THE GOTH FROM IMPENEMA
So my guilty pleasure was going to see the hit blockboster 3-D film Gayvatar directed by James CamerOCTOROON.Having seen the previews months ago i was expecting to hate the movie. CGI seems too cartoonish for me,and i don´t go to the cinema to play engorged versions of Ms. Packman or DonkeyKong.The technology world in this flicker wasn´t always so convincing, but for the most part i did enjoy the depiction of forest and fauna on Planet Pandora´s Box.
I wanted more of mack mama Sigourney Weaver looking so pert in her henna curled bob, and that glorious diesel Michele Rodriguez. Yes I admit i am a daghag. Relunctantly i have to admit that male ingenue Sam Worthington is one nice slab of USDA American choice thrombone, playing the doe-eyed jarhead, but when he was transformed into the lithe pony tail queen i wanted to groan.
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The new year of 2010 is turning out to be as work laden as 2009.I am booked solidly until mid 2011,and will be going from project to project with absolutely no room for breathing.Hey! I guess its better then being unemployed.
Thursday i Djaned the after party for artist Keren Cytter´s rock block of presentations at HAU3. Performer/Audience/Mirror based on a piece by Dan Graham from the 1970s was short & sweet,just how i like my performance art, with knockout performances by CHEAP´s fearless leader Susanne Sachsse who is stunning in looks and superlative in seductive voice and manner. Frau Sachsse could make the reading of the phone book compelling. Partnering La Sachsse perfectly the dashing young German actor Knut Berger who shouldn´t have been allowed onstage with his street clothes. This royal prinzin should only appear in the nude.
Next up was The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Contents, that features the Keren Cytter D.I.E.Now Dance Theatre of Verona.I kept thinking of the 1970s film Who is Sheila Levine and Why is she Saying Those Horrible Things About me? In fact when it comes to the pretty Israeli tomboy Ms. Cytter I am awash with images of Elaine May´s daughter Jeannie Berlin who starred in The Heartbreak Kid or Melanie Mayron in Girlfriends.
The ladies in the cast Dafna Maimon and Susie Meyer held me spellbound. Andrew Kerton really knows how to work that charming British accent of his, and the lanky high cheekboned and smoldering Luc van Esch was very yowzina!
Seen dancing at the afterparty at WAU cafe Susanne Sachsse and film historian beau Marc Siegel, Tim Blue back from filming his new feature in New York, Daniel Hendrickson,members of Fight Club, a preggers and glowing Maike Harmsen & Stefanie Wenner, sweet Rahel Häseler, Anna Muelter, Christophe Gurk and the beauty of HAU Katrin Dod.
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The first Rising Stars, Falling Stars of 2010 at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst was regally post Fordist with a salute to Danish silent great Asta Nielsen in Erdgeist 1923. Eunice Martin provided the luxuriant musical score on klavier as an unexpected large crowd took over Kino 2. With the freezing temperatures outside, no one was predicting such a stellar turnout, so after the screening everyone was feeling frisky slurping down Blue Caracoa and Grune Witwe´s the fav libation of Ms. Nielsen. Seen huddled together for warmth Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with her Forum Expanded team of Miss Bettina, Nanna Heidenreich and beauty boy Ulrich Ziemons. Also looking lovely Frau Susanne Sachsse with dapper film historian Marc Siegel, Tim Blue, Djane Olga Damnitz, assorted Danes, Spaniards from Barcelona, Flems and the Dutch plus lovely art photog Elly Clark with beautiful British ginger Ms. Sophia of live art troupe Plan B whose gorgeous daughter Ruby brought delicious presents for hostess Vaginal Davis. Looking very Darwinian actor Paul Bettany(Creation), journalist Daniel Mufson, sängerin Nena and actress Corolla Regnier the grandaughter of Frank Wedekind who wrote Erdgeist and Die Buchse der Pandora.

S&M SHANTY´S/TESTOSTERON HYMNEN
Celebrities always die in threes. Such was the case this past week with the deaths of French New Wave director Eric Rohmer, Art Clokey the creator of that lil green slab of clay Gumby, and R&B Heavyweight crooner Teddy Pendergrass. Pendergrass got his start first as a drummer, then lead singer of Philadelphia International soul group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. By the mid 70s he had a solo career with his ladies only concerts. In 1982 Mr. Pendergrass became a paraplegic after a car accident. Its funny that in the obits on the radio and online, there was no mention of the tranny girl who was injured in the accident with him. The rumour in urban circles was that Teddy loved his chix with dix.
Friday at Search & Destroy rock club Judy La Bruce, and the Vagimule Doll hosted and DJaned a neurotic/erotic party till the bitter wee hours, and Teddy Pendergrass´s tranny loving spirit was watching over everyone. Ms. LaBruce is back in Berlina for her big art opening at Peres Projects Gallery on Jan 30th where she will preview a rough cut of her new LA Zombie flick that stars the steroid French blue movie studkin Francois Segat who will also be in attendance. All the bearded lady fags will all want to bury their faces in Mdm. Segat´s bodacious bubble buttkin.
A juicy gaggle of celebutants danced and pranced at Search & Destroy at the legendary Schwuz club at Mehringdamn. The New Yorker Magazines star staff writer Hilton Als looking dapper with his look-a-like posse in tow. The magnificent Mr. Als was just in Berlin for the weekend, but will be back in full glory in April reporting on all things teutonic throughout the Spring & Summer, so watch out world!
Swedish designer Lars Nilsson and Spanish coutourier Josep Font were having a hairy thyroid eyeball nigger fit over hunky experimental filmmaker Alejandro Duran, who was out with pretty Otto:Up With Dead People star Katherina Klewinghaus. Seen outrageously flirting: French director Olivier Assayas who was enthralled with Pork Club´s Tennessee Clafin, the performance artist/concubine to A-list Hollywood directors Bryan Singer & Gus Van Sant. Making everyone blush with his young boy beauty, the Slovakian artist Mario Dzurila, while intermedia actress Susanne Sachsse was chit chatting with Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and his muscular beau Enrico Dallman. Ms. Sachsse will star in Keren Cytter´s new piece that premieres Thursday at HAU 3. The Lady Ms. D will Djane the after party at WAU Cafe so stop by why dontcha? Ms.Cytter and her music curator lover Christoph Gurk were smooching to Jonathan Fireater´s „A Love Like That“ while the wildest dancing was being led by film historian Marc Siegel, musician kJohnny Blue with socialite Aaston Brooks, Anna Muelter, artist Dean Sameshima, and Flemish royal Koen Claerhouten. Sissi Magazines Toby Rauscher removed his jock strap and got all the boys to start doing helicopters with their genitals. Not to be undone a group of lesbianas started taking off their sports bras as LaBruce played music from Godspell. Looking ultra glam video artist Liz Rosenfeld with British live artist Richard James Hancock and juicy Gunnar Neumann. Everyones favorite good time Sally--- Mauro the Italian art critic was giving limousine lap dances to birthday boy Daniel Hendrickson, and his partner Piero Bellomo of La Collezione while watching all the action was Pablo&Vincent of Paris, male movie ingenue Justin Bartha, Greek curator Marga, Torsten & Cigdem of bbooks, Guillaume Airiaud and Der Spiegel writer Felix Knoke.
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Sunday it was Ladies Day for CHEAP´s fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Ms. Davis as they brunched royally at the Schoenbrunn Restaurant in Volkspark Friedrichshain. The two pretty women are planning on performing together again as sisters, this time as famous sibling rivals Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland with sets & costumes by Serbian talent Nebuschar.
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Monday evening Marc Siegel and I went to the Arsenal Institut für Film und Video Kunst to see the wonderful short films curated by one of my former Weissensee students Beate Rathke aka: Justin Tyme. All the movies screened were exceptional, and that is something rare for a shorts program. What i liked best was the playful, whimsical nature of all the films. Usually in Germany nothing is taken seriously unless it is dry and dour. Seeing these shorts gives me hope that some new movement is on the rise in Germania.
We had to leave during the break to make it to bbooks for a lecture series hosted by Tim Stuttken that featured as a guest Tavia Nyongo, the Kenyan performance studies scholar from NYU who has been living in Berlin for the last few months on a fellowship. I first met Mr. Nyongo years ago through his collegue Professor Jose Munoz. The serene Mr. Nyongo gave an insightful talk on the oh so currant topic of Freaky. I loved how he wove the controversy about the South African Personal Best athlete Caster in with the Lee Daniels film Precious based on the book by Saphire. Last year all these tired pundits were attacking this strapping African woman Caster, and calling her a man-dinga!, but no one was criticizing in the same manner the big dique, webbed feet amphibian mota smoking tranny chasing Aqua Man gold medal winning swimmer Our Lady of the Perpetual Phelps.
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Don´t forget to mark in your calenderia Saturday January 23rd 9pm – Rising Stars, Falling Stars, my monthly performative silent film event. For our first program of the new year we will show Erdgeist (1923) directed by Leopold Jessner and starring the great Asta Nielsen. Tell everyone you know as this is a rare treat, and the print is newly restored from Amsterdam. Eunice Martin will accompany the film live on klavier and after the screening i will host a reception in the rote foyer where we will drink vino and Blue Curacao the favorite libation of Ms. Nielsen.
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My sexy and super brilliantine grad students from NYU are putting on this MFA exhibition. Remember the names of these radiant youths, because you will be reading about them EVERYWHERE really soon. They are on the verge of taking over, and its about time there was something interesting floating about in the institutional art world. Don´t you think?

NYU Steinhardt 1st Year MFA Exhibition
NEVER ODD OR EVEN

JESSICA GISPERT
SHADI HAROUNI
DAVID J. MERRITT
CARLOS REYES
BEN SCHUMACHER
ANDY SLEMENDA
JO-EY TANG
KEVIN YANG
LEAFE ZALES


Opening Reception Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
The Commons Gallery 34 Stuyvesant St (btw 2nd and 3rd) / On View from 1/20/10 - 1/30/10
he website is www.nyuopenstudios.com/neveroddoreven/

The Department of Art and Art Profession at NYU Steinhardt is chaired by artist Nancy Barton.
The MFA faculty includes Peter Campus, Ross Bleckner, John Torreano, Sue de Beer, Trisha Donnelly, Jesse Bransford, Jack Pierson, Maureen Gallace, Kathe Burkhart, Adam Putnam, David Rimanelli and Carol Bove.

YELLO:EINFACH AUSGEZEICHNET!
When i go long periods without a new web posting, my poor student interns and assistants get quite the emug equivalent of an earful of complaints.What is happening with Ms. Davis? Why hasn´t she added anything new to her blog? Is she in rehab? I am so fortunate that i have a small army of devotees who work with me helping to keep my sundry life together. Lots of love, kisses and a million thanks to Andrea Novarin, Gleeson Brevard, Verle Oberon, Chrome Chastain, Marc Arthur and Lawrence Roberts who all work so hard contributing to the greater glory and cause of namely me, The Vaginal Davis doll. I am a fascinating monster, yet its not easy being friends with me let alone working gratis for such a demanding taskmistress.
UPDATA UPDATA
i left out a bunch of names of the very important guests at legendary filmmaker Wilhelm Hein´s amazing dinner party. So sorry about that. Here are the corrections:
Vivacious and cute Irish filmcurator Peter Taylor of WORM and the Rotterdamn Film Festival with his pretty German girlfriend Christiane Gruen, mighty and meaty Aleks Cigale of the Mad Angus musical project, sultry Polish artist Olga Lewicken with her
philosopher king beau Dr. Carsten Zorn, gifted Austrian poetess Sissi Tax and handsome gallerist Johannes Fischer of the Gallery FischerundFischer where Wilhelm will exhibit his painting on Feb 6th at 7pm The gallery is located at Strausberger Platz 18.

EIN NÄCHTLICHER STREIFZUG
New decade, and like Ms. Patti LaBelle I´ve got a new attitude. Lund Universities Malmö Art Academy of Sweden has invited me to teach a block seminar in March.
The title of my class will be: Platinum Jungle–Screen Goddesses Caught Between Black&White
General Course Description-Jean Harlow, the literal whitest of white hot sex stars of 1930s Hollywood, pencil thin eyebrows, smoldering platinum über-blondine hair, skin and teeth. Josephine Baker, all legs, all ass, all the time, topped off by the ultimate Marcel wave, conquered Europe in the 1920s as the first international black superstar. At first glance these famous performers and their life trajectories couldn’t be more different. But appearances, as these women knew quite well, are often deceiving.
The influence of both stars can be felt to this day. Harlow’s image, despite her early death, has inspired numerous later performers and artists like Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol. La Baker’s signature banana skirt became a ubiquitous image throughout the 20th century, even when it overshadowed its creator. What are the factors governing the reception of these two sex symbols in and out of the art world? What might they offer to performers and other visual artists today?
In this course we will look at some of the rare films of these two extraordinary women, as well as examples of their influence in order to probe their non-conventional and innovative gender, racial and aesthetic politics for our purposes today.

Later in March I´ll be flown to New York to perform as part of Columbia Universities Semiospectacular that is the brainchild of the gifted Phd student Mashinka Firunts, who use to be one of my Bricktops girls back in Los Angeles. I´ll also be returning to my favorite stomping grounds of NYU thanks to Nancy Barton who is the chair of the Arts Professionals Dept. Not to leave New Jersey out of the equation, Professor Ricardo Montez will be inviting me to Princeton, and the students of Hampshire College in Massachutts ganged up on the administration to bring me to their tiny campus as well, so watch out Academia a giant black queen is running loose and rampant in your ranks.
It is cold, very cold in Berlin. The enchantment of snow has worn thin. The sidewalks are frozen and slippery so its very dangerous to simply walk about.
Thank Jehovah of Armies for Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and Anna Muelter of HAU. The dynamic duo roused me from my new year depression and took me to dinner at this yumsty vegan restaurant in Mehringdamn. Joel also invited me to his huge compound in Neu Kölln for some homemade soup plantation. Its great feeling social again. I went to Uli Ziemons 28th birthday celebration in Kreuzberg. Uli is the best looking young man in all of Europa. He is tall, dark and very, very handsome. His soiree was held at the Champagneria Umtrunk located on Falckenstein Str. Its a very cute place, that use to be someones flat now turned into a bar/lounge for the twentysomething set. The crowd was fresh and friendly, which isn´t the usual fare in Berlin. Strangers actually were chit chatting with each other and several joined in on our groups conversation. Helping to celebrate the birth of the beauty boy: the Arsenal gang lead by Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, her right hand gal Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with girlfriend DJane Olga Damnitz, Bettina the Sandy Dennis Döppleganger who is curating Forum Expanded, Nadja Talmi, French cupcake Giuamme and his wife, Mourning Becomes Elektra of The Chocolate Grinder Kollective, Daniel Hendrickson and handsome fashion designer beau Piero Bellomo of la Collezione. Also seen in the room white girl rapper Invincible with Hollywood male ingenue Hunter Parrish.
Sunday the legendary experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein hosted a super dinner party at his Kali Films studio. You never know who you will meet at one of his feasts. Wilhelm and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick know some of the most fascinating people in the world. Its hard to believe that Wilhelm will be turning 70soon, he has one of the most youthful spirits of anyone i know, and is randy & lovesexy like a teenage boy. At the Hein rectangular dinner table: Julia Pfeiffer and Roseline Rannoch of Montgomery Gallery, troubador Mad Angus, goodlooking hunk Ossip Sieverding, Paul the Irish curator for the Rotterdamn Film Festival and his girlfriend,plus Austrian poetess Sissy Text. Will update with all the names of the guests and also the name and date of the Gallery that Wilhelm will have an exhibit at on Feb 6th so check back to this blog a little later.

LETTER FROM HOME
One of my old LA pals is a complete wang dang doodle of a voracious hornpig. He is always having sextulant adventures. Here is the first tale of a promised two. Hope you enjoy them as much as i did. Its certainly helped pick me up from my beginning of the new decade melancholia.

Dear Ms. Davis
This story starts at Trader Joe's in Lago de Plata. I walk into the store and I immediately see this curly haired cutie pie that looks like a young Federico Aubele, the Venezuelan singer. He is standing in the produce section wearing a white v-neck t-shirt and some gym shorts. He is tall and slim. He noticed my Cornelius look and gave me a Huge smile, the smile was almost too big for his face. I raise an eyebrow and make way through the store.
I get to the next aisle and he is there as well, this time I can clearly see that he is Freeballing at TJ's. Freeballing is all the rage for L.A. Fags! He smiles and continues shopping. On the third aisle he sees me and squats down to see some items, his legs spread with one knee on the floor. I look down and see that he is exposing his entire crotch with a semi hard-on! I look around and tell him, Boy u are going to get busted! He grins and laughs. We both move on and make our way to the register.
Outside he loads up his car and walks to my car with this huge smile and asks if I have time to stop by his place which is on Rowena. I agree on the spot. I walk into a sparse apt with books all over the place, he drops to his knees and starts unbuckling my pants and the sucking begins. He was a very good and hungry cocksucker. He takes my load partially in his mouth and some on his face.
We get dressed and we both make our way to our cars, he’s off to the gym and I’m going home.I tell him, you've got cum on u´r face, he smiles and tells me he likes it that way.
At the door of my car he asks for my email and invites me to a Bukkake party.
That Sunday night I agree to go to his party. It’s in Hollywood on one of those lil streets u`d never know existed. I get there at the given time. I am welcomed by an older man, about 70 yrs old or so. He offers me water and to have a seat, I thought it was very odd.The hottie who invited me walks out in a jock strap, he shows me the big couch for me to sit after he strips me naked. Now he is nude, and starts to suck on me. Within about 10 min or so about 8 guys show appear out of nowhere. All but one guy strip down and starts masturbating. I'm the only one getting sucked by the hottie. I thought it was strange, that none of the guests got into each other. There was a hot shaved head Latin guy with a nice big thick Chorizo, the other dudes were White. While the circle jerk was going on, the old man was in the living room sitting on the opposite side of the room shopping on the Wal-Mart website with his laptop.
So I’m getting sucked, I’m getting my chest squeezed, slapped, rubbed, my stomach was being man-handled by a few of the guests.Of the dudes there, 4 were really hot! The Latino had the biggest cock and like most big cocks,it never really got super hard. So there I was getting sucked for about 45 minutes or so when the boy signals to me that I can unload. That was the signal for all the circle jerk buds to start unloading. One by one, and a few at the same time started unloading on the boys face. I ended up just watching, fascinated by seeing these guys unload. It was very sexy and primal watching these guys work their dicks. The shaved head homie and I were the last ones to unload. Homey was having a hard time trying to unload, I started fondling his hot firm lean ass and playing with his hole. At that point he finally got hard and even bigger and thicker, it was a nice uncut rizo, he let out a fucking geyser of cum on the boys face and on his curly hair. By this time the cocksucker was covered in Cum. The cocksucker took my load in his mouth.
All this time Gramps continued to browse the Wal-Mart website.
We all got dressed and made our ways out the door. The cocksucker stood there smiling and licking the cum that was dripping around his mouth. The next morning I get an email from the cocksucker thanking me for my attendance. I asked if he enjoyed his evening, he said yes, he had not showered and made it to class that next morning. He tells me he gets turned on by the cum drying on his hair or face! Even if it’s globs of it.
So there you have, Silverlake residents at their finest.

Please feel free to send me your comments. I can´t wait for my friends next installment.

UNVERBINDLICHE PREISEMPFEHLUNG
Returned from tour with Bad Breastage with a sorrow filled case of depressionata. The Judy LaBruce piece where i play a voltive Nora Lange with Susanne Sachsse as Theda Lange was a big hit, so i should be feeling granada and not blue. I was so down in the depths on the 90th Floor that the thought of beating on a face for my holiday edition of Rising Stars, Falling Stars screening of The Perils of Pauline (1913) starring Pearl White seemed utterly impossible. But seeing the bright and happy faces of the Arsenal crew of Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, with right hand gal Nanna Heidenreich and the most beautiful boy in all Germania Uli Ziemons helped to lift my spirits, and what a raucaus evening it turned out to be in olde Postdamer Platz
Accompanying the film live was kJohnny Blue minus his brother Tim Blue, who is still in New York working on his new big film project financed by The Irish Government. Lovesexy kJohn was in fine form with his one man band musical assault. We decided to serve drinks after the first short subject, lubricating the audience a bit, and what a difference it made. Rising Stars became much more performative as the crowd began to interact with the film in ways I never imagined---talking back to the screen, shouting out comments, and providing their own spicy intertitles. It was like i was being transported to the World Theater on Hollywood Blvd in the early 1980s. The booze and kJohnny´s American co-workers from White Trash A-Go-Go encouraged the Germans to get in on the act, so what a hoot of a time was had at Kino 2 at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst. Joining in on the revelee: Ela, Aljosscha & Marietta from the bbooks kollective, Wilhelm Hein and art photog Annette Frick, Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim, the charming and prolific Berlin artist Isabell Spengler with the enchanting Antonia Beard aka Werner Hirsh, humpy Brazillian experimenal filmmaker Gustavo Jahn, Sandy Dennis doppelganger Bettina Steinbrugger of Forum Expanded, Agnes of Riga, Nadja Talmi who is now working at the Haus of World Cultures, pretty Djane Olga Damnitz and Edward Droste&Daniel Rossen from the New York band Grizzly Bear who after seeing Vaginal Davis´ film Memory Island from the Jack Smith! Live Film!event in October want the diva to direct one of their music videos.
CORRECTION CORRECTION!!!!!
Valerie Hillings, the Guggenheim curator was mistakenly identified as being at Rising Stars, Falling Stars on Tuesday Dec 22nd. Who was that patrician looking brittle brunette? If anyone knows send me an email. Sorry for the mistake, i usually don´t post a name without at least two different sources confirming who they are, as i never know who anyone is myself. When i am in drag i don´t wear my glasses, so unless i know someone personally i rely on others to tell me who´s who. I dont know Ms. Hillings, but she or one of her handlers were quick to email my webmaster Larry Bob that she was no where in the vicinity of my being. I always forget that more people read my blog then all the articles i wrote when i did journalism writing for The LA Weekly and Zoo Magazine put together. Please keep in mind this is a personality blog from an irreverent, outsider artist and drag queen, not a member of the fifth estate or a columnist with the New York Times. Kachew!!!

ZEITOUN
Just came back from Vienna on tour with The Bad Breastage. We did five shows at the Brut Theater, which is similar to the HAU in programming. Haiko Pfost is the main curator at Brut, and I have to admit he was on very good behavior, throwing us a lovely chicken breast & champagne premiere party. Bad Breast was a big success, there was even a Q&A with handsome Dr. Andrea Braidt of the Universität of Wien as moderaturin. I fell madly in love with one of the lovesexy tech boys at the theater named Mischa who was definitely the most gorgeous kid in the city, also cute and sweet was Vladislav Tchapanow who did our sound. All of Vienna was wrapped up in the house of Theda & Nora Lange. The hot celebs in the audience included: Ali Jenka of Gelitin with Robert Stein, the famed Dutch dance theater director, Simon Wasson from the hot London performance club Ducky Vauxhaul, the super dapper and vivacious Hans Scheirl who teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts, art photographer Mattias Hermann, incredible artist and bon vivant Jacob Lena Krieb with Marcos Hausleitner the famous Austrian unisex fashion designer with Haus of the Very Island who DJ’d with me at FM Queer party two years ago, celebrity chef Daniel Achilles, actress Nora Tschirner who is a huge Susanne Sachsse fanatic and teenage German actor David Kross who is crazy about all things Bruce La Bruce having watched Hustler White 78 times.
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Tuesday Dec 22nd at 9:30pm at Arsenal Inst für Film und Video Kunst at Kino 2 at the Sony Center i will present The Perils of Pauline from 1913 starring Pearl White. Its the first successful international soap opera. Accompanying the film live is kJohnny Blue. Come on down and say Hi!!!

STÜRMISCHE HÖHEN
Last night was the final performance of The Bad Breast or The Strange Case of Theda Lange at HAU 2 in Berlin. What a great audience! They really came to enjoy themselves and have a good time. Some of the notables in the crowd: NYU Professor of Performance Studies Tavia Nyongo, German film director Rosa Von Praunheim, Sven Neumann, Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson, Salome & Richard Gershe,Umit Benan, Bertrand Bordenave,Antoine Arnault, academic star Nicolas Luhmann, film producer Jurgen Bruning, Klaus Matthes, actor Constantine Berger, Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and his beau Enrico Dallman who had to see BB a second time, and took me to a fabulous dinner to celebrate the run. Here are some more comments about the piece:

„Susanne Sachsse put in a tour de force--what a force of nature she is“

"great choreography and music" "loved the psychoanalytical world that was invoked in a very playful manner"

and some more personal notes from the former prima ballerina & her husband the experimental filmmaker and a dear tidbit from the visiting scholar:

---i just wanted to thank you for your wonderful performance---what a sweet- shocking character----really ludwig and i loved you! i thougt the piece was quite hilarious in parts my phantasies went high---but some parts especially in the first part were too explained for me-----love trixie und ludwig

Dear Ms. Davis,

I was tickled, poked, and prodded by your performance in the Bad
Breast last night! Melanie Klein really found her muse in your
unheimlich Dora doing the balloon-pop strip-tease to the tune of DJ
Dimitri from Paris' "A very stylish fille"!

I would love to get a photo or two of that performance for a lecture
I'm giving in January at Goldsmith's on the body between sexology and
the freak show. Was there someone officially documenting the show I
could contact?

Congrats on your thespian success and have a blast in Vienna!

xx

Tavia

AMT EMPFIEHLT SCHÜLERN
My dearest darlings, i am sorry its taken me forever to write, but The Bad Breastage, the piece by Judy LaBruce that ends its successful run at the HAU 2 theatre in Berlin tonight, is physically draining, and after each performance i have to rush home and get right into bed. Tomorrow afternoon we zip off to Vienna, Austria for a 4 night stand at the Brut Theatre, so i hope to see all my Wien fans in the audience, if i don´t suffer a nervous collapse first.
Now for all the gossipy gossip and a list of who was seen drop kicking whom. At the premiera; long on the tooth German actress Nicolette Krebitz must have hated The Bad Breast, as she was spotted texting on her handy during the entire performance. The new Berlin power couple of Christoph Gurk and careerist artist suprema Keren Cytter were in smooch heaven at the after party which featured DJ sets by Judy LaBruce, Snax, and Tennessee Claffin aka: Baby Brian (Club Pork and Slum at Frankenstein 5000 nee Ficken 3000) the Mormen boy toy of choice to A-list Hollywood film directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer. Also seen at the premiere: Frau Hildebrand aka: Dr. Feelgood the sexy Heilprakterin to the stars, with her silver fox husband, Angelika Wedde, costume and stage designer who worked with superstar Mario Montez while she was in Berlin for Jack Smith! Live Film! Handsome global editrix Manuela Kay and her lovesexy Hamburg joy girl Adachi, Pola Sieverding and her humpy medical student boyfriend, Sexy Sasha, Zwonko from Queer Zagreb Festival, Wieland Speck of the Panorama Section of the Berlinale, French chanteuse Zazie de Paris with Downtown New York legend John Heys, pop star Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras back from his North American tour with boyfriend Enrico Dallman, Wolfgang & Christina of Discoteka Flaming Star, the huge peniid Norweigian theater scandal director Vegard Vinge and his German bride Ida Müller, luscious Hanna Hurtzig of Mobile Academy, Cigdem, Alessio and Theodora of the bb books gang, Olof Dreijer from the Swedish band The Knife, who was getting all horndoggy over Bad Breast´s Spanish performer and filmmaker Alejandro Duran, Karen Dreijer Andersson Olof´s sister, choreographer Alex Rocolli, video artists Evelyn Rüssler and Liz Rosenfeld, Aussie performance artist Sarah Jane Norman, The Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective of Little Alex of Macedonia, Tasty Tim, Juicy Julian, & Mourning Becomes Elektra with Israeli dancer Assaf Hochman, Exile Gallery´s Christian Siekmier, Chloe Griffin, Julian Binet, Isabel Spengler, grande dame curator Clarissa Dalrymple with mens wear designer Adam Kimmel, artists Antonio Baird aka Werner Hirsh, the Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst Krew of Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons & Nadja Talmi, Lcavaliero of Spicy Tigers on Speed, prima ballerina Beatrice „Trixie“ Cordua, architects Jean Nouvel & David Chipperfield, art photog Annette Frick with experimental filmmaker and guru Wilhelm Hein, Lawrence Kilshaw the sweet British beau of Bad Breasts Nando Messias, dorky American writer Dave Eggars, and a slew of filmmakers who have suddenly become curious about crazy Canadian LaBruce like Casey and Van Neistat, Lynn Shelton & Mark Duplas of the American comedy Hump Day, German/Turkish Fatih Akin, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Christian Alvart, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. I´m sure I´ve neglected some names, but i will have to add them later.
Some of the criticism of the Bad Breast was this:

„Its misogynist!“ „Its lazy!“ „Messy“ „Too much theory“ „Too little Theory“ „The relationship between the twin sisters played by Susanne Sachsse and Vaginal Davis wasn´t developed enough, the twin sister Nora shouldn´t have been one of the neurotic disorders . . . „There was no need for the son or the papparazi photographer, it should have been all about the three main female characters-Theda, Nora & Dr. Jocasta Joy, the analyst.“

So there you have it in a proverbial nutshell. Everyone has an opinion on this piece, and I thought CHEAP Blacky generated a lot of heated discussion.

LUXURIÖSER AUSSTATTUNG
Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective juicy boy Julian Radlmaier cooked a scrumpteous dinner at his cute Rykerstraße flat last night with assist from his pretty Russian gal pal Tatiana. The meal started off with French onion soup and drifted into gamba shrimp with bordello haute rice, vaulted garlic snippers, Crepe Kathleene for dessert and some rare Valuskan vino. Enjoying the feast Little Alexander the Great of Macedonia with painter Nicolas Pol and his handsome high cheekboned Gallic friend Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld the son of French Vogue editor Carine.
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One of my all-time favorite people is the great Fayette Hauser. Fayette was one of San Francisco´s The Cockettes in the early 1970s. She moved back to Los Angeles in the late 70s/early 80s where she was the lead singer of the art band Interpol which had the underground hit song „The Girl Who Shot Andy Warhol“. She lived in New York for awhile working on Satuday Night Live, but returned to LA where she now works as a costume designer and collector. Larry Bob of Holy Titclamps sent me this link on Fayette who has a big museum show at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/11/collection-rotation14/

Also when i mentioned the other day prolific artist Skot Armstrong and the Museum of Fun i didn´t leave a web address so you can check out what he does. Well i am rectifying that now so please go at it my darlings:

www.funahoy.com

CHAMÄLEON VARIETE
Rehearsals for The Bad Breast, or the Strange Case of Theda Lange have been taxing. Thank god we move into HAU 2 until premiera on December 10th. The piece still needs a lot of fine tuning, but in all is looking quite good. Judy LaBruce just needs to focus, focus, focus. The production design and costumes by Marc Brandenburg (with assist from Senol Senturk and Hugo Schneider)are quite lovely, and Laurie Young, a Canadian dancer from the Sasha Waltz Company has created some fantastic movement, so the elements are all in place.
Last night i took part in Hannah Hurtzig´s Mobile Academy at HAU 1. Had a very nice time as a charismatic counselor. Was knackered from rehearsing earlier, luckily Frau Hurtzig was kind enough to limit my therapy session with the publicum to an hour. My first client was a very personable young woman, and we had quite a nice soulful chit-chat, and the second was the young artist and filmmaking sensation Isabel Spengler, one of Berlin´s premiere, prolific talents and also a professor at UDK Art School. Isabel and I talked about her 10 year relationship with an American painter, who she is actually legally married to, and we also discussed the brodaggio of a structuralist artist who has a current show at the KW in Mitte. It may seem like we swerved from the programmed topic of cooling down passion, but actually we were right on point.
Also part of the Mobile Academy was the Silhoutte film version of Artur Shnitzler´s La Ronde which featured the many interconnections of actress Susanne Sachsse and film historian Marc Siegel. The couplings in the film included Tim Blue,Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Jennifer Doyle, Douglas Crimp, Daniel Hendrickson, Guy Maddin, Bruce LaBruce, Stephan Geene&Nico Siepen of bbooks collective, Christophe Chemin, Keren Cytter, Tan Binh Nguyen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Zazie de Paris, Wilhelm Hein, Adam Budak and Susanne´s gorgeous twins Salome & Richard Gersh. Everyone seemed to get quite the chuckle from my conversation on film with Tan Binh about sex & relationships.
I had a great time socializing during Mobile Academy in the bar area, and ran into The Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective: Juicy Julian, Little Alex, Mourning Becomes Elektra and Tasty Tim. Also got to flirt with the beauty of HAU Katrin Dodd, Flemish royal Koen Claerhout, Uli Ziemons, Nadja Talmi, Lisa Schmidt, Michel Belague, Ela of bb books, Amelie of Hamburg´s Kampnagel, pretty Frederike, the Stassi Spy of Daddy, Marc Siegel and Benjamin Foster-Boldenius and his perfect Gerber baby. Was surprised to run into singer Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes fame who was with the very goodlooking blondine German actor Matthias Schweighöfer. Are Mr. Schweighöfer and Mr. Oberst involved in a homosexual tryst, or is it merely an innocent bro-mance? O and I shared some wet juicy kisses with Alexandre Liot and Joe Corre of Agent Provocateur-----lecher!!!! I hope Mr. Corre´s mamma Vivienne Westwood doesn´t find out.
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This just came in from the vivacious Ms. Elly Clark whose Clark Gallery everyone in Berlin is talking about:

Clarke Gallery is proud to present its 7th exhibition: COME by Liz Fletcher, which opens on 16th December 2009. It is Liz’s first solo show in Germany and incorporates sound, sculpture, video and installation.
Opening night: Wednesday 16th December 19.00-22.00
And then open for three days on Thursday 17th December – Saturday 19th December 17.00-19.00.
In the meantime, please check out Clarke Gallery’s first ever Winter Collection – around 36 works for sale by Clarke Gallery artists at very brilliant prices which would not only make jolly good Christmas presents but support artists & a homegrown gallery at the same time. http://www.clarkegallery.de/index.php?/works-for-sale/
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While I was in New York last month I read that my old paramour the talented French shoe designer Bernard Figueroa was going to design a new line of affordable footwear for Payless. M. Figueroa besides his own successful line of Jean Arp sculptural shoes has also worked for Michael Kors, Adrian Vitadini, Esprit, Terry Mugler, Claude Montana and Rockport. I first met Bernard in Hollywood in the 1980s when he was still a student at the famous Studio Bercot in Paris, we had a very short lived affair, and I must admit I went wild for his muscular, taunt and tiny frame, bubblicious booty and humungous peni. He stopped speaking to me about 10 years ago over an article I wrote for Dutch Magazine about him--- you know how tempermental the French are. I wonder if he is still with his black lover. Bernard was always quite a dinge queen. His life partner had a child from a previous relationship that they were raising together. Bernard and his significant other, had an apartment in Brooklyn, but built a house from scratch in upstate New York as their place of retreat. I will be going back to New York in March for a presentation at Columbia University. Who knows maybe I will run into Bernard on the street.
Someone from my past that I did run into on Broadway near SoHo during the Performa Biennale was “She, Who Must Be Obeyed.” “She” is a successful make-up artist now, but when I knew her in Los Angeles in the early 90s she was a FIT and aspiring young drag queen who also happens to be an amputee. I will never forget the PME show I did opening up for L7 and “She” was my gogo girl, we staged a catfight, and as I pulled off her jacket, the audience gasped in horror thinking I tore off her arm along with the coat.
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For those of you living in Lancaster, England please check out the Spill Performance Tarot Exhibition that is part of the show Looking Aside-Eventhood and the Documentation of Performance that will run into December 11th at the Peter Scott Gallery. The famed photo collaboration I did with hunky Italian art photographer Manuel Vason is featured in this show along with other collabs he made with Ron Athey, Dom Johnson, Marissa Carnesky, & others.
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Received a sweet emug from LA artist Skot Armstrong of Science Holiday. Skot is an LA treasure, and he and his life partner James Tallon are two of the most wonderful people on the planet. So glad that we have reconnected.

PHÄNOMENAL SEXUAL
Saturday was a very busy day for the doll. Not only was she filming video sections of the new Bruce La Bruce stage piece The Bad Breast on the streets of East Germany, but later the same evening she was the special guest of German novelist Thomas Meineke and his Plattenspieler at HAU 2. Besides writing novels, the handsome, barrelchested Mr. Meineke is a music fanatic and radio disc jockey. Our tag teaming record playing and discussion spanned the decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s with my ending our set with the Glasgow girl band Strawberry Switchblade. There was some Jayne County, Sylvester, Purse, Mae West, Dolly Parton and Glen Meadmore thrown into the mix. Mr. Meineke is a huge Glen Meadmore fan which was a very pleasant surprise. In all it was a nice free flowing evening of music and frivolity with a little bit of the performative shaking up the format. Seen in the audience: film historian Marc Siegel and beautiful actress girlfriend Susanne Sachsse, musical wunderkind kJohnny Blue and girly friend Nadine of Neu Kölln. The Arsenal gang of Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich, Olga Damnitz, Uli Ziemons & Nadja Talmi, Norweigan artist Eline McGeorge, Goor Zankl of the KW, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, young blondine journalist Felix Knoke of Der Spiegel, Brazillian performance artist Nando with Lisa Schmidt of The Bad Breast, Anna Multer, Meike Harmsen & beau, cutie pie Swedish video artist Gunsi Holstrom and Molly Crabapple of New York´s Dr. Sketchy´s Anti Art School.
Sunday was the 2 year anniversary of Rising Stars, Falling Stars with a rare screening of the Louise Brooks film Prix de Beaute from 1929. The film looked incredible, but performing live on clavier was the remarkable Eunice Martin who was literally on fire doing double duty interpretation as this print shown had no untertitles. We were actually showing the dubbed sound version, minus the sound. To explain: this film was originally shot as a silent but because it was made at that weird point between silent and sound, a bad quicky dubbed sound version was released on its initial theatrical run in 1930. Nevertheless with the great Eunice Martin´s masterful musical touch everyone could understand what was going on, and then some. The hoity polloi in the crowd included: The Arsenal Gang Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Nanna Heidenreich, Olga Damnitz, Uli Ziemons, Nadja Talmi, The Chocolate Grinder Film Kollective of Little Alex, Tasty Tim, Julian Minet Radlmeier, Mourning Becomes Electra! and assorted posse members, Assaf Hochman, John Heys, scholar Tavia Nyongo and pal Michael, art photogs Annette Frick and Elly Clark with gal pal, Ela of bb books, Ali Clark and girlfriend, Lara the famous Latvian art historian, Agnese Luse from Center for Contemporary Art in Latvia, prima ballerina Beatrice Cordua, Marc Siegel, transgender starlet Kaey, Evan Dando with Evan Rachel Wood the ex girlfriend of rock star Marilyn Manson and the star of the new Woody Allen film Whatever Works. Ms. Wood is doing research on Louise Brooks as she is going to play her in a new biopic.

WAS GEHT SONST NOCH?
Attacked by insomnia the other evening which made early morning rehearsals seem like they dragged on infinitum. The beautiful Beth Ditto and her band The Gossip blew into town along with Cody Critchloe and his art kollective SSION. Judy LaBruce and I were put on the guest list and given VIP all access passes. Judy went into photographer mode snapping pictures like she was at the opening of a bag of potatoe chips. Amazing show by Ms. Ditto and company. The starina of starinas was suffering from bronchitis, but it didn´t show in her performance or enthusiasm. She is the ultimate professional and gives her audience 300%. Gossip manager Tara, aka: Annie Oakley of the Sex Workers Art Tour was also looking ravishing wearing an Anna Karenina chapeau. Sweet Cody Critchloe looks like the bastard child of Liza Minnelli and John (Gomez Adams) Astin. I love his mid-western Southern whimsy. Cody has also become quite the art star and will present his new electronic rock opera at Peres Projects Gallery in Los Angeles come Januar. The generous Ms. Ditto also bestowed upon the doll an Issey Miyake gown and Ferragamo perfume which I will wear on Saturday at HAU 2 8pm when i participate in Plattenspieler with Thomas Meineke. Being a fashion icon the Lady Ditto has been given a collection of wonderous couture from the likes of Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Karl Lagerfeld who considers her his new muse. After the incredible sold out performance Judy LaBruce took the band to Chantal´s House of Shame for some oldskool debauchery.

Just received a sweet little missive from lovesexy academic, critic with Freize Magazine and live artist Dom Johnson:

Hey VD

Lovely to hear from you. I had a wonderful time in New York too -- just got back to London a few hours ago after a nightflight. Was sorry to have missed you by a day. Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny are the best hosts, and really took care of me. I got lots done, including a bit of Jack Smith research, visited lots of exhibitions (some actually quite good), showed some performance documentation in a queer video festival, and went out to bars and clubs -- we went to a totally obscene blatino hustler bar, where boys in g-strings were getting rimmed on tables. It was straight out of Samuel Delany or something. Early in the week I had a very hot night with a babyfaced tattooed lovemachine. He's what Slava calls a "pussythug". I am now wondering why I meet perfect boys in other countries, from Toby in Berlin to the pussythug in New York. Maybe I let my guard down on holiday, or capitalise on being a temporary exotique, or else all the London boys are simply less interesting?

I also met your girlfriend writer Bruce Benderson, and we seemed to really hit it off. What a riot he is! It was the most peculiar night, as he had a British Peter Berlin lookalike staying with him, who is living as Berlin circa 1975, and doing a project where he gets photographed in Berlinish poses by superstar photographers. He even got the aging original Peter Berlin to photograph him as his youthful self, which is pretty perverse. So while Slava was photographing the new PB (with a Dutch bowl haircut, in slutty white string pantyhose, cowboy boots and a little silk neckerchief), Bruce treated me to all sorts of cultural marginalia, from his memories of Manuel Puig and Jean-Pierre Aumont, to his photos of hustlers. He gave me his book of essays, Sex and Isolation, and I sat and read it cover to cover. Have you read it?

Yes I read Ian White's review of Live Film!Jack Smith! I've seen him around but I don't know him. I thought it was a really tight-arsed and ungenerous piece of writing. Maybe he just doesn't get the work. I can see how the event might have been repellent to people who only favour smartass conceptual bullshit.

Kisses,
D

IHREN MANN KÜMMERN
Upon arriving in New York for Performa Biennale everyone i ran into asked me about LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! The word had definately spread about this momentus event. Finally I can finish my reportage on LIVE JACK!FILM SMITH! as i like to call it. The first day of the festival Jerry Tartaglia gave a humourous talk on the restoration process called Lost & Found followed by a short conversation with co-curator Marc Siegel and Superstar Mario Montez. Siegel and Ms. Montez had a much longer more formal power point presentation on Friday. During the break Gordon W. & his Greasy Spoon Catering Co. provided exotic munchies. In the Arsenal Atrium was a pearl installation by Daniel Hendrickson and Senol Senturk with more installations in the Rote Foyer and Black Box by John Heys, Michael Krebber, Klaus Mettig, Uzi Parnes, Kiki Peterson, Jerry Tartaglia and luscious young Sean Kirk. The first day of the festival heralded some fantastic premieres including a new short subject by legendary feminist director Ulrica Ottinger called Still Moving, a slide show by Wilhelm Hein and a whimsical Smithian romp by French gamine Maria Losier called Slap the Gondola that featured Tony Conrad and Genesis. P. Orridge as mermaids.
On the second day i could have shot myself in the arm for missing a lecture by Callie Angel of the Whitney. Ms. Angel is one of the most articulate speakers in the institutional art world, and she bring great foresight and clarity to whatever subject matter she touches. Her tome on Jack Smith & Andy Warhol Batman/Dracula had everyone in the festival buzzing. I did get to hear dapper Diedrich Diederichsen who teaches at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Wien, and he along with Douglas Crimp are true academic starinas.
Later it was nice seeing a much more subdued Penny Arcade in conversation with booty pie Tim Stüttgen. Of the film premieras Tim Blue´s The Legacy was witty and rumbunctious featuring live performers re-acting and acting with filmed sequences. Tim´s LA fashion designer boyfriend Cornel Collins made an excellent Smith doppelganger, and the musical accompanyment by kJohnny Blue added to the merriment. After the screening the filmmaker did an impromptu striptease which added to the festive mood. Theater of 8, featuring glamazon Chloe Griffin and Gwenael Rattke presented Ramadan in Space Time a raucaus Super 8 film performance that featured many familiar local faces. This wasn´t a world premiere but it certainly fit in with the proceedings.
On Friday, the film premier that stole everyone´s heart was Charming For the Revolution by the lovely Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz that featured a dynamic performance from the intoxicating Werner Hirsch. Of course LF!JM! had its naysayers, and no one is more of a nay then artist/curator(hiccup)Miss Ian "Gorgeous" White of London´s Whitechappel Gallery. If you´re interested in reading what the twee art careerist had to say here is a link provided by one of my pals at the Tate Modern: www.lux.org.uk/blog/artistcurator-ian-whites-latest-blog-berlin-hellogoodbye. Its perfectly naff, and just what you´d expect from someone of his icky icy patrician ilk.

FRAUEN IM DAUERSTRESS
SRO crowds at Schwuz Mehringdamn as Bruce „Judy“ LaBruce and i tagteam dj´d behind them mighty wheels of steel from midnight to 5am. Judy was her usual loveable self insulting the audience while taking nips from a bag of wilde mushrooms and downing enough vodka shots and rum& coke to float Fire Island. While in her inebriated state she announced on the PA system a need for poppers that was quickly responded to by none other then actress Nastassia Kinski, with a handsome young male companion(was it one of her kids from her marriage to Quincy Jones?) Seen dancing shirtless and sports bra-less writer Travis Jeppeson, Slovakian graphic artist Mario D. with Tennessee Clafin the concubine to A list Hollywood directors Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer, Brazillian performance artist Nando Messias with Lisa Schmidt and Michael Giardina who are part of the new Hebbel Am Ufer theater piece The Bad Breast about female hysteria that La Bruce is directing that will premier on Dec 10th at HAU2 then go on tour to Vienna. In this third stage collaboration with Judy LaBruce, the first being Cheap Blacky in 2007 and the second Macho Family Romance, Susanne Sachsse and I once again play sisters. This time identical twins. I am not going to reveal anything more.
Having a hoot of a time dancing to a mixture of showtunes, hardcore California style punk and indie rock madness: Piero Bellomo of La Collezione, Daniel Hendrickson the translator to the stars, lovesexy Enrico Dallman, artists Elly Clark with actress Franka Potenta, Katja Maya, Evi Rüssler, Tim Stutkin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Michael von Fischbach, Yusuf Etiman- the guro of Basso, scholar Tavia Nyongo, Michael Scatturo, Christian F. Webber, ballet dancer Juan Martin del Potra and his beau the Prinze of Prinzlauber Daniel Brühl.
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Sorry that I didn´t finish writing about Live Film! Jack Smith! or the Performa Biennale, I will try and rectify that situation soon. Want to give thankx to my Philly art school crew: Alex Hollenbach, Emily Schumacher & Julia Rexon who created and designed the wearable sculpture that was the costumes for PME plus NYU students Jean Kim provided the gorgeous video montages that were projected on pillars in the performance space, and Max Vernon who was my fey PA.
The big gossip about Performa 2009 Biennale was the ostentatious opening party which featured chopped down apple trees so that guests could just pick one from the branches and a supply of honey dipped ribs that mainly went uneaten. Rich people don´t eat, thats how they stay skinny. I hadn´t arrived to New York for the opening festivities, but my spies told me that it was quite wasteful that most of these ribs were thrown away at the end of the evening. Imagine throwing away good food when people are starving. Never saw RoseLee Goldberg as she didn´t come to any of the events i was a part of, but i did get to snoogle from her handsome young son Pierce Jackson who I would love to get into bed. I was told that he is a rice queen, so unless i have a race conversion into an Asian girl I don´t stand a chance with him. Too bad.
I was kept so busy that I didn´t see any Performa events. But i heard that Fischerspooner performed, along with Terence Koh, Mike Kelly and a piece by Israeli artist and Berlin resident Keren Cyter. I like Keren. She is an art world careerist like no other, but there is something about her damage that fascinates me.
Participant Inc. Gallery, a not for profit space which is run by the gorgeous Ms. Lia Gangitano and the Nothing Up My Sleeve exhibition was also staged in conjunction with Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: The Works of Stuart Sherman curated by John Hagan, Yolanda Hawkins and John Matturri at NYUs 80WSE Gallery and a screening of selected films and Videos of Stuart Sherman curated and hosted by Berenice Reynaud at NYUs Einstein Auditorium.
Oops i am so dumb i forgot that Sherrie & Ernie the legendary New York experimental film couple were at my Performa show at Santos and also Nao Bustamante. I know I am forgetting many others, and i will do the complete list when i get it from Lia of Participant who did the door and knows just who came and who didn´t.
Yes i also promised to post the lyrics of the new PME song Sity of Sinn, so here they are:

LA is the sity the sity was in LA is the sity of Sinn
The girls are all pretty as pretty as boys and that is the state that they´re in
LA is the sity the sity digs in LA is the sity of Sin
The smell of amnesia a portnoy upend and thats just a means to an end

Your penis, my gina your hienous, my heinous
Your grievance, convenience your enus my anus

Death panels by Chanel death paneling cartel
Death index Costume Nationelle

You are sliding down that slippery, slithery, salacious slope of socialism
Natering, niggery, nabobs of negativism
Hopeless, hysterical hissy, hippy hypopchondriacs
Catty, cunty, congenital ca-liars
Speaking ex-edrin ex-cathedral

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Besides studio visits with grad students I also did artist talks for several colleges including a big artist talk at the Tisch Building at NYU for the performance studies department who have a brand new amphitheatre complete with disco mirror ball. This presentation was facilitated by juicy grad student Aliza Schvartz, who became a cause celebre when she was at Yale University as an undergrad and did a series of abortion related performances that rocked that campus. Aliza attended Ron Athey´s performance art boot camp in the high desert with Julie Tolentino and Heather of Toxic Titties, so it was like I had known her all along. Also Leon Hilton the cute and cuddly 23 year old is a black sheep member of the Hilton dynasty who has disowned himself from his wealthy clan. At my talk was Jack Waters, Richard Move who was part of the Jackie 60 Family and is getting his Phd in Performance Studies—Ms. Move does a salute to Martha Grahamn that you have to see to believe, Caroline Dinshaw of Queering the Renaissance fame, young zinestar Max Steel and actor James Franco who is in the film department at NYU but has shown quite an interest in all things queer --ODing on queer cinema studies and queer theory. Perhaps Mr. Franco has a little sugar in his tank. Was reunited at my artist talk with the lovely Russian, Armenian grad student Mashinka Firunts and her dapper husband Jeremy. Both were regulars at my Club Bricktops at the Parlour Club in Hollywood. Ms. Firunts is now going to school at Columbia. Later she and her spouse took me to dinner at the Freeman Sporting Club on Rivington Street on the lower east side where i had some yummy comfort food and the best vodka gimlets in all of Christendom.

LASSEN SIE ES GLITZERN
Back from my New York whirl! What a glorious time, i wanted to stay a bit longer but had to get back to rehearsals for The Bad Breast my new collaboration with Bruce La Bruce that features Susanne Sachsse, Katharina Klewinghaus, Laurie Young, and Brazillian performance artist Nando Messias with costumes and sets designed by Marc Brandenburg. My last gig in New York was Monday night at Andrew WK´s Santos Party House in Chinatown. This was a special Performa Biennale piece curated by young, inventive curator Jonathan Berger in conjunction with Lia Gangitano of Participant inc. Gallery, that was also part of the Nothing Up My Sleeve exhibition. I performed with my queercore band Pedro, Muriel & Esther(PME) in a little something i called Advanced Capitalism Reunion 1989-2009-Reparations & Retardations. PME hasn´t performed together in over 12 years but we actually were somewhat tight if not improvisational, and introduced a new song in the bargain. Some people have already emailed wanting the lyrics to the new song Sity of Sin, and i promise that when i get a longer moment i will post said lyrics on this very blog. So who was at the spectacle? I will get the official list later but these are some of the people i saw: Adam Horowitz from the Beastie Boys and girlfriend Kathleen Hanna who DJ´d along with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers,Joanna Coppi, Anne Kohl, Marc Arthur and his sex legionnaires, Tavia Nyongo and beau, Dr. Jose Munoz and Johnny, Anonymous Boy Tony Arena with his elderly lover Ron, Glenn Belverio with Carol Sabas of French Vogue, Slava Mogutin, Billy Miller of STH, Zanzibar star Jackie Reynal, writer Bruce Benderson, Susanne of No Bra, Uzi Parnes and spouse Scott, Ela Troyano, Carmelita Tropicana, horticultural shtar Brian Funk, filmmaker Sadie Benning, artist Marina Rosenfeld, Sean Carillo and wife Bibbe Hansen who was the MC dressed as Cleofus her persona in the band black fag. After PME played Tony Clifton and his Katrina Orchestra wowed the crowd with Borst Belt humour, music and zany antics in a 4 hour epithon.
2 nite i tag team DJ with Bruce La Bruce at the Schwuz Club on Mehringdamm. We start at around 12 midnight, come by and say hi!

LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
The PME Boys arrived from Los Angeles andit was lovely seeing them all together again after so many years. Curator Jonathan Berger took us for grub, and we were hooting and hollering like the old days back in the early 1990s, i mean the last century. Dean the Babe and Big Dique Sneaky Pete look great, they are both married with children, and have big responsibilities like jobs and mortgages. In the rehearsal studio the magic was still there. With all my artist talks and studio visits my voice is shot to hellzoppin, but hopefully it will get better before shoe gazer time if i overdose on tea, lemon & honey plus some reverb from the soundman. Well i was never a singer anyway so anyone coming to hear great singing will be very much disapointed.
Dr. Jose Estaban Munoz took me to breakfast Saturday morn with his gal pal Johnny to a great little Mexican restaurant in the West Village called Palapa, which means sex crazed love shack in Spanish. La Doctura also gifted me with some expensive facial products and a copy of his new tome Cruising Utopia, The Then and There of Queer Futurity.
Well tonight is the big PME reunion show Reparations & Retardations, the title comes from Jeffreyland Hilbert who also was the genius behind The White to be Angry. Jeffreyland gives good title. Also featured at Santos Party House will be Kathleen Hanna of LeTigra and Bikini Kill fame and her boyfriend Adam "Adroc" Horowitz of the Beastie Boys who will be DJ-ing along with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. The headliner is the Andy Kaufman acolyte Tony Clifton who will do a 4 hour show with his Katrina orchestra. The weather is still nice and warm, so its going to be difficult to return to Berlin, but I have to.

WHEN YOU'RE WALKING DOWN FIFTH AVENUE
Studio visits with the grad students at the Art & Arts Professions Department of NYU's Steinhardt School was wonderful. I love meeting and encouraging young talent and what a great bunch of gifted artists who have developed quite a strong voice. My individual studio visits were with handsome and patrician Carlos Reyes, sweet and gentile Jo-ey Tang, fiery Cubana Jessica Gispert and adorable Serbian cutie pie Alex Jovanovich. Ms. Vaginal Davis is the ultimate muse so the art world better take notice of these youthful talentas. Look what i did for designer Rick Owens.
Kenyan kutie Professor Tavia Nyongo and his beau took me to a scrumpteous din din at this great Mexican restaurant in SoHo. I don't remember the name of the place but the Margaritas had us all appropriately orbiting the left side of Uranus prime. The next morn Ricardo Montez, who teaches at Princeton treated the doll to breaky at Robert DeNiros Greenwich Hotel restaurant in Tribeca, Locanda Verde, where we got to gaze at the beauty of actor Jake Gyllenhaul and his prissy faggot assistant. Later one of my pretty NYU students Leon Hilton came by the flat to visit and drink tea and dainties. Then i went to a fabu dinner party hosted by Uzi Parnes and his handsome hubby Scott who works for Saturday Nite Live, the food and drink were unending with famous company that included the youngest of the Warhol stars and Beck's mom Bibbe Hansen with husband Sean Carrillo and the legendary Ela Troyano. Uzi's husband gifted the doll with a perfect pair of patent leather red ankle strap pumps that i will have to wear Monday for the show. Then i went over to graphic artist Scott Ewalt's to meet with Kembra of VHKB, Lia G of Participant inc., Jonathan Berger and Michael Kleets who i didnt know has been living in New York for over ten years. Scott's little salon is major Ms. Gorgeous on the Bowery across the street from what use to be CBGB's filled to the brim with all his great art work and memorabillia.

VILLAGE VANGUARD
o glorious manhattan, land of enchantment. Can't believe it is indian summer weather, glorious blue skies and warm temperatures. People are in shorts, sandles and looking very good. The boy eye candy is delirious. So glad to not be in cold, damp, bleak Berlin at the moment. I didn't realize that doing Live Film!Jack Smith! and then going right into The Bad Breast project with no rest would debilitate me so.
Of course this trip to New Yorika isn't exactly a vacation. Upon landing I was whisked by taxi straight to the Participant Inc. Gallery on Houston Street to help with installing my section of the Nothing Up My Sleeve exhibit curated by dazzling young artist Jonathan Berger. Its such an ambitious exhibition with objects from the late comedian Andy Kaufman and the great magician/mystic Harry Houdini plus some of the famed collaborative potpouris from Nancy Barton and the amazing legend that is Mrs. Michael Glass, who recently had a stroke and has been recuperating in a halfway house in Watts, CA. Mrs. Glass is the genius behind AMOK Books and their dispatches that ruled apocalypse culture in the late 80s and early 90s. Most of the things considered cool today were first written about by Mrs. Glass, who like me came out of the Watts and South Central Los Angeles areas. Mrs. Glass later went to Cal Arts in Valencia, CA and received her MFA. Her photography installations are very Kenneth Anger inspired and just plain brilliant.
The opening at Participant was packed to the rafters SRO! So many celebutants in attendance like Billy Miller of STH, Glenn Belverio and his yummy super famous date Carol Pope, Chloe aka: Carolina Vagina, Joanna Coppi and Aussi beau Axel, Justin Bond, Kenny Mellman, Nao Bustamante, Ela Troyano, Carmelita Tropicana, Dr. Jose Munoz, Zanzibar legend Jackie Reynal,with Berenice Reynaud the film curator for LA's RedCat Disney Hall, Ina Meibach Patti Smith's mgr from the Horses era, art star Piere Huyge, Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed, Klaus Biesenbach senior curator at Moma PS1 plus Bibbe Hansen in black fag Cleofus drag and her hubby Sean Carrillo, Uli Lange of Anvers who do experimental fragrances and made the Tony Clifton perfume and the members of the House of Drom, the number one perfumery in the tri-state area, Scott Ewalt, Doug McClemont who use to be the mortician to the stars but now works for the Saatchi Gallery in the UK, Mila Geisler and pals,artist Inka Essenheissen, 7 foot tall artist Adam Putnam, Uzi Parnes and his hot lover, Penny Arcade, Marc Arthur, Bearded Lady Jennifer Miller who will co-star with me in Orifice Descending at PS122 in the spring, rock n roll designer Michael Schmidt, actor Jason Schwartzman who complemented me on my Rick Owens gown and matching gloves. I complemented the young star, and added that i adore his mother actress Talia Shire. Of course looking radiant was Participant's lovesexy gallerist Ms. Lia Gangitano. I know i am forgetting some people, but i will have to add their names later when i get the full list.
I also promised to give more of a rundown on Live Film!Jack Smith, as i didn't get to finish writing about that event. Fortunately I am being hosted here at the NYU visiting artist commpound which is a lovely spacious apartment with glorious views of the Greenwich Village. Thank god i have cable TV and a flat screen computer terminal at my disposal, and a giant bed to bring tricks home to fornicate with. Wish me luck on that department. I have to get ready to go to a series of artist lectures, now i will close by re-printing a wonderful email sent to me by the brilliant Berlin art photographer Annette Frick with her comments on Live Film!Jack Smith! which is still being talked about by people all over the world.

Dear Vaginal
I am looking forward to your remarks on Penny Arcade. How I enjoy you
seem to be near a flatrated laptop at the moment. Isn’t there anybody in
your big audience who can replace your broken Computer and give you a
new or even second hand new Laptop and pay you a flatrate. This is just
peanuts for the informationtechnologues, as I know you would always
prefer eyelashes and Make up when you have a bit of money in your pocket
then computerstuff. But would you really refuse a laptop as a gift?
There must be lots of abandoned laptops in these offices and someone
must know about.
PLEASE don’t forget to mention the Performance of Madame 100 000 Volt
and how she managed to play one stage for two audiences at the same
time. Even this unexpected decision could not kill her show as did not
the really bad programming during the same time with Toni Conrad and
star DJ Erics performance. It did not prevent the crowd from storming
into her show.And except 3 or 5 people they stayed the whole 2
hours,listening to her fulminant performance, even though it was in
english. So this programming strategy was a big fault but not for her.
Why I really ask you to mention her fabulous, hot show is because you
may be one of the rare personalties which is able to respect her effort
without jealousy .Quality speaks for his own one might think, but there
are many possibilities to prevent it from ever been remarked,
ecspecially when you are a no-where-fitting-in woman artist, which does
not shut the mouth when normal people do it, but prefers the truth,as
Penny does and I know about as I did experience the same and I am sure
you too. It is harming to see how Penny was treated since she arrived.
Not as a powerful outragious artist but as a störenfried. What a crazy
misunderstanding:there is this person who has really to tell something
about Jack Smith, the art world, and social reality and they think she
is playing a role, though she was on stage just for 2 hours as Marc did
on the Skype with Ken Jakobs. Which was really very intense and
informative and changed my opinion on Ken Jakobs work. Thanks to Marc
for realising this but without Pennys comment it would have missed a
lot .
NOBODY SEEMED TO REALIZE THAT THERE COULD BE NO FLAMING DAYS IN A RENTED
WORLD IF PENNY WITH JIM HOBERMAN AND JERRY TARTAGLIA DID NOT MANAGE TO
SAVE THE STUFF OF JACK SMITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It seemed that she is infected by him, the only legal child of his
spirit and that’s a lot.As you must know from your own experience,
outragious efforts were taken for normal and mainstream bullshit is
handeld as sensation in our postmodern culturel society look into the
newspapers.And it becomes worse,when reality enters the theater.They
think they are playin as if and when they realize it is about truth,
everyone becomes mad, especially the organisers. Even though they call
their projects life film or life performance or life whatever……………..And
now lets talk about the little difference. The difference of showing
breasts and showing breasts. When I entered the Tony Conrad room after
having left the Hau1, after Penny got thundering applaus, after her
show, after showing her naked breasts, (which she decided to do
spontaniously in an act of liberty) and after showing her 2 dog films
which was about academic customs and scolas. I thought I entered a
kindergarten. The whole thing a Jack Smith fake playing chilling out,
but there was just place for a dozen of people to play beeing in an Jack
Smith environment There where coloured lights imitating arabic
candleholder,(what happened when Bruce la Bruce lit a cigarette the day
befor, in the wonderful Tavel homage inscenating the Juanita Castro play
we remember.The reality entered the play in form of a real firemen who
stopped him smoking) there was a fogmachine imitating real smoke and
there was even a topeless kind of bellie dancing women with real naked
breasts.(The blow job scene I missed) But this faked liberty was without
any energy or power. Saft und kraftlos in german, though Toni Conrad is
a great musican and I ador his musik and films but in this room, there
was nothing but the boredom of a bad fake. Even too bad for a tourist
animation at ballerman island. That is strange because Tonis
minimalistic performances I saw before were the contrary and build up
energy on a high level, which for me was an interesting discovery.
I just realize the organisers get just bad critic, which is dooing no
right to them and the work they did put into the whole project.Give a
big Applaus for Stefanie,Marc and Susanne which I liked a lot in Juanita
Castro,even without acting much,and complete clothed she was a real
attraction even beside the devine and great actor Mario Montez and the
vulcano Bibbe Hansen They made the whole event possible as Anna and
Nadja did,and I am really gratiful for that.
In any case the whole event can be seen as a big success. It opend up
the vakuum which rules the theater and art scene. I prefer hot
discussions then diskurses where everybody is just showing his knowledge
but no one has the courage to tell the truth.The truth is that I liked
your sweating (schwitzende)hot performance and your film, bringing
together Jack Smith and Murnau in a modern way, with grateful actors and
you performing a grateful bride looking for a husband.I take that for
real and wish you finding this beautiful guy you are looking
for,darling..Memory island I will always remember it was full of the
spirit of your Rote Insel but this most of the audience cannot know.
Much Love Annette
:PS: when do you leave for New York????
:PS:PS yesterday you missed the unbelievable filminstallation of Wieland
Speck at Exile.I cannot believe that this film was never shown bevor,it
is uncredible.It’s a rare juwel, you would have liked it .Just a short
description.: 1978 at the Berlinwall ,Wollinerstr/Corner Bernaustr.: a
beautiful jung boy climbing up the wall from the westside with his
harp.sitting there on the top of the wall may be half an hour, playing
this harp until the police (western)stopps it.To the police he said :I
cannot see it anymore nobody is dooing something against this wall,if
you are not able, I must do something (in my words,not exact) It was not
theater or film but for real. Even though the video is of bad quality
this film is so great that you forget it,this beautiful image of this
jung boy, playing this harp and the people gathering in east and in west
,following this unexpected concert, succedded in remembering the whole
situation .My feelings were so intense that I nearly smelled the bad air
of the autobuses and feeled the trevira 2000 clothes. And it becomes
complete crazy when you read the notes the stasi did on this event
observing Wieland for a long time then,which were also exhibited at the
galerie . I don’t know if for others it is as intense as for me. But it
brought me back to this time where stereotype Spießers ruled and had
more power in everydaylife as you can imagine. It brouht me back to the
time when it was a big effort just visiting my grandparents,aunts and
cousins ,and the feeling I had having the privilidge to pass the wall
which they did not have. I loved visiting them and became complete aware
about the big lies which were produced about the East as the West, just
for political reasons. But this film is a great piece of art, you will
not be able to find such at „20 Jahre Mauerfall“ bullshit as on most
festivals.
PS:PS:PS: we do not want just 5 flaming days we want 365 each year and
for real.

RÄUMLICHE TRENNUNG
I was only able to see 30 minutes of the Andrew Kerton with Johnny Woo performance of Palla-dee-uhm so i can´t give it a proper review. I had my performance Memory Island on the big stage right after Andrew´s piece, so i had to leave early go get dressed amd into make-up, but i did like the song Andrew lip synched to that began his absurdist music hall style review. Tan Bihn Ngyuyen was designing the hair and make-up for superstar Mario Montez, so i figured i would have to do my own face beating. But luckily for me Tan Bihn had finished Mario, and was able to give me an excellent 40s style war painting sesh and let me wear one of her tres expensivo real hair wigs. I looked stunning giving Hedy LaMarr from White Cargo crossed with Judy Garland in Presenting Lilly Mars and a tad bit of Lana Turner in Johnny Eager. My costume was designed by Little Alex of Macedonia, and was perfect. The HAU 1 theatre was packed SRO and then some. I didnt know HAU 1 had two balconies, but i was told after my performance that they could barely fit the overflow in the second balcony. I got a million positive comments about Memory Island---how great it looked, and how the piece slyly commented on race and class without being dogmatic and shrill. Several Canadians didnt even recognize Baby Diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras who starred in the film wearing little next to nothing but his generous endowment, and inflamed bullet nipples. Alex & Julian also looked great, and Alex made a new screening version of the film which truly sparkled. I also received a sweet comment from Spike Jonze about my film. Spike also was raving about Ronald Tavel´s The Life of Juanita Castro which starred Mario Montez in the role that Mr. Tavel wrote for him but which he never had the opportunity to perform. This was a fitting tribute to Tavel who died after the first round of Live Film back in March. Ms. Montez looked ravishing in one of Susanne Sachsse´s vintage frocks and she was backed with equal elan by the great Bibbe Hansen(Beck´s mom) as Fidel Castro, Bruce La Bruce as Che´Guevara and a hilarious Diedrich Diederichsen as Raul Castro. Other principle players included Rainald Goetz, Katharina Sieverding and Susanne Sachsse.
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz film premiera Charming For the Revolution featured the amazing Werner Hirsch aka Antonia Beard, and delightfully left the audience in a merry mood Friday. Professor Jennifer Doyle was the perfect moderaturin for the talk with the filmmakers and star after the screening. Ms. Boudry & Lorenz created a work of pure charm and seemless beauty. This style of electronic cinemas is just what we need in this new century.
The other lectures that i was able to listen to were thrilling, and not dry in the least beginning with the marvelous orator Douglas Crimp who ruminated on dancer Paul Swan and Jack Smith. The handsome Mr. Crimp carries great weight and authority when he speaks, and his soft yet manly voice kept everyone in the large auditorium space rapt. La Doyle followed with her tome Like the Weather and Flowers and Stuff-Poetry, Correspondence and Scotch Tape which brilliantly woved the politics of displacement and gentrification into the Smithian mix showing how timely Jack Smith really is, then La Doctura Jose Munoz who connected new supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor to Smith in an elegiac way, and finally the lovesexy Juan Suarez who introduced us to a Smith sister of the clothe in the form of Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica and Tropicalism.
Thursday soared with the team of Werner Hirsch and Jakob Lena Knebl, who are like the Laurel & Hardy or Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle of the intermedia art set. I really enjoyed the playfulness of their performance and film Hamdrahm und Zerwuzeln. These stalwart drag king dandies show why drag kings have really eclipsed drag queens in the realm of queer artisanchezing.
Another performance premiere that soared was Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes I Shot Jack Two that featured a smorgy of slide show material and films from the 80s with cameos by the divine Carmelita Tropicana and others to joyous results. The love that Ela & Uzi put into this piece vividly came through soaking the audience up with waves of double bouble.
I am exhausted from rehearsing and hungry so i will end here, and pick up tomorow with reports on the first day of Live Film and presentations by Wilhelm Hein, Tim Blue, Theatre of 8, Tim Stüttgen, Diedrich Diedersen and more Penny Arcade.