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Re: theatre of note show

Hey Frank,

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate that.I knew when your associates wheeled you out that the piece wasn’t going to be mundane performance. They put the mic on you. But, you couldn’t communicate the way I am used to being communicated with. I had a flood of thoughts/emotions. compassion, sadness, empathy and when the projector started and the nude older dancers began thier “lap-dances” and, the movements of your arms,head and face it hit me. I felt sick. It was too much. A writhing contortion of nudity, eroticism combined with a man confined to a wheelchair, your body movements, head,face and arms and hands.And, your groans and sounds.That brought on the nausia. I had to look away at the wall occasionally, to keep it together.

I was revolted because i didn’t understand it and it was making me feel physically and emotionally sick.
Scarring was too much of a word. Girlfriend say I live in a world of hyperbole. So, I exaggerate sometimes.

It was a very strong piece. Yes, I am trying to work thru it. I really appreciate you writing me back.
Thank you.
chc

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chuck, i like how the performance is continuing through these emails. but don’t get in a dark alley with linda and jen…those “older women.”

so why did seeing nude “older dancers” dancing erotically with/on me evoke such powerful reactions in you…”I felt sick…brought on the nausea…I had to look away at the wall occasionally, to keep it together. I was revolted because i didn’t understand it and it was making me feel physically and emotionally sick”? was it my voice? what if the wheelchair was just a prop? was it because the dancers were “older”? would it be different if the dancers were younger? what does your girlfriend think of your reactions? what did you think of the woman from the audience who danced on me? was she “older?” how old are you?

funny…for decades i got shit for cute “younger” women around me! i also have gotten shit for having “strong” women around me…as if it was a fetish of mine! and now it’s “older” women! they are the same girls! linda has been with me for about 30 years and jen has been in my work since 2001. actually to me they are “younger women” because i’m older! it’s relative! it appears my work has started addressing issues of ageism. about time!

keep writing!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Kitty Kondolances

Sorry to hear about your kitty.
May she/he rest in kitty heaven.

love to you.
annie
from mexico! (at the first ever central america conference on “post porn.”
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
ANNIE M. SPRINKLE, Ph.D.
Artist • Sexologist • Author • Teacher • Student
Post Porn Modernist • Faculty Wife • Feminist
Pioneering Film Director/Producer/Performer
Utopian Entrepreneur • Thespian • College Lecturer
Former Porn Star/Stripper/Pin-Up/Prostitute/Dom
Performance Artist • Photographer • Tantrica

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and cyb is/was a she/he!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: Un-Herd show listings

From: Sean Ongley
Subject: Un-Herd show listings

In reference to your show listing for KBOO’s UnHerd program.

Your performance sounds interesting. I would be happy to publicize it. Please do your part to spread your word about the show so that people in the bay area can listen to the streaming broadcast at www.kboo.fm. The show is called UnHerd at 10pm Pacific Standard Time, 1st, 4th, 5th Mondays. If I have listeners nationally, this does a great deal to promote local music everywhere. And whenever artists are touring through, I am open to being contacted.

Thanks

Sean Ongley

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hey, i run the web station http://www.luver.com. could we run your show on it?

and i’m sending this out to my lists so when folks are gigging in portland, they should contact you!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Reality Playings poster is up!

COME TO PLAY!

http://www.eroplay.com/events.html

REALITY PLAYINGS:
experiments in experience/participation performance

Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos. Bring your passions and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)

First date February 21, 2009
8pm

TEMESCAL ARTS CENTER
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058
For more information
Call: 510-526-7858
email: fmoore@eroplay.com
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
http://www.temescalartscenter.org/

“…He’s wonderful and hilarious and knows exactly what it’s all about and has earned my undying respect. What he’s doing is impossible, and he knows it. That’s good art….” L.A. Weekly

Resisting “the easy and superficial descriptions…, Moore’s work challenges the consensus view more strongly in ways less acceptable than…angry tirades and bitter attacks on consumer culture.” Chicago New City

“If performance art has a radical edge, it has to be Frank Moore.” Cleveland
Edition

“Transformative…” Moore “is thwarting nature in an astonishing manner, and is fusing art, ritual and religion in ways the Eurocentric world has only dim memories of. Espousing a kind of paganism without bite and aggression, Frank Moore is indeed worth watching.” High Performance Magazine

“Surely wonderful and mind-goosing experience.” L.A. Reader

Dr Suzy on Nightline ABC-TV tonight! Eros Day X Tomorrow!

Friday, January 23, 2009
From: Dr Susan Block Institute
Subject: Dr Suzy on Nightline ABC-TV tonight! Eros Day X Tomorrow!


Watch Dr. Suzy on ABC-TV NIGHTLINE Tonight!

Dr Suzy & Brian Rooney on NIGHTLINE at the Speakeasy

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we will be watching, suzy.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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From: Barbara Golden
Subject: Re: Fw: Dr Suzy on Nightline ABC-TV tonight! Eros Day X Tomorrow!

saw her, she was GREAT.

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yep, she was very impressive and effective!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore


Re: theatre of note show

Dear Frank,

My name is Chuck Coffman. My girlfriend and I came out to support the Theatre of Note’s all night fundraiser. We attended an art opening in Silverlake and then had sushi in West Hollywood. Between us we had just enough money to see Addler’s Appetite, a great rock show at the Key Club or go & support the Theatre of Note and live theatre. Honestly, I wanted to rock out to some metal. But, we ended up choosing Theatre of Note and settled into an over packed theatre after laying down our forty dollars. We saw the anti-jesus piece. That was O.K., I wasn’t overly impressed. Then, a very funny guy came out and did a spoken word rant which was intelligent and funny. That was cool. The lights came up. We moved to better seats and settled in for the next skit. The lights went down and it was The Frank Moore performance. Honestly, Frank, your performance is the single most revolting and nausiating live performance I’ve ever witnessed. It was a scarring experience. I’m better now.My girlfriend, having been exposed to multiple theatre, performance, etc. and experimental shit,and,therefore, was not as affected as me. I did not whom you were. I did not know or understand that the guy in the wheel chair was “Frank Moore”.Your cast put the mic on you.I realized it was you. I made it thru the gig. Quite a few did not and had to excuse themselves. The next morning I thought about my experience and your performance and concluded that your confinement and situation has not trapped your ability to communicate and to create.I applaud that! What must be a glimpse into your soul and mind frightened and sickened me. I applaud your ability and gumption in getting it out there, making it happen. However, a mind as crisp as yours managed to disgust me and turn me off, not on. I’m glad I experienced a glimpse into the mind of Frank Moore, but saddened it was not much to see and little if any inspiration for anything to me.What art did you exhibit? Its a free country man, but c’mon…

I dig your website. I dig the underground anti-corporate thing. Maybe L.U.V.E.R will inspire me someway. Maybe some good will come from having subjected myself to your “performance”. I hope so. I busted my ass for that 40 bucks.

Sincerely,
Chuck Coffman

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thanks, chuck, for writing your response to my piece. we artists live for such letters…especially when the reactions to the art is so intense and powerful as yours. it means the art is working! i sympathize with you about spending your hard earned money…even though the note is a worthy cause…and missing the metal show to boot! doing the show cost me several thousand dollars! we live in berkeley. on the way down our transmission crapped out and on the way back the tire exploded, blowing a hole in the car’s body. that is over the normal cost of travel….hotel, food, etc.

i like how you are aware that you are continuing to work through my piece, and that the piece is continuing to work inside of you. i have had people who hated my performance right after who have come back years later and say the performance had a profound and positive effect in/on their lives. that is how art works. so hang in there.

what exactly made it revolting and nausiating and scarring and disgusting…and in what ways?

i’m glad you checked out the websites!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Hey Frank, Rich W. here…COMMENCEMENT

Hey Brother Frank.
Sorry you all got sick. I remember that happening last time you came to visit.
Overjoyed you have your own collection of richie werner art.
I was really happy with my piece for the first ten minutes- About halfway through the Manson piece.
Realized I had set my goals high for a 5AM performance. Had another coupla bits but drunk folk kept knocking puppets over backstage so I decided to quit while I was ahead and go for the paint.
I’ve been in training for the last month and a half to play a boxer in a show called FUBAR opening at NOTE in late April. Beautiful dark play. Very exciting role.
I’ve always felt as an actor one has to earn the right to play a role. Now I’m putting my money where my mouth is.
Gonna look like a monster when the show opens.
After the show closes I work at The Hollywood Bowl through early fall.
After that I might go visit my Brother in New Orleans where he lives. I’ve never been. I hear its a pretty amazing place.
Might try out for an up coming production of TITUS ANDRONICUS after that
but some time within this year I’d love to come to your neck of the woods for a weekend so lets talk about that soon my friend.
Sorry about the car problems as well. That stinks.
I really appreciate the all-stars making such a Herculean effort to be here.
Glad you had fun.
Thanks for bringing your literature as well. We still have a few copies in our lobby!

Here’s that piece you requested.
Happy to answer any questions about any of the artists I mentioned. I think you know most of them. Plenty of info on line as well.
Cheers!
Rich W.

COMMENCEMENT

repeat after me…

flea (r)
flea fly (r)
flea fly flo (r)
flea fly flo flum (r)
flea fly flo flum (r)
flea fly flo flum (r)
coomaladda coomaladda cooomalada viste (r)
anna annanaviste (r)
coomaladda coomaladda cooomalada viste (r)
anna annanaviste (r)
viste (r)
viste (r)
viste (r)
viste (r)
inimini picanlini oowa ochalini hatchi patchi cumarachi oowa ah
inimini picanlini oowa ochalini hatchi patchi cumarachi oowa ah (r)
ish bibaly oopm boopm omah ah ditn datn wanaaaaaatch…..
ish bibaly oopm boopm omah ah ditn datn wanaaaaaatch……

you muthafuckas tired yet?
it is i
the ghost of muthafuckin christmas past
here to give you last tidings
here to greet the baby new year with those big fweeken ears
and that sweet little pussy.
here to herald the beginning of the end
the last of the last stands man
change is here
change is here
what do we do now?
no need for the mal contents
no need for the poets …
and no pay for the players
the performance artists, the storytellers
what oh what oh what will become of us now?
whatever will be come of alllllllllll my heroes……………..
……………………………………………………….
this is for…
this is in tribute to…
this is in salute to…

to jack smith
and ethyl eichelburger and rachel rosenthal
and reza abdoh
and tom murin the alien comic
to jim turner
and annie sprinkle and penny arcade
and black eyed susan
to ellen stewart
to schecner
to vitali
to chaikin
to brook
to the becks and to becket and to……………………..
………………………………………….pinter.
To Lee Bruer and Fela Kuti
to Frank Moore and Brother Theodore
To Lenny Bruce and Eric Bagosian
To spalding…. to gregory nunzio corsco
to leguizamo and bob flannigan
to zappa and the mothers
to elizabeth lacompt and the wooster group
to kantor, to kovaks
to syd barret and arthur lee
to iggy and the stooges
to lou and the velvets
to andy… to jean- michell, to patti smith
to matthew barney, to ping chong to robert wilson
to the last poets and to bukowski
to ruth maleczeck and pamela gordon
to cbgbs and danceteria
to awsome alvin ailly and muthafuckin merce cunningham
to the kipper kids to mump and smoot
to the NEA4, and jim serano and maplethorp
to keith haring
to phillip newby
to johnny thunders
to joey ramone to ann magnusson
to lydia lunch and xene and john doe
to rockets redglare to john sex
to klaus nomi….
to peter ivers….

to daffy duck in a devil costume with a belly full of nitro

to a time when rock music and theatre made love and we could all just put on our headphones sit back and
freak out in a moon age daydream
oh yeah….

you are my role models, my collegues mr friends and my ancestors upon whos shoulders I stand.

remember scroogy old boy remember
to live each and every day in the past the present
and the future. (start track 2 bowie’s rebel rebel)
ish bibaly oopm boopm omah ah ditn datn wanaaaaaatch.
(sing rebel rebel)

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great piece, rich! it’s a honor to be on that list! i would add anna halprin, artaud, and the beats.

give us notice when you can come up and we’ll put you on the show’s schedule!

could you give me contact emails for vomit, culture clash, and alison arngram?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: request for a visit to santa barbara for graduate seminar in art history

Frank,

Yea! So glad others in the scholarly world are interested in your work. I will keep you updated as to the finding for your performance closer to the end of this semester.

Yours,
Shannon

PS I am also teaching your work here at UNC-CH in a intro to performance class!

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great, shannon! i first became aware in the late 80s that my work was being taught about in universities.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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