T’as raison,
But we’re the 31th and I’m going to “jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam” tonight 😛
Happy new years Frank 🙂
Rafael
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love those hot jams!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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“I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love”
Now, why don’t I get any girl “Frankly” telling me that ?
Guess I don’t know the right girls 😀
You lucky beast, Frank 🙂
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well, i never have believed in the concept of THE RIGHT GIRL… Or in RIGHT…. Or in GIRL… or in GETTING…
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
hi, penny! We here just watched a great low Budget film, BLAST OF SILENCE shot in New York City in 1961. in the bonus features there is a slide show of the locations then and now [’07]. In one NOW shot is one of your performance posters.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Hey Frank–here’s my write up! See you at 3 pm.
I came to “Uncomfortable Zones of Fun” because I wanted to see what performance art could be. It was actually one three performance art pieces I went to see that weekend. Walking into the space decorated with brightly colored paintings, strange costumes, and the artist himself, Frank Moore, sitting in a wheelchair communicating through an interpreter set the stage for my discomfort. As the night went on with narrative from the artist, questions and challenges for the audience, and performances from fellow artists opened me up a tiny bit to what was going on. Some acquaintances ducked out early. They were offended. I told my friend I wanted to stay just a little longer. As I said this a non-descript man sat next to me and started slowly shedding cloths while donning a woman’s wig and lipstick. This made it more clear that I was still right there with the discomfort. As the artist came to me to ask me my first question of the night I decided I wanted to claim what I was feeling, I value authenticity. I responded I was uncomfortable and in saying this it began to dawn on me. The artist who must had made many people uncomfortable in his lifetime was creating a space to express that and engage people in what they invariably turn away from in their life: personal differences such a disability, sexuality, and each other. In the moment I claimed what I was feeling I connected to some of what Frank was expressing. I just returned from a 4-month artists’ residency and I had spent the last six weeks looking for work to support my artwork. I hadn’t found anything and I was feeling beat and hopeless. That night something shifted in me. I felt like a whiney kid. Of course I can make my art, Frank proved to me despite monumental personal and societal obstacles you can express your deepest experiences by creating space for others.
Maggie Lawson
Artist
Arts and Community Education Director
Eye to Eye: art, travel, activism
www.arttravelactivism.org
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what a great write-up, Maggie! glad that the performance gave you hope! Actually your staying gave you hope! And trust allowed you to stay! [btw, the masked guy (turns out to be an architect) has been coming to the performances for years to have a place to be nude at.]and last night getting together with you in my studio was fun. And it was another milestone in my getting back to my normal work after not even being in my studio since May. I was still doing fine after our three hour session!
so when do you want to come back? We could read my ART OF A SHAMAN, the lecture I wrote in the early nineties for NYU. It may answer some of your questions. We are now getting ready to put it out as a hard back photo book [with no money!].
Next week I am free Wednesday (jan fifth) at three o’clock P.M. does that work for you?In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Philip Huang commented on your note “last performance of the year”.
Philip wrote: “This is a very thorough account of the show. I keep thinking about what that man said, that our bodies are just meat, and what frightens me is my own reluctance to confront my own vanity and shame. He’s right, we’re just meat. And Frank’s right–comfort is the ultimate means of control.”
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Philip, I think our bodies are bacon cheese burgers. Our bodies are meant to be loved and play with, to have fun with. They are instruments of love. They are the tip of the iceberg of who we are. But they are definitely a part of who we are.
glad that the performance made you confront whatever. Art should do that. I don’t know what shame is. And I am too cute to be vane!
We shouldn’t confuse real comfort with “zones of comfort,” which really are prisons of fragility making people easier to control and to limit. Real comfort is extremely flexible and supple and absorbent and inclusive, warm juicy! It Sticks to your ribs when you journey outside of the margins.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(Frank wrote:)
We have an extra copy of the Billy Bob Thornton movie, “Badder Santa”. Would you like to have it?
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HI Frank,
We don’t need it but thanks for the offer! I enjoyed that movie more than I thought I would.
I hope you had a good Christmas. I survived mine, not my favorite holiday by any stretch. I still get bitter that being a Jew I have to do anything on Christmas but we can get into that rant later.
First my thoughts on the show, and I am still thinking about it. One of the things I thought about the most and afterward was the notion of uncomfortable. I found it interesting that nudity is one of the main things you use to get people uncomfortable, why do you think that is? While other people’s nudity does not make me uncomfortable I know that I would not have been willing to get naked so obviously I have some major level of uncomfortableness with it. I would also love to see a show where people get just as uncomfortable without taking off their clothes. I would have liked to hear more from all the people there, it was very interesting to me why they came and how they were feeling. I loved the reading of the poem, to me that was the perfect example of someone feeling uncomfortable with what was happening around her but participating and getting really into it. Her reading was awesome. What made me most uncomfortable of all was that I would be asked to do something I didn’t want to do, and that it wouldn’t be ok if I didn’t want to do it. I have generally avoided group participation activities for that reason, and in a larger sense have always felt like an outsider in this country for that reason. I don’t stand for the national anthem because this is not the land of the free, and it should be my right not to, but that somehow makes me unpatriotic. But I realized at that show that I trust you, and even more that I am ok with myself so I did feel that uncomfortableness go away and I had a lot of fun. The reason I came was to see you perform. I would say that 90% of the people I work with don’t get better, and in fact most get worse. It is really emotionally taxing to spend that much time with a group of people who know that they can no longer do the things they love and who are so sad. The opportunity to see someone who I met when he was recovering from some major medical catastrophes and came to care about back up on stage doing something he loves was the most fun for me. I also think that in a lot of ways doing therapy with you was a zone of uncomfortable fun. I struggle with the profession of swallowing for many many reasons. Here was this guy who if I listened to the textbooks, and to other colleagues, and to lawsuit happy America I would have believed shouldn’t be eating. But I have always believed in quality of life and not giving into fear, and as I got to know you and be more comfortable with all of you it became really fun to challenge the naysayers and watch you eating. It was also fun to let go of my worries. You were also my first home trach, I have always worked with a team of nurses and respiratory therapists who are helping me monitor things. But I tell you, Linda and Mikee were the best team I could have asked for.
Please add me the e-salon email list! And I am glad I have become family. I hope things are going well, I will discuss movies in the next email.
Love Miriam
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welcome to the e-salon, Miriam!
Hey, Bad Santa is a Jew, or at least his girlfriend is.
the nudity and eroticism are quick Tools [at least in this uptight country] to get under /beyond the casual, social, the normal, and other margins which keep people away from freedom so that we will start exploring, playing together tribally. And it works. People come to the “audience participation experiential performance ” with that context clearly displayed. So they came for that, even if they don’t know exactly what that means or includes. Not knowing exactly is the spice of life. Trust is the key to unlocking the “zones of comfort” [which really are prisons of fragility]. Really the trust I am speaking of doesn’t have a subject. You trust me because you trust yourself because you trust life. That trust is a rugged comfort.
I am getting together with Maggie [who read my poem] Wednesday!
Well, if I didn’t have you and Kerbavaz who are willing to go against the prevailing expectations, it would have been much harder for me to beat the curse of their expectations, judgments, projections. This curse is most certainly why I ended up in the ICU in the first place! [they couldn’t ask me if I was breathing ok!] Of course I would be dead without my tribal body of Linda, Mikee, Corey, Alexi and Erika. And there are the hundreds of people who kicked my ass not to die and gave us what we needed to survive. Of course all of that came from a lifetime of living outside of the prevailing expectations, building tribal relationships, exploring erotically!
Hey, if they were so wrong about me, wonder how many of your other patients they are wrong about!
NO CAN NOTS
By
FRANK MOORE
Sunday, April 28, 2002
Talking to future healers
& teachers
& maybe future
muckrakers & troublemakers
Well,
Not really future
Because hopefully
You are doing IT
RIGHT NOW!
Hopefully
I’m not talking to the future guards
Of the corporate normalcy
Armed with can nots,
Limiting futures from birth,
Enforcing coloring only within the lines,
Enforcing doing everything
THE RIGHT WAY
THE NORMAL WAY
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
I would know you anywhere, Stavros!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Hi Frank
Yes I want to be on E-SALON!
I will send my commentary on the performance soon, life has just gotten busy and complicated all of a sudden. Must be the impending holidays. I don’t even have a stay in the hospital to blame 😉
Hope you are well
Miriam
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welcome to the E-SALON, Miriam!
can’t wait for your commentary!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL
tape #185
58 minutes
hosts: Tim, Ruth
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9. Lip Cream “Grasser”
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14. Massacre
15. Koalit Kukat
16. Mewaka
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19. Frightwig
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(to Vinnie & Jacqueline:)
your card arrived yesterday. Ok, you two win again, although it pushed “Xmas” beyond the breaking point! Would you email the original photo before the special effects so I can paint you two?
Last night I was searching on the web for a photo for my next painting and ended up with a nasty computer virus
which was hard to get rid of! so people need to send me sexy nude photos for me to paint!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore