The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Month: April 2019 (Page 1 of 12)

Meet doctorfrankenstein, PUNK_IN_DRUBLIC, rainbowithoutcolors, thegloaming, and DC’s other select international male slaves for the month of April 2019

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SpanishPig, 21
It can not fit in here.

Who wants to be my biographer?

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ThisPigsExOwner – Apr 17, 2019
heavy drinker; two pack a day smoker; no dreams (other than an orgasm); no plans (other than an orgasm); go with his dick’s flow type; difficult; arguments; demanding; needy 24 hours a day; pushy; forces himself on everyone; no sense of humor; boring; can’t be taught anything; doesn’t inspire anything; had sex behind my back; chat with sleaze behind my back; gay bar addict; acting inappropriately in gay bars (out of control drunk, hits on everyone); naggy; annoying; moody; no anger management; easily gets irritated; diagnosably psychotic; many mental issues; can’t feel contentment; entertains suspicious gay when he thought i’m out for the day; online looking to get topped on all gay apps including this one (pathetic); liar; fake sincere; breaks every promise; always annoying; looks are fading and wasting fast. cheers!



 

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slaveandy, 19
My name is slave andy. I am looking for two different things at the moment and if you fill both of them great!

I’m currently looking for a place to live. Preferable isolated but close to here (Denver).

I am also looking for a master to continue my training as a choke and rape slave.

My top fantasy is a master who can’t control himself and ALMOST strangles me to death.

Comments

slaveandy (Owner) – Apr 15, 2019
Sir1957, my apologies for correcting your comment, but “like” isn’t the right word.

sir1957 – Apr 15, 2019
he like to be aspyhx and suffocated and smothered and he lile asphyxiation extreme roleplay rope around his neck and suffocated with clingfilm and plastic bags latex rubner he like be facesit on his head he like be fist up his ass suffocate him extreme no limits i can do anything to him

slaveandy (Owner) – Apr 12, 2019
Hands off, I have just been pwned by Master Fred, Id sir1957.

Anonymous – March 28, 2019
« Die with memories, not dreams »

Anonymous – March 28, 2019
Danger! He doesn’t know when to stop! He wants you to decide when! And he’s not cute and quite chubby and that only makes it harder for you to want to stop!


 

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Thierry, 22
Who am I ?
An actor in training, a goblin at work, a bard who breaks windows and frolics in life.

What can I offer you?
A tale, an emotional hug, a delicious vegetarian meal (to your specification), games, riddles and stories, a son for a night at a social event, a little dream. Or even a visit from a real green goblin, pointed ears included; or a body-painting session!

What am I not doing?
Anything that relates to sex and the erotic. I invite you to wish for that, cruise me with your eyes, but you must knock on another door than mine.

If you have read all of this, thank you for letting me know by starting your greeting with “Good evening dear leprechaun”


 

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BoyloverBB, 18
I’m very, very, very bottom and I really, really, really like attention, it’s a combination that often lands me in some pretty sticky situations!

Also, through my studies and job know a lot of young gay men who are also interested in getting bred by mature men, and I’m happy to help you couple with them, I think that so great.

Also, if you need your balls or anus shaved, and don’t mind paying $15, I can do that too.

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BoyloverBB (Owner) – Apr 21, 2019
Any of them.

SebastianXXL – Apr 21, 2019
which one of the boys are you?

 

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TheNippleSucker, 19
Hey. Just looking for some muscular guys. I wanna suck some nipples. Just nippleplay. Nothing below the belt. And I got no place. Also, im a graphic designer. If you need a logo or some other designy shit.


 

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bimbo-candy, 19
Thanks for reading! 🙂 I am new, very new, join on 13/03/2019! Where can I start with the situation as you can see I’m not the overly masculine boy but it is. There is no need to stigmatize immediately. At idle I behave normally but when I get “on” then I’m completely feminine. I don’t know why I’m really calibrated or I was ready for a girl. 🙂 I love the female role! In the passive role, I think there is no better thing in the world. : DDD I’m very experienced, so I’m sorry but I can’t pretend you’ll be teaching me any things and I love “porn style” pretty much. : ‘D Really like a woman I want to worship a man. I need this. I love a mean man. I need my face slapped purple! I am already trembling from the thought of kneeling in front of a man and getting banged in my throat feeling his most precious treasure plip plop in my little stomach. 🙂 I really love the huge tools but if someone has a big disadvantage I can do well with the average too and thank you. But I love the way my little ass whistles and blows when a huge one saws in and out : D I’m not thankful. : D Unfortunately, my kitty will be small but immediately stiff about any sexual stimulus so it shows how much I enjoy the role of a girl. 🙂 Very rarely does the thing come in handy then. Sorry girls … 🙂 Otherwise I’m a little nympho and I can’t keep myself in check. 🙂 Completely tight at first my ass gapes in seconds and then half the city can get in me. And have! 🙂 The use of condoms is possible :(, but I love it if someone gets more serious and barebacks because absolutely because I love it. 🙂 Yeah and a little bit of coin.

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bimbo-candy (Owner) – Apr 25, 2019
Sadly monogamy is not my thing 😢

Braco9 – Apr 25, 2019
I want to make you grotesquely fat. I want to forced feed you a lot of food 24 hours a day, make you an obese hog. I want to make you drink alcohol until you’re a depressing alcoholic. I want to make you a toilet, sit on your face and feed you my waste. I want to make you the most disgusting human on earth.

G-37-NOW – Apr 13, 2019
Kiss, screw, sperm, eat he ass, swap sperm, deep kiss, suck me dick, sperm, screw, shoot sperm, eat he ass, sperm, nice sex.

top4degredation – Apr 10, 2019
Bring leather gloves if you have them. There is something about receiving harsh actions from a pair of soft, tight leather gloves that really does it for her.



 

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thegloaming, 21
ideally looking for fit dudes who like me are a bit stale in the right places after a day’s work outdoors and enjoy fighting and fucking in bogs or woodlands

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thegloaming (Owner) – Apr 14, 2019
no sensual hugging

 

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CumPaintMyFace, 19
Sissy CD teen Polo player who works in a barn.

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CumPaintMyFace (Owner) – March 29, 2019
@Autocrat247 I can be on the next flight to wherever you are.

Autocrat247 – March 29, 2019
Seeking chattel aka you to OWN and CONTROL 24/7

Traditionally, historically slaves were taken by their MASTERS by force to exploit, subjugated with physical and sexual abuse, whipped, beaten and kept in shackles and chains, degraded, sold at auction like animals. No hope of escape or release. To live and die a slave.

Today a slave has a CHOICE. You can CHOOSE to SUBMIT and SERVE of your own FREE will without force or coercion. Once however you have made you CHOICE you will have NO CHOICE! NO CHOICE. NO RIGHTS. NO LIMITS. NO CONTROL. NO PRIDE. NO PRIVACY. NO LIBERTY. NO DIGNITY. NO SELF RESPECT. NO MERCY. NO ESCAPE and NO RELEASE.

I offer you only a CHOICE. The CHOICE is YOURS!

IF you desire to liberate yourself of ALL decisions, choices and responsibility and be FREE to do only as you are told without question, hesitation and complaint for the rest of your life then…

Sell yourself!

sau-cum – March 14, 2019
just want to say its good you finally came to your senses and ended up here where you belong. bye, fred



 

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fartslave97, 21
21 year old college student with a fart fetish; looking for a boyfriend who will use me as his nasty dirty slave in bed, but his loyal companion in public. I really want to be his stinky fart slave and sniff all of his hot farts while eating his dirty asshole. I also really love kissing. I would love for me and my boyfriend to go on a romantic dinner, then we come home and he orders me on the bed where he sits on my face unloading his farts. Then he fucks me raw all the while telling me how much he loves me.

 

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holyshit, 20
Hi I’m straight. Or at least i always have been up until now. But I guess since I’m writing this I have to question who I really am.

I know I need to know what its like to be controlled by a man. Maybe then I’ll know more about who I am.

I’ll be in LA from 4 April for three months and want someone to blow my st8 mind and fagify me – even if that means pain or disgust for me.

I want someone powerful. That can be mind or body. It can be any age or look because im not after getting hard looking at him.

I have fought junior MMA for a while and so know i can take a beating too.

I can’t do much until the 4th. That’s my line in the sand. But from the moment I walk of the plane I want life to change.

Comments

holyshit (Owner) – Apr 17, 2019
Property of BeastJock201

MichaelBox – Apr 8, 2019
Peter is now gay.

MichaelBox – Apr 1, 2019
His name is Peter and he is still straight bitch for the moment. You can have sex with him in North Hollywood as long you want. Once you have finished and left if he still says he straight I will then beat him.

 

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Train4NoLimitSnuff, 24
Born to Die. Looking to be trained slowly but progressively towards recreation. Seeking a Master/God. I’m not daft, I can’t do my wish list in a week. However, since puberty I have envisioned being a dead body. I believe this but need a man to employ this purpose. I hope to find a Master that will slowly train me to crave to be made dead. First I hope to slowly be trained as a full toilet. I have done toilet but not enjoyed it, I want to crave it. I hope to find a Man that is a Superior but also an extreme Sadist, consistently increasing my tolerance for horror. One day I want to give my life completely. I know this is crazy to most but snuff to me is beautiful; dedication to the fullest for self and their God. Like I said, this would be a slow process, several months at least. I hope to find a Master who wants what I want but is patient enough to give me enough time to crave what I know I was meant for. I got more, pics just ask.

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Anonymous – Apr 10, 2019
Shitface drunk on 71% isopropyl alcohol tryin 2 tell me wit 2 do gawd wut a posir

 

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MakeMeADrone, 21
Currently at Fort Gordon for AIT. Being chaptered out of the Army due to mental issues. Willing to relocate after I get out.

Obsessed about becoming a rubber drone, completely encased in rubber. Hypnotized and brainwashed to be a mindless rubber drone.

Update Dec 4: Forget the rubber drone thing, that was stupid. Realised I’m looking for a dude under 35 and in decent shape. Sometimes consider up to 42. Realised I love whips, especially with those metal bits that shred and flay skin. No limits. No worldly attachments. Drug free. Insane. You be all those things too.

Update Dec 10: I now have FUCK ME tattooed on my ass!

Update Dec 18: Also opening my ass. Even better if you’re an experienced fister who can do it to your elbow, in case I want to go that far some time.

Update Dec 22: Can be fisted very deep. Slowly rearrange my intestines to your liking. Then rip your arm free and turn me inside out.


 

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GoodInvestment, 23
Stripper / Erotic Dancer / Whore / Future Educator / Future Historian

Only For Men Ages 25-50 into Techno (Or Someone Rich With A Heart Condition)

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Mrclint – Apr 22, 2019
I have no teeth I want to see what it is like to f

 

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YoursOrNothing, 22
live alone, sleep and cry all day
looking 4 hookups and deth

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YoursOrNothing (Owner) – Apr 3, 2019
then coud u spare me some 💵

felixx1 – Apr 3, 2019
Life is so beautiful and has a lot of colors. I wish from my heart you could draw your life only bright ones like the rainbow. I could go on and on.

 

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AnalEmoSlut20, 20
Ummm, a guy on Grindr saw what I’m into and asked if I had a profile on here… so I made a profile and still haven’t given him an answer.

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AnalEmoSlut20 (Owner) – Ap 8, 2019
I come from a religous background so my body says yes but my brain says no.

Anonymous – Apr 8, 2019
suicidal = snuff?

AnalEmoSlut20 (Owner) – March 24, 2019
Ok, sorry I was feeling suicidal when I wrote that before. I’ll make this quick and simple. I’m not just on grindr, I’m on multiple sites, and I have been looking for awhile now.
I need a mean boyfriend with a huge sex drive — I guess you would say “a master” — who doesn’t get emotional with me. Ever. Who won’t care about me, feel things about me, love me or anything remotely like that, and who can commit to being with me permanently.
The only thing I can and do offer is continual sexual use. I won’t clean your house, run your errands, act like I care about your bad moods, act like your boyfriend around your friends, bring in any outside income.
I only promise to always tell you the truth, never to ask for help, and to always give you sex.
If you’re here to chitchat and socialize that’s fine, but it’s not for me. I want what I want, nothing less.

AnalEmoSlut20 (Owner) – March 20, 2019
I’m into self harm, darkness, blackness, hatred, blood, darkness inside of my body, darkness on my body, cutting myself, staring at the mirror into my black eyes and black nails, which express my nocturnal soul. I was born with boy skin but my heart is of ice, yet colder, and my wrists are of the darkness, slashed.

Kickstandinyourmouth – March 20, 2019
and so for those of us who aren’t on grindr what are you into?


 

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TickleMeSenseless, 18
I’m a guy with a very cocky and bratty personality which means I have an uncontrollable need for being tickled. I want to meet a guy or couple who want to ruin a lad through tickling. When I say ruined I really mean it, I want my legs to be jelly and my brain to be mush when you’re done with me.

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plowyou – March 12, 2019
Do it somewhere private cos he brays like a donkey. Won’t have sex but tolerates being nibbled on while he gyrates and guffaws.



 

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SoHappyTogether, 18
First I was born in France, lived in a family (in France) (adopted) and stuck, they used me as a servant and gave me coins. So I do not remember really being wise. 🔽🔽

One day in lycée, I made two sprains on my arms and a teacher took advantage of it, he stuck me and profiled me to plot and suck and rim me, it was hot and delicious but risky … Next he said to me, – you say no thanks?

And I kissed him. But he dropped his head, I had not seen such a beautiful sex in my life. I quickly understood what the men wanted. And my reputation was made. For some asian boys are just good girls to do your maths and sex .. Grr .. But how to resist them? ” ..

Right now I’m in la fac, and three teachers have fun with me and make me I’m in love with one of them. Life is a tepu, as one of my half-brothers says. I would like to take control of my life and my body. I’m looking for a friend who has lived a little bit the same as me.

Comments

SoHappyTogether (Owner) – March 5, 2019
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.




 

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doctorfrankenstein, 21
An artist slowly losing his sanity.

Comments

Moon6 – Apr 6, 2019
I’m God

doctorfrankenstein (Owner) – Apr 6, 2019
what makes you think that?

Moon6 – Apr 6, 2019
No it’s not

doctorfrankenstein (Owner) – Apr 6, 2019
yes it is

Moon6 – Apr 6, 2019
Is that you getting your throat cut in your drawing?


 

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loveme23, 23
I value Gods presence in my life very much. Life is too short for games and drama, I am a fun loving Christian boy who takes each day as a gift from God. Im a kind, thoughtful, sincere, respectful person with moral virtues and Christian values. Im a happy person, ok with being me, but it would be nice to find that special person to love, cherish, and complete me. Sick and Tired of these lonlyness and sleeping alone and going to dinner alone and doing everything alone. i need a man to complete me and spend the rest of my life time with and make him the happiest man on earth and grow old with.

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FinnDomm – March 19, 2019
I love the way you look, shit. It’s no doubt that you’re an ideal tool for me. Every day there’s more ways to lose your little fag brain again and again and again. If you’d like to get your brain fucked, get in.

Anonymous – March 7, 2019
Can ANYONE open a slave profile here? As a really interested master I am really annoyed seeing such vanilla, sentimental bullshit on this channel. What a sad excuse for a person!

Fatmaster – Feb 25, 2019
I have never been a master before but want to try.
I am young, tiny but fat. I want to sit on your face and force you to sniff my ass.
Please note that I am fat and not such a smart guy.


 

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bottomlookingfordad, 21
I’m a kid borned 1998th from Germany who just arrived the city Sydney.
Would you like to have a smooth and stoned young bottom boy underneath you? 😏
Do you wish someone to give your crotch the explosion of cum you deserve?
Even if you like to do it so rough and hard sparks fly from your head.
If you’d like you can get baked with me before we fuck … or … not. 😉
Now its your turn Mr. 🙂
Just leave me a text message or whatsapp me and I will be underneath you groaning immediatley which I would love.
(I live in a youth hostel which also means I can’t host even when I’d love to sneak you in)

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XBOND – Jan 26, 2019
He’ll do pretty much anything in return for a place to smoke and crash but he giggles constantly and says “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!”. I pissed in a glass, had him drink then pissed in his face and then took him to the bed and throat fucked him as he gagged, gasped for air then shot in his butt. Whoa!

hairyhangers – Jan 13, 2019
Expect to spend a coupla hours watching him hit a bong before the nookie starts.


 

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AnonymousCuriosity, 18
Hi I’m new to all this not sure what to write but here goes… I’m an 18 year old curious guy very shy and obviously nervous never really been in this situation. I’ve been watching hardcore gay porn for years in particular “illegal” dark web stuff and I’m here to learn more about it and hopefully possibly one day doing something like this. I’m a cross between a nerd and a teen idol type so I’m not ugly even below the neck but you’ll have to just trust me on that for now.
Anyway if you’re up for having a chat with me it’d be appreciated just please don’t be a creepy old fat guy. I get that you guys need to see an ass picture but I’m just not ready to share that stuff yet but who knows in the future it’s possible. I’ve had no sexual experience so take it easy.



 

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ITSJUSTMR, 19
– No chit chat, bullshit, only real thing
– No face pic, I don’t want to see you
– Preference given to wealthiest, horniest, most smitten with me
– if you are hairy or ugly you need to share your wife or GF with me
– My biggest turn on is to vomit, it’s like an upper body orgasm for me
– if I can deal with you we may live together as roommates
– First try out, 200€ handling fee, my place Mon – Thursday (10am to 6pm)

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ITSJUSTMR (Owner) – Apr 13, 2019
If you see me on the street or are nearby me (193 N Middleton Ave, Mishawaka Indiana 46544) Text me 574-249-3285 and make me to go to a secluded area. You can then chain me up to take away as your slave for life. You can track my current location on my GPS tracker www.greenalp.com/RealtimeTracker/index.php?viewuser=michael-wilson

ITSJUSTMR (Owner) – Apr 12, 2019
Fuck you. Tired of you. Tired of your bullshit. Tired of myself. Tired of not being hot enough. Tired of my life. I want to disappear from it. I need to be taken into slavery. 24/7/365. This will mean a actually kidnapping. I realise what this means.

BrixTon – Apr 3, 2019
Does the 200 Euro cost include a beautician or do we have to pay extra for that?

FagBeater – Apr 1, 2019
Made me share my girlfriend with him -lucky she thought he was nice- but then let me throw his comfort zone out the window and stomp the shit out of him.

Anonymous – March 27, 2019
Pimplier face than in his fotos



 

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Youngdreamer, 20
The true dream, having someone “break in” to my apartment and tying up my girlfriend and making her watch me get pounded by a man making my dick cum while I cry.

 

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imsogay, 24
THE SITUATION: I’m currently attached looking to leave everything behind including my family and my job and my wife and baby son for a new life as a sex slave. I want a master that will abduct me from my home after killing (or having someone kill) my wife and baby. I do understand this will be irreversible.

YOU/MY MASTER: Left-of-center, nerdy type: Film Buff, Theme Park Nerd, Gaymer, Music Obsessive, Hot Geek, Hairy Art Fag, Fellow Expatriate from the Island of Misfit Toys. Just have a passion… I don’t care what it is.

LOCATION TO KEEP ME: I want to be kept in a very secluded and remote location where no one can find me or hear me scream. I have not committed any crimes to want to be hidden but don’t want my family or anyone to ever find me.

DRESSED LIKE A SLUT GIRL: I want to be dressed like a slutty girl 24/7/forever.

ALSO: I’m a proud, outspoken and confident liberal snowflake. A message for Trump supporters, climate change & science deniers, alt-righters, fascism apologists, “both sides are at fault” and “all lives matter” guys, “crisis actor” proponents in the face of unspeakable tragedy, privileged “fiscal conservatives” who turn a blind eye to social & civil-rights issues, gun fetishists who immediately dismiss any notion of reasonable & responsible legislation — go fuck yourselves.

 

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rainbowithoutcolors, 20
I am a very dark individual. I have a great capacity for love, but a great capacity for evil at the same time. I like heavy metal music, if you want to know more just ask. I’ve been through a lot of abuse, I’ve been beaten for seventeen years by my parents, molested by my biological parents, abused by my ex-boyfriend, it all turned me into the dark person of rage and anger and hate that I am now. If I choose to accept you as my master don’t lie to me and don’t fuck me over or I will make you wish you were never born.

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rainbowithoutcolors (Owner) – Apr 22, 2019
pfft, that’d be a first. ok, if you want, that’d be nice.

verykindhumanbeing – Apr 22, 2019
I just want to worship your ass, tongue fuck and suck your butthole.



 

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averagewhiteteen, 18
hey i am here for incest chats i i wanna talk about my dad and older brother and younger brother and even my younger sister i am also lookiing for sexxxx

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coach0068 – March 27, 2019
Attention very dangerous Attention

coach0068 – March 11, 2019
I want you be my 18 yr old son. Im older guy, 68 yrs who looks much younger, somewhat nervous about this. Like very young and hairless 100% passive guys. Interested in a obsessive, doting father-Stockholm Syndrome son relationship. Like movies, watching you play video game, and fucking you.

 

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Jonas_Model, 19
I currently live in a small tourist town in the Alto Adige in the family villa with my mother, but I will soon be maturing and I can finally leave home too and from this place full of false and gossipy people where only money and false appearances count. I will reach my sister in Turin, where she has been attending the University for over 2 years, and I will be able to start a new life, MY LIFE. And by this I mean also and above all my sex life, because at 19 years old yesterday, March 15th, sex for me is basically a taboo that I want and I have to overcome. My shyness and shame and disorientation prevent me even from uttering words that allude to sex and I blush if someone tells them in my presence. The night just passed though, thanks also (or above all) to alcohol, to marijuana and another substance never tried before that makes inhibitions vanish, for the first time in my life I managed to let myself go with my help sister and her friend/lover Sandra. The details of what happened I will tell them eventually in private, but what really matters is that I DECIDED that I can’t and I DON’T WANT to repress what torments me for over a year, that is, since during last Easter’s holidays year I saw with my cousin in Florence a DVD-porn that showed a master and two young boys in women’s underwear who carried out all the orders they were given. At the beginning I also laughed like my cousin did, but after about 10-15 minutes I noticed that I was experiencing completely new sensations for me. From that day on I started dreaming, thinking about wanting to have a master, a real expert and self-confident man who would give me orders and make me discover myself and what I WANT and I AM really. I tried in every way not to think about it anymore, I swear, but I got the opposite effect, impulses, attraction, “dirty” and perverse thoughts (so mum would call them) they become more and more frequent and stronger, the ONLY thing that remains to do is ACCEPT THEM, VERIFY THEM, and finally LIVE THEM, also because the night just passed made me realize that I MUST live certain experiences. My sister and her friend encouraged me and helped write this confession. Now it’s up to me to publish it where everyone can read what I’ve denied and hidden even from myself until yesterday.

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Jonas_Model (Owner) – March 20, 2019
YOU’RE the one WHO SAID I was god NOT ME, I just said MAYBE.

my_name122 – March 20, 2019
sweet boy who considers himself god (disgusting)



 

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PUNK_IN_DRUBLIC, 22
Thats not me in the picture

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Anonymous – Apr 22, 2019
Wow, so much passion, creativity, intelligence, trouble gone to in a slave profile! Great! Say no more, I’ll take you 24/7/365 this very minute, and I’ll draw up a will leaving you every penny of my vast fortune. You have proven how great and exciting you are … Congratulations PUNK_IN_DRUBLIC! You are a genius-level, irresistible slave portal. Your self-promotion skills are top notch.


 

 

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p.s. Hey. I’m on a train returning from Cherbourg to Paris, and I will see you tomorrow.

15 Los Angeles Performance Artists of the 80s and early 90s, part 2

 

‘In performance art, usually one or more people perform in front of an audience. Performance artists often challenge the audience to think in new and unconventional ways about theater and performing, break conventions of traditional performing arts, and break down conventional ideas about “what art is,” a preoccupation of modernist experimental theater and of postmodernism. Thus, even though in most cases the performance is in front of an audience, in some cases, notably in the later works of Allan Kaprow, the audience members become the performers.

‘The performance may be scripted, unscripted, or improvisational. It may incorporate music, dance, song, or complete silence. Art-world performance has often been an intimate set of gestures or actions, lasting from a few minutes to many hours, and may rely on props or avoid them completely. Performance may occur in transient spaces or in galleries, room, theaters or auditoriums.

‘Despite the fact that many performances are held within the circle of a small art-world group, RoseLee Goldberg notes, in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present that “performance has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture. Conversely, public interest in the medium, especially in the 1980s, stemmed from an apparent desire of that public to gain access to the art world, to be a spectator of its ritual and its distinct community, and to be surprised by the unexpected, always unorthodox presentations that the artists devise.”’ — John Stockwell

 

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Select Venues

LACE
Llhasa Club
The Woman’s Building
Highways
Human Resources Los Angeles
Anti-Club
LAICA
Beyond Baroque
Los Angeles Theater Center
SPARC

 

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High Performance Magazine

High Performance was a quarterly arts magazine based out of Los Angeles founded in 1978 and published until 1997. Its editorial mission was to provide support and a critical context for new, innovative and unrecognized work in the arts.

High Performance started out covering exclusively performance art and gradually grew to include video, sound, and public art. It dealt with viewing the arts in the larger context of contemporary life, examining how the arts contribute in addressing social and cultural concerns, and also how those concerns impact the arts. In 1994, High Performance received the Alternative Press Award for Cultural Coverage from the Utne Reader, and was nominated three other times for the same award.

Linda Frye Burnham served as the magazine’s founding editor from 1978 to 1985. Steven Durland was the editor from 1986 until its end in 1997. From 1983 to 1995, High Performance was published by Astro Artz (renamed 18th Street Arts Center in 1988). In July 1995, High Performance was acquired by Art in the Public Interest (API), a new organization formed by Burnham and Durland to research and develop information about artists collaborating with their communities. After a brief hiatus, the magazine renewed publication in early 1996 and published five more issues, but rising costs and an inability to garner needed stabilization funding forced API to cease publication in 1997. In 1999, Burnham and Durland initiated the Community Arts Network on the Web. Much of the content from High Performance is available on that site.

High Performance Magazine Complete Issues

 

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Extras


The Lhasa Club Tapes – Hollywood 1985


A Hole in Space LA-NY, 1980


Historic Places in L.A.: The Woman’s Building

 

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John Duncan

‘I wanted to punish myself as thoroughly as I could. I’d decided to have a vasectomy, but that wasn’t enough: I wanted my last potent seed to be spent in a dead body. I made arrangements to have sex with a cadaver. I was bodily thrown out of several sex shops before meeting a man who set me up with a mortician’s assistant in a Mexican border town…’

‘BLIND DATE was performed in order to torture myself, physically and psychically. The sound recording of the session in Mexico was made public to respond to what I saw as a general situation created by social conditions, and to render any further self-torture of this kind, especially psychic self-torture, unnecessary for anyone to perform as a creative act.

‘These experiences — the acts themselves, the shame that inspired them, isolation in Japan soon afterward, suddenly in a completely alien culture unable to read, understand or communicate with anyone — all taught me far more than I could possibly have anticipated. As a result, my perception of all existence, including my own, has permanently and fundamentally changed.

‘These experiences have shown life in all forms to be an incredibly rich, timeless, continuous cycle, with death and corporeal existence interwoven as part of the process. I’ve come to see myself as a microscopic and insignificant part of that process, while at the same time the very embodiment and center of it. I’ve come to understand the act and experience of learning as sensual, as a form of beauty.

‘Since BLIND DATE, all forms of my work are created to raise questions, to find out everything I can about who I am without fear or judgement, and to encourage you to do the same.’ — John Duncan

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‘Blind Date (audio)’ (1980)

 

 

 

Rachel Rosenthal

‘Rachel Rosenthal, a performance artist whose work — fierce, funny, earthy and cantankerous — bemoaned the political and ecological fate of the planet, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88.

‘Ms. Rosenthal’s work melded dance, theater, dramatic monologues, improvisation and visual art to illuminate her abiding concerns: feminism, environmentalism and animal rights. Internationally renowned — she performed at Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and elsewhere — she was for decades part of the cadre of Los Angeles conceptual artists that included Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden.

‘With her shaved head, resonant voice, teeming jewelry and take-no-prisoners approach to a great many things, Ms. Rosenthal cut a captivating figure. “The doyenne of performance art,” the news media often called her, an appellation she deplored.’ — NYTimes

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KabbaLAmobile by Rachel Rosenthal (1984)

 

 

 

Goddess Bunny

‘For three generations, young gay mall punks have praised the Goddess the way other gay men wallow in the tabloid tragedies of Judy Garland. I was one such mall punk. In high school, my goth friends and I obsessed over the Goddess’s story. She contracted polio and underwent several botched surgeries as an infant. The combination stunted her growth, deformed her hands, and left her legs bone-thin and crooked. When she began presenting as a woman—at different times, she has said she was born with both a penis and a vagina and identified as trans—in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she used makeup, wigs, dresses, and, most of all, extreme self-confidence to see the beauty in her disability. She made performance art, modeled for Rick Owens, posed nude with swans for acclaimed photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, appeared as a puppet in Dr. Dre’s “Puppet Master” music video, became the breakout star of Marilyn Manson’s “The Dope Show,” acted opposite Carrie Fisher in the 1986 cult movie Hollywood Vice Squad, and played a female mobster and a number of Tennessee Williams heroines in a series of films directed by the filmmaker and archivist John Aes-Nihil.’ — Vice

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Tap Dancing (1984)

 

 

 

Keith Antar Mason

‘Keith Antar Mason is a poet, playwright and performer whose stage and literary works have been presented extensively throughout the United States and Britain for over two decades. He writes, directs, and sometimes performs with the Hittite Empire, for which he is the Artistic Director and a co-founding member. Awards and honors include the Brody Arts Fund, Franklin Furnace, Art Matters, Harvard Book Award, the Barbara Mandingo KellyPeace Award and the Midwest Black Playwrights Award.’ — the ridge

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‘For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When The Streets Were Too Much’

 

 

 

Barbara T. Smith

‘Smith’s interest in performance and interdisciplinary work was cemented when she attended an experimental theater workshop led by Judson Church dancer Alex Hay. Hay’s workshop pushed Smith to realize that the curious actions forming in her mind were valid. Emboldened, Smith created the environmental sculpture Field Piece (1968–72), part of which was presented at F-Space in 1971, before the full installation was shown at Cirrus Gallery. The work comprised 180 semi-flexible, fiberglass, nine-and-a-half-foot tall columns in translucent colors—clear, orange, pink, yellow, and violet—that glowed via an internal light source, forming a dense, delicately industrial forest. Each column also contained a speaker, activated by sensors underneath a foam floor by the audience (also linked to the light) to emit a vibrating drone sound, making the viewer an integral part of its network.

‘A move into live performance shortly thereafter found Smith exploring the boundaries of audience-performer power dynamics with Feed Me (1973), staged at San Francisco’s Museum of Conceptual Art as part of the event “All Night Sculptures.” For one evening only, Smith sat nude inside the woman’s bathroom, which she outfitted with books, a mattress, pillows, and things the audience could “feed” her with: food, wine, marijuana, and massage oil. (An accompanying tape loop simply intoned “feed me, feed me.”)

‘Smith remained in control, as the participants—only one allowed in at a time—were instructed to negotiate her permission before taking action. Various accounts, by Smith and others, relay what occurred, from discussion and massage to consensual sexual intercourse with several men. Smith described the work as an act to create a positive, affirmative situation—using “feed me” to have her needs met, instead of enacting the stereotype of the nurturing woman. The performance was made in opposition to the male dominance she experienced in heterosexual relationships.’ — artsy

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Barbara Smith in ‘Transmission’ (1985)

 

 

 

Dan Kwong

‘Dan Kwong is an American performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist. He has been presenting his solo performances since 1989, often drawing upon his own life experiences to explore personal, historical and social issues. He is of Chinese American and Japanese American descent. His works intertwine storytelling, multimedia, dynamic physical movement, poetry, martial arts and music. Kwong is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been an Artist with the multicultural performing arts organization Great Leap since 1990 and assumed the position of Associate Artistic Director in 2011, and a Resident Artist at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California since 1992.’ — Wiki

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“How’s Camp?” (1989)

 

 

 

Allan Kaprow

‘With the invention of ‘Happenings’ and ‘Environments’, Allan Kaprow embarked upon a career of intellectually rigorous, site-specific, and timed works that defied commoditization and ultimately gave birth to performance and installation art. His seminal work, ‘18 Happenings in 6 parts’, an evening of seemingly random but carefully choreographed activities, required the participation of both the audience and the performers to complete the piece. ‘Life is much more interesting than art,’ Kaprow wrote. ‘The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.’

‘Central to Kaprow’s work was his concept of reinventions. As Kaprow explained, ‘I say reinventions, rather than reconstructions, because the works … differ markedly from their originals. Intentionally so. As I wrote in notes to one of them, they were planned to change each time they were remade. This decision, made in the late 50s, was the polar opposite of the traditional belief that the physical art object – the painting, photo, music composition, etc. – should be fixed in a permanent form.’’ — Hauser & Wirth

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’18 Happenings in 6 Parts’ (1988)

 

 

 

Diviana X. Ingravallo

Ingrvallo is a performance artist, playwright, director and actress best known for her starring roles in the films “Steal America” and “Things We Said Today”. She is based in Los Angeles, and has been performing there since the late 1980s.’ — collaged

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‘Succubus’ (w/ Leon Mostovoy) (1991)

 

 

 

John Fleck

‘John Fleck is an American actor and performance artist. He is also one of the NEA Four. In 1990 he and three of his fellow artist became embroiled in a lawsuit against the government’s National Endowment for the Arts program. John Frohnmayer, one of the chairman of the NEA vetoed funding his project on the basis of content and was accused of implementing a partisan political agenda. The government’s case was ultimately upheld at the US Supreme Court and the vaguely worded “decency” clause remains part of the NEA’s regulations. The NEA subsequently stopped funding all individual artists as a result of this case.

‘Fleck has won numerous grants and awards, among them 2 NEA’s, a Getty Fellowship, Durfee Funding, a Franklin Furnace & Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller/NEA- Interarts grant and LA Cultural Affairs funding. He has won 3 LA Critics Circle Awards, 8 DramaLogue, 6 LA Weekly and 2 Backstage West awards, all for outstanding performance. His television roles include Silik on the series Star Trek: Enterprise, several characters on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the pilot to Babylon 5, The Gathering (1993). He starred as Gecko on the television show Carnivàle, and as Louis on Murder One. He also appears in Waterworld among other films.’ — Kevin Duffy

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‘Blessed are the Little Fishes’ (excerpt, 1990)

 

 

 

Simone Forti

‘Simone Forti began dancing in 1955 with Anna Halprin, who was doing pioneering work in the teaching and performing of dance improvisation After four years of workshop study and performance apprenticeship at Halprin’s outdoor studio in the San Francisco Bay area, Simone moved to New York City. There she studied composition at the Merce Cunningham studio with musicologist /dance educator Robert Dunn, who was introducing dancers to the scores of John Cage. Thus she began her association with the Judson Dance Theater Group which revolutionized dance in New York in the 1960s.

‘From her early minimalist dance/constructions through her animal studies, news animations and land portraits, Forti has worked with an eye towards creating idioms for exploring natural forms and behaviors. Over the past fifteen years Forti has been developing Logomotion, an improvisational dance/narrative form wherein movement and words spring spontaneously from a common source.’ — Movement Research

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‘Illlummminnnatttionnnssss !!!!’ (w/ Charlemagne Palestine) (1961/1984/2014)

 

 

 

Kim Jones

‘Jones volunteered for the Marine Corps in 1966 and eventually spent 13 months in Vietnam. After he returned home to Southern California and completed his service, he went back to art school. Jones soon began shocking people with the images that poured out of him. He created the sculptural alter ego Mudman by smearing his beautifully formed and muscled body with mud, covering his head with pantyhose, strapping a bulky contraption of sticks to his back and venturing out into society. He looked like the kind of alien he felt himself to be. “I was an outsider, a spiky thing, walking through the main artery of the city. Molecules fit in, but if something’s spiky it doesn’t fit in,” Jones has said.

‘To categorize Jones’ appearances as performance art is misleading. They were metaphorical actions, four-dimensional sculptures (with time as the added dimension): a psyche turned inside out. The retrospective includes photographs of Jones as Mudman, as well as related stick sculptures, drawings, assemblage and collage work.’ — Seattle Times

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Kim Jones Artist Talk at The Vermont Studio Center

 

 

 

Luis Alfaro

‘Luis Alfaro grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles. His plays and fiction are set in Los Angeles’s Chicano barrios, including the Pico Union district, and often feature gay and lesbian and working-class themes. Many of Alfaro’s plays also deal with the AIDS pandemic in Latino communities. Noted plays include “Bitter Homes and Gardens,” “Pico Union,” “Downtown,” “Cuerpo Politizado,” “Straight as a Line,” “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner,” “No Holds Barrio,” and “Black Butterfly.” Many of these plays have also been published as stories or poetry. He is currently the Playwright-in-Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and an Associate Professor in the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California.’ — Wiki

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“Orphan of Azatlan” (1995)

 

 

 

Paul Reubens

‘Paul Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing for years. The show was called The Pee-wee Herman Show and it ran for five sold-out months with HBO producing a successful special about it. Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade, Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. In 1985 Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial and critical success, and soon developed into a cult film. Big Top Pee-wee, 1988’s sequel, was less successful than its predecessor. Between 1986 and 1990, Reubens starred as Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children’s program Pee-wee’s Playhouse.’ — Wiki

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The Pee-Wee Herman Show: Live Roxy Theatre 1981

 

 

 

Elia Arce

‘Elia Arce is an internationally known artist and cultural activist working in a wide variety of media including performance, experimental theater, film/video, writing, spoken word and installation. She is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation and a 1999 nominee for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater.

‘Since 1986, she has been creating, writing and directing experimental theatre works-in collaboration with HIV positive immigrants in Houston, breast cancer workers in Washington DC, house-keeping staff in Banff, Canada and the homeless of L.A.’s Skid Row. In 1993 she created her first full-length solo performance: “I Have So Many Stitches That Sometimes I Dream That I’m Sick”.’ — eliaarce.com

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Short Retrospective

 

 

 

Nervous Gender

‘Nervous Gender is an American punk rock band and performance art unit founded in Los Angeles, California in 1978 by Gerardo Velazquez, Edward Stapleton, Phranc and Michael Ochoa. Their use of heavily distorted keyboards and synthesizers made them, along with The Screamers, one of the original innovators of what is today called “electropunk”, although they could equally be considered an early industrial group. The group was confrontational and experimental.

‘Phranc’s androgynous appearance was the embodiment of the group’s name, garnered the band much press in zines such as Slash and, later, proving inspirational to founders of the Queercore movement. Despite their somewhat high profile, the groups’ habit of provoking the audience, obscene material and harsh erotics guaranteed they would never gain commercial acceptance. In 1979, Don Bolles of the Germs joined as drummer. The next year Phranc left the band and Paul Roessler of the Screamers joined.

‘During the mid-1980s, the band was on the verge of breaking up when members of Wall of Voodoo Bruce Moreland, Marc Moreland and Chas Grey, who were fans, stepped in and offered to collaborate with them. It was at this point that a guitar-driven version of Nervous Gender emerged. During this time Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave was a frequent guest performer with them, and they played shows with bands such as Christian Death, Super Heroines, Kommunity FK and Gobsheit (a side project of Stapleton’s with Patrice Repose) at venues such as the Anti Club. In 1988, Edward Stapleton played his last show with the band.

‘In early 1990, original members Gerardo Velasquez and Michael Ochoa along with Joe Zinnato (a long time Ochoa collaborator) revived Nervous Gender as a trio. This formation did a series of 8 performances, and were working on what would have been the final Nervous Gender album (working title “American Regime”) with producer Paul B. Cutler (of 45 Grave). The final performance of Nervous Gender was on August 26, 1991 at Club A.S.S. in Silverlake, CA. Gerardo Velasquez died on March 28, 1992, at age 33.’ — collaged


Nervous Gender – Live At The Target (1983)

 

15 Los Angeles Performance Artists of the 80s and early 90s, part 1

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Armando, Hi. Interesting, the birds phobia. I can imagine how if one started to really think about birds in relationship to humans, that could happen. Blanchot is my favorite writer/ writing-based thinker, so yes. Mm, I don’t remember ‘Players’. I’ll have to check back and remember if I read it or not. I have ‘Warp And Woof’ on my hard drive, and I will be listening to it for the first time later today. And, yes, it would be a ‘hell freezes over’ occasion if I don’t love it. Good weekend. ** _Black_Acrylic, That Schütte thing is nice. I remember hearing about it. What is “intelligent putty” in a nutshell? I guess I mean how is it intelligent relative to regular old putty? ** Corey Heiferman, Hi. Yay for birds! I did a Tesla Day here ages ago. I’ll go see if enough of it is still alive enough to restore. Let me pass on your query … Everyone, Listen up. Corey Heiferman has a proposal. Corey: ‘I’d like to pitch a story on Eurovision to anybody here who runs a publication or knows somebody who does. I live here in Tel Aviv where the contest will take place May 14th-18th, speak Hebrew, and am happy to cover it from any angle.’ Thanks about Art Basel. I’ve never been to any of its incarnations either, and I don’t think I’ll get to this one since a personal invitation to me doesn’t seem to be part of the bargain. So far. It’d be fun. Art fairs are kind of horrible, i.e. art as wealthy people’s playthings, but being in one as an ‘artist’ might give being at one some pizzazz or interesting added horror. I’ll def. listen to that Hebrew metal bandcamp thing, thanks. Nice cover. Great weekend to you, and I hope the coffee is like benevolent meth. ** David Ehrenstein, I did forget that! What was I not thinking? Thanks. ** h, Thank you very much! ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Me too. You, me, and the birds. I understand both jet lag and allergies, so you get a hall pass festooned with a gold star.  Hey Thomas Moronic, Bill had some Berlin tips for you in yesterday’s comments in case you missed them. Thanks for helping the bro out, buddy. ** Misanthrope, Hi. I actually know that Suede song, and it’s a cool one, I agree. Glad to hear you’ve passed through the back- and phone-mini-disasters in one, albeit sore, piece. Oh, but now it’s your throat being a bastard. Sorry. Get thee behind George, Satanic throat! LPS’s mom, wow, it’s been a while since she was a character in your commenting narrative. Sounds like she’s narratively consistent. Well, hoping for whatever the best possible outcome would be for the Board of Education taxing and newly girlfriend-less lad. Lord. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Yes, the progress/growth in plain sight in his work is very interesting to observe and follow. So, was Singer agreeable to the idea that the film was imperfect, etc.? High five on the Sunn0))), obvs. ** Okay. This weekend you get the second part of my 80s-90s LA Performance Artists round-up post, and I hope it’s replete with interesting stuff. See you on Monday.

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