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Even performance artists need training manuals. “It’s very difficult to go to prospective churches and say, ‘Hey, I want to put blood in your baptismal font and smear it all over my dress or climb on your altar and crucify myself,’ ” writes Cheri Gaulke, one of many contributors to “Doing It Right in L.A., Self-Producing for the Performing Artist” (co-published by Astro Artz and Fringe; $12). Nevertheless, Gaulke recommends United Methodist and Unitarian churches as being receptive to her kind.
“Doing It Right” provides tips on budgets, casting, costumes, publicity and parking as well as on finding a suitable place to perform. “Underground guerrilla art forms, radical community-based works” and “highly conceptual or dangerously visceral works,” for example, are perfect for warehouses, garages, abandoned buildings and vacant lots, says the author, Jacki Apple.
“Doing It Right in L.A.” is available at Chatterton’s Bookshop, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles; (213) 664-3882.
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