Wolfgang Stoerchle

Wolfgang Eberhard Stoerchle was a German-American conceptual artist known for influential performance and video works made in Southern California in the 1970s.

Career
In 1970, he began teaching in the Post-Studio Art program at California Institute of the Arts, where his fellow instructors included Allan Kaprow and Nam June Paik. His teaching assistant was Jack Goldstein.

In 1972, Stoerchle made a controversial performance at the Pomona College Museum of Art in which he urinated on a rug in the gallery. Backlash to the performance from the college's more socially conservative administration led to a mass resignation of the art faculty.

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