Performances

Professor Mombooze-o performance
1987

Cuando Theater, New York, NY.

Professor Mombooze-o performance
1986

Wooster Gallery, New York, NY.

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Where Evil Dwells
1985

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

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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.)

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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.

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Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
1979

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

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Uncle Ted’s Ghoul Show
1978

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

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

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Steel Tips
1976

1976-1980
Coleman performs with The Steel Tips at various nightclubs, strip clubs, bars, a prison, an insane asylum, and a benefit for female alcoholics at a church in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area.

Panhandling performances
1976

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

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