'Body & Self - Performance Art in Australia 1969-1992' Anne Marsh - (Oxford Univ Press 1993)
1972
A FACT IS A FACT IS A FACT
Performance: Event
Parliament House, Canberra – A.C.T.
Mr. Brick Veneer
Installation- Preston Vic.
'Last Year Gary Willis's performance pieces in Garema Place and elsewhere, were brilliant examples of how to involve people in art and break down the gulf between art and life'
Geoff de Groen - Canberra Times (1974)
FIRE – WATER
Installation:Event - No Documentation
UNESCO Conference: Culture/Counter-Culture
Australian National University - A.C.T.
1973
Life-Death-Something-Nothing-Yes-No
Invitation Card
Performance, installation (Performer: Stephen Jones)
Haydon-Allen Tank - Australian National University - A.C.T.
Performance: Event
'Gary Willis's recent performance was a complete success ... it was a beautifully droll work, superbly rehearsed and everything about the work seemed to just click into place.'
Geoff de Groen - Canberra Times (1973)
ZZZZZ
Installation: Performance for 5 forestry workers, 5 logs, forestry truck, 2 government workers, 1 Govt. van.
Canberra City Square – A.C.T.
Installation/performance: Event - 5 days
BIRDS – SONGS
Invitation card - designed by Gary Wilis for A.N.U. Art Prize - no mention of Birds-Songs performance.
Pictured: Elizabeth Paterson - National University Dance Ensemble (N.U.D.E.)
Pictured: Felix Ryan & Elizabeth Paterson - N.U.D.E.
Commissioned for opening of the A.N.U. Art Prize - Australian National University - Canberra
ABOUT – FACE
Conceptual Event: for A.B.C. – Television, Canberra
No documentation - 2" Broadcast standard video tape missing
With Simon Cluff & Janet Scott, Miranda & Jessica Douglas
ALL SENSES BALL
Multi-disciplinary conceptual event: Conceived by S.A.L.T. with Janet Scott & Gary Willis.
Involving 60 artists incl: Tim Burns, Harry Le Grand, John Wilson, Linda woolfit, John Tucker, Sylvia & The Synthetics (Lana Lunette & Snow White pictured above), John Fisher, Steve Dunstan, Tim Spellman, Michael Desmond, Kevin Abbey, Heather Ellyard, Dave Kearney, Mick Glasheen, Martin Sharp, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Hilary Wrigley, John Stevens, Ross McGregor, Mitch Johnson, Barabara Mau, Booby Gledhill, Michael Burns, Phillip Mead, Dick Hopkinson, Simon Cluff, Graham Jackson, and others
(See - Diary of a Dead Beat Modern Art Type - for more detail)
Albert Hall, Canberra-A.C.T.
'Through the subtle deftness of the organisers I am quite sure the 500 people who attended were subject to most of these senses ... finally Sylvia & the Syntheics turned on a Felliniesque satire ... the return to reality was a wrench.'
Canberra Times. (1973)
1974
CREATION-DESTRUCTION
Interactive installation; with Tyra Hutchens
Riverina C.A.E. (No Documentation)
(See - Diary of a Dead Beat Modern Art Type - for more detail)