Neither Garlic nor Beans (1983-88) length: various (audience interactive)
Tempodrom, Berlin (with German subtitles) as part of "Jugendtag 88,"
organized by Sozialistische Einheiz Partei W. Berlin
Schokofabrik, Berlin (1988)
Fischlabor, Berlin
Oranges and Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles (1986)
SUSHI, Inc., San Diego (1985)
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles
audio collage: Stephen A. Laufer & Rika Ohara
text, slides and choreography: Rika Ohara
"Ohara's Neither Garlic nor Beans is one of the most obliquely intelligent and innovative
perfomance debuts that l've seen."
ÐÐ David E. James, ARTWEEK, 1985
"Ohara shrewedly exploits herself as a Japanese to arouse these mediated memories ÐÐ and to
cause the audience to question their second-hand notions about the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
and their effects on thousands of lives."
ÐÐ Kathe Burkhardt, High Performance, 1985
"I can still see much of it in my mind, some twenty-five years later!" ÐÐ David E. James, 2012