Background
Moore, Frank James was born on June 25, 1946 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of James F. and Constance (Chidester) Moore.
(Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1...)
Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1990, Art of a Shaman explores performance and art in general terms as being a magical way to effect change in the world. Using concepts from modern physics, mythology and psychology, Moore looks at performance as an art of melting action, of ritualistic shamanistic doings/playings. By using his career and life as a "baseline", he explores this dynamic playing within the context of reality shaping. Art of a Shaman is filled with performance photos in full color, capturing the feeling of being at the performances! All in the size of a graphic novel. BUT DON'T BUY IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FEEL GOOD AND GET TURNED ON! Both editions published by Inter-Relations.
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( Cherotic Magic is a major attempt to introduce a powerf...)
Cherotic Magic is a major attempt to introduce a powerful system of magic into our modern western everyday life, thereby explosively expanding such concepts as sex and human relationships. The clear, down-to-earth text is amplified by the non-linear trance illustrations by LaBash. “Moore, paradoxically a severely disabled cerebral palsied human being, who cannot clearly utter a single word is simultaneously a clear and eloquent writer about a reality-shifting form of art he calls Cherotic Magic and a spectacularly courageous, ecstatic journeyer and practitioner of shamanic transformational art. Reversing the ideas of normal causality, his book guides one towards powerful experiences of re-integration into a unified field of consciousness brought about by the apprenticeship. The radical purposes of the book initiate a teacher/student relationship more appropriately similar to a guru situation than the normal art student context which we all know can be one which borders on charismatic adulation. Rather, the relationship is intended to awaken and restructure the whole being with access to an interrelated “web of all possibilities,” a potentiated ground of existence, from which the student may return empowered with energy, vision and unflinching faith to change the so-called reality structure of this fragmented and specialized culture. The process is a form of magic, which inspires a sense of body wholeness and aliveness where the personal power is to be found. A manual of faith and a description of the nature of apprenticeship, the book is a clarification of the sort of contractual agreement one enters with a teacher, rarely stipulated but here clearly spelled out. This agreement is one of mutual responsibility where the risk is clearly seen to be taken by both parties. Moore himself raises the question of Shamanism /as art - /as performance - /as therapy. He cites performance as the bed of mystical initiation, rites of passage, mystical ceremonies where art/science, philosophy, and psychology and theology merge and become whole once again. Here, we may experience these things as at once ancient and strange. The breaking of restricting taboos and inner barriers moves towards a place not of isolated individualism, but one of connectedness both in the interior landscapes and with each other.” - Barbara Smith, performance artist "Frank Moore's Cherotic Magic presents an innovative and extremely individual view of magic wherein one will find little about candles, incense, and the like, but much about the structure of the universe and our ability to live within it as creatures of ecstasy. Moore is a well-known performance artist whose life has been a testament to the power of the magical path. Born quadriplegic, he has risen to a position of note in artistic circles and to a level of great sophistication as a teacher of the magical path. Now, in Cherotic Magic, the esoteric bases of both his art and his magic have been made available in written form.” - Timothy O'Neill, Gnosis Magazine Published by Inter-Relations
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(Chapped Lap is Frank Moore's first slim book of poetry, f...)
Chapped Lap is Frank Moore's first slim book of poetry, featuring poetry from the 1990s and 2000 (published in 2000). Originally a xeroxed and stapled “chapbook”, as the title suggests, this small collection is dense with pieces that have become classics. Not only did Frank perform these poems for years, but they were also often used in his interactive performances, read by audience members, and read by fellow poets, always adding new levels to the frame in which they were performed. Two of the pieces, “out of isolation” and “wrapping and rocking”, were both written earlier – 1986. These deep evocative pieces are the roots of what would become decades of Frank's evolving performances. “out of isolation” pulled the audience into the universe of a character named Jim, institutionalized and severely disabled, exploring what happens when a nurse, Jane, is assigned to treat him. Frank described it as “a surreal erotic examination of an intimate relationship of need.” “I only wish I was not the only soft fingers...I wish there was another soft fingers in my universe of the mat...someone to share in the bright colors and sweet sounds...someone I could laugh with, cry with, move with, share good feeling with...someone who would be with me on the mat, touch me not like touching my pillow, not like pulling things out of me or to make me different. But just because we are the only soft fingers in the universe of the mat.” “wrapping and rocking” in performance gave people the direct experience of oneness and intimacy: “the two nude figures sit in / time and space. / one upon the other. / rocking together. / rocking in their cave. two magic figures / rocking together against time. / rocking back through time. / back and forth. mother rocking her baby. / rocking against sickness and tears. / rocking back into love and peace.” “wrapping and rocking” is illustrated with great black and white performance photographs, and Chapped Lap is further illustrated with liquid erotic pen & ink drawings by LaBash, a few paintings by Moore, and other photographs. The poems in this first collection reflect a full spectrum of Moore's passions: exploring and expanding freedom, intimacy and deep human connection beyond the accepted limits, sex and love, play and passion, and exploding the censoring concepts and taboos that fragment and isolate us from each other, from ourselves and from unlimited possibilities. His tribute poems to his mom, Connie, to a student, and to a fellow artist take us deep through the personal into the essence of being human together. And poems like “their cuddling cocoon” and “rings of orgasms” explore the “smallness” of erotic human surrender and intimacy, while opening into the universal “heart of the universe”. But it is poems such as “i came to play”, “tortures”, “art is a bitch” and “mutation is evolution” that have become “signature” pieces for Moore's lusty way of looking at life, living life, enjoying life, his deep and uncompromising vision of human liberation, and his seeing art/life as a passion, an addiction … about surrendering and following. A lot loaded into a sexy small package! Published by Inter-Relations.
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(Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1...)
Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1990, Art of a Shaman explores performance and art in general terms as being a magical way to effect change in the world. Using concepts from modern physics, mythology and psychology, Moore looks at performance as an art of melting action, of ritualistic shamanistic doings/playings. By using his career and life as a "baseline", he explores this dynamic playing within the context of reality shaping. Art of a Shaman is filled with performance photos in full color, capturing the feeling of being at the performances! All in the size of a graphic novel. BUT DON'T BUY IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FEEL GOOD AND GET TURNED ON! Published by Inter-Relations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010MP161O/?tag=2022091-20
Moore, Frank James was born on June 25, 1946 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of James F. and Constance (Chidester) Moore.
Bachelor, University New Mexico, 1972; Master of Arts in Psychology, University Without Walls, Berkeley, California, 1976; Master of Fine Arts in Performanc, Video, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
Teacher university possibilities Inter-Rels., Inc., Berkeley, since 1988. Director Theater Human Melting, Berkeley, 1975-1982. Manager Blind Lemon Theatre, Berkeley, 1977-1981.
Founder, director Internet News Service LUVer Alternative News, since 2000.
( Cherotic Magic is a major attempt to introduce a powerf...)
(Chapped Lap is Frank Moore's first slim book of poetry, f...)
(Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1...)
(Originally a lecture Frank Moore presented at N.Y.U. in 1...)
1 child, Koala Bear.