Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, and vocalist. Blackman is involved in the North American goth, spoken word and transgressive literature scenes. Blackman self-published three now out-of-print chapbooks: Pretty, Sweet, and Nice, and were collected in Akashic Books' Blood Sugar. Her work as a performance artist include "Bloodwork" performed at The Kitchen/NYC in 2000, where she debuted her blood performance , slipped secret messages into the audience's coat pockets, projected text on the street and created audio visual installations. Since then she has... performed "Courtesan Tales" at PS122 art space in New York City, at The Andy Warhol Museum/Pittsburgh, and for three years at the Fierce Festival in Birmingham England. The "Courtesan Tales" are performances in which a blindfolded audience of one has a five minute story whispered into their ear. She debuted "Harm's Way" as a work in progress in New York.
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