Terry Fox (artist)

The black paint facing the wall was hand etched with faint words and scratches, and were shown with the "shiny side out".

The following year he relocated to Paris where he began to produce process-oriented sculptures, "street actions", as well as two dimensional works on paper such as drawings and frottages from various surfaces.

[1] Fox collaborated with the painter William T. Wiley on the process piece, Dust Exchange, which he considered to be his first work of sculpture.

[10] He then traveled back to San Francisco in 1969 where he produced a series of public art events titled Pubic Theater.

This was presented at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (where Beuys was teaching at that time); a sound work was produced in conjunction with the performance and published in the form of an EP record.

[1] In 1971, Fox was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts which he used to purchase a Portapak analogue videotape recorder and sound equipment.

[6] He produced several works (environments, performances, sculptures, drawings) over an eight-year period from 1971 to 1978 based on the theme of the configuration of the Chartres labyrinth.

While viewers watched from a balcony, Fox ritualistically performed such activities as creating skeletal outlines on the floor in flour, blowing smoke, and baking bread.

[15] In 2019, eleven years after his death, a series of events titled Resonance, also referred to as The Terry Fox Extravaganza, was presented at eight different venues over the course of two months, beginning at Grace Cathedral.

During the performance, he lay on a mound of dirt for six hours attempting to levitate while holding long, flexible tubes of elemental fluids, as "a metaphor for transfiguration".

After the performance, spectators could see the four tubes of fluids, water, blood, urine and milk, as well as the concave imprint of his body left in the dirt.

The critic Peter Plagens described the work in Artforum as a "skeptical, passionate, honest" attempt to "charge the space" with energy and possibility.

"[17] Instruments to be Played by the Movement of the Earth (1987) – This time-based sonic installation was presented at the Capp Street Project in San Francisco.