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HONOR: Shared Bessie Award with Fred Holland in 1984.
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Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders collaboration
with Fred Holland, The Kitchen NYC, 1984. Photo:
Dona Ann McAdams
*STARS*
Overture to Knife/Tape/Rope, Collaboration with Jonathan Walker, PS 122, NYC, 1985
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PIVOTAL PERFORMANCE: Toss up:
• 1."Cowboys, Dreams and
Ladders" my favorite collaboration with Fred Holland, I got to ride a horse, meet a real cowboy in the Bronx and share
half the Bessie Award check with Fred.
• 2. "THEM" an intense piece. My first collaboration with Dennis
Cooper and Chris Cochrane. Got to dance with a dead goat.
• 3. "f/i/s/s/i/o/n/i/n/g" a solo that really
synthesized my art and my politics at the time, plus pictures of me naked made the papers.
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FAVORITE
PERFORMING EXPERIENCE: The prologue to "Knife/Tape/Rope" with Jonathan Walker.
I was blind folded, tied up, and we danced to Kate Bush on the wrong speed.
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MOST
TERRIFYING PERFORMING EXPERIENCE: OK, sticking my head inside that goat carcass in "THEM"
was no picnic.
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FAVORITE PROP: Tie:
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The recurring cinder block.
OR
• Carrying my Mom over my shoulder in "Relatives."
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HOBBIES: I have 17+ videotapes of films by the French pornographer Jean
Daniel Cadinot.
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READING LIST:
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"A Herd" and
"Safe" by Dennis Cooper;
• "Close
to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz;
• "Chelsea
Girls" by Eileen Myles;
• "Story of
the Eye" by Georges Bataille;
• "Public
Sex" by Pat Califia;
• "Into the Wild"
and "Into Thin Air"
by Jon Krakauer;
• "My Dead Face"
by Travis Jeppeson;
• Straight To Hell #s 29 thru 61 ( #s 31,32,33,37,38,39,55,56 missing; hint, hint).
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EARLY 80'S BRUSHES WITH FUTURE FAME:
• 1. Worked in a SoHo
restaurant, FOOD, alongside Joie Lee (Spike's sister) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). Customers of note -- Robert Mapplethorpe,
Duane Michals, David Byrne, Meryl Streep, Caroline Kennedy.
• 2. Had a substance fueled night in an Amsterdam hotel
with a "graffiti" artist who later had a posthumous one man show at the Whitney.
• 3. Shared an apartment
on the Lower East Side with the actor Steve Buscemi when he made his first film, "Parting Glances."
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FAVORITE MUSIC (in no particular order): Stereolab, Tricky, Magnetic
Fields /6ths, Outkast, Fat Boy Slim, MIMI, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Ween, Guided By Voices. Vintage Prince, Aretha, Nina Simone,
and Cesaria Evora.
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FAVORITE (non-porn) FILMS:
• "All About Eve,"
• "Julia,"
• "West
Side Story,"
• "Midnight Cowboy,"
• "Naked Killer,"
• "Naked"
• "Bound,"
• "The Producers"
• "The Manchurian Candidate"
• and "Flesh," "Heat," and "Trash"
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QUOTE: "This is
no dream, this is really happening," Rosemary, as she's being f•••ed by the Devil.
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RELATIVES Still
from the film by Julie Dash, 1989, with Pauline Houston Jones on my shoulder
THEM, 1986, PS 122, NYC. Collaboration with Chris
Cochrane (music), Dennis Cooper (text), Donald Fleming and Jonathan Walker (dance)
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