Performances

Retinal Stigmatics: An Evening With Joe Coleman
2005

A live multimedia midnight mass. Fantasia Festival, Toronto, Canada.

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Llik Your Idols
2003

A documentary by Angelique Bosio, produced in France. Coleman is featured, along with Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, and others.

disinformation: The Complete Series
2003

2-disc DVD set. Includes Richard Metzger’s interview with Joe, originally aired on the BBC. Other artists include Norbert Kox and Paul Laffoley.

Joe Coleman with producer Alex Poots, Olivia Garcia, and Madena Bennett, as well as members of Scottish band The Delgados, who performed live at the Barbican Theatre, London, to accompany a film of Coleman’s portraits.
Someplace in Nowhere
2001

Coleman’s opera. A film created by Coleman featuring his paintings. The first section, of humanscapes, was accompanied by the music of Carlo Gesualdo, Coleman’s favorite medieval composer and performed by a live choir, The Clerk’s Group. The second section, of portraits, was accompanied by specially composed music performed live by of The Delgados. “Outsider/Music” at the Barbican Theatre, London England.

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Someplace in Nowhere
2001

“Festspillene-Bergen International Festival” Bergen, Norway May 30th and 31st, 2001 Joe’s “opera” performed with original score by norwegian band, “Motorpsycho”

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Scarlet Diva
2000

Asia Argento wrote, starred and made her directorial debut in this semi-autobiographical feature about her life as a young Italian film star. She cast Coleman in the role of an American producer based on her own personal traumatic experience with Harvey Weinstein.

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Exploding Preacherman
2000

at Disinfo.com Conference, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY. Coleman resurrects Professor Mombooze-o to get in touch with the Spirit-God of Explosives for his painting The Big Bang Theory. The remains of the shirt worn during this performance are later incorporated into the painting.

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Collectors
2000

A documentary about serial killer art collector/dealer Rick Staton by Julian Hobbs. Coleman appears as a talking head, along with his own collection and some of his paintings.

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The Coleman/Ward Wedding
2000

The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on 11/11/00. Marriage as spectacle, celebration, and performance art. Trapeze artists, dwarves, sword swallowers, guests in costume, and catered delicacies— only of foods with their heads still attached. A ventriloquist’s dummy performed the ritual.

Click HERE to view a slideshow of the wedding.

Lecture followed by performance by Hasil Adkins
1999

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore.

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