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Asia Argento & Friends at Salo/Paris
2017

Asia Argento presents two nights of perfomrances featuring, Joe Coleman, Lydia Lunch, Anthony Bourdain and more,.

One on One installation at the KW Institute for Contempoary Art Berlin
2013

Visitors entered a room in total darkness. A bright light shines on a man sitting at a table and painting toy soldiers. The table is covered with a brutal battle scene.
Joe is portrayed by several actors of different genders and ethnicities.

Retinal Stigmatics: An Evening With Joe Coleman
2005

A live multimedia midnight mass. Fantasia Festival, Toronto, Canada.

Someplace in Nowhere
2001

Coleman’s opera. A film created by Coleman featuring his paintings. The first section, of humanscapes, was accompanied by the music of Carlo Gesualdo, Coleman’s favorite medieval composer and performed by a live choir, The Clerk’s Group. The second section, of portraits, was accompanied by specially composed music performed live by of The Delgados. “Outsider/Music” at the Barbican Theatre, London England.

Someplace in Nowhere
2001

“Festspillene-Bergen International Festival” Bergen, Norway May 30th and 31st, 2001 Joe’s “opera” performed with original score by norwegian band, “Motorpsycho”

The Coleman/Ward Wedding
2000

The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on 11/11/00. Marriage as spectacle, celebration, and performance art. Trapeze artists, dwarves, sword swallowers, guests in costume, and catered delicacies— only of foods with their heads still attached. A ventriloquist’s dummy performed the ritual.

Click HERE to view a slideshow of the wedding.

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