Alan Finneran, founder and director of SOON 3, comes from a visual-arts background, having studied sculpture and painting in Ann Arbor, where he also started The Third Incident Company. Since moving to San Francisco in 1973 by way of Boston—where he was a cofounder and director of Zone—his creations have progressed from gigantic, technologically complex structures that, ideally, required a gymnasium-sized performance space to small intimate pieces that only need a twenty-foot-square playing area. In the Cinemasculpture to be Performed, as he called the large-scale steel-and-plastic modular fabrications, Finneran tried to create a unique “hybrid performance form” synthesizing sculpture, film, and performance. Evolving from the cinemasculptures and retaining several connections, A Wall in Venice/3 Women/Wet Shadows represents Finneran's latest focus. The piece, hereafter referred to as “Venice,” was performed on April 28 and 29, 1978 at SOON 3's Dreamland Ballroom at 2678 California Street, San Francisco.