'77 Lincoln bites the dust: Tony Labat strange performance artist

[Jim B.]

This stuff caught my eye, I never was much for performance art, implying that a 1977 Lincoln Contintental was some metaphor for American imperialist arrogance in its oil baron phase, (maybe I am a philistine, or not PC enough...)

But I never saw a car get destroyed with a giant crane-borne drop hammer like this!!!




http://www.tonylabat.com/mata-crush.html

Seems pretty weird and silly to see some enormous peace sign around Fell or Divisadero Street (streets which I know VERY well) by San Francisco's Golden Gate panhandle. I am another one of those people who never really liked polititically performance art (who remembers feminist Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party", all those plates shaped like, oh never mind)

And he sure seems intrigued with Cuba doesn't he? Who ever heard of Fidel Castro in a wax museum? Who is that other guy?

Those old Russian diesel military trucks in Cuba sure smoked....wow.!

http://www.tonylabat.com/

Is it some kind of American "angst" or something: "paranoia, war, poverty, caffeine rush, religious hallucination". BTSOM!!!

(I saw it in the SF paper today).

Is it too late for me to put on a beret and go to some Cafe in Little Italy in SF, and order a cappucino and sit at some table, smoking Gauloises and looking intensely earnest, and as though I'd just completed a slim volume of verse???!!

I don't drive around in a pickup truck with a coil of rope in the back, on the one hand, but I am not cut out for comprehending this kind of thing, either, this stuff. I just don't like performance art