We need your help with the archives.
When Frank was alive we always managed to cover Inter-Relations’ expenses through the money Frank got from his students doing the apprenticeship.
After Frank died we have managed to support the archiving projects up until recently. But it is now just down to the two of us. There is no more money coming in besides an occasional book sale and we can’t afford to cover the archiving expenses ourselves as we are on a fixed income.
So we have set up our own “Frank” version of Patreon!
You can select a donation level from the list of tiers on the right. Each tier has a list of free Frank gifts you will receive with your recurring donation.
You can also make a one-time donation here:
https://donorbox.org/donations-for-publishing-and-archiving
You can also send checks via snail mail. Please make the check out to Inter-Relations and mail to:
Inter-Relations
PO Box 1931
Eagle, ID 83616
Your donations go to our non-profit 501(c)(3), Inter-Relations, and are tax-deductible.
Here is a list of some of Inter-Relations’ regular expenses:
Web Hosting and Domain Names
There are 13 websites and 14 domain names that are part of the Frank Moore archive.
Archive-it.org
We are in the second year of the process of creating a “permanent” online archive of all of Frank’s websites. It is a slow and tedious process that involves recreating or modifying the code of many sections of the website so that they will archive correctly. We are hoping to be able to finish by the end of our current subscription ($500) period but we may need another year.
Hard Drives
We have about 30 external hard drives where we archive Frank’s digitized videos, photos and backup working project files. We replace each of them after 5 years of use, so each year there are several that need to be replaced.
Publishing Costs
This includes purchasing proof copies of books and keeping a small inventory of each title to sell and send to select libraries.
Flickr
Flickr serves as cloud storage for all of the photos we scan from the archives. There are almost 40,000 photos on our Flickr account.
Computers
We have several computers that we use for Frank projects. Each has a specific function like video editing, digitizing audio tapes, digitizing videotapes, email and office work, etc. We need to be able to replace them if they fail or grow too old to be functional.
Travel
Very occasionally, we need to travel out of state for a Frank event. For example, BAMPFA, the Berkeley Art Museum, held a solo exhibition of Frank’s oil paintings in January 2023. Inter-Relations paid for the two of us to fly to the show to be a part of the opening.
BTW, your donations go to our non-profit 501(c)(3), Inter-Relations, and are tax-deductible.
We appreciate any support you can afford!
WATCHER
$5/month
- Monthly archiving update about what we have been doing during the past month.
- Free MP3 of “Body Music” by the Chero Company exploring the human body as musical instrument.
- Free e-book: “Frankly Speaking: Essays, Writings & Rants” by Frank Moore. In this collection of prose by “one of the U.S.'s most controversial performance artists” (P-Form Magazine), Frank Moore explores his deep and uncompromising vision of human liberation and art as a “battle against fragmentation”.
- Free e-book of any new books we publish as long as you are a member.
Become a Watcher
WARRIOR
$10/month
- ALL PREVIOUS REWARDS
- Free e-book: “Art of a Shaman” by Frank Moore. Originally a lecture presented at N.Y.U., Frank Moore explores performance and art in general terms of them being a magical way to effect change in the world. He looks at performance as an art of melting action, ritualistic shamanistic doings/playings. By using his career and life as a "baseline", Moore explains the dynamic playing within the context of reality shaping.
- Free e-book of any new books we publish as long as you are a member.
BON VIVANT
$20/month
- ALL PREVIOUS REWARDS
- Free ebook (pdf): “A Mirror of Before and After” by Frank Moore. An autobiographical book about a 26-year-old Frank and his life, relationships and adventures in the "Before and After" headshop, in Washington DC.
- Free ebook (pdf): “Skin Passion: poems and paintings” by Frank Moore. Full-color, 114-page paperback book of Frank Moore's poetry and paintings.
- Free e-book (pdf): “What A Life!: The (auto)Biography of Shaman/Performance Artist Frank Moore”. Over the years, Frank Moore had attempted to find someone to write his biography but it never worked out. In 2010, he decided to start working on it himself. This book is the working document Frank created that he was working on, when he had time, up until his death in 2013. It covers his life up until around 1989. Frank constructed it primarily with the conversations he had with anthropologist Russell Shuttleworth from 1997 through 2009. The complete transcripts of those interviews are available in the book How to Handle an Anthropologist published in 2019 by Inter-Relations. He also used excerpts from his mother, Constance (Connie) Moore’s autobiography, excerpts from his own writing, in particular from Art of a Shaman, and an interview by Sheri Falco for a film, “Sex and Spirituality,” that never was made. No attempt has been made to organize this material. It is presented in its raw form, as Frank left it, in the hope it will be valuable for future researchers interested in Moore’s life. Includes two large photo galleries!
- Free e-book (pdf): “Lavapen: The Art of LaBash”. The Frank Moore posters and other drawings by Michael LaBash. If you lived in Berkeley, California from 1990 through 2013, you were likely exposed to the artwork of LaBash through the posters of shaman/performance artist Frank Moore. LaBash was Moore’s live-in graphic designer and all-around “tech guy”. Most of the work in this book was created for Moore’s performance work and books, and for the zine, The Cherotic (r)Evolutionary, that they published from 1991-1999. It also includes work LaBash created for other artists like Barb Golden and the band, Mutant Press.
- Free e-book of any new books we publish as long as you are a member.