TYGER
MANDINGO DOMPTEURE
Dystopia
14 Dementia 14 Documenta 14
The
Vagimule doll in sparkling Kassel part of Parliament of Bods. Who
sportfucked whom?
Parliamentary
Decongestion. Who dropped kicked whom? Smoldering Brazilians,
Africans, Bolivians, Turks, Greek aktiv and passiv on demand.
Art
shtars like the vivacious Mexican Whitney Biennial juicycon Raul de
Nieves, the delightfully insightful Franko“Bifo” Berardi with
questions on the double-headed impotent hosemonstar that is
destroying the planet through its mathmatical,digital, and financial
gobblygook.
So
crushed out am I on tall, stately, handsome theorist and public
programs curator Paul B. Preciado. Senor Preciado assembled a very
tight rock steady crew that included the lovely Viktor Neumann,
Goddessa Carlota Gomez, interns Katja, Clara and beauty boi Cilian.
Everyones
tia, tante bruder was giving the hairy eyeball to bearded, muscular
giant Zucker the senior tech and sound engineer for the congress. I
for one was kept in a dry fidgitty titten state of constantly
mentally undressing humpy Zucker.
Mr.
Paul B. surrounded by the crème de la crème of art consigliere like
Bolivian/German lovesexy dreamboat Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, pretty
Nelli Kambouri, stylish Tatiana Roque, and the divine eleganza and
smarts that is Missy Magazines Margarita Tsomou and her glamorous
Ipanema lover Miss Thais.
Thank
god for the mighty Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the documenta 14
curator-at-large who is the founder and artistic director of SAVVY
Contemporary that is housed at the silent green KulturQuartier in
Berlin Wedding. Bonaventure made the congress ooze excitement with
the African diaspora of young fresh faces.
How
Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Is the perfect question to ask the
tired myopic art world. Documenta 14 in Kassel would have been very
dull indeed without the contributions of the African contingent.
South
African kollektiv !Qhiya featuring the ravishing and brilliant
SiSiPho Ngodwana & Thuli Gamedze, Lerato Shadi who lives in
Berlin now and warmed my foolish heart during her poetic cantata of
historically erased black women Zora Neal Hurston, Dinah Was, Dorothy
Dandridge, Marion Anderson, Lorraine Hansberry, Harriet Tubman,
Sojourner Truth and the great Ethel Waters.
The
dulcimet voice of Afro/Portuguesa Grada Kilomba who is also the
author of Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism which I
must possess ASAP.
Other
highlights was The Sword of Ali aka: Zulfukar Cetin’s Taking
Control of One’s Own Body: Refugee Sex Workers and Moralizing the
Sex of Others, that he presented with CHEAP kollektiv’s own
JewishMuzlim Daniel “Haji” Hendrickson.
Calling
the art world and documenta out on its excrement was the radiant
akshunist Maria Galindo with her Manifesto on How to Deal with the
Feminist Insurrection. Throughtout the Congress Maria was in full
testify mode and wasn’t afraid to address the super elefantes in
the room to the chagrin of documenta artistic director company
bb-boy Adam Szymczyk and Chilly Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar. As
Fassbinder star Volker Spengler would say, “Well meaning white
liberals are just Nazi’s without the spine.”
My
CHEAP kollektiv art daughter Salome Gersh stayed with Maria and her
anarcho feminist group Mujeres Creando when she was touring South
America a few years ago.
Bringing
humour to the forefront like a high art Margaret Cho was the
hilarious Taocheng Wang and her gossip weapons of mass destruction.
If Slander is a Zombie, the Gossip is a Vampire; and When Zombie and
Vampire Bites on the same body, then does their rumours become
histories? Geniustrata!
One
must never forget that Kassel is the place where Halit Yozgat was
murdered on April 6, 2006 by the NSU(National Socialist Underground).
The Society of Friends of Halit and Initiative 6 headlined the
Saturday program Aliances Between Athens and Kassel Antifascist
Movements. Special thanks to Azse Gulec, Natascha Sadr Haghighian
and the others responsible for this very moving, substantive series
of presentations.
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Empress
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus hosted a lovely going away cocktail party
for famed Nigerian film director Didi Cheeka who was doing an
archivist-in-residence at the Arsenal for the past six months. Didi
will be back at the Arsenal next year for part 2.
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All
of the CHEAPIES of Kollektiv CHEAP were back in full throttle action
for CHEAP Funk on Rebooty FM with special guest star Zufukar Chetin
the Sword of Ali. To hear the radio broadcast go to: