Performances

“Original Sin” lecture and film screening
1999

during “Original Sin” exhibition, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT.

An audience with the artist
1998

Q&A at UK launch party for Original Sin, Horse Hospital, London.

Clayton Patterson Presents: Joe Coleman
1998

Staten Island, NY: M/W/F Video Club. Verité video portrait by Patterson (created in 1989), including excerpts from performances and a brief tour of the subject’s Odditorium of the era; (originally aired on Manhattan Neighborhood Network).

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R.I.P.: Rest in Pieces
1997

Directed by Robert Pejo, Prisma Films. A feature-length documentary about Coleman and his art, with appearances by Hasil Adkins, Jim Jarmusch, and Harold Schechter. Distributed to theaters in New York, Los Angeles, England, France, Austria, Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere.

“End is Near!” lecture
1996

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.

“Cult Rapture” lecture/screening
1993

Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.

Sideshow Barker
1993

Coleman performs as a sideshow barker at Coney Island during filming of R.I.P: Rest in Pieces

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Trail of Blood
1993

A film by Ari Roussimoff. Coleman plays a criminologist.

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Black Hearts Bleed Red
1992

An independent film by Jeri Cain Rossi based on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Coleman plays a major role as The Misfit.

Joe from Shadows in the City
Shadows in the City
1990

Directed by Ari Roussimoff. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World of the Lower East Side meets Dante’s Inferno. Coleman plays Mephisto. There are cameos by many New York Underground legends including Jack Smith, Nick Zedd, Annie Sprinkle, Kembra Pfahler to name a few.

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