In the early 1970s, when Paul Koss was emerging as a vital proponent of Conceptual Art, he was no quite alone; a group of like–minded Bay Area artists was gaining prominence. This loose–knit group, counting within its ranks such artists as Terry Fox, Tom Marioni, and Howard Fried, was amassing the critical weight needed to advance Conceptualismm from a practice to a movement. One side effect of this de facto faction was the gathered influences that inspired everyone's creative process. Occasioned by the BAM retrospective of Paul Kos's career, tonight's program draws together rarely seen works from the seventies in an attempt to recreate the "sympathetic vibration," as Kos might say, that resonated within the Bay Area Concemptual movement. Short tapes and excerpts by Richard Alpert, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Tom Marioni, Dennic Oppenheim, Irv Tepper, and others will be complemented by a selection of works by a newer generation of Conceptualists, Kos's recent students at the San Francisco Art Insitute. Join us and see how a great idea became an even better Concept.

In addition to a new version of Paul Kos's Pilot Light/Pilot Butte (1974/2002), works in the program include: Turgescent Sex (Terry fox, 1971, 40 mins, excerpted), Solo Flight (Tony Labat, 1977, 30 mins, excerpted), 1979 (Tom Mrioni, 1979, 8 mins), Groundeing Gel (Dennis Oppenheim, 1974, 30 mins, excerpted). Excerpts from the omnibus work A Tight 13 Minutes, created by Tom Marioni (1976). Plus works by former sutdents: Charles Gute, Bull.Miletic, Kathleen Quillian, Patrick Rock, Will Rogan, and others.