“Best of the Bay Area!”
—S.F. Bay Guardian
“Frank Moore is one of my performance teachers.”
—Annie Sprinkle, performance artist
“Resisting…the easy and superficial descriptions...Moore’s work challenges the consensus view more strongly in ways less acceptable than...angry tirades and bitter attacks on consumer culture.”
—Chicago New City
“Surely wonderful and mind-goosing experience.”
—L.A. Reader
“...San Francisco’s legendary Frank Moore... (is among)...the best and most influential artists in the discipline.”
—L.A. Weekly 2003
“...one of the U.S.’s most controversial performance artists...”
—P-Form Magazine
“If performance art has a radical edge, it has to be Frank Moore.”
—Cleveland Edition
“In performance, Moore takes advantage of his disadvantage, becoming an unlikely guide into the pleasures of the body, taking audiences where they would probably never go without the example of his vulnerability and trust...That Moore should be the one urging us to stay connected to our physical selves is both ironic and poetic...”
—The Village Voice
“One of the few people practicing performance art that counts.”
—Karen Finley, performance artist
“...He’s wonderful and hilarious and knows exactly what it’s all about and has earned my undying respect. What he’s doing is impossible, and he knows it. That’s good art...”
—L.A. Weekly
“Transformative...” Moore “is thwarting nature in an astonishing manner, and is fusing art, ritual and religion in ways the Eurocentric world has only dim memories of. Espousing a kind of paganism without bite and aggression, Frank Moore is indeed worth watching.”
—High Performance Magazine
REVIEWS
“WOW!!! Congratu-fucking-lations!! I finally got a chance to check out your huge book on Temescal and read the whole thing from beginning to end. Holy shit!! It's truly an epic journey.... I mean, I've had many friends who put out books before, including myself, but you guys and Frank are the first ones to have a coffee-table book! You could knock out an ox with this book! And the cover's beautiful too, so colorful. What's really amazing is the incredible level of detail in which every Temescal and other performances are described, almost minute by minute, by Frank and you and so many others, and all the great photos. I'm bummed I never checked you guys out at Tesmescal, though the perfs there reminded me of ones I did attend when I first met you guys, much earlier, in the 90's at UC Berkeley, where I joined in with vocal and other music---but Temescal was obviously much more advanced and intense. Also nice to see some old pals in the photos, like Steven Black (of UC Berkeley Archives), John the Baker, Dr. Oblivious, etc. I also remember well the Center for Art and Culture gigs, though mainly for their initial fear and shock over what Frank was up to: I thought he had been banned, but it looks like he did the gigs after all. And the photos of all the naked bodies reminded me of the Living Theatre, and Schechner's Open Theatre--the stuff I studied 45-50 years ago in college. And I'm so glad I contributed something to his biography, something I'd totally forgotten until I saw it! It's just so great that, after performing in so many places, you found one, Temescal, where you could really open up and present the full-on, uncut, untrammelled Frank Moore Shamanistic Experience exactly how it's supposed to be! So congrats.”
—Michael Peppe, performance artist, musician
