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Let Me Be Frank
Episode 15 – Sex?

In "Sex?", Frank talks about his own experience of sexuality and physicality through the 1960s and into the early 70s. His public and private performances during this time were experiments in "using the excited, aroused, pleasurable energy in the context of art, of playing, relationship-building -- not in the context of sex." Frank describes how these experiments "reached a climax" in his 1970s Berkeley workshop during the years of the Outrageous Beauty Revue where the group explored new possibilities of physical play, the concept of “marriage”, and Moore examines the results of this experiment.

"Sex?" also features a reading of Frank's poem, "Locked In/Locked Out" from his performance series, "The Uncomfortable Zones of Fun", and a surprise bonus segment!

The reading is by Carl Off, anthropologist, filmmaker, artist, and musician. Music by Frank Moore, Michael LaBash, Sander Roscoe Wolff, Hop-Frog's Drum Jester Devotional, and The Leeches.

Episode 14 of the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series, “Playing With Reality” explores Frank Moore’s 48-hour performance processes, “back to the core of the ritual work”. During the same period as the Outrageous Beauty Revue, in the late 1970s, Frank started creating 48-hour pieces, altered realities centered around one person, “the pilgrim”, who signed up to obtain a list of life goals.

“Playing With Reality” takes us into the backstage of Moore’s work, describing how he was able to create a liminal performance state, melting normal reality with dream reality for the pilgrim, an “awake dream where all things were possible”.

The reading is by Kenneth Atchley, American composer, noise, drone and video artist, and member of the S.F. Bay Area electronic music community. Music by Kenneth Atchley, Stephen Emanuel and Vinnie Santino.

“Playing With Reality” features film footage and photos from the 48-hour processes themselves, as well as Frank singing “I Am Woman” at L.A.C.E. in Los Angeles in 1992.

The episode also features “48-hour Process”, the 7th installment of “How To Handle An Anthropologist”, a recurring animated feature in the Let Me Be Frank series, from the new book by the same name.

Let Me Be Frank
Episode 13 – The Plot of Fame and Good Taste

In Episode 13 of the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series, Frank explores the power and effect of art rooted in private rituals/private performances, how this “Shamanistic Art” is needed to expand limited frames around art and creativity, and how art rooted in private channels is better able to resist the need for audience acceptance and societal pressures to tame the art down. Frank also explains his resistance to using the limiting label of “Sexual” to describe his art. This episode features footage from The Outrageous Beauty Revue, one of the major public performances created by Frank Moore that ran for 3 ½ years at the punk venue, the Mabuhay Gardens, in San Francisco in the late 1970s.

Art of a Shaman – Part 1 is a new video presentation of shaman performance artist Frank Moore’s book by the same name. It features readings of the first 10 chapters of the book, with photos, film and video footage from Frank’s life and performances. The chapter readings are by people who played an important part in Frank’s life.

Art of a Shaman - Part 1 includes the chapters, “A Lucky Guy”, “A Wounded Healer”, “Art of Reshaping Reality”, “Roots of Performance”, “A Channel, not a Creator”, “Learning the Trickster’s Art”, “Nonfilms”, “Art of Risking”, “Time, Community, Inter-Relations”, and “Theater of Human Melting”.

Episode 12 in the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series features the “tacky, wildly colorful loud show of bad taste” that was the Outrageous Beauty Revue. In the late 1970s, the OBR was one of the major public performances created by Frank Moore that ran for 3 ½ years at the punk venue, the Mabuhay Gardens, in San Francisco. In this episode, Frank explores the deeper purposes and hidden dimensions of what appeared to be a wild cabaret show performed by untrained people “just for fun”, and describes the vision the show came from, and which runs throughout Moore’s work: “to create trances and realities which will bring change.”
“Outrageous Beauty Revue” features still photos and video footage of many of the acts from this show. Readings by Vinnie Spit Santino and Steve Davis.
Episode 12 also features “Black Flag’s Audience”, the 6th segment from “How To Handle An Anthropologist”, a recurring animated feature in the Let Me Be Frank series, from the soon-to-be-published book by the same name.

Music by Michael LaBash, Leila & The Snakes, Frank Moore & Vinnie Spit Santino, Vinnie Spit Santino, Gary Ponder, and Mr. Lucky.

Let Me Be Frank
Episode 11 – Workshop of Demands

“Workshop of Demands”, the eleventh episode in the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series, focuses on the early days of Frank’s Berkeley workshops on intimacy and relationships, and the community and early performances that grew out of them. This chapter explores how the freedom, honesty and vulnerability of the workshops set the stage for innocent, outrageous and erotic public performances, parades and rehearsals, including Frank’s first performances at the late 1970s San Francisco punk mecca, The Mabuhay Gardens. Readings by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mac.
The episode also features “The Beginning of the Outrageous Period”, the 5th installment of “How To Handle An Anthropologist”, a recurring animated feature in the Let Me Be Frank series, from the soon-to-be-published book by the same name.

Episode 11 also includes Moore’s “An Open Letter to Jesse Helms”, read by Edna Floretta.

Music by Michael LaBash, Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den Jams, Dr. Gruve (Russell Shuttleworth), Vinnie Spit Santino, The Family Curse, and Tha Archivez.

Let Me Be Frank
Episode 10 – Theater of Human Melting

Episode 10, “Theater of Human Melting”, of the LET ME BE FRANK web documentary series, is now available for viewing. Readings by Canadian performance artist, new media artist, writer and curator Paul Couillard, and artist Edna Floretta. Episode 10 follows Frank and his communal family from New York City to Berkeley, California, and describes the beginning of what would become an intimate community of 30 people, evolving out of Frank’s workshops, and personal sessions with a Berkeley psychic teacher. Frank describes his approach to these sessions and workshops with a freedom and willingness to risk, using anything to break through to “controlled folly” and intimacy. Also included is Frank meeting Linda Mac, who would become his life-long partner in shamanistic crime.

We are now serializing Frank Moore's book of poetry and paintings, Skin Passion!

From Skin Passion by Frank Moore

Chapter 25 - The Ghostly Fingers of Abstraction
http://jukepop.com/home/read/10035?chapter=25

You can buy the printed book here!
http://www.eroplay.com/skinpassion/index.html#order

CAPTION
“Flower Power”, digital painting, 2010 by Frank Moore

We are now serializing Frank Moore's book of poetry and paintings, Skin Passion!

From Skin Passion by Frank Moore

Chapter 24 - River Vision
http://jukepop.com/home/read/10035?chapter=24

You can buy the printed book here!
http://www.eroplay.com/skinpassion/index.html#order

CAPTION
“Sunset Rise”, digital painting, 2010 by Frank Moore

We are now serializing Frank Moore's book of poetry and paintings, Skin Passion!

From Skin Passion by Frank Moore

Chapter 23 - Just Between Us
http://jukepop.com/home/read/10035?chapter=23

You can buy the printed book here!
http://www.eroplay.com/skinpassion/index.html#order

CAPTION
“Kittee”, digital painting, 1999 by Frank Moore