Richtig
rammeln!
My mother Mary Magdelene Duplantier use to say, “I don't like little men, with little hands and little feet.”
During my spoken word days I added to her phrase, How would you like something little crawling all over you?
Lately
all I have been seeing in Berlina are men with the tinest of feet and hands.
Feet that are like the hooves of the Teufel-SatanLuciferBeelzebub.
Please tell me what is going on?
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Damien
Davis, the gifted Black New York artist is one hellzopplin dynamo mufioso. I've
been meaning to update you on his prolific career, but my sad PC lap
top has been on its scrounging last legs lately. I never know if its
even going to turn on or permanently go off. Mr. Davis is not
related to the doll, but I like to humorously say that he is either
my nephew or the grandson of Sammy Davis Jr. and wife Altovise.
Well lovesexxxy Damien has an upcoming solo show:
Currently on view:
Oneness (Curated by Jonathan Patton) LAST CHANCE!
On View: February 9th - February 28thHarlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Ave
New York, NY 10030jux·ta·po·si·tion (Curated by Lonnie Woods III)
On View: February 15th - March 4th
New York University, Rosenberg Gallery
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY 10003
Upcoming
discussions:
In March...
Structure (Curated by Will Heinrich)The NYC Creative Salon is a series of discussions that take place bi-weekly. Each discussion is approximately an hour and a half long and takes place on a weekday evening. Each series is six discussions under one topic and each discussion has a different group of participants speaking on the topic. I will be a participant in the March 7th conversation. Check out the NYC Creative Salon website to listen to the conversation once it is up.
Recent Releases:
Love For Love / Hate For Hate: A Glossary Of Our Time
This 76 page zine includes work by 75 contributors (visual artists, writers, designers, and educators) responding to 73 words surrounding the 2016 presidential election season.
50% of all proceeds go to Planned Parenthood
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All
my Gallic fanatics please note that on Saturday March 4th as part of
Art&Feminism Edithon an art congress curated by Flora Katz
I will stage a performative
conversation with juicy artist Wu Tsang one off my most celebrated high art children. The event will be called No one Leaves Delilah – A (W)rap on Dr. Jose E. Munoz. Its
sort of a riff on the last performance that I did with the late great
Dr. Jose back in 2012 that was part of the hoopla surrounding my
first visual art exhibition at Participant Inc. Gallery.
This art and academic fest will also include lectures, interventions and a performance by
Boychild with Djanes and a myriad of other earthly delights.
My section starts early at 3:30pm at the Archive Nationales and includes high tea. The
last time I performed in Paris was back in 2010 for the Fuck My Brain
series curated by Marie-Helene Bourcier at Le Palais de Tokyo.
website.
I
am also looking forward to connecting with my old pal the Paris based
fashion guru Rick Owens and his wife Michele Lamy.
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I
completely forget to tell you about my time last month in Athens for
the first Gender Fest held at Booze Cooperativa. The wonderful Maria
Cyber the director of Outview, the Gay and Lesbian Film festival of
Athens created Genderfest in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg
Stiftung Office in Greece. Genderfest isn't just a satellite of
Outview but takes it one step further presenting artists whose medium
isn't just film, but also photograpy, music, performance, akshun and
spoken word. I had a marvelous time with Maria and her fab, hard
working crew that includes girlfriend Henrietta, Miss Melitta(hostess
with the mostess on her balls who use to sing and perform in Texas),
Jason Antigone, Frossini, Alex Demetriou and the wonderous Raleia.
The invited guests included legends like Del LaGrace Volcano,
handsome and talented Amos Mac, Vanessa Lopez & Company, the
brilliantine Feminist/academic art duo Samania(Samira Mahboub &Ania
Catherine, Djane team The Beatches,lokal drag ingenue Zackie Oh!
Activist Marina Galanou, and the incredible musical sensation Tami T
of Sweden. Maria and her gang aren't only the best event organizers
and planners but are the most generous hosts feeding us all every
evening some of the healthiest most delicious food I've ever eaten.
They even took us on a field trip to the Temple of Poseidon which is
an hour out of Athens with breathtaking scenery and a sunset to end
all Hellenic sunsets.
There is something new, extroidinary and politically charged in the Athenian air that I hope innoculates the rest of Europe.
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Another
New York Miracle of beauty and sterling ability is the young artist
Baseera Khan. Baseera collaborated with me on my award winning solo
show Hag,small, contemporary, haggard back in 2012 and now she has
her first solo “iamuslima” at Participant Inc. which is now up
and running till uptil April 2nd. If you are in the
tri-state area it is a must destination point.
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I promise to include some more rumour and salacious innuendo from my new gossipeuse Miss Hokey
Knickerbocker of the famous gossip Knickerbocker dynasty. Hokey has the perfect set of lavenderia lady loose lipps Inc of anyone I know so when I get back from Paris and before I romp of to China expect a Knickerbocker dipthong.
