Performances

Professor Mombooze-o performance

1987

Cuando Theater, New York, NY.

The Uncle Floyd Show

1987

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

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.

Steel Tips

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.