Performances

The Uncle Floyd Show
1987

Coleman as “Mad Dog” performs with Steel Tips, The Uncle Floyd Show (New Jersey cable TV)

Pranks! TV
1987

Produced by RE/search Publications, San Francisco. Andrea Juno interviews five of the featured artists in the Pranks! book, including Coleman, Karen Finley, Boyd Rice, Frank Discussion and Mark Pauline. Features rare footage from early Mombooze-o performances.

Professor Mombooze-o performance
1986

Wooster Gallery, New York, NY.

Where Evil Dwells
1985

Written and directed by Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz. Coleman plays Satan to Rockets Redglare’s Jesus.

Professor Mombooze-o at The Kitchen
1981

The Kitchen, New York, NY. First art-world performance as exploding geek Professor Mombooze-o. (See description in essay by Haden-Guest.)

Ten-year high-school reunion
1980

Performance as Doug Sprag, Oceanside, Long Island. Coleman impersonates a deceased class member, exploding and disappearing at the end of the evening. Police arrive to find that the perp has been dead for years.

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
1979

a film by Manuel DeLanda, co-written by Joe Coleman

Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches
1978

Manuel DeLanda-  (1978, 18 minutes, 16mm):

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF goes gaga in this optically-printed masterpiece featuring a very surprise appearance by Professor Mamboozoo (artist Joe Coleman). Joe Coleman First appearance on film

Uncle Ted’s Ghoul Show
1978

(Pennsylvania cable TV) Coleman cameos on the set as a “monster robot” and Rondo the Self-Decapitating Wonder.

Panhandling performances
1976

1976-1977
Coleman wanders New York City streets as a scarred, one-legged derelict.

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