Ms. Davis in Rick Owens couture with Lesben artist
suprema Susan Silton at opening of silent green
Kulture Quartier foto by Kate Hers
Glorious
reunion with Judy LaBruce at the Schonbrunn in am Friedrichshain Park. Judy along with Susanne Sachsse of kollektiv
CHEAP have started working on a hot new flicker called The Missandrists which
is a quasi remake of the Clint Eastwood/Geraldine Page 1971 film The
Beguiled. The east German mid century
building built by the architect father of the late stage designer Bart Neumann
who created the famed set for CHEAP Jewelry in 2001 in the Volksbuhner Prater which
was the first official CHEAP project saluting Jack Smith and Carmen
Miranda. The Gang was certainly all here
including Glenn Belverio the talented fashion scribe, Marcuse Siegelstein, and
Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart with wife Angela and bandmate Shayna. Earlier I ventured to Acud to witness a
conversation with the love god Mr. Stewart and a famed Wire Magazine journalist
whose name escapes me at the moment.
Earlier
in the week I was in lovely Hannover to meet with Kathleen Rahn of the Kunst
Verein where I will be part of their world famous Tanz Congress. Everyone at the Kunst Verein were so sweet
and helpful giving la diva the art shtar treatment. Miss Angela one of the curators gave me a
tour of the town by bike and I was amazed at the cornfed, free range eye candy
of super healthy looking boyganzas. We
even stopped at their Pregnant Oyester Swimming Bad to watch the most amazing
bubble butted youths romp and stomp about in all their washboard ab big rabbit
footed glory. Under the Yum Yum
Tree. I love the Kunst Verein Hannover
as it is simply the most divine building with sumpteous art in its environ.
After
spending time in Hannover i was at the silent green kulture quartier in Wedding
to see Xiu Xiu perform their salute to Twin Peaks along with Senor Belverio,
Marcuse and La Sachsse. Earlier in the
week I had just come back to Berlin in time for the grand opening of the Arsenal’s
archive at silent green kulture quartier where I was the DJane. It was a mementous occasional with 500 plus
luminaries in attendance including Jewish Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson,filmmakers
Juliane Henrich, Philip Widmann, Stephan Geene of
b_books, Michael Thoss of Allianz Kulturstiftung, Nadine Voss, Hans-Joachim Fetzer, movie maker René Frölke with producer Ann-Carolin Renninger, cineaste power couple Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzales Monroy, Arsenal projectionists Anselm Heller and Alexander Boldt, Isabell Spengler, Angie Anderson, Angela Melitopoulos, the divine Antje
Ehmann, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung of SAVVY Contemporary,
documenta legend Eva Heldmann, Markus Ruff, artist Juliane Zellwies, Hanna Keller,Anna Hoffmann of Berlinale Forum,film curator Tobias Hering, Melissa &Gustavo, Dorthee Wenner, Maggie Schneider, Uli Ziemons, Susanne Sachsse, Glenn Belverio, Susan Silton with Kate Hers, Eunice Martins performing brilliantly on klavier and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus leading all the charges in a magnificent manner.
b_books, Michael Thoss of Allianz Kulturstiftung, Nadine Voss, Hans-Joachim Fetzer, movie maker René Frölke with producer Ann-Carolin Renninger, cineaste power couple Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzales Monroy, Arsenal projectionists Anselm Heller and Alexander Boldt, Isabell Spengler, Angie Anderson, Angela Melitopoulos, the divine Antje
Ehmann, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung of SAVVY Contemporary,
documenta legend Eva Heldmann, Markus Ruff, artist Juliane Zellwies, Hanna Keller,Anna Hoffmann of Berlinale Forum,film curator Tobias Hering, Melissa &Gustavo, Dorthee Wenner, Maggie Schneider, Uli Ziemons, Susanne Sachsse, Glenn Belverio, Susan Silton with Kate Hers, Eunice Martins performing brilliantly on klavier and Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus leading all the charges in a magnificent manner.
Was
taken to a divine luncheon by Anna Muelter at Tacobron. Next year Anna will have me do my Lesbian
Seperatist Tea Party called „Twee & Sympathy“ at the Sophiensaler next
year. It was so fab getting together to
gossip and catch up with Anna. Didnt
know that superstar Peaches now lives mostly in Los Angeles where she owns a
house and is in a relationship with Berlin based transman poet and rapper Black
Cracker.
The Ms. Davis doll has been teaching her seminal seminar Framing the
Freakazoid at the Kunst Universitaet Linz which has the most fascinating
students and art scholarship in all of Europe.
Ali Jenka and Tobias of Vienna based kollektiv Gelitin took over the
Transmediale and Skulpture department from Eva Grubinger and doing wonders with
it along with assist from Gabi Eldebauer and Salvatore Viviano. My first round of teaching in Linz I was able
to work with some very astute and talented undergrads and a few grad
students. I love them all and I’m
excited to see how they grow as the years progress. Ali gave me some lovejoy gifts including a
book of poetry by James Merrill and a English translation by James Grieve of
Marcel Proust’s In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower as well as a specialty
publication by Gelitin of one of their most out there Austrian Unclassifiable
artists pals with the tome Von einem Freund Gedichte zum Auswendiglernen.