CHRIS FREMANTLE

The first of the the Harrisons’ Survival Pieces re-performed* at Various Small Fires LA.

Having been invited to be part of ‘Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Elements of Art’ exhibition at Boston Museum of Fine Art in 1971, they relate that Newton asked an assistant to find the most unusually named seed mix. They found ‘R.H. Shumway Seedsman’s Annual Hog Pasture Mix’. The Boston MFA wouldn’t let them have a pig on the pasture. In 2015 the LA Museum of Contemporary Art in LA allowed Wilma the Pig to participate. Today another pig participated.

* Tatiana Sizonenko, curator of ‘Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work’, currently on in San Diego as part of the Getty’s PST, frames these as performances rather than installations – processes rather than objects.