USCO

: A U.S. map full of some pre-USCO and USCO exhibitions and multimedia performances with dates. An early motto was “Have faith will move mountains”.

: Diagrammed USCO performance equipment and projection throws at various venues and dates. Given the quantity and weight of what we carried along we always wanted to write an article, “The artist as shlepper” Art News and ArtForum both rejected the idea.

$1964-1966. Three motorized discs with diffraction grating patterns Strobe and incandescent lamps provide changing illumination from multi-step programmer which also varies motor speed and direction. “NO-OW-NOW” display and eagle added 1966 for Kunst-Licht-Kunst exhibition, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.$: 1964-1966. Three motorized discs with diffraction grating patterns Strobe and incandescent lamps provide changing illumination from multi-step programmer which also varies motor speed and direction. “NO-OW-NOW” display and eagle added 1966 for Kunst-Licht-Kunst exhibition, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

: Image of “Contact Is The Only Love” superimposed on Gerd’s long prose poem ending with multiple YIELDS. From an USCO brochure.

: Drawing by Steve Durkee for USCO’s Tabernacle to be be installed at the USCO church after dismounting the six, nine foot paintings from “Down By the Riverside” a many months long exhibition which drew crowds at NYC’s Riverside Museum with a LIFE Magazine cover Newsweek and Village Voice stories, the Today show with Barbara Walters et al. at New York City’s Riverside Museum. The construction filmed by Jud Yalkut is available on DVD.

: Three Gerd Stern mantra poems silkscreened at the church, as posters, usually on high-viz papers, sold among with other USCO posters at exhibitions, performances and by head shops countrywide

: USCO photo collage, the other side of the page used by us as letterhead with images of Meher Baba, Michael, Steve, Gerd and others of Just Us on a background of night blue sky with the legend “Guidance, counseling, navigation and control is our business.”

: Visit to the Tabernacle at the USCO Church by a group of international filmmakers from the Lincoln Center Film Festival. Newsweek Photo, 1967

: USCO drawing for “Imagimotion” motorized turning metal column with about twenty single slide projectors flashing images of 20th century U.S. presidents around the darkened main floor gallery of the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition, “Light: Object and Image” 1968.

: USCO “Fanflashtic” installation. Inside a metal framed plastic walled gazebo and a floor made of metal grating with eight fans underneath blowing air upwards four strobe heads under the plastic ceiling flash on a ramp circuit with music playing. The gazebo has two doors and is filled with balloons. The installation was shown for a Museum of Modern Art gala and then traveled as part of “Intermedia ‘68 around New York State sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts.

: USCO at Experiments in Art and Technology and MOMA sponsored exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Gerd Stern standing in front of a speaker complex construction designed and built by Jack Weissberg, sponsored by USCO.

$Seven Diffraction Hex. A stroboscopic flash lit series of seven motorized diffraction patterned hexes shown at the Howard Wise Gallery exhibition, “Festival of Lights” 1968 pictured in Time and purchased by Malcolm Forbes for his collection and eventually donated to the Princeton University Art Museum.$: Seven Diffraction Hex. A stroboscopic flash lit series of seven motorized diffraction patterned hexes shown at the Howard Wise Gallery exhibition, “Festival of Lights” 1968 pictured in Time and purchased by Malcolm Forbes for his collection and eventually donated to the Princeton University Art Museum.

: USCO drawing by Steve Durkee for Solux the planned community which eventually was created in the Sangre de Christo mountains of New Mexico as Llama Foundation, 1969.