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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.
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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:
• 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:
• "A Herd" and "Safe" by Dennis Cooper;
• "Close
to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz;
• "Chelsea Girls" by Eileen Myles;
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"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,"
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"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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THEM, 1986, PS 122, NYC. Collaboration with Chris Cochrane (music), Dennis
Cooper (text), Donald Fleming and Jonathan Walker (dance)
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