So
sorry folks in cyberland that I have been lax in my blogina writing
but the Vagimule doll has been one busy blacktress crisscrossing
around the planet with one project after another. My North American
trip to New York City was granada. Fearless Leader of CHEAP Susanne
Sachsse and I scored major kudos with Magic Flute Part Two: A Film in
Pieces which opened June 8th at the 80 WSE Gallery in
Greenwich Village NYU compound across the street from Washington
Square Park. The film installation by the legendary Michel Auder
with assist by Michael Stickrod came together in a spectacular
fashion and of course Jonathan Berger and his adept crew did an
amazing job in mounting this fab exhibition which will be on view till August 12th so if you are in the tri-state region go and see it. My iconic make-up paintings and other ephemera are also featured.
The Goethe Institut put
Susi and I in the cute Chelsea Gem Hotel at 300 West 22nd
Street which was conveniently located near every place we had to
venture to. The Gem is a former single room occupancy turned mini boutique hotel with no frills or thrills. The staff was very sweet and accomodating though the lobby lighting isn't flattering to someone like myself of a certain age,but they
had a most charming tiny rooftop garden.
The
Magic Flute Part 3: Press Conference at Goethe Institut was a crazed hoot
and a half, Deconstructing the panel discussion was our aim and we succeeded with the divine assist of luscious Lia
Gangitano of Participant Inc as moderator and Cleofus Gwenvere of
punk band black fag as respondant. The Irving Place auditorium was
SRO with a divoon Manhattan audience that included exBerliner Annette
Knol one of my former Weissensee students and her vivacious
significant other Amelia Bande, Jeanne Vaccaro, Viktor Neumann,
Ektor Marie Garcia of the gay ceramix club, who was also one of my
kids from The Chicago Art Instititute now a grad student at Columbia, Josefina from Sweden,Bricktops at
the Parlour Club's Charity Hope Valentine who now writes for Bomb, Chicano hungthrob Sean Carillo, the legendary scholar Douglas Crimp looking very
handsome and dapper as usual, juicy glam power couple Asya & Ted
Berger, Prince Alex Casso, lovesexy artist extroidinaire Damien Davis, Ian
Alcock, Ralph Baylor, Chris Blue, Lucio Castro, Emily Clayton, Izzy
Cohan, Kelian Delice, Samuel Draxler, Dustin Foster, Jacquelyn Gallo,
Sara Gil, Roger Matthew Grant, Juliette Hayt, Bonnie Lane, Sawyer
Mitchell, Julia Moses, Kit Tyson, Punk Rock Dave Perett, Patricio
Schmigeglow, Zachary Shoenhut, Sara Tasini, Scotland Zief, Jess Garcia, Glenn
Belverio, Mark Morgan Perez, Baseera Khan,Wenzel Bilger, and the
incredible Michele Lamy visiting America from Paris, France checking up on the east coast Rick Owens Empire.
Susanne
and I were the special guests at a fundraiser for Lia Gangitano's
amazing Participant Inc.Gallery, the only not for profit gallery
space left in New York City. The bodacious event was held at a
secret garden studio of Israeli artist Izhar Patkin that was part
indoor/outdoor. Participant After Dark was modeled after Playboy After Dark. The alcohol and middle eastern food constantly
flowed with a delectable array of celebutants that included: Robin
Richman the Chicago fashion supershtar, interior designer Dean
Holdiman, Michelle Handelman and her partner Vincent, secret dealer
Brian Kish, the wonderous Kathe Burkhart, Elisabeth Kley, Marja
Samson, Douglas Ferguson, David Everitt Howe of Bomb Magazine, Olga
Dekalo, Jackie Rudin, Rafael Sanchez, Pati Herting, Glendalys Medina,
Rafael Melendez, Robert Boyd, Spencer Product, Marti Domination of
Jackie 60, Mr. Twinkle, Amanda Trager, Gary Indiana, Slava Mogutin,
Lucien Bahaj, John Brattin, the delightful Gala Verdugo the daughter
of actress Elena Verdugo of Marcus Welby MD fame and former Universal
Pictures starlet in the 1950s with husband Benjamin Tischer of
Invisible-Exports Gallery, Nath Ann Carrera, Gavin Downie, Pailo
Heitz, John Kelly, Craig Hensala, Amy Scholder, Elisabeth Subrin,
Bibbe Hansen, Richard Gabriel, Ross Evangelista, diva of divas Kembra Pfahler,
Hunter Reynolds, Justin Vivian Bond of Kiki and Herb fame, Jack Waters, Ethan Weinstock,
Steven Azo Michaels, Glenn Belverio, jewelry goddess Jelena Behrend
who made a CHEAP kollektiv dazzler for VD and SS with her lady love
Ruta Petrakovaite, T. Delong,Cady Noland, Scott Ewalt, AK Burns, and
Christian Music. The weather in New York was boiling hot and humid
so of course Lady Ms. Davis was forever sweating and not exactly
looking her best.
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Art
photog Annette Frick converses with Anette Kubritza who wrote the
feminist cult book Fluxus, Flirt and Feminism in the new Camera
Austria nr. 134. Pick it up now!!!!