ART K. ODBERD, Over the past two decades has made a handful of low profile, low budget appearances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area -- grassroots experimentalism erupting in galleries, niteclubs, cafes, bookstores, sidewalks and vacant lots -- always promoting a visionary poetics of off-the-wall joy. He has made surrealist use of that assumed obsolete device the OVERHEAD PROJECTOR, performing pseudoautomatic poetry and drawing simultaneously; Odberd berated film festival patrons of Berkeley's Fine Arts Theatre with the spoken word montage "VERITE SANS CINEMA"; and notoriously swigged red wine while playing several hands of Strip Solitaire in the foyer of a college library in "BORN TO LOSE". Among his performance/installations are "FREE SWISS CHARD" at Oakland's Door 3 Gallery, "EXASPERATING SASQUATCH" at the SFAI Walter McBean Gallery, and "REFERENCE PERFORMANCE FOR ARTISTS" at The Lab.

official disrupter of dada festivals