976, B&W, Live Cameras and Pre-Record, SITE

      Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1976

© 2026 John Sturgeon

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