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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.

Ancient Future Times:
The Future Isn't What it Used to Be,
But the Ancient Future Is at 40th Anniversary
http://www.ancient-future.com/newsdec2018.html

Ancient Future Times:
The Future Isn't What it Used to Be,
But the Ancient Future Is at 40th Anniversary
http://www.ancient-future.com/newsdec2018.html

Three days in the desert*

Curated by Sadia Shirazi, independent curator, writer and architect

Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 26, 6 – 8pm

Exhibition Dates: September 26, 2018 – November 25, 2018
Hours: Weekdays 10am – 6pm, and weekends 12 - 6pm
Free and open to the public

Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present Three days in the desert guest curated by Sadia Shirazi. The exhibition will be on view at the Printshop from September 26 – November 25, 2018 with a public reception on Wednesday, September 26, 6 – 8pm.

Ancient Future Times: Concerts, Contributions, and Contest with 13 Ways to Win

July 2018 Friday the 13th Issue:

Ancient Future Performs at Throckmorton Theatre 7/28
•Featuring Matthew Montfort (Guitar), Georges Lammam (Violin), Antoine Lammam (Percussion), and Doug McKeehan (Keys)

Contribute to the World Fusion Music Movement
•Ancient Future Now Accepts Tax Deductible Contributions Through InterMusic SF!

Summer Tour Stops
•Performances in California and Nevada

Musical Scavenger Hunt Contest

Deadline: June, 1st 2018

Since the world is made this way, our dreams must be even more tenacious.
Abdellatif Laâbi

In France, and not only as the events were global, the year 2018 will see here and there thrilling or pathetic celebrations of the lovely month of May 1968.
In our case, the poetic and emancipatory vibe of the hundred thousand flowers of May continue to stimulate delightfully our imagination. And our nostalgia is only for the future.

We have the dream of a spring which will make us see May 1968 (events) as a poor rehearsal of the great international upheaval to come:
Culture will not anymore be the rattle of the privileged few in desperate search of thrills.