When
you've existed for centuries mentoring naturally comes with the
territory. When I was teaching in Berlin back in 2007 at the
Weissensee Art Akademy I met a scrappy 21 year old blondine boy from
France who just warmed my heart with his wild enthusiasm for living
life as a mobiliac artfraction. That youth with the aristocratic
forbearing was named Christophe DeRohan Chabot and now he has his
first solo exhibition at the marvelously forward commercial Berlin
gallery space This is Exile.
The
installation on view is sublime in its minimalist splendour, the
carefully placed and balanced naruda in the darkened space is
meditative and distruptive at the same time, something like the
cosmos of the artist who is not the child barely out of his teens
anymore but a grown man of 30 approaching his Jesus Christos Christie
Himmelfahrt. The brilliance that I first saw in my Make Art or Die
seminar has now come to roost. Call it genius, call it phat and
f*cked up, but call it you will Mortimer.
You
only have till September 3rd to see the DeRohan Chabot
diaphanous gay goth drapes, Trilogy of Terror Totem and other quirky
ephemera so make haste.
Exile
Kurfuerstenstrasse
19
10785
Thur
– Sat 1-6pm by appointment only.
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Not one of my ex students, but the young gorgeous artist Elly Clark is always up to something dazzling, engaging and no good. She just sent me this latest missive of activitat.
Remote Intimacy Digital Residency at Fabrica with Marlborough Theatre & Brighton Digital Festival - September 14th-17th
In May this year I was awarded commission by Fabrica Gallery in association with Brighton Digital Festival exploring the subject of 'Remote Intimacy' with my ongoing #PhysicalDigital #OnlineOffline #Sergina drag performance project.
For it I developed two new participatory performances: Waiting for Ice Cream, Waiting for #Sergina: Private Performance / Instantaneous Newsreel and I Got My Phone in My Wallet Ghetto blaster induced Flashmob #Serginacise, and upgraded a third - #Sergina's Stimulatingly Sexy Simultaneous Simulation of Herself - by bringing it to a new city, introducing new performer Katy Pendlebury, and incorporating a new song with music by Simon Clark.
On Wednesday 14th September I'm taking part in a panel discussion about my work with Magda Tyzlik-Carver.
All
events listed below. All are free but booking advised. Click on the
links for further info.
- 14th September 6pm: Panel Discussion of Elly Clarke with Magda Tyzlik-Carver at Fabrica. - 14th - Thursday 15th September: Waiting for Ice Cream, Waiting for #Sergina: Private Performance / Instantaneous Newsreel - at Fabrica. Participatory performance which invites people to enter a blue screen booth dressed and made up as #Sergina, and to deliver their own rendition of#WaitingForIceCream which is instantaneously broadcast via #Sergina's YouTube Channel. - Thursday 15th September: I Got My Phone in My Wallet Ghetto blaster induced Flashmob #Serginacise - where we dance the dance of I Got my Phone in my Wallet to willing or unwilling audiences around Brighton. Starting at Fabrica at 7.30pm. - Saturday 17th September: #Sergina's Stimulatingly Sexy Simultaneous Simulation of Herself simultaneously at 7:30PM GMT / 8:30 CET in:
#Brighton at Fabrica with Katy Pendlbury at 7:30pm
#Brighton at The Marlborough Theatre with Elly Clarke at 7:30pm
#Berlin at Silver Future with Thomas Doherty at 8:30pm
#Belgrade in a Top Secret Venue to be Revealed with Vladimir Bjeličić at 8:30pm
- 14th September 6pm: Panel Discussion of Elly Clarke with Magda Tyzlik-Carver at Fabrica. - 14th - Thursday 15th September: Waiting for Ice Cream, Waiting for #Sergina: Private Performance / Instantaneous Newsreel - at Fabrica. Participatory performance which invites people to enter a blue screen booth dressed and made up as #Sergina, and to deliver their own rendition of#WaitingForIceCream which is instantaneously broadcast via #Sergina's YouTube Channel. - Thursday 15th September: I Got My Phone in My Wallet Ghetto blaster induced Flashmob #Serginacise - where we dance the dance of I Got my Phone in my Wallet to willing or unwilling audiences around Brighton. Starting at Fabrica at 7.30pm. - Saturday 17th September: #Sergina's Stimulatingly Sexy Simultaneous Simulation of Herself simultaneously at 7:30PM GMT / 8:30 CET in:
#Brighton at Fabrica with Katy Pendlbury at 7:30pm
#Brighton at The Marlborough Theatre with Elly Clarke at 7:30pm
#Berlin at Silver Future with Thomas Doherty at 8:30pm
#Belgrade in a Top Secret Venue to be Revealed with Vladimir Bjeličić at 8:30pm