DER GANZ NORMALE HYPE?
Ran into the S&M masked artist Master Patrick the other day while out bike riding on a lovely spring day. Master Patrick lives in the heart of the old west Gay Ghetto of Nollendorky Platz across the street from the Blue Boy Hustler Bar. I had never seen Master Patrick without his leather hooded mask that made him ebiquitisk as the doorman of Pork at Frankenstein 5000 in Kreuzkoelln. The wonderfull Master P invited me into his ground floor studio for a drink and we chittle chatted the night away having a girl-acious time about how the Nollendorf area is changing with the new recent rich Russians and how the owner of the bar Blonde which I like to refer to as Bland is trying to get rid of the boy hookers who are just desperately trying to make a living in a poor town. I find out that Master Patrick is also friends with Desmond Cadogan the hunky former black model and muse to Thierry Mugler, the artist Salome and the long time boyfriend of artist Rainer Fetting. Desmond also did duty as the lover of outrageously sexxxy Russian art photog and poet Slava Mogutin.
DJ Snax just sent me an emug with the latest news of his very interesting Berlin based career.
Here's a little update from the World Of Snax:
** First up, Random Records is proud to release Special Guest Remix this month!! This attractive package (designed by Mario Dzurila-see below) contains a 12inch vinyl labor or love, a free CD and if you pre-order, a free download!
Special Guest Remix features reworks of two tracks from Snax's last album, Special Guest Star: “Special Guest Star” remixed by Sven Brede aka Toxic Twin and “The Spark (feat. Eric D. Clark)” remixed by The Rimshooters.
Toxic Twin was the big winner in Snax’s remix contest presented by tracksandfields.com. The Rimshooters are the fresh new production team of Massimiliano Pagliara and Rotciv.
Also included are the original versions of both tracks.
But wait, there’s more! Look inside and discover a bonus CD of Snax’s entire Special Guest Star album.
Still more…Those who pre-order the vinyl at Snax’s online store receive a free extra remix of "Special Guest Star" by Damir Bojanic to download.
Wow!
** Tomorrow night (Friday June 3rd), Snax will join Lemercier and his group Lalaby for the song "A Game" at Lalaby's "Charivari" record release party at Berghain Cantine.
Info sent in a previous mail.
** Snax joins Joel Gibb and the Hidden Cameras on keyboards this summer!
Check the Cameras'web site for dates and info.
** Catch Snax live:
July 25th
Calajunco Beach Club
Regio Calabria, Italy
Septmeber 2011
Australia! (tba)
** And if you haven't yet, please visit Snax's Soundcloud page and download his brand new track "Gratitude" for free!
It's just a little thank you to friends and fans for all your love and support. :)
Guess that's all for now...see you on stage!
S N A X
***
Got together with Felix Knoke and Jan Klesse of Tenderloin to knock out some more songs. I always have a supurb time with my beautiful hunky German boys. Jan's pretty girlfriend Marie also helped with laying down some vocal tracts on two songs. Tenderloin rules.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
ANOREXIA IS THE SODIUM OF THE MASSES
The tabloid media has been barreling down on me because of my relationship with Ronan Farrow the beautiful blondine son of actress Mia Farrow and director/writer Woody Allen.Ronan use to go by the name of Satchel Allen, "Satchel" being the name his father gave him. But when the Woodman broke up with Ms. Farrow to shack up with her adopted daughter Ronan and the other children started to use their mother's surname. Ms. Farrow's mother is the MGM actress Maureen O'Sullivan who starred in the Tarzan series of the 1930s and 40s. Ms. Farrow's father is legendary director John Farrow. Mia Farrow is Hollywood nobility and has been a star since she was a teenager featured in the nitetime TV soap opera Peyton Place. Mia Farrow has been married to such diverse men as Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn.
Thank god I live in Germany where it’s a lot harder for the American media to get ahold of me. So far all the yellow journalists can do is email my booking agent and webmaster as they don’t have my personal email or an address to reach me. As of last week the papparazi is staking out the CHEAP kollective offices in Neu Koelln in hopes of catching me going in or out. But they are so stupid in that they only know what I look like in drag. As a boy I can walk right past them and they don’t even recognize me.
The film i collaborated on with the great feminist filmmaker and artist supreme Evie Europa Ruessler is finally making it premiera at bbooks on Monday June 6th 8pm. Evie is calling the evening “Queer Animal Praxis” which is such a cool name. The event will features some of her short films followed by a theory and textual presentation by Tim Studkin and Theodora. b_books is located at Lübbener Str. 14, in the street triangle of Skalitzer -, Wrangel- and Lübbener Str., glass-front to street.
***
My sexy young Italian friend Davide Grassi and his beautiful wife Marcela Okretic have an exhibition up as part of the Venice Biennale.Here is the info below for all you hot intercontinental types.
Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia
Breg 12 , Ljubljana
1 June – 31 August 2011
Opening: 1 June 2011 at 7 pm
and
The Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale
Arsenale, Venice
4 June – 27 November 2011
The unpublished work Generalitá by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša – conceived in September 2007, immediately after the legal name change of the 3 Slovenian artists into Janez Janša (the name of the then economic-liberal and conservative Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia) – will be on display at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia and at the Italian Pavilion as part of an event curated by Vittorio Sgarbi within the frame of the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Unified Italy.
The event has been realised by the coordinator of the Italian Institutes of Culture Francesca Valente, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Pavilion thanks to a joint initiative of the Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Bilingual catalogue (ITA/ENG) edited by Skirŕ available at the Venice Biennale.
On 1 June 2011, during the opening ceremony at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia, the preview of the new work Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša will be screened. The premiere of this work will take place in the fall at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina at the exhibition Un-proper Names curated by Miško Šuvaković.
Images available for free download at:
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_01.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_02.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_03.zip
--
Generalitá and Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
have been produced by
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
www.aksioma.org
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia.
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič and Janez Janša
Editing: Jurij Moškon
Thanks: Monica Zecca
Contact:
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 - 250 830
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
***
My young, and inventive NYU student Joey Tang is curating a two part show that takes place in New York and LA. See the info below:
---
Leverage
Four New York-based artists, will create distinct but related works for The Notary Public, New York and Workspace, Los Angeles.
SONJA ENGELHARDT
LUKE STETTNER
GUSTABO VELAZQUEZ
CLAUDIA WEBER
The Notary Public
Opening: Sat June 4th, 5-7pm
1289 Madison Ave, #3A, NY
thenotarypublic.tumblr.com
Workspace
Opening: Sun June 12th, 3-7pm
2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031
workspace2601.com
----
A pair of scissors is one way.
A wheelbarrow another.
Also a human mandible.
the mind too….
exert a large force over a small distance at one end by exerting only a small force over a greater distance at the other.
influence the other side to move closer to the negotiating position.
pull away from each other with an equal and opposite force. the arms do not originate this force alone, but are assisted by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight and by momentum.
borrow money, buy fixed assets, use derivatives, multiply gains and losses.
identifying those observations which have a large effect on the outcome of fitting regression models.
attempting to block a kick, jumps off a teammate to attain a better position.
Volume and distance become leverage.
The Notary Public = 192” long x 135” wide = 180 square feet
Workspace = 216” long x 120” wide = 180 square feet
But maybe only a mental projection of where we are and will be standing.
We leverage our ways.
We have to.
----
Sonja Engelhardt - * 1975 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Luke Stettner's first solo exhibition, The Fold, opened at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden, and his solo project for the Present/Future prize opened in Torino, Italy, both in 2010. He will has his first solo exhibition in New York in September 2011 at Kate Werble Gallery. Luke is an editor of thehighlights.org, an online arts journal dedicated to artists writings and web-based projects.
Gustabo Velazquez was born in Upland, California in 1971. He received his MFA from New York University in 2010.
Claudia Weber was born in Germany where she received her MFA from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Offenbach. She has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna, as well as at Momenta Art and currently at WaveHill in New York. In September she will be featured in a solo exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Her work has been included in recent group shows at White Columns, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Croxhapox, Ghent, and the Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France.
The tabloid media has been barreling down on me because of my relationship with Ronan Farrow the beautiful blondine son of actress Mia Farrow and director/writer Woody Allen.Ronan use to go by the name of Satchel Allen, "Satchel" being the name his father gave him. But when the Woodman broke up with Ms. Farrow to shack up with her adopted daughter Ronan and the other children started to use their mother's surname. Ms. Farrow's mother is the MGM actress Maureen O'Sullivan who starred in the Tarzan series of the 1930s and 40s. Ms. Farrow's father is legendary director John Farrow. Mia Farrow is Hollywood nobility and has been a star since she was a teenager featured in the nitetime TV soap opera Peyton Place. Mia Farrow has been married to such diverse men as Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn.
Thank god I live in Germany where it’s a lot harder for the American media to get ahold of me. So far all the yellow journalists can do is email my booking agent and webmaster as they don’t have my personal email or an address to reach me. As of last week the papparazi is staking out the CHEAP kollective offices in Neu Koelln in hopes of catching me going in or out. But they are so stupid in that they only know what I look like in drag. As a boy I can walk right past them and they don’t even recognize me.
The film i collaborated on with the great feminist filmmaker and artist supreme Evie Europa Ruessler is finally making it premiera at bbooks on Monday June 6th 8pm. Evie is calling the evening “Queer Animal Praxis” which is such a cool name. The event will features some of her short films followed by a theory and textual presentation by Tim Studkin and Theodora. b_books is located at Lübbener Str. 14, in the street triangle of Skalitzer -, Wrangel- and Lübbener Str., glass-front to street.
***
My sexy young Italian friend Davide Grassi and his beautiful wife Marcela Okretic have an exhibition up as part of the Venice Biennale.Here is the info below for all you hot intercontinental types.
Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia
Breg 12 , Ljubljana
1 June – 31 August 2011
Opening: 1 June 2011 at 7 pm
and
The Italian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale
Arsenale, Venice
4 June – 27 November 2011
The unpublished work Generalitá by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša – conceived in September 2007, immediately after the legal name change of the 3 Slovenian artists into Janez Janša (the name of the then economic-liberal and conservative Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia) – will be on display at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia and at the Italian Pavilion as part of an event curated by Vittorio Sgarbi within the frame of the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Unified Italy.
The event has been realised by the coordinator of the Italian Institutes of Culture Francesca Valente, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Pavilion thanks to a joint initiative of the Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Bilingual catalogue (ITA/ENG) edited by Skirŕ available at the Venice Biennale.
On 1 June 2011, during the opening ceremony at the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia, the preview of the new work Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša will be screened. The premiere of this work will take place in the fall at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina at the exhibition Un-proper Names curated by Miško Šuvaković.
Images available for free download at:
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_01.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_02.zip
www.aksioma.org/press/generalita_03.zip
--
Generalitá and Ceci n’est pas Janez Janša by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
have been produced by
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011
www.aksioma.org
With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture and the Italian Institute of Culture in Slovenia.
Executive Producers: Marcela Okretič and Janez Janša
Editing: Jurij Moškon
Thanks: Monica Zecca
Contact:
Marcela Okretič
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel.: + 386 – (0)590 - 54360
gsm: + 386 – (0)41 - 250 830
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
***
My young, and inventive NYU student Joey Tang is curating a two part show that takes place in New York and LA. See the info below:
---
Leverage
Four New York-based artists, will create distinct but related works for The Notary Public, New York and Workspace, Los Angeles.
SONJA ENGELHARDT
LUKE STETTNER
GUSTABO VELAZQUEZ
CLAUDIA WEBER
The Notary Public
Opening: Sat June 4th, 5-7pm
1289 Madison Ave, #3A, NY
thenotarypublic.tumblr.com
Workspace
Opening: Sun June 12th, 3-7pm
2601 Pasadena Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031
workspace2601.com
----
A pair of scissors is one way.
A wheelbarrow another.
Also a human mandible.
the mind too….
exert a large force over a small distance at one end by exerting only a small force over a greater distance at the other.
influence the other side to move closer to the negotiating position.
pull away from each other with an equal and opposite force. the arms do not originate this force alone, but are assisted by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight and by momentum.
borrow money, buy fixed assets, use derivatives, multiply gains and losses.
identifying those observations which have a large effect on the outcome of fitting regression models.
attempting to block a kick, jumps off a teammate to attain a better position.
Volume and distance become leverage.
The Notary Public = 192” long x 135” wide = 180 square feet
Workspace = 216” long x 120” wide = 180 square feet
But maybe only a mental projection of where we are and will be standing.
We leverage our ways.
We have to.
----
Sonja Engelhardt - * 1975 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Luke Stettner's first solo exhibition, The Fold, opened at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden, and his solo project for the Present/Future prize opened in Torino, Italy, both in 2010. He will has his first solo exhibition in New York in September 2011 at Kate Werble Gallery. Luke is an editor of thehighlights.org, an online arts journal dedicated to artists writings and web-based projects.
Gustabo Velazquez was born in Upland, California in 1971. He received his MFA from New York University in 2010.
Claudia Weber was born in Germany where she received her MFA from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Offenbach. She has had solo exhibitions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Vienna, as well as at Momenta Art and currently at WaveHill in New York. In September she will be featured in a solo exhibition at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Her work has been included in recent group shows at White Columns, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Croxhapox, Ghent, and the Contemporary Art Center, Bretigny, France.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
REJUVENATE WITH KAREN CARPENTER
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Hans Richter tribute last night at Arsenal Institute fur film und video kunst was a blast. The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny played their little hearts out with great virtuosity, and steamheat was rising from their cello and violin stabbings. And what an audience of international dignataries with a command appearance by the great Lisa Steele(Birthday Suit) and Kim Tomczak the founders of Toronto’s famous Vtape. Lisa and Kim are filled with lovesexxxy Canuckian charms galore. Lisa even had the dearly departed and very much missed artist Will Munroe(Club Vaseline) and Karen Lundgren as students of hers at York University. Miss Karen aka: Kara Hunger is now one of my LA children who I’ve adored since first meeting her when she moved to Los Angeles for grad school at Cal Arts where Ron Athey and I were teaching a block seminar. The vivacious Ms. Steele and Mr. Tomczak are good friends with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, who was looking very bright and girlish chatting with artist Maggie Schneider, personable filmmaker and curator Angela Melitopolous, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Magazine and the Portoguese artist Elsa. Little Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Filmkollective styled my wardrobe for the evening and designed my hair and make-up, and I must say I looked ravishing. Alex hails from Greece and is Greek passive, and this evening met a Greek active hunk from his hometown named Jorgos who is the boyfriend of the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is collaborating with Susanne Sachsse and I on The Communist Bigamist which goes into rehearsal in July. The fearless leader of kollective CHEAP Ms. Sachsse was resplendid as always with her beau film historian Marc Siegel and gorgeous daughter Salome Gersh with her co-star Zofia from the Yael Bertran installation film that will be part of the Polish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Also seen: Australian fagademic Damon Young with Anand his cute Malgaysian scientist pal from Harvard and Rising Stars virgins DJ Snax with his hot humpy young boyfriend.
I don’t know what possessed me to go to the closing night of The Wilde Duck at Praeter, but with Little Alex we made the trek to Casting Couch Allee. The akshunist installation was mobbed by drunken Saturday nite revellers who were not getting it for the most part. Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse braved the binge drinking hordes which I couldn’t take so I left. Here is Marc’s report:
Hey Ms. D RSFS was a pleasure last night! you looked splendid. Susi and I did stay at the Wilde Duck to the bitter end last night-until 5am. But Vegard never showed us his thick meat again and instead the irritating audience got drunker and louder and stupider throughout the night, so that at the end, before they even finished the final scene, Vegard simply closed the curtains on the windows and the lights went on and it was over. But before hand we saw some amazing scenes.
***
Jeffreyland Hilbert is one of the funniest, most talented and sexiest men i know. While everyone else in Los Angeles ages he gets younger and younger looking. I don´t know what his secret is. Perhaps it has something to do with coming from Idaho.
When he found out about my little medical procedure he sent me these words of encouragement:
Ladybird,
It’s not really a big deal. I had one about 5 or 6 years ago. They put you under into a “twilight sleep” but you are awake during the procedure – at least I was. It’s better to take this precautionary step now.
It really is a fairly routine procedure and I’m sure most of your male friends have already done it.
Maybe they will find buried treasure in your culo and you can retire.
Xoxox
Rising Stars, Falling Stars Hans Richter tribute last night at Arsenal Institute fur film und video kunst was a blast. The Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny played their little hearts out with great virtuosity, and steamheat was rising from their cello and violin stabbings. And what an audience of international dignataries with a command appearance by the great Lisa Steele(Birthday Suit) and Kim Tomczak the founders of Toronto’s famous Vtape. Lisa and Kim are filled with lovesexxxy Canuckian charms galore. Lisa even had the dearly departed and very much missed artist Will Munroe(Club Vaseline) and Karen Lundgren as students of hers at York University. Miss Karen aka: Kara Hunger is now one of my LA children who I’ve adored since first meeting her when she moved to Los Angeles for grad school at Cal Arts where Ron Athey and I were teaching a block seminar. The vivacious Ms. Steele and Mr. Tomczak are good friends with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, who was looking very bright and girlish chatting with artist Maggie Schneider, personable filmmaker and curator Angela Melitopolous, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, Manuel Schubert of Filmhighlights Internet Radio Magazine and the Portoguese artist Elsa. Little Alex of the Chocolate Grinder Filmkollective styled my wardrobe for the evening and designed my hair and make-up, and I must say I looked ravishing. Alex hails from Greece and is Greek passive, and this evening met a Greek active hunk from his hometown named Jorgos who is the boyfriend of the beautiful Nazli Kilerci who is collaborating with Susanne Sachsse and I on The Communist Bigamist which goes into rehearsal in July. The fearless leader of kollective CHEAP Ms. Sachsse was resplendid as always with her beau film historian Marc Siegel and gorgeous daughter Salome Gersh with her co-star Zofia from the Yael Bertran installation film that will be part of the Polish Pavillion at the Venice Biennale. Also seen: Australian fagademic Damon Young with Anand his cute Malgaysian scientist pal from Harvard and Rising Stars virgins DJ Snax with his hot humpy young boyfriend.
I don’t know what possessed me to go to the closing night of The Wilde Duck at Praeter, but with Little Alex we made the trek to Casting Couch Allee. The akshunist installation was mobbed by drunken Saturday nite revellers who were not getting it for the most part. Marc Siegel and Susanne Sachsse braved the binge drinking hordes which I couldn’t take so I left. Here is Marc’s report:
Hey Ms. D RSFS was a pleasure last night! you looked splendid. Susi and I did stay at the Wilde Duck to the bitter end last night-until 5am. But Vegard never showed us his thick meat again and instead the irritating audience got drunker and louder and stupider throughout the night, so that at the end, before they even finished the final scene, Vegard simply closed the curtains on the windows and the lights went on and it was over. But before hand we saw some amazing scenes.
***
Jeffreyland Hilbert is one of the funniest, most talented and sexiest men i know. While everyone else in Los Angeles ages he gets younger and younger looking. I don´t know what his secret is. Perhaps it has something to do with coming from Idaho.
When he found out about my little medical procedure he sent me these words of encouragement:
Ladybird,
It’s not really a big deal. I had one about 5 or 6 years ago. They put you under into a “twilight sleep” but you are awake during the procedure – at least I was. It’s better to take this precautionary step now.
It really is a fairly routine procedure and I’m sure most of your male friends have already done it.
Maybe they will find buried treasure in your culo and you can retire.
Xoxox