Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:14 PM 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!
”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
“Frank Moore is one of my performance teachers.” Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
“…one of the U.S.’s most controversial performance artists,….” 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
POW! POW! POW! 2010 ACTION art festival wants some ACTION!
“The most radical Arts Festival I have experienced in San Francisco in many years”. Performance artist Guillermo Gomez Peña, commenting about POW!POW! 2009.
If you have a low tech body-based or time-based performance piece that is risky, outrageous, provoking and/or adventurous we are looking for YOU!…it just has to be pinche good!
POW!POW!POW!, the 3rd annual ACTION art festival in San Francisco is searching for fresh and original “cutting-edgy” action art works for 2010.
Are you willing to take more risks in your performances? Is there any performance/action art piece you always wanted to do, but couldn’t, because it didn’t fit into your funding organization’s agenda? Did you limit your artistic vision because you thought it might “offend” your PC grandmother or someone else? If so, your prayers have been answered! POW! POW! POW! 3rd annual ACTION art festival opens a free expression space for ANY kind of performance art!
About the festival: The only festival of its type, POW! POW! POW! encourages and supports performance artists to do…whatever they want! Unlike other funded festivals, POW! POW! POW! is a grass roots open-ended festival run by artists and for artists themselves. Triple POW! believes in radical and FREE expression and experimentation with no particular aesthetic, moral, political or social limitations. Since we are not funded, there are “no strings attached.”
In the spring of 2008 the first POW! mini-performance art festival was a huge success. We received press in the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other local publications. In 2009 POW! POW! sold out every night (the audience tripled from 2008) and received press from local publications. The 2010 version promises to take the festival to a new level of national and international recognition.
Selected works will be performed at a well-known performance venue (TBA) in San Francisco, California during our 3rd Annual ACTION art festival on October14th-17th, 2010.
What we ARE looking for: -Artists willing to speak up and talk back and who are not afraid to express themselves freely -Low tech or no tech, original, out of the box, risky, outrageous, provoking, adventurous, creative action work based on action and the human body… your imagination is the limit. (The curatorial criteria is originality not “quality”!)
You may submit: – Continuous installations (preferably interactive), no more than 4 hours in length – 20 minute or less live performance pieces – Video action art pieces
What POW!POW!POW! DOES NOT want to view: Anything that looks like conventional theater, dance, choreography, music or media work. If this is what you make, there are already hundreds of venues and festivals you can submit your work to.
The co- founders/curators/directors/producers of the festival are: gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo Alyssa Lee (of group A) Guest curator: Guillermo Gomez Peña
* Don’t forget to forward this call to interested loco/loca artists! *
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: POW!POW!POW! ACTION art festival www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart san francisco, CA october 2010 co-founded/produced/curated by: guillermo galindo AKA gal*in_dog + alyssa lee guest curator: guillermo gomez peña
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ok! How about a twenty minutes piece, AN UNLIMITED COMMUNICATION OF INTIMATE TRIBAL BODY, AN ADVENTURE INTO UNCOMFORTABLE JOY a participation exploration?
And /or THE CAVE OF THE EROTIC BEAST, a four hour installation?
well obviously we have discovered a powerful marketing word: UNCOMFORTABLE! Now I have to live up to expectations!
You’re making me uncomfortable!: Plan your weekend early. It looks like Temescal Arts Center is the place to be Saturday night if you want to do something out of the ordinary. The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun: experiments in experience/participation performance. “World-known shaman performance artist Frank Moore, will conduct improvised passions of musicians, actors, dancers, and audience members in a laboratory setting to create altered realities of fusion beyond taboos.” I’m not sure what that means, but the LA Reader called it a “mind-goosing experience” so that sound like something I’d like to be a part of. The announcement says to bring your passions and musical instruments and your senses of adventure and humor. Admission is Free!
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.)
2010 Dates! Saturday, April 24 Friday, May 21 Saturday, June 26 Saturday, July 31 Saturday, August 28 Saturday, September 25 Friday, October 22 Friday, November 19 Friday, December 17
“…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
“Merging improv, erotica, entertainment, religion and ritual, Frank Moore – self-styled shaman, world-renowned disabled performance artist, and 2008 presidential candidate ….” – East Bay Express
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
”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
“Frank Moore is one of my performance teachers.” Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
“…one of the U.S.’s most controversial performance artists,….” 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
Hello Frank, my name is gabriel, and i attended your event on saturday night. i was inspired and moved by the peice, particularly the effect that it had on sarah, the young woman who partnered with you for gestures. after the show, a group of us went out to the essex, a hot tub in a private backyard in berkeley and continued the loving. much touch was shared and a beautiful time was had by all. at one point, we remarked that it was very true that you “get results”. the eight of us probably would not have had this connection without you, and i am very grateful. here is some poetry that we have shared with each other about the experience.
La Loba, the wolf-woman, is on my mind come morning. Did you know her only job is to collect the bones? She collects the bones of wolves and puts them back together again. She makes them alive again. Put us back together again. Better than food, better than sleep and more than either. Forget that you’re hungry and tired. My mind is riddle short-circuited tonight, and we are ageless in this moment. A boy jumps up and down toward the moon, unashamed to be naked. A couple faces each other in meditation. Two people hold each other. A radiant girl spreads her arms and lets the moonlight fill her. We are glowing the most delicate pale blue in the dark, and my eyes will be singing this for days. I never want to paint anything but this. I can never paint this. In the circle we made, I am breathing in your breath as you breathe mine. Did you know the ancient Hawaiians kissed like this? honi, breath is sacred. Now we’re feeling the power of an arm extended, of yes, come here and be with me. We’re feeling the pain of scalding hot water against skin. yes and thank you. I don’t know any other words. Prayer is in every look, touch, and longing. Prayer is in the way the beauty brands your soul. Give up your comfort for this. yes and thank you and yes. My feet are grounded in the earth and nothing is wrong. Can you feel all this life running through you? Until I saw that moon, I had forgotten that I could feel so much wonder. thank you thank you thank you. The joy makes us run through the streets. -Hope Zane
we stand naked and steaming, four men and four women, limbs intertwined touch flows between us like the wind through a stand of trees, our hands know what to do, where to go, what spot is in need of that medicine, that magic, that tender shock of electricity that is a kind hand, delicately placed, a reminder that we are alive, that we are loved. our bodies and our breath meld with the moonlight, we sink into the ground, our roots run together like the redwood trees above us, we draw sustenance up from the earth, from each other. oh to be human, naked and human and holding other humans. to open ourselves to desire, and to fulfillment. we give and we receive, with no expectation of reciprocality or fairness, only with the knowledge that we are all holding each other in tender fingers, that we are all one skin, one breath, one body, one earth. -Gabriel Vieira (me)
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great to hear that the performance went on, Gabriel!
Thanks for having me at your performance the other night. I hope I didn’t offend anybody by answering your questions as monosyllabically as possible. Mainly the reason I said only “no” when asked to tell how I felt was that I mostly don’t understand feelings, particularly my own, and I was unable to suss out how I felt at that time. If you have any advice as to how to get better at that, I’d be interested to hear it.
Cheers, — -Doug
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hey, Doug, if you offended anyone, fuck em for having limiting pictures! It is perfectly understandable to need time to digest it. it was obvious that you enjoyed it.
Try just start talking and see what comes out! I rarely know what’s going to come out of me!
