T.R. Uthco

Overview

T.R. Uthco was a San Francisco-based multi-media performance art collective that engaged in satirical critiques of mass media images and cultural myths, using theatricality and spectacle as strategies. Founded in 1970, T.R. Uthco staged irreverent, fabricated events, and produced video documents of its performances. Interweaving reality and illusion, truth and artifice, they parodied pop iconography, political symbolism and cultural mythology.