Selected Sculpture and Media Works:



    Information Sandwich

    Mixed-media soft sculptures (mashed newsprint inside hamburger buns), left on the streets of Seattle, 1988

    These interactive pieces, “sandwiches with news inside,” were left were left all over the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The pieces were meant to subtly shock people into realizing a relationship between food and information, e.g., news as nourishment. People responded by picking up the pieces, and perhaps they threw them away—who knows?

    Photo by John Hubbard, 1990.



    "Without Ruth"

    25-minute film-style video, TCI Channel 29, Seattle, 1989

    “Ruth,” played in drag by another actor, represented a muse of creative inspiration. Alan played both himself and his dullard roommate, who compete with each other for creative ideas and fame privately and in the public arena.


    Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind

    Mixed-media sculpture (electronic signboard, plaque, dildo, birdcage, baby doll, wieners, fabric purse, looped audiotape), O.K. Hotel Gallery, Seattle, 1990

    This piece was about the media attention paid to the sexual mutilation of a young boy, while stories of little girls being raped and sometimes murdered were blatantly ignored. Is it the damaging of a penis that brings forth such attention? If so, what does that mean culturally?


    American Language

    Online performance documentation, alanreade.com, 1999



    Online book with a decade's worth of performance texts and pictures. This documents Alan's five-part performance series that took place between 1991 and 1999. To see it, click here.


    MY2K

    Online piece, alanreade.com, 2000

    Pictures and text about San Francisco at the turn of the century, chronicling half a month before and after New Years 2000. To see it, click here.


    QCC's Month of Art

    Picture of performance, Queer Cultural Center, 2000

    Still photo from 1994 performance Dancing With the Dead featured in QCC's Month of Art. To see it, click here.


    Four Seasons in a Day

    Online poem collection, alanreade.com, 2001

    Online collection of poems launched on alanreade.com, about life in San Francisco. To see it, click here.




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