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Professor Mombooze-o performance
1987

Cuando Theater, New York, NY.

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.

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.

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.

Suburban Subversion

Performance art. Coleman crashes suburban parties in Connecticut with explosives strapped to his chest.

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