Admiral Fiesta
Michael Ryan Garcia - Esoteric Logistician
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Pelican case, high-end audio components
San Francisco, 2018
Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2017
2017
May 18, 2017
Produced and performed by CATFISH
Created for Glitch Reality, May 18 2017
Update to an earlier work, 2017
Flash paper, washi, ink on card stock
2016
Painted on "red" curbs that have lost their color.
2016
2016
This Notebook Will Self-Destruct: Flash paper pages, bound in a matchbook, a single match bound in as the final page.
Let Your Poetry Kill You: MRI film cover, surgical thread stitching, edible rice paper pages, fountain pen, poisoned ink
Write Til Your Heart Breaks: Pages dissolve when exposed to tears
2016
Public story-listening
2015
Guerilla public works; replacing long-missing sewer vent covers.
San Francisco, 2015
Teaching passers-by about the natural history of urban landscape.
San Francisco, 2015-
Part of a text-message based interactive scavenger hunt. Hearing the heartfelt confessions of participants in exchange for a golden key.
San Francisco 2015
Building and subsequently burning down a Tiny Little Library, along with it's remaining contents.
http://blog.burningman.com/2013/10/culture-art-music/burning-down-the-library/
AZ Decompression, Flagstaff AZ 2013
Creating a non-aggressive signal for automobiles to balance the aggressive signal (the horn) which comes built-in.
2011
Building a giant flamethrowing Saguaro Cactus with a group of Arizona burners.
Burning Man 2011
Creating unexpected moments of joy and free expression through capital-"P" Partying in public spaces.
Strictly Business Tour, Phoenix 2011
Building a physical political cartoon satirizing my experience building Carnegiea Gigantea
Saguaro Man, Snowflake AZ, 2012
Providing much-needed relief for the over-burdened and under-clothed.
Saguaro Man, Snowflake AZ 2010
Building an electric bike that looks like a boat.
Tour de Fat, Tempe AZ 2010
Building and subsequently burning down a Tiny Little Library, again.
Saguaro Man, Snowflake AZ 2014
Broadcasting pirate radio in various locations and contexts.
Photo (and stuffed animal) received as part of a scheme to scalp a ticket to the sold-out Saguaro Man 2011 event for the price of 51 stuffed animals and the tears of a child.
Playing with giant beach balls.
Scottsdale AZ 2013
2012
Hacking apart a boombox and installing the components in a briefcase for Decentralized Dance Party, Phoenix AZ 2011
Anthropomorphizing shipping supplies.
c. 2010
Carrying a screwdriver and removing screws from various locations in public.
Please note that I consider this short-lived project ill-advised and unethical. I probably knew those things when I started it, but I had to be sure.
Various locations, 2010
Anthropomorphizing building materials
c. 2010