Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Fw: My lecture (Russell Shuttleworth)

I'm impressed...very cool words and feelings...

Russell

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indeed!

Hey, Russell. The skype video online phone is amazing! Also I'm trying out Aurora word predict software. It has cut my keystrokes by seventy percent at least! I am trying to get funding [$350] for the software. Anyway between skype and Aurora, our work together over the computer might be much easier than in the studio!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

never know what we will find!

Annie, when we were searching our archives for that Adam interview we found a a folder full of amazing shit. And one of the things was a type written transcript [with hand written corrections] of your interview with Karen Finley that day in your apartment. We will hand Jen put it into a word file and give you a copy. We will xerox a copy for you. I have no idea how we got it!

today Shannon, the teacher of the class, said that you are going to be at their campus in North Carolina. She said she would love to show you around the campus, etc. She's thinking about teaching about you and me next semester!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Fw: My lecture (Rafael-alexandre Ramos)

yep... How often do we have an opportunity to open and /or corrupt the minds of a classroom of southern Baptists?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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[Rafael-alexandre Ramos wrote:]

crack them open Frank :P

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cracked!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: My lecture (Ruth Spivak) II

[Ruth Spivak wrote:]

I envy you for that one!

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yes, Ruth, today's class was extremely amazing on many levels. Shannon is a great teacher and host. She had prepared the students so their questions were deep and complex, coming to my work from wherever their individual passions were... Politics, Justice, intimacy, music, playing, etc... But getting my work. And the skype video online phone created a two-way intimacy. It is like being in a cave together, seeing and hearing one another. Just that opens both a new dimension /medium for performance and a new type of performance... Without space that you need to travel through to get to the performance... True, there is no physical touch between physical bodies. But there may be ways to get around this. One student said she was interested in doing a private performance with me in this way, and there was talk of doing a three hour performance with me here and them there in North Carolina in their theater. This opens a lot up!

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: My lecture (Ruth Spivak)

[Ruth Spivak wrote:]

Very impressive.

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yep... How often do we have an opportunity to open and /or corrupt the minds of a classroom of southern Baptists?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

Re: an interview from the past! (Annie Sprinkle)

Ahh, memories. Or should I say mammaries?
Yes, Frank and Linda took NYC by storm.

One correction, Karen was already very well known before I got into doing performance art.
YOU (Frank and Linda) and company would stay in my manhattan apartment when in town. That was fun.
Maybe you can one day post the photos and interview I did of you for some sex magazine. I think it was ADAM mag.
Mondo New York was a fun film.
KEEP IT UP.

Annie
PS-- Beth and I will move back to San Francisco in July, which will be nice. Would love to get to one of your performances soon. I could use a hit.

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ah yes, Annie! Memories [of your mammaries!]! Karen was known in the art world then. We had known her a couple years. It turned out that she had come to the Outrageous beauty revue when she was a stripper in the late seventies.

Linda searched our archives for that Adam interview but could not find it, which is strange because we kept everything since the mid seventies. Then I remembered that was the period when Debbie was stealing my stuff. So do you have a copy? I know that is a long shot because of your houseboat fire... But...

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

i'm flattered!

Corey called the Berkeley Daily Planet about the fact that they had not listed the Temescal performance in this week's issue. Under March 21st, there was no heading for Theater, as if there were no Theater events that day. Last month, they had listed us for two straight weeks, because the calendar spanned that much time. We had been listed as Theater. Corey told all this to the woman who picked up when he pushed the line for the Arts & Entertainment calendar. Her first response was maybe they just didn't get the listing ... Corey said, "Oh ..." and started looking for the email he had sent them, but then she asked, "What was it?" Corey told her that it was called "Reality Playings", a performance by Frank Moore ... She said, "Oh ... well, you know, we get a lot of complaints about Frank Moore ..." They had chosen not to list the performance. Corey asked if they got complaints about simply listing Frank's performances? "Yes. Its not exactly 'family fare' ... Frank does have his detractors ..." Corey asked if they only listed calendar events that were "family fare"? She said, "Well no ..." She said that they edit the calendar, its not an open thing, they have the right to decide what they want and don't want to include ... they don't always list everything they get, don't always list things every time ... She said that "adults only" listings were less likely to be listed, and that they often recommended that people just buy an ad.

In Freedom,
Frank Moore