"Bruce Conner for Supervisor" Exhibition
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This presentation at Specific Object features three remaining elements from Bruce Conner’s 1967 run for office: two of the campaign posters he designed, as well as a sticker covered soapbox platform on which Conner delivered his campaign speeches. Surely if Conner had won everyone would have received their just desserts.
For him [Bruce Conner] the campaign was more like a game. At that time there was no fee to run for supervisor in San Francisco. So it was free publicity. He got to give speeches to the public. He also got to publish at no cost in the booklet where the candidates listed their qualifications and positions. The speech he gave was a list of candies and desserts and I believe the one that went into the voter’s booklet was about light. He went through the Bible, probably the New Testament, picked out all the verses in which light was mentioned and that was his statement. Bruce voted in every election and was very critical of friends who didn’t vote. Even if his was the only "no" vote, it was important to let someone know that someone had protested. -- Jean Conner, Bruce Conner: Die 70er Jahre, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2010
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from November 29, 2010 to January 28, 2011