DIE GLAUBWÜRDIGKEIT DEFINITIV VERSPIELT

You must all be wondering how the Communist Bigamist - Two Love Stories tour has been going.  Well we had a pitstop in Basel, Switzerland as part of Art Basel Art Faere.  The venue was the Kaserne Theatre which is a great space that presents theatre, dance, music and performance.  It was my first time in Basel so i was really excited.  Didn´t realize until the night before arriving that Basel hotels are booked a year in advance because of the tired Art Basel, so our accomodations were less then thrilling. I am not a major diva who requires to be shod in the lap of luxury but when i am on tour i need a certain level of comfort and privacy which this trip did not afford.  I was luckier then the rest of our cast and crew in that I stayed at a beautiful  Bed&Breakfast manor called The Kulture House located just minutes from the theatre, but I did have to share a bathroom which is a pain when you are on tour and you need to focus on your performance and not on worrying whether you or going to bomb the toilet out with a fierce dookie or if you´ve spread too much water all about in the shower.  Thats why I always have to insist on a private room and bath because I am a big lady who is known to make a mess.  I have been so busy lately with a million projects that I wasn´t on top of things so much with this tour so I only have myself to blame. It was nice that Tan Binh Nguyen our brilliant make-up and hair stylist was also housed in the Kulture House.  We had a hoot of a girlish time together gossiping and carrying on and causing major havoc in the city.
The performances were spectacular, and the audience ate it up royally.  Susanne Sachsse was in fine form and its always a supreme pleasure working with her and Marc Siegel who was very cute on stage with this outing.  Susanne and I got all lesbiana on the last night with Susi jumping on top of me and proving to the world what a hot femme aktive she is.  If she had been wearing a strap-on I would have been sent to the hospital for repairs.
In the audience on opening night Wed June 15th: Kaserne Artistic Director Carena Schlewitt who use to work at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, senior Kaserne dramaturge Tobias Brenk with his über love sexxxy beau Boris who gave us all VIP passes to the Art Faere which was duller then most art fairs.  I only stayed at the giant pavillion for an hour or so.  Also scene and herd----David Velasco of Art Forum Magazine, Kosuke Mori the stylish Tokyo art collector with Julie Miyoshi the LA art advisor, architect Alex Tirziu, Rudolph Schiesser of Hotel Trois Rois who looked like he wasn´t so into my performance, former football star Yoann Goureoff with Poppy Delevingne.
On the second night was Berlin based Israeli art shtar Yael Bertrana and her gallerist, artist Daniel Marti who use to be  the boyfriend of Hollywood punk rock princess Pleasant Gehman.  Mr. Marti relocated to Basel from his native Zurich, and cooked me a fabulous dinner after my last performance and loaded the doll down with wonderous presents.  I was also introduced to the Swiss/Hollywood director Marc Forster whose movies I have never seen,  and flirted with Parisian art specialist Edouard de Moussac and Hong Kong interior designer Roy Li.
The Commi Biggi crew were all a flutter over an American performer named Miguel Gutierrez who was part of the Zap Festival at Kaserne and whose ill bearded and rainbow flag covered gender fuck image adorned a giant unattractive poster.   Mr. Gutierrez seemed personable in our limited interaction with each other, but the Commi Biggi gang who heard him rehearsing while they were setting up our show didn´t find his art to their liking.  A local curator whispered to me that Mr. Gutierrez is the newly crowned otter darling of the dance theatre world and that his performances and choreography is something of a mixture of Tim Miller circa mid 90s meets Jeremy Wade.

BERLINS ÄLTESTE BETRIEBE

Was wondering what ever became of Tyler Brule, the handsome Canadian from Winnipeg who started the magazines Wallpaper and Monocle.  Back in the late 80s when i was producing the zine Fertile La Toyah Jackson the young Mr. Brule was a huge fan and came to LA to visit with me, pick my brain for ideas and take me out as his date to some chic restaurants where we created quite a stir.  Tyler looked like Montgomery Cliff before the accident.  He was extremely fresh faced and innocent looking. 
It seems that he has led quite an interesting life since the 1980s.  He was a war correspondent in Afganistan and was shot twice by snipers and had a long recovery.  His father was a famous Canadian football player and they are estranged because of Tyler´s homosexuality.  Tyler is still quite young at 43 and is every inch of a mover and shaker.  I like to think that I had some influence on his successes.  Well i am the muse to many.
Received an email asking me about what is was like knowing the famed sci fi writer Ray Bradbury.  Well he was my mentor when i was in the 11th grade.  Mr. Bradbury was one of those rare white liberals who put his money where his penis is and actually gave back to others.  He went to Los Angeles High School and was very active in his support of the school, which is the oldest in LA.  I was a very fortunate recipient of his largesse.   Mr. Bradbury you are loved and missed as a true Angeleno of high graciousness.  Another tidbit about Mr. Bradbury is that he never learned how to drive a car, just like yours truelly.  Imagine someone born and raised in LA and not ever learning how to handle an automobile.

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I forgot to tell you dear readers, in my previous post about the old Santa Monica bookshop Midnight Special that one of their regular customers was musician Michéle Ndegecello, her girlfriend & kids.

Off to Basel Art Faere where i will be performing with the great Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel in Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories.  Hope there is a lot of eye candy in Basel.

ES GIBT KLARE RECHTSPRECHUNGEN


Had a lovely luncheon work meeting with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Nazli Kilerci going over necessary prep for the next touring segment of Communist Bigamist-Two Love Stories that features a pit stop in Basel for The Basel Art Faere.

In the morning I had breakfast with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim at the sizzling Mehringdamn bistro East London-God Save Brit Food. Danny had me laughing out loud as he was complaining about the Royal Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. The only Jubilee that he is interested in is the celebrated Derek Jarman film.
Danny use to work for many years at the famed Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica that was owned by Lebenese Leftist culture worker Margie Ghiy. Many celebrities made the bookstore their second home including Tom Hayden, Gregory Peck who would bring his yappity lap dog, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Sheen, director Paul Voerheoven, Brazilian actress Sonja Braga, perpetually tanned matinee idol George Hamilton who would come in with his cell phone when they first became popular and talk on it for hours. Susan Sontag and other bored lifeless Getty Institute visiting scholars on their lunch breaks. A black gay homeless store employee at the bookstore once yelled at actress Mariel Hemmingway, „Hey aren´t you one of those Hemmingways!“

One of my favorite memories is seeing poet Sonja Sanchez perform at the Midnight Special.

Last night I was treated to a delicious din din at the Schwartzer Cafe by my former boss at Sundance Film Festival´s New Frontíers section Ms. Shari Frilot. Shari was looking healthy and robust in a Queen Latifah like way. Lady Shari and her beautiful young Persian girlfriend Princess Roya stopped off in Berlin on their way to dOCMENTA in Kessel. It was great hanging out with Shari and catching up on all things film in the sorry United Statuals. It seems like budgets for indie film projects are back to low and no budget status and that is a good think in forcing young filmmakers to stretch their creative steroid muscles.

Was asked what I thought of the new live action film version of Snow White called Snow White and the Huntsman. I was invited to a screening ages ago and I actually liked some of it.  Chris Hemsworth should have had a few shirtless scenes but withstanding that I especially enjoyed the performance of Charlize Theron as a wounded queen slashing patriarchy the only way she knows how by killing powerful men and chewing on the hearts of ravens. Ms. Theron´s performance was very nicely shaded and she looked lovely in her fractured medieval gowns and hairstylings. I also enjoyed baby dyke ingenue Kristen Stewart who needs to make a movie about her short but steamy love affair when she was very young with Jodie Foster during the filming of Panic Room when Jodie played her mother. Just saying . . .

O Love Camel if you are reading this will you please send me a copy of the tomes the UnInvited Guests by Sadie Jones and The Astaires-Fred & Adele by Kathleen Riley. I bet many people are unware that Adele Astaire was the big star when she performed with her younger brother Fred back in the 1920s. Their dancing partnership ended when Adele married into British artistocracy when she wed Lord Cavendish. Someone should make a movie about the fabulous Astaire siblings.
Ms. Shari Frilot said that a film is in the works about Hedy Lamarr. Not only was Miss Lamarr beautiful beyond compare but she was brainy and invented a component that is responsible for cellphone technology today. See what you learn from reading this very blog.

So sad to report that Los Angeles native Ray Bradbury the great science fiction writer died yesterday age 91. I met him when I was a teenager as he went to my high school and attended a function for former grads to mentor current students.

PENIS ABORTIONIST


The pain and swelling from my gout condition is lessening, but I am still suffering a bit from it, and of course I am in no way able to leap over buildings in a single bound the way I was before the affliction. Had luncheon with Christian F. Weber who is an adoreable German Phd in Film Studies or either he is a film historian. I can´t remember which. We went to the delightful little boite Frau Rauscher in Kreuzberg which use to go under a different name a few years ago and I must admit to having a splendid dining experience. Of course the bigger joy was just being with my beautiful young Christian who worked so hard for me as my assistant on Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and VD is SFTD.

Had a lovely little studio visit at the Cheese Endique Trifecta from Columbia University grad student Tho-mas Lax who is a sexy little colored boy with a background similar to mine in that his father is a German/Jew. Of course young Tho-mas is a middleclass---- both his mother and father are physicians.
Tho-mas grew up and still lives in Harlem and we spent hours chittle chatting together. I love mentoring the young, gifted and black. Tho-mas is in Berlin on a curatorial workshop and came to me highly recommended from both the divine Hilton Als of The New Yorker Magazine and performance studies professor Tavia Nyongo.

Received a nice little emug from Tim Blue who is back in Portland, Oregon. Very dear hearing from him. The Vagimulic tentacles are far reaching so of course my Pacific Northwest spies have already relayed to me Tim Blue´s every movement back in the city of his birth since he arrived back home.  Its funny how tiny the world really is.
Despite popular rumours of the contrary I do know how to keep a secret and I don´t spill all the private fava beans of my friends and associates in this very blog you are now reading. That doesn´t mean I don´t write it all down, I just don´t publish it on the WWW for all the whurl to read.   Word to the wise!  Don´t piss me off or I will publish it one day.

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Got this emug from my sister Teresa in Los Angeles:

Hello. Always thinking of you. Our weather is nice this year! Not too hot or too cold. Terri Lynn(my niece) finally got that settlement from LA County Sherriff. But they owed her in-laws because they paid her husband´s bond and got him the lawyer. Thank goodness the lawyer didn't take any money because the settlement was too low. So Terri was able to pay her 2 months back rent. Two weeks ago we went to California Adventure and Disneyland. So that money is going fast.

Darren, her husband, found a training program and he's doing very well. Hopefully he should be getting a job soon. Otherwise they're going to be behind on their rent again. The kids are fine. Just her daughter, the 16 year old, is still getting caught with boys every time she misses taking her meds (Abilify). So Terri Lynn thinks that it may be low self esteem and depression that brings that feeling on. Plus Kristina's dad takes meds for bi-polar disorder. So that also might be her problem. She knows what's right and wrong. But, she says she can't control herself. That's why Terri Lynn thinks she needs meds. I agree with her. Kristina's father just goes from one woman to another. That is a known symptom of bi-polar disorder. So Kristina didn't get to go with the rest of the kids to Disneyland. She stayed with her father. He stays with a girl friend that lives close by right now.

Marky's (My nephew who died in 2011)daughter, Kelly, will be a senior at Hollywood High next year. She loves her school choir, H20. She says that's their name because they are the top 20 Hollywood High singers. So I think she's going to try to be a singer or dancer or actor. She didn't want to go to Disneyland and miss her rehearsal! His other daughter, Kameron, is graduating. She's very smart. I know she's going to college but I'm not sure which one because her mom is supposed to come down here. Otherwise she might go to Berkeley or San Francisco State. The boy Mark Jr. is going to Vallejo High next September. Brian(my other nephew) is still watching him to see if he needs to come here to stay with him because he was starting to have a poor choice of friends.

I told you Brian is looking for another weapons repair job. So he just came back from a month of national guard duty. Jaime has custody of the kids until October. So he wanted to keep himself busy.

I miss my sister every day. I just pray I can see her again in the resurrection. I still cry for her. Miss you so much too! Love you!!!

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Sooner or later everyone reads my blogina. Just recently reconnected with Alfredo Botello someone I first met 30 years ago. He is now married with two children and living in the Bay Area where he owns two bars and is a screenwriter. I adore Alfredo and have often thought of him so it was quite a surprise to receive an emug from him from out of the blue. Sorry but I am not sharing the contents as they are way too personal, and I have to keep somethings for myself.  There before the Grace of God Go I . . . but for the past few days I have been literally levitating with so much love in my broken, wounded, cold black heart.

The memory piece I wrote about Jabberjaw is now in the Summer issue of Art Forum Magazine.Here is a link to it online:

http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201206&id=31088.


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This emug from filmmaker Liz Rosenfeld:

Dear, Friends, Colleagues and Community:

It is with great excitement that I announce the production of my new film " Die Neue Frau," the final film in my short film triptych the Surface Tension Series. I can't believe that it has been almost four years since I moved to Berlin with the intention of making this work, and now the series is almost complete."Die Neue Frau," is a short film presented as a reel constructed of personal home movies made by Leni Riefenstahl in 1933 (the last official year of The Weimar Republic), exposing an ambiguous relationship she had with Eva Braun. This film is an intimate portrait of two prominent women who were integral witnesses to Berlin's transition from decadence into fascism. I am also extremely excited that I will have the opportunity to work with the wonderful actress Susanne Sachsse, who will be staring as Leni Riefenstahl in "Die Neue Frau." As I mentioned above, " Die Neue Frau" is the last film in The Surface Tension Series, which queers historical narratives of the rise and fall of the Wiemar period in Germany through the perspectives of three female artists who lived in Berlin.

We need your help!

At the moment "Die Neue Frau" is in the pre- production stage,and we are gearing up to shoot the first week in July. As many of you know, making art with limited access to public funding is what artists are having to do these days, and I would be so grateful if you could please take a moment to look at my fundraising campaign. Even if you can't donate money, a small donation of your time to spread the word about this fundraiser would be hugely appreciated. Please take a moment to check out the fundraising video and further information about this project here: http://www.indiegogo.com/dieneuefrau?a=190375.

You are not just supporting me, you are supporting my community!

Since we finnished "Frida & Anita," 2 years ago, I have been working with my producers/ cinematographers ( NowMomentNow, http://nowmomentnow.com/) and local community in Berlin to finish the last two films, so that I can finally complete the entire Surface Tension Series for Autumn of 2012. These films have been created, and produced by the same group of people over the past few years, and as a result of our collaborative effort, we have also formed an amazing lexicon of artists who have worked hard to support each other in all of our creative endeavours. Because of my amazing community here, I have experienced the most productive period in my artistic career, and for this I feel incredibly blessed. You will see that all of the "perks" one may receive from donating, are all donated and created by the talented and amazing people I admire and love in Berlin. It has been an amazing ride, with screenings of the first film in the series, "Frida & Anita" at amazing venues including The Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, NYC Mix Festival, and The Raindance Film Festival.

Thank you so much for taking the time to consider donating/ spreading the word about " Die Neue Frau."

This project has changed my life, and I am so excited to finally be able to share this series in it's entirety!

Sending Love,

http://www.lizrosenfeld.com/

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Seems like Berlin is becoming a murder capital of sorts.  Just the other day not far from where I was hanging out working on a project with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim, the on-the-run Canadian Cannibal Porno Killer was caught at an internet cafe in KreuzKölln where he was reading his press clippings.  Then right after that a Turkish man in Kreuzberg lost it and beheaded his wife in front of their brood of young schoolage children.  Reading about this tragic happening in the Berlin Local English language online newspaper and seeing the pictures of the Turkish couples apartment complex, If I had to live in a building like that it would drive me insane enough to committ murder and decapitation.

WIE BESCHLOSSEN MACHBAR

Sorry kids, but I have not been feeling like writing lately as the poor Vagimule doll has been suffering with gout for the last few days.  It’s a chronic condition that flares up with either stress or bad eating habits and can be quite painful and debilitating making it very hard for me to walk as it attacks the joints and causes swelling in the feet or knees.  This time its my left foot that is in agony.  Well I’m glad its happening now before I go back on tour with Communist Bigamist, and I am so happy it didn’t rear its ugly head during the Camp/Anti-Camp festival.That would have been a disaster.

The weather has been gorgeous in Berlin,and the tourist season is in full swing.  Before getting sick I spent some time rehearsing with Tenderloin and hanging out with the boys-Joel Gibb who is now back in Canada for a month, Felix Knoke, Landgraf Klesse and volatile Dagmar Hopfpfisterei. Also met with CHEAP fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel to plan the tour for Camp/Anti-Camp in the fall/winter which is very exciting.  Susi made a delicious Spring Awakening luncheon with lentils, May salad and fish from the Baltic Sea.  My gout was raging but I was able to make it to the CHEAP compound by riding my bike which was easier to do then walk or navigate a bus or subway.  My only problem happened riding home when my bike chain popped off, and being tunten und technik I wasn’t able to fix it so I stopped off at the Arsenal and caught a screening of the Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall classic Dark Passage from 1947 that also features a fantastically hysterical Agnes Morehead and the stunning city of San Francisco as the best character in the film. 

Fortunately some nice Russian men helped me get the chain back on the bike so I could ride home in one piece. The next day wonderful Piero Bellomo and Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim brought me some Indian food and gave the doll some much needed nurturing. Thank god for Piero and Daniel.

One of my CHEAP collegues Tim Blue of the Blue Brothers fame went back to live in the US of A after almost a decade here in Berlin. It was quite sudden and unexpected his leaving and i didn't get a chance to bid him a proper farewell because of the haste in which he left.  Tim is quite an interesting figure, very talented and we had some really great times with each other over the years that included him and his younger brother kJohnny Blue performing live music to accompany the silent film screenings i curated at Arsenal Inst fuer film und video kunst as part of my Rising Stars, Falling Stars series.  I hear that Tim is taking care of an ill sibling in his hometown of Portland,Oregon and I think that him focusing his energies and attentions on someone in need is the best thing for him to engage in at this time of his life. Perhaps our paths will cross again and we will work on a project together in the future.  That would be nice. 

Just received this info from the good people at Hugs & Kisses Magazine:

QUEER CINEMA: Fotos von Christiane Stephan & Andrea Preysing

Ein subjektiver Blick auf die Filmgeschichte aus querer Sicht – illustriert mit einigen der besten Leinwandmomente

In der Reihenfolge sind zu sehen:
Didine van der Platenvlotbrug als Miss Marple
Sam und Zoe: „Bonnie und Clyde”
Dolly Cluster als Tippi Hedren in: „Die Vögel”
Jule als Marilyn Monroe in „Das verflixte 7. Jahr”
Miss Pünktchen als Marlene Dietrich: „Shanghai Express”
Hank Bobbit in James-Dean-Pose: „Giganten”
Hans Kellett, Sänger von Princessin Hans, à la Liza Minnelli: „Cabaret”
Tilly Creutzfeldt-Jakob like Audrey Hepburn: „Frühstück bei Tiffany”

Fotos: Christiane Stephan (www.christianestephan.com)
und Andrea Preysing (apreysing@onlinehome.de)
Styling: Manu Wolf

And this from the La Moustache queer kids:

Hooray, we have two great shows coming up next week!
Have a listen now and mark the dates in your calendar!
See you hopefully there!

Riot Grrrl Berlin & La Moustache present:
Let's celebrate Fronleichnam (or how it's called)
Thursday, June 7 @ ://about blank
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
doors open at 9, show starts at 10

l i v e

SHE SAID DESTROY (Noise Pop - Bologna, Italy)
http://youtu.be/oKTH2m3ATpY
https://www.facebook.com/SheSaidDestroyy

TRANSLOLA (Post Punk - Krakow, Poland)
http://youtu.be/RwlHpBmF-TA
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Translola/108235515870760

PONY PACK (Punk Pop New Wave - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://youtu.be/40FjE-z1JqE
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pony-Pack/372297346728

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/358946714168638
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7240631478/in/photostream

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and one day later...

Raumerweiterungshalle & La Moustache present:
Friday, June 8 @ Raumerweiterungshalle
Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz
10pm

RAE SPOON (Indie Electronics - Montreal, Canada)
www.raespoon.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=op4ywkS9MUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ckA8ZiEBXss

LIANNE HALL ("One of the great English voices" John Peel - Brighton, UK)
www.liannehall.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U
http://vimeo.com/15398068

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/289766951113935/
Show poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/7248567672/in/photostream

u p c o m i n g
Paper & Iron Booking, La Moustache & Marie-Antoinette present:
SCREAMING FEMALES
https://www.facebook.com/events/307190109360078
ticket presale: http://www.koka36.de/Screaming%20Females_ticket_47774.html

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on the 2nd august billie ray martin releases her new dvd.

Billie Ray Martin releases this 8 panel deluxe DVD, featuring five movies inspired by Andy Warhol‘s Screen Tests and printed in colour and silver metallic. The song ‘On Borrowed Time’ deals with Andy’s fictional confession, in which he reflects on his existence and a life he always experienced as less than real. With music by electronic producer and soul singer Waterson, who is riding high on the airwaves with his single 'When You Tell Me That You Love Me'. “Five Takes (A Song About Andy)“

Five Movie Deluxe DVD & digital release
Release date: 5 August 2012

Label: Disco Activisto Records
Distribution: Cargo
Webshop: www.billieraymartin.com/mart

the launch takes place at tha art'otel (warhol hotel) berlin on the 2nd of august. the hotel offers a special 60 euro rate for the night's stay for brm fans and friends. live performance, dj, film showings and some special surprise goodies take place and we hope that waterson, the director and everyone involved in the project will be there and strutt their stuff. email us for hotel details and join billie on facebook for updates on more launch dates, updates on the berlin event etc. www.facebook.com/billieraymartinmusic

launch events in other cities are planned.

please feel free to shout with any questions and ideas.

meanwhile to keep you happy here's a free download from the opiates: http://soundcloud.com/billie-ray-martin/the-opiates-feat-naommon

finally, we've had a small shipment of 50 more copies of the opiates double cd. it's at the webshop.

billie ray martin

disco activisto records

www.billieraymartin.com

IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE

Last night´s Rising Stars, Falling Stars was out of control! It was the first really hot day of the late Spring season, so when it gets this warm most people want to spend their time hanging at the Berlin River, Canal or Lakes and not inside watching a movie, but the power of John Cassavettes won out and the fact we were screening a rare film of his---Killing of a Chinese Bookie that is hardly ever seen in cinemas contributed to an SRO crowd of unfamiliar faces, but those faces known: the lovely Miss Ela of bbooks kollektive, the personable Markus Ruff of Living Archive, Ulrich Ziemons and his beautiful girlfriend. Uli was filling in for Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is in India with a special film program that travels to four cities. Uli is also teaching a block seminar on Weather in Film at the famous film school in Potsdam. Also getting into the rakish spirit of the Cassavettes film Ms. Susanne Sachsse, free from her Venge Vengard/Ida Müller John Gabriel Borkman assignment at Volksbuhne/Prater chittle chatting with young French booty pie DeRohan Chabot, American art student Acme Singt with Christine Himmelsfahrt, prima ballerina Trixi Cordua, film historian Marc Siegel in heated discussion with The Whitney´s Scott Rothkopf, Little Alex of Macedonia who did Ms. Davis´s make-up and hair design, lovesexy posh British author Owen Jones of the tome Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, spirited Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental, Daniel Hendrickson and beau Piero Bellomo with curator Masimilliano Gioni, John Maturri and his sweet and vivacious friend Linda. John is a photographer and teacher of philosophy and film at Queens College. He worked with Jack Smith, Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Stuart Sherman (about whom he co-curated the very much talked about exhibition back in 2009. And yes its true Ms. Davis did leave with the patrician Mr. Louis Marie de Castelbajac.

http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/rising-stars-falling-stars-with-vaginal-davis-may-2012/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=resource_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;"> Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - May 2012 by http://www.mixcloud.com/filmanzeiger/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=profile_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;">Filmanzeiger on http://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=homepage_link" target="_blank" style="color:#02a0c7; font-weight:bold;"> Mixcloud

DIE JUNGFRAU AUF DEM DACH Felix Knocke of Der Spiegel Online and the hot Berlin based band Tenderloin was my lovesexy young date at the Passion Church to see the Magnetic Fields in action. We arrived as the opening band was performing. I didnt catch their name but they sounded like they were playing the same song catatonically over and over again. It was lovely seeing Miss Claudia Gonson per post preggers glow. She was in fine voice and was as spirited as ever on stage. The audience was eating up her hilarious back&forth banter with Mr. Stephin Merritt. La Merritt is sporting one of those gay beards that all the kids are wearing and it becomes him with his deep registered vocalizing. Gonson&Merrit are the Ingeborg Bachmann / Hans Werner Henze of the indie music world. When I saw them play at the Passion Church a few years ago it was my first time seeing and hearing live Miss Shirley Simms with the band. She is an incredible singer with an understated country phrasing that comes across as a delicate warble. The rest of the group: John Woo on guitar and Eurasian lawyer/cello player Sam Davol are as stoic as ever. They have aged a bit but Mr. Woo and Mr. Davol are still extremely handsome in that classical music long hair Mr. Paganini way. It also felt refreshing being in an audience where I wasn´t the oldest person in the room.

Someone sent me an emug asking If I had seen the Johnny Depp film Dark Shadows. I did go to a screening of it a few months back only because I am old enough to have memories of the original TV soap from the late 60s and early 70s starring Joan Bennett, a young Kate Jackson pre Charlie´s Angels fame Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins. The Tim Burton film is a complete waste of time even though I adore his wife Helena Bonham Carter, the ex Mr. Angelina Jolie-Johnny Lee Miller (looking very long on the tooth) and Eva Green as a histrionic Angelique. One of my talented NYU students is having an exhibit in Paris. See the info below and go check it out. In another post I will give you the latest on singer Billie Ray Martin´s big Warhol inspired project. But I have to run out the door or I will be late for a radio interview.

The Superfluidity of an Interior une exposition de Carlos Reyes vernissage, samedi 19 mai 18 - 21h 19 mai - 9 juin, 2012 TAON 18-20 rue Ledru Rollin 94200 Ivry sur Seine jeudi - samedi / 11 - 18h et sur rendez-vous contact@taon.fr

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Thursday May 17th is a religious holiday in Berlin called Christi Himmelfahrt also known as Father´s Day and Männer aktuel tag, so all the stores will be closed. Thank you to Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim for reminding me about this holiday.

WEH DEM, DER LUGT Had a delightful visit from my god son Man Martin who is the oldest child of my Afro Sister “PopThatCherry” Jefferson aka: Priscilla Hazelwood. Priscilla lives in the Bay Area and is the niece of Hollywood actor Richard Widmark. She also has a daughter named Mira Bai who lives in San Francisco with her husband and child. Man was on a business trip to Stuttgard, and decided to take the train to Berlin to spend some time with me, before heading to Dusseldorf for further business responsibilities. Man or Immanuel, has been living for the last three years inTokyo,Japan where he works for a corporate concern, but is also a filmmaker and makes deliciously subversive pieces of cinema gold. His daughter is now 15 years old and quite lovely. We met at the Cheese Endique Trifecta and I showed him around my Rote Insel neighborhood—he took pics of Marlene Dietrich’s birth home on Lebener Strasse and we went by the flat that David Bowie use to live at that is above the Nueus Ufer Gay Bar and also Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories apartment at Nollendorky Platz before a standout dinner of Fish & Chips at the British Eatery East London on Mehringdamm. During supper he told me about being outside on a picnic with his girlfriend when the big Earthquake in Japan struck and how surreal it was. And I think I’ve gone through culture shock living in Germany, well try living in the Orient during a natural disaster and nuclear panic. I am generally not a sentimental person, but it was wonderful seeing Man again. The last time we hung out was in 2008 when I had my Yerba Buena museum show in San Francisco. Earlier Saturday morning I had breaky at the Schwartzer Café in Charlottenberg with Anna Muelter of HAU. It was so sweet of Anna to treat me to a belated birthday breakfast. We had a sensational time catching up on all our activities and projects for the last year but also gossiping in our girlish baby dyke fashion. June 30th I will DJ a short set at the closing night festivities of the HAU season at WAU Cafe when HAU artistic director Mattias Leanthal leaves his post for greener pastures in Beirut. With Mattias leaving it is truelly the end of an era here in Berlin. Anna also gave me the horrible news that Fassbinder’s ex lover the legendary Afro German actor Gunther Kaufmann died of a heart attack at age 64. My CHEAP collegues Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel and director Judy LaBruce went to see the star perform in a play in prison years ago. The famed actor took the rap for his wife in some kind of crime that I can’t remember the exact details to. Friday I had a scintilatingly girlish day with my Arsenal big boss Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. We celebrated her belated birthday at the Osteria No.1 at Kreuzberger Strasse 71. Usually every year Stefanie and I celebrate together at The Kaiserstein on Mehringdamm but that restaurant has suddenly gone out of business. We didn’t mind so much as their service wasn’t the best, but I did like their outdoor patio. Well now we have a new place to be all girleney at, and the Osteria No. 1 has the most divine patio in existence, excellent food and top notch service plus the patio is nestled very far away from the street to insure privacy in conversation. Wouldn’t you like to know what two beautiful women talk about when they get together? Well I am not going to tell you as somethings need to remain private.

DER DIENER ZWEIER HERREN So thrilled after almost seven years living in Berlin I think I have found a breakfast place to eat at on a regular basis that has the feel of an old fashion diner or greasy spoon. The café is called East London-God Save Brit Food, and its an all-day eating establishment serving the finest in British cooking combining fresh produce, imported delicacies and classic recipes. They are located at Mehringdamm 33 10961 Berlin info@eastlondon.de tel +49(0)30 69 53 32 05 hours Mon-Thu 8-10pm Fri 8-11pm Sat & sun 10-11pm so you can go from breakfast to dinner. They have been open for a year. How I missed them is beyond me. The place is cute with a décor that is clever but doesn’t try too hard like restaurants and shops in Mitte, and I have been there now twice once for breakfast where I had the classic but without sweet baked beans, thank god it doesn’t come with blood pudding, but the fried tomatoes & mushrooms are just what Doctor Faustus ordered. For dinner I had a most delish Fish&Chips with sticky peas & a pert lemonade. The staff is also friendly and accommodating which is a rarety in glum Berlina. Last night I went to Berghain to see Gossip perform. Its been a while since I’ve seen the band and they were of course in top form with Miss Beth looking ravishing in a gold sequined frock that she quickly took off to sport a chic Marc Jacobs little black dress. Their new album on Sony is called A Joyful Noize. The bands super hot baby dyke drummer Hannah Blilie is one of the best punk skin pounders short of my cousin Carla Duplantier of the legendary LA punk outfit The Controllers. Of course the place was packed to capacity and then some. I came with my Tenderloin boys Felix Knoke, Landgraf Klesse & Baby Diaper Joel Gibb. Tenderloin’s 17 year old lead singer Dagmar Hopfisterei with Tiffany Middlesex the bands Minister of DisIdentification DisInformation exchanged make-up tips with Ms. Ditto and her major ms. gorgeous manager Tara aka: Annie Oakley of the Sex Workers Art Show. Also seen backstage: Javier Peres of Peres Projects looking good and healthy now that he is completely clean & sober with his lovesexy trusty right hand man at his side. Ran into cutie pie Jasmin who worked on the ZacKary Drucker film that I made last summer where I starred as my Whoracle et Delphi persona. ZacKary is in need of funds to complete the film so please donate to the cause. More info on that at the end of this posting. Also saw in major schmooze mode La Negressa as she use to be called in the 90s when I first ran into her in New York on the fringes of the post queer core scene. Someone whispered to me that she is still working the same Klaus Nomi counter tenor shtick only now she has added Diamanda Galas and a bit of Antebellum identity politiks posturing to the mix and goes under the name of M. Lamar, and was in town for the badly named Earl Dax party Pussy Faggot. M. Lamar and Earl Dax seem like they are perfect to work with each other. I would change the name of the party from Pussy Faggot to Eve Harrington. I guess Earl has latched on to Zvonko of Queer Zagreb in a big way. Lord Love a Duck and more power to them! Thank you Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin for sending me the book The World and its Double--The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara. It’s a great springtime read, and while you’re at it please send me a copy of Dropped Names-Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them by Frank Langella and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. This Monday I am going to see Claudia Gonson and Stephin Merritt and their band The Magnetic Fields play at the Passion Chuch at 8pm. Claudia was kind enough to contact me that she was coming to town and put me on the guest list. *** Wasn't able to catch the opening but here is a group show recommended to me by my former Arts Editor boss when I wrote regularly at the LA Weekly Mr.Tom Christie: Unblinking Eye Adrian Buschmann - Aaron GM - Sonja Gerdes - Fabian Hartmann Eric Legris - Maeghan Reid - Jason Starr April 27th until June 24th 2012 Opening reception - April 27th from 6 to 9PM 'It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.' Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972) Kavi Gupta BERLIN is proud to present Unblinking Eye, a group exhibition including the work of Adrian Buschmann, Aaron GM, Sonja Gerdes, Fabian Hartmann, Eric Legris, Maeghan Reid, and Jason Starr. Drawing from the histories of surrealism and symbolism in contemporary art, the exhibition is an acknowledgment of the value of quixotic folly, a nod to Shandyistic strategy, and a critique of the arrogance of rationalism. Adrian Buschmann (b. 1976 in Kattowitz, PL) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Schimmeliges Brot (2010) at Schlectriem Brothers in Berlin, Adrian Buschmann (2010) at Kunstgarten in Graz, Austria, and Say Hello To Palmtreeman (2009) at Galerie Fiebach & Minninger in Cologne. Buschman graduated from Berlin's Universität der Künste in 2002, studying under Prof. Daniel Richter. Aaron GM (b. 1978 in Washington D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include IMOM-M (2011) at Green Gallery in Milwaukee, capezio (2010) at ltd los angeles in Los Angeles, and Timeshares (2009) at Parker Jones Gallery in Los Angeles. Sonja Gerdes (b. 1979 in Clarholz, DE) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Pie Of Trouble. Let's Hang. The Energy Plan (2012) at Elephant in Los Angeles, Gyre and Gimble (with Lucy Teasdale) (2011) at Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Berlin, and XXXL Die Schmiede featuring Talisman for Oxygenenergizer (2011) at Galerie Lena Brüning in Berlin. Sonja Gerdes' performance 'Pie of Trouble, Let's hang. Breathe. Air is free' will begin at 8PM. Fabian Hartmann (b. 1986 in Bottrop, DE) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Recent exhibitions include Aurum (2011) at Gallery Artary in Stuttgart and Peppi Bottrop - Arm der Cunst (2011) at Sammlung Helene Zimmerman in Hamburg. Hartmann currently attends the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying under Prof. Albert Oehlen. Eric Legris (b. 1981 in Lubec, Maine) lives and works in New York. Legris attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine from 1999 until 2003 and received his Master's of Fine Arts from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts in 2011. Recent exhibitions of Legris' work include Jellyfish (2011) at Kavi Gupta BERLIN, New American Values (2010) at Atelierhof Kreuzberg in Berlin, Ich Habe Stimmen Gehört (2009) at Galerie Im Regierungsviertel in Berlin, and It's not the sandwich we enjoy, it's the pickle (2009) at Objectiv Gallery in Prague. Maeghan Reid (b. 1980 in California) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Splint (2011) at Kunstverein Heppenheim in Heppenheim, DE, The Great Lumbering (2011) at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and Dorothea (2011) at Ancient & Modern in London. Jason Starr (b. 1975 in Los Angeles, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Adult Contemporary (2011) Kavi Gupta BERLIN, Fresh Silent Auction (2009) at Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Inevitable Continuum (2009) at Locust Projects in Miami. Starr received his Masters of Fine Arts from The University of Southern California in 2007. For further information and/or images please contact the gallery at info@kavigupta.com or call +49 030 544 65010 ON VIEW IN CHICAGO: ARI MARCOPOULUS - MIDWAY CHICAGO 835 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607 312.432.0708 Tuesday - Friday, 10-6PM Saturday, 11-5PM BERLIN Kluckstraße 31 10785 Berlin Germany +49 030 544 65010 Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6PM *** ZacKary Drucker projects info to donate and support: Dear Everyone who is Everyone, As you may know, I'm close to finishing my largest and most ambitious project to date. She Gone Rogue is a fantastical narrative short film shot across the US and in Europe that features legendary performers Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina. My collaborator Rhys Ernst and I have been hard at work over the last 12 months on the film and it is truly a labor of love. It will be premiering in June at the first ever Los Angeles Biennial, and will play for three months on a continuos loop at the Hammer Museum-- a prestigious opportunity indeed. We need your help for the final push. Filmmaking has hard costs and we're still $2,000 away from our goal. If we don't reach the Kickstarter goal we receive nothing and have no way to pay for the finishing costs of the film (with our premiere only weeks away)! CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND DONATE For those of you who have already donated, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!! If you haven't gotten around to it yet, please consider donating to our Kickstarter. There are amazing perks available and if you haven't seen it already, check out our Kickstarter cooking concept video featuring Rhys and I as rodeo clowns. Thank you so much for you support. Raising awareness about it also really helps. Reposting, sending an email on our behalf, tweeting about it, anything you can do to spread the word is much appreciated. THANK YOU, i love you more than ever, Z

DAS LIED VON DER GLOCKE Just saw the Peaches opera LÓrfeo von Claudio Monteverdi at HAU Eins. Its an ambitious production and a lot of love, pain and the whole damn thing obviously went into it. I found the singing enchanting, and the orchestra Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop a delicious musical marvel. I´ve been a longtime fan of Miss Peaches, and thought her Peaches Christ Superstar a brilliant confection with its pure simplicity in form and staging. The lady Peaches is definitely flexing her roid rage muscles with this piece, and the six months or so of training and study has definitely paid off in earnest. My favorite moment was the end when she and the lovesexy orchestra share a bit of whimsy with each other. Peaches and her young performers and musicians are a joy complete, but the staging, set, costumes, make-up and hair design left me a little puzzled. Peaches has a great body and looks good in almost anything. I´d love to see her in a new look though. I have a photo of her from some summer festival concert a few years ago where she was working a natural hair color that was styled very 1940s Pachuca and she looked sensational. I found the costumes in this piece distracting----ill catsuits matched with lumpy seperates that didn’t flatter any of the cast. Maybe that was the point? Does being queer mean you are forced into a life sentence of exceptionally bad jewelry options and clunky post-rave footwear? Earlier I grabbed a bite with Marc Siegel and the handsome Israeli artist Yael Bertana at the WAU café. Yesterday I had dinner with the Mr. Siegel and we were able to have a nice lesbian processing session about Camp/Anti-Camp at the vegetarian restaurant Rose´s on the Mehrindgamn Corridor. He then was off to see Tim & kJohnny Blue´s farewell concert. I had a date with a visiting curator and couldn´t go the send off for Tim Blue who returns to his hometown of Portland Oregon Monday. Earlier that afternoon I was treated to a splendid Spargel luncheon by the lovely Miss Jane Beese who is head of Contemporary Music for Southbank Center in London. Jane handles all the administrative stuff for the Meltdown Festival in London that is being curated by Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Hanging out with Miss Jane was pure pleasure, as we were like old girlfriends catching up after a couple of years apart and before we knew it the time had flown by. It was also nice meeting Jane´s good friend Bernadette who is also sweet, pretty and personable like Miss Jane. A German woman who goes by the name Mother of Anna joined our little party and she was a riotous hoot. I don´t know where this woman came from, she was elderly in her mid sixties with sparkling blue eyes and had an infectious radikal spirit about her. When you open yourself to meeting new people you get rewarded with these kind of one-of-a-kind episodes. Only in Berlin kids.

EINSATZ FUER DEN TATORT VORSPANN I am exhausted! The Camp/Anti-Camp and Rising Stars, Falling Stars: We Must Have Music re-launch has knackered me out like something otherworldly. I don’t know where to begin in writing about the last week or so. Berlin has been an utter whirlwind of activity. Well my screening of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess starring Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Portier, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll and Sammy Davis Jr. was a huge hit and the perfect way to jumpstart the RSFS series with a new spark. I even liked how the print was turning a reddish pink. It made this Hollywood Golden era film take on a decidedly more experimental aura. Re-vamping RSFS would have been impossible without the tireless efforts of Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Daniel Hendrickson, the Jewish Muslim with help from Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project and of course Jeffreyland Hilbert of Kustom Kreative the genius of design wizardry who created the postcard fliers and posters that has everyones mouths agape. Jeffrey is a genius. After the screening Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn dropped by as a special guest star during the wine reception held in Kino II. Of course it is always a joy being in the presense of such an astounding talent, but I felt her companion Nico should have let the great lady rest a bit in preparation for her long plane trip to Los Angeles. Her fans were of course excited to catch one more glimpse of her divinity. On hand were Blue Bros kJohnny & Tim who is leaving Berlin permanently in a few weeks and returning to Portland, Oregon, delicious Toby Rauscher & French hotsy totsy Xavier who were so wonderful as my living sculpture boys in my talk show/installation VD is SFTD, they were joined by Little Alex of Macedonia, art video maven Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jonathan Berger and his cute NYU student Joy, Senol Senturk, Mikki the sprightly C/A-C stage manager, gorgeous Nazli Kilerci, Romy Haag, with singer Billie Ray Martin, Piero Bellomo, New Zealand scholar Pete Limbrick, Kyle Keyser, Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel, curator Hannah Keller, Verena von Hodel, Lars Denicke, video artist Bjorn Melhus, Salome Gersch and handsome Uli Ziemons. Everyone was talking about how faggoty Sammy Davis Jr. was in the film Porgy & Bess playing Sportin’ Life. Well Sammy is a well known womanizer but he also had some sugar in his proverbial tank and that is a fact many don´t know about the Rat Packer who also packed quite a penile punch in his tiny frame. Funny lady Pearl Bailey was a hoot playing Cat Fish Row wiseacre a Mariah. Of course the beauty of Dorothy Dandridge couldn’t be denied, and she somehow conveyed a modern edge to her low key performance. Sidney Portier has such a masculine voice and ardour and Diahann Carroll made to look plain and ordinary also packed quite a wallup. The Last night of Camp/Anti-Camp was a marvel with the concert performance by the music and art kollektive The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black starring the amazing Kembra Pfahler who had the audience revitted. It was so wonderous hearing the Karen Black hit songs again. I haven’t seen the band play in almost a decade. The extra Karen Black treat was guitar god Samoa returning to the lineup. No one short of Glen Meadmore plays guitar like Samoa. He defines the Karen Black sound and seeing Kembra & Samoa together was my ultimate fantasy come true. The Lady Kembra is a consummate artist and one of the planets smartest and most gifted women. Every move she makes is perfection personified, and Berlin was able to experience a rare treat. I was also happy to see Tenderloin perform and Dagmar Hofpfisterei the teenage lead singer was in good form despite having almost OD’d just a few hours before the gig. The crowd seemed to really enjoy their music and songs like Empty, Eat Me Like The Good Book Sez, Salome’s Last Dance which takes text directly from Oscar Wilde, Cheeseburger, No Soul, Octavia and Incitement to Discourse. I especially loved the animated text behind the band that was created by Jean Y. Kim who also did the video for SFTD. Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras is quite a good drummer and he also managed to play keyboards and guitar at the same time, plus Felix Knoke and Landgraf Jan Klesse are very attractive on stage and had lots of the girls going wild over their manly appeal. Tenderloin’s next gig with VHoKB is August 10th in London England during the Olympics when Antony of Antony & the Johnsons curates The Meltdown Festival. The last day of C/A-C featured celebrity sightings as diverse as Peaches and The Pet Shops Boys, Wolfgang Tilmans, Katy Perry, and Jens Friebe the German indie pop singer/songwriter. The last SFTD was a speed talk show/installation that was over in 27 minutes and featured as guests a playful Tim Studkin masquerading as a former Bel Ami porn model turned scholar and activist, Swedish poet Eli Lev’en and good time Charlie of a writer/journalista Travis Jeppesen who has very pretty bare feet that the Vagimule managed to shrimp as the packed audience squeeled uncomfortably. The Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin of the BFI didn’t offend anyone with his video selection of Turkish film remakes of Hollywood Blockbusters like Star Wars and the Exorcist. Co-hostess Nanna Heidenreich was sublime. It seems like everyone’s favorite SFTD evening was the Friday salute to Jayne County that featured Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and her dynamic 16mm film presentation. This evening also had everyone talking about the kickboxing demo by Richard Gersch and Georg that was so earnest and sexy in a quiet way and of course the nude rapping by New York sensation Gio Black Peter that featured just a bit of analingus and felatio, not to mention a mock Court of Good Taste by Langraf Jan Klesse with an inspired Liz Rosenfeld of Foodgasm. Kembra Pfahler and Wieland Speck (accepting a CHEAPY Underground Über Alles Award for Jayne County were other highlights of Friday, and everyone was admiring the beautiful set that was designed by Jonathan Berger and Senol Senturk that featured a fetching wall of cacti. Catching every moment of the three day festival: Peter Limbrick, New Zealand film scholar who lives in San Francisco,Pet Shop Bears Disco Club proprietors,Mobile Academy’s Hannah Hurtzig,Sophia of Plan b,Katja Sander and artist Phil Colllins with their gaggle of art students in tow. Plus the lovesexy Angela Melitopoulos,Jan Kunemund of Sissy Magazine,Piero Bellomo,Sabeth Buchmann the wonderful art theorist who teaches in Wien,Dragan Asler and the Serbian Art Mafia, the Great Alessio who did a splendid make-up job on Teodora Tabacki making her look all Serbi-camp, Koen Clarehout,Maeke Harmsen, Katrin Dod the Beauty of HAU, Steffan Faupel and his music writing partner, Art shtar Ming Wong, scholars: Anja Michaelson and Kimiko Suda, supermodel Akira Knightly with make up artist Tan Binh Nguyen who not only beats the face of curator Susanne Sachsse, but Vaginal Davis and Holly Woodlawn, DJane Olga Damnitz, Angie Anderson,Christina the hot Romy Schneider looking girlfriend of sexy Sasha, dancer Asaf Hochman,Earl Dax of Pussy Faggot, Juan Luis Mielgo Castellanos, the sexy Spanish teacher, academic Todd Sekuler and Hanno Stecher of Catchfire blog.

HUMOR IST, WENN MAN NICT IMMER LACHT It is now the third day of the art festival Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life and it’s a sterling success on all counts. Congrats to curators Susanne Sachsse & Marc Siegel and guest Tropicamp curator Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz. Yesterday there were packed lectures with a program beginning at 12:00 noon. The gorgeous scholar Juliane Rebentisch hit it out of the ballpark with her talk on Camp Materialism and the Tropi-camp section of Camp/Anti-Camp was also feverishly mobbed. Carmelita Tropicana’s performance ”Meine Box Berlin” had the New York legend conquering Berlin with the same charm and dexterity that is so apparent in the 1993 film by her sister Ela Troyano YOUR KUNST IST YOUR WAFFEN. It was amazing seeing a young Alistair & Julie Tolentino make cameo appearances in that film as well as posters on the East Village streets advertising a Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black performance. Unfortunately for the Vagimule doll my issues with losing my voice emerged so I didn’t get to see any of the lectures or performances, but got a reliable first hand account from Jewish Muslim Daniel Hendrickson and The Love Camel. I had an interview with a German television station that was supposed to be for only 30 minutes that went on for almost two hours and that tuckered this old gal out but the TV interviewer was nice and bubbly and her cameraman and soundguy were kindof eye candyish. Beggars can´t be choosy. I didn’t get a good sleep Thursday night so I spent most of Friday in my dressing room drinking tea with honey&lemon and sucking on lozanges.I tried in vain to take a disco nap to catch up on lost sleep but that didn’t work too well. VD is SFTD went over very well on Friday with my new co-host Nanna Heidenreich who was just brilliant and looked very sexy in her skirt made from men´s suit pant ensemble. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus the lovely Empress of the Arsenal made a very unique and special 16mm presentation on the show which was quite a hit with the crowd, and it was grand to have the 16mm projector buzzing along musically in the cavernous HAU2 space. Special thanks to Arsenal senior projectionist Bodo for handling the celluloid reel changing duties. The Love Camel proceeded to offend many with his selection of German Educational films from the early 1970s and Wieland Speck was his dashing self telling stories of the glory days of Berlin in the early 80s running around with Jayne County, Zazie De Paris and Romy Haag. The evenings proclitities were dedicated to Jayne’s raucous spirit with the subtitle Jayne County’s In Love with a Russian Soldier and the drink special: If You Don’t Want to Fuck Me Baby Fuck OFF and Die featuring once again macrobiotic and vegan vodka and my special Chlymidia cocktail. Nice moments on stage with Sam & Liz of Foodgasm who presented the guests and some lucky audience members some tasty food samples from their installation in the HAU2 Foyer and a hilarious moment with Landgraf Klesse and his concept of the Court of Good Taste. Wieland Speck also accepted the CHEAPY Award on behalf of Jayne County who was supposed to perform with the band The Lazy from Munich, but couldn´t come to Berlin as she takes care of her elderly parents who are in their 90s and her mother became deathly ill. We also presented a CHEAPY to Kembra Pfahler of the VHoKB who wowed everyone with her stream of conscienceness philosophy on Future Feminism and the decrepid state of affairs in New York and the US of A in general. In the words of Kembra and I hope I am quoting her correctly, “People in New York who you run into will say they are fasting, but the actuality is that they are starving". The late nite ended with sexpert Gio Black Peter singing one of his hit songs from his album The Virgin Shuffle. While I was being painted as Venus in Furs by our Akshunist painter Yorgos the Greek Aktive Byzantine Ottoman. Gio Black Peter assaulted the audience with his lovesexy ways and wound up prancing about completely nude and the Vagimule Doll got caught up in the naughty Jayne County moment and wound up fellating the New York art and music star. Being the Lesbian that I am, of course my blow job wasn’t very good and so I wasn’t able to ignite that huge sea monster he keeps between his legs. Oh welp!I tried my best. My lesbiana girlfriend Carmelita Tropicana doesn´t mind when i fool around with boys. Thank god she is so open minded. Our Living Sculpture boys Toby, Max and cute Greek beauty Vassily were adoreable on stage, and we had the addition of Richard Gersch (curator Susanne Sachsse´s teenage son and his friend Georg doing a kickboxing demo on stage as installation that looked amazing and sent all the chicken hawks into a cardiac arrest at the sight of nubile buff teenage high school boiganzas. Tonight is the last night of the talkshow/installation and with the Karen Black concert afterwards we are going to try to make the show zip along at a record pace. Our guests are the writers Travis Jeppesen and Eli Lev’en from Sweden with a video presentation by Love Camel of Turkish re-makes of American Mainstream Box Office Hits. Yowza!

Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis - April 2012 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

WIR HATTEN SCHON BEFUERCHTET As I write this my head is spinning from drinking Macrobiotic Vegan Vodka in the form of a Chlymidia cocktail. The first day of Camp/Anti-Camp was a smash success! Sold out SRO crowds that like Jack Smith!Live Film brought a lot of different scenes together. The Foodgasm installation of sexy Liz Rosenfeld and humpy Ozzie Sam Icklow was beyond brilliant with the smells of gourmet delicacies wafting throught the HAU 2 foyer. The Chicks on Speed girls and their narcotics den of inequity The VooDoo Chanel Alter Bar was also very popular. The late George Kuchar began the program with his hilarious masterclass on acting film from 1977, followed by beautiful co-curator and intermedia actress Susanne Sachsse hilariously reading timely tomes on camp backwards. Handsome Marc Siegel gave a powerful denouncement of the patriarchy system in the German theatre scene in his welcoming remarks, but what warmed everyones hearts was seeing living legend and treasurer of treasures Miss Hollywoodlawn performing with Daniel Hendrickson and John Blue on Cello. The three of them spun a magical thread of relevance and texture that gave me goosebumps and their interplay with each other was wonderous. Holly shined like only a true star can and looked divine with hair and make-up design by genius genius Tan Binh Nguyen who made the 65 year old starina look like a freshly scrubbed Warholian youthquaker. There were so many celebutants in the audience that it is impossible to name them all but it was a joy to hobnob with the dapper scholar Douglas Crimp, who use to be Holly Woodlawn’s New York roommate in the 1970s. Crimp’s lecture “Camp Reflections From ‘Our Kind of Movie’ The Films of Andy Warhol was the talk everyone was anticipating. I had to get into hair and make-up so I was only able to hear snippets in the dressing room intercom system. I also wasn’t able to see New York star Narcissister as she went on right before me and I was still getting a face beat on, but Love Camel reported to me that she was SENSATIONAL, doing a Gydra performance with multiple heads, that morphed into a reverse strip with various sundry items popping out of her vagina and giant Afro Wig. The Camel was really impressed by her inventive video art one short subject featuring a kinky treadmill where she is whipped, anally plugged and chugged. Narcissister when not performing is sweet, charming and simply ravishing, its exciting that there are some hot new performers out there to take the place of us old veteranas and Ms. Narcissister has one hot boyfriend who I wouldn’t mind getting to know in an intimate manner. My talk show installation VD is SFTD was messy and chaotic just like I expected, but did have some engaging moments like my opening song with Daniel Hendrickson at piano, my co-hostess Carmelita Tropicana who makes everyone fall madly in love with her plus a playfully hilarious Theodora Tabacki in mesmerizing Serbi Tropi-Camp drag with Evi “Bear Boy” Ruesseler who premiered her new film which despite technical difficulties was thoroughly engaging and the hit of the evening. Our Living Sculptures Toby, Max, Xavier and Vassily kept the audience aroused with their antics and my favorite band Leiseylento performed some incredible songs for Miss Woodlawn who the evening show was dedicated to with the theme What Would Holly Do? and a cocktail named in her honor Classy Holly-itis. Miss Woodlawn’s companion Nikko was supposed to keep her from drinking too much and he did a good job at that as she was very lucid and sharp on stage, but Nikko needed someone to keep him from drinking. Tonight we will have Stefanie Schulte Strathaus the Empress of the Arsenal presenting 16 mm films, Weiland Speck, Landgraf Klesse, Love Camel, Foodgasm, the divine Kembra Pfahler and Gio Black Peter. Oops forgot to mention i saw Patty Aldrich of A Walk on the Wildside Boutique of Toronto, the great Corolla Graumann of Kinotek Asta Nielsen, Jose Munoz, Richard Move, Gavin Butt & Baby Diaper Joel Gibb just to name a few of the luminaries at Holly Woodlawn´s epic performance. NOTE TO NIKKO Holly´s devoted companion and confident: The audience only needs to see The Great Holly Woodlawn nix the band Tangowerk. The female singer was ok in an 1980s sort of way, but the funny looking guy with the frizzed hair playing computer (which is quite the oxymoron) and those dreadful videos----please, i beg of you NEVER AGAIN.

ANONYME BEWERBUNG Ok kids its finally here! Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life at HAU 2 starting to-day at 6pm. This is a not to be missed super art festival event that includes the following artists, academes and performers on the main stage: b_books, John Blue/Daniel Hendrickson, Gavin Butt, Frederico Coelho, Douglas Crimp, Vaginal Davis, Diedrich Diederichsen, Foodgasm, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Jakob Lena Knebl/Hans Scheirl, Bruce LaBruce, Elizabeth Lebovici, Heather Love, Taylor Mead (by Skype), Richard Move, José Muñoz, Narcissister, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Juliane Rebentisch, RG_Faleiros, Juan Suárez, Tangowerk, Tenderloin(featuring Dagmar Hopfisterei the teenage daughter of Christiane F. Kinder aus Banhoff Zoo), Carmelita Tropicana, Goddess Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Chicks on Speed’s Voodoo Chanel Altar Bar, Holly Woodlawn..and many more! Festival passes only 40€/20€!!! Tickets available at: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de As part of the witching hour activities of the festival everynight starting this evening at 11pm is the talkshow/installation Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm. See what had New York audiences in 2010 all abuzz for two weeks. Tonight the guest co-hostess is Carmelita Tropicana the Lower Eastside Lesbian Queen of Performance Art with special guests: Liz Rosenfeld & Sam Icklow of Foodgasm,artist/curator Elly Clarke, filmmaker and writer Evi “Bear Boy” Ruessler & political theorist Teodora Tabacki, Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin, legends John Heys & Holly Woodlawn in casual modeg with special musical guests LeiseyLento. Also starring Uli Ziemons, Christian Weber, Jean Y. Kim, Felix Knoke, Daniel Hendrickson,Yorgos the Greek Aktive Akshunist Painter, Human Sundaes, Beauty Moments with Tobi& Vassily and their Living Sculpture Gang. I promise to give the gossip of the opening nite tomorrow morning with a breathless rundown of the Fridays talkshow/installation guests if my internet is working properly. After the festival on Sunday April 22nd 7:30pm at Arsenal Kino 2 is the Rising Stars, Falling Stars: We Must Have Music Re-launch with a rare screening of Porgy & Bess starring Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Portier and Sammy Davis Jr. www.Vaginaldavis.com www.arsenal-berlin.de

DAS KOMMT TRENDIGES
For those of you who insist that Vaginal Davis was hatched. Here is proof that I actually came from a family remnant with this latest emug sent to me from my older sister Teresa Ray who lives in Los Angeles. Teresa is my last remaining sibling as my other sisters have all left this mortal coil. She is 60 years old has worked for a thousand years at the same job for the LosAngeles County Housing Authority. Yes she is in charge of Section Eight, the voucher program that helps subsidize housing for the poor, so she hears all the horror stories and its affected her health in many adverse ways which she relieves through hoarding of Avon products that she will never use, in her tiny Hollywood dingbat flat:
Hello. So good to hear from you! Good it's finally getting warmer over there too!
Brian(my nephew) got into it with his white trash ex-wife because she wrecked his Ford Escalade. He let her run his errands and pick up the kids from school even though he knew she doesn't have a driver's license---she can't pass the written test. So she put a restraining order out on him and his whole family. She lives in a little room of one of her friends. It has two beds for the boys but nothing else. So when he went to work one day she violated the restraining order and went into his house with her key to get the X Box game and some food and school work of the boys. Brian called the police and they arrested her. Her friends kept the boys. We think she called her Klu Klux Klan parents from rural Washington State to bail her out. His court date should be soon to establish visitation rights again. But he lost his job with Northrop Grummann because their government contract repairing Iraq war weapons expired. That war is way over. So he put his house up for sale before it goes into foreclosure. He wants one of the government contracted jobs to Afghanistan. They pay $20,000 a month he says. I hate that because he'll be away from his children for a year. I don't like them being around his ex-wife Jaime with all her internet thug men coming around all the time. It would be good if Terri Lynn(my niece)had custody of the boys. Darren's(husband of my niece) mother sued LA County Sheriffs. They settled for $20,000 for shooting him(During a robbery he participated in). So Terri wants to put a down payment on a house. That money should come in a month. The lawyer did it pro bono because they didn't get much money. But they really need it because Darren's unemployment ran out and they can't pay the rent.
Housing Authority is closed every other Friday which cuts my salary 5%. I'm so broke now I need to file bankruptcy. I'm putting it off as long as I can but I don't know why. Gracie's (my oldest sister who died in October, 2011)children really did it to me---helping them has put me in the poor farm. Also paying for Gracie’s cancer medication. So all my money is gone before I can even pay down my credit card debt each month.
Love you
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And this juicy little update from my scintillatingly talented and major Ms. Gorgeous teenage art shtar daughter ZacKary Drucker:
Dear Glorious all-knowing radiant Whoracle et Delphi the one and only mother Vaginal Davis,
I hope this message finds you in a divine Berlin Springtime dreamy haze, with a parasol perched on your shoulder and an elegant veiled hat.
Lady Angeles is hot 80 degrees and then alternately raining cold every week or so, and I am in the vortex of 902 Sanborn Avenue in Silverlake,home alone and sitting with the cat. The film is almost done, though it will be a serious race to the finish line, she is shaping up and looking pretty epic with you, Flawless Mother Sabrina, and Holly Woodlawn tearing-it-up on-screen.
We are getting closer to a finer edit - Rhys (my boyfriend we ended up working things out in the end...well mostly ; ) ended up directing the rest of the scenes we shot and is also doing a lot of the editing. We didn't finish shooting until February, 6 locations all together over 8 months... and working away in a beat economy in between shoots, teaching the children at Whittier College about things they would be better off not knowing... There has been anticipation building for the film, and I'm getting ready to post a kickstarter campaign to raise some money to pay for the finishing costs. The video has some scenes from the film, so it's also a little bit of a preview... I will send to you first thing when it goes up in a few days. ..
Your scenes are berserk and beautiful and wildly entertaining + I am forever thankful to have your graciousness immortalized.
ALSO, we settled on the title of the film: She Gone Rogue
I missed you when you were here last, shooting pick-ups in NY, but heard all rave reviews and especially from Holly who adores you and I hope you know your legendary realness is recognized and paid homage to often in your fair homeland.
She and Niko are also sounding out their trip to Berlin and I hope the Camp/Anti-Camp is a ball! I'd love to be there and listen to all of your commentary and deconstructions and reads, the program looks $o RiCh + flavorful....
Hope you are well MoTHeR Davis, and sending you kisses from the sleepiest hours of los Angeles... Love As Ever, ZACKARY

Here she is LIVE and sniffing so readers help my daughter out with some real latent coinage:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460252371/she-gone-rogue?ref=email


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Last night I had a delightfully intoxicating evening with the CHEAP gang Marc Siegel and Daniel Hendrickson(Susanne Sachsse came down with food poisoning), Bruce “Judy” LaBruce, and that super intelligent and lovesexy otter of a Bolivian/German scholar Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz. We took over the controls Live! on Global Radio program within the pregnant oyster of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt from 8-10pm. Armed with Polish vodka we swirled and swirled in a alcoholican deluze adaise of cottage minstrelry and abandon.It was quite a hoot. Aftewards La Judy rushed off to Kreuzberg to the restaurant Max & Moritz to meet with his gallerist Javier Peres of Peres Projects and the band Gossip. I was exhausted from a day of meetings before going to the radio show. I had a lovely time with Felix Knoke who is doing the soundscapes for Speaking From the Diaphragm and my trusty collaborator Christian Weber. Jonathan Berger took me to dinner at Zsa Zsa Burger where I feasted and prepared myself for an evening of liquoring. After camp/anti-camp Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse and I will work together on the last part of the trilogy that included Jack Smith! Live Film Five Flaming Days in a Rented World in 2009 with a new festival called Felating History: Which Way is Up? which will premiere 2014 in Dakar.

HEIL SCHICKLGRUBER!
A cute emug from my former collegue the multi-talented and simply ravishing Ms. Alice Bag of the late great LA punk band The Bags but who also participated with me in my crazy art/performance/music schemes The Afro Sisters and Cholita the Female Menudo over the many centuries we have both been alive:

Hello My Sweet Little Pudding Cup,

'tis me, Sad Girl checking in with you. I received an interview request from one
of your fans. She is interviewing me about Afro Sisters and Cholita because she
doesn't know how to get a hold of you. May I pease give her your email address?
I'm sure that the answers would be much more accurate (and deliciously
embellished) if they came straight from the horse's mouth (not to call you a
horse mouth, or anything).

I miss you Graciela. I've been saying nice things about you lately, I hope your
ears are burning.

Xoxox,
Alice

P.S. Fertile and Yadi had a baby boy and the bitch didn't name him Clarence!


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Judy on Judy-Judy LaBruce on Judy Garland please read below it is important Ferdinand:

This is in the New York Times? it seems more appropriate for the gay section of the Huffingtonpost. so stupid on so many levels. first of all, why does everyone reduce Judy Garland to her most tragic moments near the end of her career? have they seen Judgment at Nuremberg, A Child is Waiting, The Clock, A Star is Born, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ziegfeld Girl... an astonishing body of work. Secondly, she was an incredible performer - what about talking about the quality of her voice, her phrasing, how she sold a song, her relationship to black signifying and minstrely - there's no analysis of her actual singing, body of work, historical context. etc. The writing in the article is so lazy. Thirdly, she was married to Vincente Minnelli, one of the most important directors of classic Hollywood. who was Britney Spears married to - Kevin Federline? Fourthly, she's the mother of Liza, who made incredibly important films with some of the best directors of her generation, like Cabaret, New York, New York, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, The Sterile Cuckoo. that's part of Judy's legacy too. Fifthly, who says you can't like both Judy Garland and Joni Mitchell? I certainly do. It's not an either/or proposition. Sixthly, obviously the young generation of gays does fetishize the tragedies of modern pop stars, witness Britney and her ilk. the only difference is, Britney has never done anything of lasting value - just pure pop puree. it's not even her talent or body of work they're interested in - just the train wreck itself. seventhly, Rufus Wainwright did an entire concert at Radio City Music Hall that was an exact copy, down to the program, of a Judy Garland performance. obviously some gays of a younger generation appreciate her, and a lot of young gays like Rupert. why was there no mention of that? (even though I think that concert was questionable). lastly, it's just another instance of the new generation, and not just gays, being proud of their ignorance of history and cultural history because they are arrogant, uneducated, and so distracted by technology that they can't be bothered. i listen to all the modern music of their generation and keep up with it and play it when I DJ. Why can't they extend the same courtesy to older generations. Fools. some of the same issues come up about The Boys in the Band here: http://gawker.com/5899549/lets-discuss-the-gay-classics xxx Blab
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That pretty Italian troublemaker Janez Jansa has really done it this time in his adopted homeland of Slovenia. Please read the message below and contribute to the art madness. It will be well worth your time, energies and funds. Skandal Skandal down to the Panhandle!
My Name Is Janez Janša: The crowdfunding is open!

It all started five years ago when three artists joined the conservative SDS party and changed their names to Janez Janša, which is the name of the leader of that party and Prime Minister of Slovenia. The rest is history or, better said, the documentary My Name Is Janez Janša, which is coming to the cinemas soon. Focusing on the most scandalous name change in the history of Slovenia, the film juxtaposes different views on the meaning and purpose of one’s name and reasons for changing it.
Before you google your name, visit http://www.verkami.com/projects/1752 and help to finish the film and to reach its audiences all over the world.
Keep up with the film at www.mynameisjanezjansa.com.
This year, the documentary film My Name Is Janez Janša, directed by Janez Janša, will find its way to the big screens. The film shows the host Dražen Dragojević lead us through the various opinions, viewpoints and views offered by individuals, artists and academics from around the world as they discuss the meaning and purpose of the given name as seen from the perspective of the individual and society.
The reasons and motives behind changing one’s given name are shown through picturesque examples taken from history, popular culture and everyday life, leading the viewer to the most widely resounding name change in the history of Slovenia: in 2007, three artists enlisted into the Slovenian Democrat Party (SDS) and got their names officially changed to Janez Janša, the leader of that party and Prime Minister of Slovenia. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons, this gesture was marked as an artistic act and triggered an array of interpretations in Slovenian and foreign art circles, as well as amongst reporters, commentators and the general public. The film reveals the various views and responses to this renaming, which resounded in Slovenia and abroad.
The documentary film My Name Is Janez Janša was filmed in English and Slovenian; however, we can also hear Italian, Spanish, French and Croatian. In the film, a host of internationally acclaimed artists and intellectuals appear, including UBERMORGEN.COM, Franco and Eva Mattes, Vuk Ćosić, Jan Fabre, Stephen Kovats, Tim Etchells, Vaginal Davis, Mladen Dolar, Miroslav Košuta, and, of course, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša.
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art is the producer of the film, which was created in cooperation with Institute Maska, TV Slovenija, POPCult and Emotionfilm, and with the financial support of the Slovenian Film Centre and film studio Viba Film.
In the final post-production phase, the creators of the film resorted to an innovative way of financing their project: crowdfunding, or funding by the masses. In this way, a high number of individuals financially support creative projects by offering small or large amounts, and thus ensure that good ideas are realized. The film creators wish to rise € 6000 in the next 40 days (starting on April 11th) and use these funds to finish the film and present it to the broadest possible public worldwide. Most of the funds, which will be collected through the crowdfunding platform Verkami, will be used for the post-production of the international cinema and shorter television versions of the film and their worldwide distribution. Individuals can support the documentary film My Name Is Janez Janša via the webpage www.verkami.com/projects/1752. As a ‘thank you’ for their support, the film creators will give out interesting rewards – ranging from mentioning individuals’ names in the end credits to works of art.

Contact:
Marcela Okretič, Producer
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
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And if that isn’t enough and it isn’t her imperial highness the Duchess Kaucyila Brooke is having her first big solo show in Germany. See info below:
Badischer Kunstverein is pleased to present American artist Kaucyila Brooke
in her first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany. The selection ranges
from early works from the 1980s to new works that Brooke has conceived
especially for this exhibition. Brooke's central medium is photography, which
she also uses in collages of text and images. She also works with installations,
drawings, and videos.

Kaucyila Brooke's work is concerned with the mechanisms of power and rep-
resentation and asks what possibilities exist for the individual to interrupt the
dominant cultural codes. In a group of works from the 1980s and 90s, the
determining principle is a montage of photos and text juxtaposing the patterns
of traditional historiography with a formal language from popular and media
culture, as in the expansive photo collage "Tit for Twat" (1993, ongoing).
Stylistically, these panels of images and text take their lead from the narrative
strategies of popular photo novellas and early cartoon strips. At the same
time, it reveals the influence of the film and media theories that have shaped
the artist's work, as have feminist and queer approaches and analyses of bi-
ology and gender based on cultural theory. Brooke has conceived nine new
panels for "Tit for Twat" that are being premiered at Badischer Kunstverein.

A second group of works is dedicated to photographic series and addresses
issues of documentation and archiving. Brooke employs the format of the
photographic document as an open form that incorporates rifts, voids, and
omissions and questions the boundaries of a conventional transmission of
knowledge. For "Kathy Acker's Clothes" (1999-2004), Brooke photo-
graphed 154 different pieces of clothing that belonged to the American writer,
who died in 1997. They capture the author's succinct style and her mise-en-
scène of her sexual identity. The photo series "Family Group, After Morandi
and After GLH" (2012), conceived especially for this exhibition, similarly
runs through the possibilities of a private matter in absence of the subject.
The artist's own collection of vases is staged as still lifes in the style of the
Italian painter Giorgio Morandi and presented in new arrangements.

In the Kunstverein's so-called Waldstrassensaal, a selection from the artist's
working archive is being presented for the first time. Many of these materials
relate to Brooke's early works of the 1980s and illuminate her interest in structure
and dialogue. In a series of drawings titled "Do You Want Me to Draw You a
Diagram?" (2004-2006), the artist playfully analyzes in diagrams the thematic
and formal connections between her works. These drawings delineate the archi-
tectural structure of the projects and the code to access the artistic practice of
Kaucyila Brooke.
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Kaucyila Brooke (b. 1952 in Oregon City, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Solo shows (selection): 2010 Dry Kisses Only, Xcèntric – The CCCB´s Cinema,
Barcelona; Tit for Twat: The Release, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles /
2009 Where does the Venus come from, Silberkuppe, Berlin / 2008 Vitrinen in
Arbeit, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Cologne / 2007 Viewing Platforms, Michael Dawson
Gallery, Los Angeles / 2006 Vitrinen in Arbeit, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna / 2005
Viewing Platforms, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen; Kathy Acker’s Clothes,
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein / 2004 The Boy Mechanic, Plattform, Berlin.
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TALKS & EVENTS
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Tuesday, 17 April, 7 pm
Talk
Kaucyila Brooke
Location: State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,
Reinhold-Frank-Str. 67
(in English)

Friday, 4 May, 8.30 pm
Concert/Performance
Crazy Bitch in a Cave (comfortzone, Vienna)
with the latest album "Particles"

Wednesday, 13 June, 7 pm
Film screening
Dry Kisses Only (Kaucyila Brooke and Jane Cottis, 1990, video, 75')
(in English)
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OPENING HOURS
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Tuesday to Friday 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 11 am – 5 pm
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For more information and press images please contact:
Nadja Quante/Badischer Kunstverein, t +49 (0) 721 28226
presse@badischer-kunstverein.de
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And one of my favorite NYU student art shtars who is all grown up and ready to take over and claim it the lovely Joey Tang is joining forces with Exile Gallery and Christian Siekmeier for a special project:
Art Brussels/First Call
Jo-ey Tang and Stuart Brisley
(click on image for further information)
April 19 - 22, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, April 18, 4 - 10pm
Booth 3C-08FC. (click to view floorplan)
To preview all works by Stuart Brisley and Jo-ey Tang at Art Brussels please end an email to Olga Sureda Guasch: info@thisisexile.com
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Stream it now!
In the April episode, Expatriarch offers a survey of camp, transgression and intersectionality in music, doubling as a guide to what’s happening in Berlin right now: Joey Hansom presents tunes from Vaginal Davis and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (both part of the Camp/Anti-Camp festival April 19-21 at HAU2), NYC’s Lady Miss Kier and Gio Black Peter (both in town for PUSSY FAGGOT! May 2 at Monster Ronson’s), as well as the currently touring Chelsea Wolfe, Those Darlins and STLS.
Playlist:
Ray Mang feat. Lady Miss Kier – Bulletproof
Gio Black Peter – Pope Sex
Näd Mika – Diskoromance
Zebra Katz feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx – Ima Read (Mike Q & B. Ames Remix)
Death Grips – The Fever (Aye Aye)
THEEsatisfaction – Enchantruss
GODMOTHER – MTFTM
Pedro, Muriel & Esther – Cherries in the Snow
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black – Feeling Stronger
Permaculture – Silent Service
STLS – Drumcore
Those Darlins – Pet You and Hold You
Chelsea Wolfe – Friedrichshain
Mirel Wagner – The Road
Colin Self – Queens on Top (2 NICKI <3 SNICKI)
M. Lamar – Swinging Low
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Girl Gang Zine and La Moustache present:
Female Drum Fest. Live: STLS (US) + Dark Times (NO) +DJs
Saturday, April 14
at bei roy, Ziegrastraße 13, S Sonnenallee
doors open at 9 pm
Girl Gang Zine and La Moustache proudly present a Female Drum Fest with STLS (US) and Dark Times (NO) plus Girl Gang Zine DJ set and DJ Itty Minchesta. Supported by Tom Tom Mag, the magazine about female drummers.
plus Emancipunx distro as well as a Ruby Tuesday Girls Rock Camp info table!
LIVE!
* STLS (Portland, Oregon, US)
You need more than two girls and two drumsets to be a band? STLS from Portland, Oregon prove you wrong. When Lisa Schonberg’s old band Explode into Colors broke up after a handful of singles, right when she had drummed them to the status “Portland Band to watch”, she did not wait until her drumsticks gathered dust. STLS is just one of her current projects. Along with STS, Lisa plays a genre called drumcore. STS played in the queercore legend two-piece Haggard, The Lookers and along Corin Tucker (Heavens to Betsy, Sleater-Kinney) and Sarah Dougher (The Lookers, The Crabs) in the all-time favorite Cadallaca. STLS play standing up, facing each other, on two drum sets and manage to recreate the dynamic structure of pop songs by utilizing the tones and textures of the drums merged into melodic patterns. They are easily identified by their huge sound and their rhythmically energizing syncopations. In 2010, Kill rock stars released their debut 7” drumcore. Come watch them play and then get your hands on a copy of Lisas’s “DIY Guide to Drums”, a hand-drawn book that shows the basics of drumming: drum beats, fills, hi-hat tricks, accents, and even some jazz rhythms.
* DARK TIMES (Oslo, Norway)
We don’t care how obvious it is for a band from Oslo, Norway to call themselves DARK TIMES as long as they sound as mind-blowing as AK (guitar/vocals), Sebastian (bass) and Rikke (drums). Lately praised by our favourite writers at Maximum RocknRoll by saying “..and um a touch of the ’82 flag demo (no lie) and of course they rule” and compared to early SONIC YOUTH, SWANS and hardcore bands like VOID and FLIPPER by Tiger records. Their punksongs are about your everyday life: alienation, resentment of posers and general pain. The usual. In early 2011 they released a demo-tape on Ormeyngel Records (Norway) and Sacred Tapes (US). Later that year, Sheep Chase Records released their first 7”. You were probably not lucky enough to catch them on their early 2012 tour with Brooklyn-based THE MEN, so come see them now!
DJanes!
* ITTY MINCHESTA (Bei Roy)
* GIRL GANG ZINE DJ set (Girl Gang Zine)
SUPPORTED BY:
* TOM TOM MAG
As a female drummer, Mindy Abovitz was sick of male drummers getting all the fame. She started the webpage that later became TOM TOM MAGAZINE, the only magazine in the world dedicated to female drummers. It serves as the ultimate go-to guide for the latest and hottest info on lady drummers and beatmakers. Tom Tom seeks to raise awareness about female percussionists from all over the world and hopes to inspire women and girls of all ages to drum, all while strengthening and building the community of otherwise fragmented female musicians. Visit the Tom Tom Mag table at the show to get the latest and back issues!
http://www.myspace.com/stls
http://darktimes.bandcamp.com
http://tomtommag.com
http://www.beiroy.de
http://ittyminchesta.blogspot.de
http://girlgangzine.com
http://www.lamoustache.org
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This new message from Ms. Elly Clarke who will be on Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm Saturday April 19,2012 at HAU2 as part of Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life.

Birmingham, 12th April 2012
Dear All,
This weekend, Clarke Gallery's showcase at mac birmingham turns from BERLIN / into BIRMINGHAM / . Part two of BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND / launches both in the gallery and online on Saturday 14th April (12-3pm in the gallery) and runs until 3rd June.
Artists of BIRMINGHAM / are:
Dan Auluk /
Elly Clarke /
Jeanette Dean /
Jo Gane /
Cathy Wade /
Barbara Walker /
Mo White /
The first work is Louder than Words: "I can pain a picture with a pin", by Barbara Walker. This is a key work from the artist; larger-scale, scanned versions of these originals gained wide acclaim when they were exhibited at East International in 2009. When putting this show together, I was keen to find work that talked about, or illustrated, Birmingham in some way. This work was made as a direct response to events taking place in the city during the last decade - in particular the stop and search orders by the police. Walker has written about the work here. The work is for sale for £500. You can also access her CV here.
Other work in BIRMINGHAM / includes photography, painting & sculpture; a total of 19 works. As with the previous show, the work will be rolled out piece by piece as it is sold; s/he who buys the work on display gets to select the next one to be exhibited. If you buy online, you will be sent a pdf of the catalogue of the other works to choose from. If you are within reach of Birmingham you will be invited to view the portfolio in person.
I am happy to announce that Own Art have become involved with the project, making it therefore more possible for more people to consider buying work. You can see an article Own Art wrote about this project, featuring Lisa Jugert's work from BERLIN / here.
Official exhibition text follows. I will be in the gallery this Saturday from 12-3, along with some of the artists. It would be fabulous, as always, to see you there.
If you are not in Birmingham, however, but wish keep up to date with the works as they change (and potentially to get your hands on one of them), you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook or simply by checking the BIRMINGHAM / page on the Clarke Gallery website. If you wish to buy a work, please telephone mac Sales on +44 (0)121 446 3232 - or send an email to mail@clarkegallery.de.
I am actually off to Melbourne next month, for a solo show at Techno Park Studios, so the on-the-ground aspect of this project will be looked after during this time by Charlie Levine.
Thanks for reading. I hope to see you in Berlin, Birmingham - or beyond! - before too long.
Best wishes,
Elly

BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND / at mac birmingham as part of Allotment 10 plots

Clarke Gallery presents one work at a time in its Allotment. This work is for sale and when it is sold, its buyer will choose the next piece to be exhibited.

The works for this project have been selected by Elly Clarke and come from artists working in Berlin and Birmingham - and elsewhere. Over six months the project will unfold through three consecutive exhibitions: BERLIN / (18.02 - 08.04) BIRMINGHAM / (14.04 - 03.06) and BEYOND / (09.06 - 09.09).

Whatever is in the gallery is mirrored online, via the Clarke Gallery website, Facebook, blog and Twitter feeds. Only following a financial transaction will new work be revealed. Purchases can be made either in person or remotely. Work ranges in price from £150-£500. mac birmingham takes 33% plus 20% VAT; the remainder is split between the artist and Clarke Gallery.

This project has been conceived in response to the limited opportunities to sell work within Birmingham, and, more broadly, to the general state of arts funding today.

Follow the action:
Online www.clarkegallery.de
Twitter @ClarkeGallery #allotment
Be part of the action:
If you would like to purchase or enquire about the work on display please get in touch at mail@clarkegallery.de or call mac Sales on +44 (0)121 446 3232

‘With Arts funding becoming more and more difficult to come by, we have to think ever more creatively about ways of producing, funding, exhibiting and selling work. While some artists in this show are more than ten years out of art school, others are fresher on the scene. In any case, your purchase will be great investment - not only for aesthetic (and hopefully also financial!) reasons but, crucially, will support visual artists to continue making their work. We hope you enjoy the exhibition.’

Elly Clarke
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