Impact Addict Videos (1987)

Performance artist and UT art professor David Leslie whose New York performance in which viewers were offered 1000 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 actorfilmmaker Larry Fessenden Bad Habits filmed some of Leslies shows Four short videos are compiled here in a sampler of performance artist and thrillseeker Leslies deathdefying feats in the streets and clubs of Manhattan Included Impact Addict Chinatown Mismatch and Kung Fu Fighting