(Erika wrote:)
Beautiful poster!
Category: fliers (Page 1 of 2)
Thanks for your reply.
I saw the article in the trib: my, you’re good looking!
I’ll try to attach a poem I wrote last weekend.
Blessings to you and your friends! alan
Pride for prayers they never get to hear
The kindnesses you gave me decades or weeks ago,
I’m treasuring them now. You dear.
Tho I can’t tap out emails, I send thoughts of thanks that you cannot hear.
35 years of treatment, & the old boy still does have the blues.
Today he’s feeling better in his head, wondering what it was the Isley Brothers said.
When you’re down & feel like giving up, it’s the pride.
When you’re sick, maybe on the street, it’s the pride.
It’s the pride that keeps you goin on. It’s the pride.
71 years alive, your children sometimes feel like a weight
you can’t hold.
Yet you cough up what support you can, tho you’re old.
You honor yourself anyway, loving them less than perfectly.
Or you hit the brain stroke
and can only gesture with an eyelid, so much work.
It’s the pride one afternoon makes you go for broke ,
and blink like a child.
When your loved one, and loved ones died it’s the pride.
It’s the pride polishes your memories, inside today,
that carries them tomorrow.
And when your pride evaporates to thin and gone, it’s the pride.
It’s the worth of your love starts you on again, from a hollow emptiness.
Could be before you expire, you’ll give
one last caring gasp of fire.
It will be the pride,
a value for the love of what’s outside you,
still occasionally scraping itself, still popping itself up
from the momentary ego that you were.
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Alan, all i can say to your great poem is EXACTLY!
would you like to be on my email community, THE E-SALON?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
for your kind words, Alan. I think Of the fliers as the first ring of a performance. Glad to hear they work!
I am recovering from two months in the hospital. So I don’t know when the next performance will be. Keep a lookout!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Lula, I like how you start on the street, looking at the flier. That is how my performance starts for most people. A performance isn’t just what happens within the theater. The seeing the fliers and the dynamic reactions that causes are the only aspect of the work most people touch. This aspect can last literally for decades! People actually collect our fliers! The fliers set off processes in some people. After years of seeing the fliers, they come to a performance.
As an example of the fliering aspect, Alexi and Corey last night did the fliering in Berkeley for tomorrow’s Oakland performance. Today…
“Here we packed up for the day, loaded up the truck, and were soon on the road … since the route to work went down Sacramento to Alcatraz, we got to see all of our fliering work fresh first thing in the morning … and all the people checking them out! It was like every corner there was another person standing at the crosswalk, waiting for the light to change, and standing reading the flier! Fun and satisfying! Would there be someone at the next corner …? Yes, there she is, reading the flier!”
In more non- linear paths, seeing our multi- color cars around town, walking past our houses, etc are all parts of the performance process [not to mention our public access show and LUVER]. All that comes together in the performance space.
This is also true for the reputation and myth that grows up around the work, etc. What is a sex cult? … or a leader of one? These images which grow lazily outside of the work, the artist cannot control or even live up to. If you are lucky, you can play with these expectations to explode them.
I like how you included our meeting up magically on FACEBOOK. We both were actively available, which is how magic works!
Most of my work is private performance like we did in the studio. I always wonder about guys who say “I like your tits “! Do they ever wonder why they don’t have what they think they want? I am after intimacy, closeness, going deep within aroused pleasure outside the narrow funnels with whole people [not just tits]. Don’t get me wrong… I liked rubbing your tits against my face. But I am going for more! And people feel that. So that opens things up.
Anyway, having a good title makes a performance much easier. That was why I was impressed by your title, “Prove You’re Not a Robot: Interactive Experiments in Fear-Art-Love.” Also having a “plant” who is open, eager and willing and who is prepared for the nudity and being erotic opens things up for everybody in a different way than the people like Linda and Erika [your Emilie] who have been with me for years. Your willingness changed things even before you did anything. When you acted from the willingness, it amplified the effect.
Btw, you were the only plant there. Katie from Omaha was just there. Of course, there is no way for you to know the true arrangement [unless you planted her there yourself!]. I did not even have to use my favorite line to fuzz reality up. The line is “BUT I MAY BE LYING!”
I didn’t use the word Eroplay at the performance, although the play in the performance happened to be Eroplay. You must have read ART OF THE SHAMAN which I wrote in the early nineties. Eroplay was the first physical [tanpanic] trance I “discovered.” Since then, I have discovered different tanpanic trances, etc. and different states of pleasure arousing states. I have included these in my work, especially as a response to the increasingly repressive trends in the society in the last twenty years. We were just getting to these tanpanic trances Saturday when we ran out of time.
Again the key to things getting so deep so fast was the people taking personal responsibility for doing it, for saying YES, for playing together outside of the normal boxes. It was not social, casual. It was extremely focused fun. If you wanted to “fuck” after it, it would have meant that the performance experience had been quickly absorbed back into the everyday level. But how you felt was still in the altered reality, which is really the core reality. In the mid- nineties I had to change the whole performance structure because people had absorbed it into the everyday level by making it into a pick-up scene… No magic, risk, or human connection.
There is more to say, but I will stop by saying our job as artists is always go to rocking town with abandon!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:14 PM
Subject: posters
Subject: posters
the posters were still up on university below shattuck when i brought the
mac in today!
mikee
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Bluehouse wrote:
that is awesome!! that is prime territory for the flier ripper … we put those up on Saturday afternoon!
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That’s funny, we’ve been tracking Jim Sharp’s work recently too–we think he’s been out of town for several days. The city clean up people haven’t seen him recently and his car isn’t around. We’re going to try to find him the morning he get’s back.
No word from the City Council on any progress…
Max
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maybe he moved! Ah, I can dream!
I was just cruising facebook and came across a post of one guy asking another guy about FRANK MOORE because a third friend just gave him a flier for my Saturday performance. So Jim, etc are failing!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
How does this sound for the email to the Dept. of Public Works in S.F. ….?
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To whom it may concern,
We left a message about the City of S.F. codes regarding the posting of signs on public property, and wanted to follow up on that voicemail. We put up fliers in San Francisco on a regular basis, and we follow religiously the guidelines laid out in the city codes and summarized in your online publication: “Tips for Legally Posting Signs on Public Property” http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfdpw_page.asp?id=111916
But we have encountered, now probably a half dozen times, DPW workers on the streets tearing down all the fliers posted on the poles, whether they have been posted in accordance with city codes or not. When we asked them about this, they told us that their supervisors tell them to take down every flier they see, that their supervisors told them that it is “graffiti”. Is this official DPW policy? And if so, how do you explain the clear conflict between what the official city codes say, what your website advises people regarding the posting of fliers, and what the DPW supervisors are telling their crews. Please let us know! Thanks!
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— Corey & Alexi
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the city isn’t following its own rules! Shocking!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
all of the sudden we are busy!
http://www.eroplay.com/events.html
The Underground Hit!
CRITIC’S CHOICE: East Bay Express
THE UNCOMFORTABLE ZONES OF FUN
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 musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Other than that, ADMISSION IS FREE! (But donations will be accepted.)
Saturday, March 27
8pm
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511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609-2058
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Call: 510-526-7858
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EROTIC FRICTION
a rare San Francisco appearance of
Frank Moore, world-known shaman performance artist
conducting an experience/participation performance
8 P.M.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
sliding scale of $5 to $25
Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-255-1155
info@sexandculture.org
http://www.sexandculture.org/
For more information, contact:
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fmoore@eroplay.com
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”His stamina is unrelenting, and the music goes on and on. I am repelled but stuck: I can’t turn away.”
San Francisco Weekly, 2001
“Best of the Bay Area!”
S.F Bay Guardian
“….San Francisco’s legendary Frank Moore…(is among)…the best and most influential artists in the discipline.”
L.A. Weekly 2003
“One of the few people practicing performance art that counts.”
Karen Finley, performance artist
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P-Form Magazine
“…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
I agree with you. I probably wouldn’t do it because it might be an invasion of privacy…or is it, I don’t know. But I wouldn’t antagonize her either.
Best,
KA
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no, because she is doing it in public. So she is fair game! And she is doing it to induce confrontation.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Frank, the thought came to mind of the crew posting some fliers that contain the image of your neighbor tearing down fliers.
Keep flying,
KA
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well, that would just give her juice and an opening for verbal abuse! She is the kind that even /especially when there’s a “friendly” relationship, she verbally abuses you! I got her to give us the cold shoulder! Much better!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
hey, Max! We caught you two addressing the city council last night on Channel thirty-three. You did good, as much as was possible. Keep in mind that the Mayor got caught on election eve taking all of the newspapers from the street bins because THE DAILY CAL endorsed his opponent Dean. So to him, it’s reasonable /acceptable what Jim is doing!
and Kriss used the line “GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS” also to explain, or slide over or whatever, the Mayor’s attempt at stupidity.
So that’s the context of last night.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore