David Leslie’s Impact Addict Videos
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Directed by Larry Fessenden, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Performance artist and UT art professor David Leslie (whose New York performance, in which viewers were offered $1,000 to knock out the artist, was mentioned in the Feb. 23 “News of the Weird”) is known ­ for obvious reasons ­ as the Impact Addict. A former UT sculpture student who later moved to New York and switched to performance art, Leslie has been called by The New York Times the “Evel Knievel of performance art.” Celebrated indie actor/filmmaker Larry Fessenden (Bad Habits) filmed some of Leslie’s shows and the documentaries ­ “Stunt: A Musical Motion Picture,” and “The Rocket Movie” will be screened during this lecture by the artist.

This article appears in March 16 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.