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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mail@clarkegallery.de / www.clarkegallery.de / www.ellyclarke.com

A CATALOGUE OF JILTS
Dagmar Hopfisterei the teenage lead singer of Tenderloin seems to be holding up very well under pressure during rehearsals. She has only OD’s three times in the last month. In less then ten days is the Camp/Anti-Camp festival where the band will open up for Kembra Pfahler and the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. Thanks to Ms. Kembra, Antony Hegerty of Antony and the Johnsons wants Tenderloin to perform in London in the summer for the Meltdown Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre that Antony is curating. Let’s hope Ms. Hopfisterei doesn’t pull an Amy Winehouse or Whitney From Huston number as August is still a long ways away.
Before going to Tenderloin rehearsal on Sunday I met with beautiful Felix Knoke at Sud Block to discuss the soundscapes for VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm. Saw Yusi Etiman the guru of Basso collective in the courtyard of Basso, and also ran into Senol Senturk and his gorgeous new girlfriend. Senol is designing the C/A-C set with Jonathan Berger from New York, and I know it will be spectacular. I ordered the lunch buffet and it was pretty good. After rehearsing with Tenderloin where I play the Zylophone we had dinner at Santa Maria Mexican boite which was packed to the rafters, and it took forever to get our grub on. We had a pretty large group that consisted of Ms. Hopfisterie her famous mother, Christian F. of the Kinder of the Banhoff Zoo, Felix, Andreas, Joel Gibb baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras, Landgraf Klesse and his lovely girlfriend Marie.
Yesterday I rode my bike for the first time now that it is Spring. I am so out of shape. I was huffing and puffing all the way to Daniel Hendrickson’s house as we were having a meeting to deal with camp/anti-camp and Rising Stars business. I even had a late night meeting with Christian Weber that went from 10pm to 1:30 am. Christian was returning from his Easter Holiday in Bavaria and stopped by the Cheese Endique Trifecta to work on Speaking From the Diaphragm talk/show installation with me. Christian is so devoted to the project. I couldn’t do it without him. All morning I had a round of emails to returns and another meeting to rush out to, barely got a sliver of food to eat, which I don’t mind because maybe it will be my insentive for losing weight. Have another big meeting tomorrow with Uli, Christian, Nanna and Empress Stefanie.

NIGGEMEIERS MEDIENLEXIKON
Its countdown time to Camp/Anti-Camp: The Queer Guide to Everyday Life Art Festival at HAU 2 and concurrent film program at Arsenal Inst. fuer film und video kunst. I am so excited that not only is Jonathan Berger involved designing the set of the entire production with Senol Senturk but also Jean Kim as the mistress of animated video prowess. I worked with Jonathan and Jean in Los Angeles for my big commission piece in 2011 for MoCa and also in 2010 for PS 1 so it is a double pleasure to have them as part of my crack ass team in Berlina, colloborating with me on the Berlin version of my talkshow/klatch/installation VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm. Once again Downtown New York legendina Carmelita Tropicana is my co-hostess in collaboration with Nanna Heidenreich, Ulrich Ziemons and Christian F. Weber. Here is the list of confirmed guests for the talk show that starts Thursday April 19th at 11:30 pm at HAU 2:

For Thursday dedicated to Holly Woodlawn-What Would Holly Woodlawn Do? co-host Carmelita Tropicana:
1.Elly Clarke
2.Evelyn Rüsseler and 3.Teodora Tabacki
4.Love Camel aka: Andrea Novarin of the BFI
5.Travis Jeppeson - novelist/journalist/poet
6.John Heys and 7.Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn
8.Leiseylento featuring Katja von Hellsdorf & Cristian Forte
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and the CHEAPY über alles Underground Award

For Friday dedicated to punk rock god-mother Jayne County, Jayne County is in Love with a Russian Soldier co-host Nanna Heidenreich:
1. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Arsenal and Forum Expanded
2. Wieland Speck of the Berlinale’s Panorama
3. Landgraf Jan Klesse
4. Kembra Pfahler
5. Love Camel
6. Gio Black Peter
Maybe: Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick (7&8)
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and the CHEAPY über alles Underground Award

For Saturday co-host Nanna Heidenreich:
1. Tim Stuttkin
2. Övül Durmusoglu
3. Love Camel
Maybe: 4.Swedish poet and Dennis Cooper Accolyte Eli Léven
Plus Daniel Hendrickson, Yorgos the Greek Active Ottoman Akshunist Automatic Painter, Beauty Moments, Human Sundaes and special surprises.

On Tuesday went to the Tropicamp presentation at Arsenal featuring Marc Siegel in discussion with cute otter Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz where they screened a Jack Smith classic and discussed his and Mario Montez’s influence on the tropicamp work of Ivan Cardosa and Helio Oiticica. Things got heated when a feminist scholar objected to images in the Brazilian film Nosferatu in Brazil. In the audience along with curators Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel, Andrea from the Staedelschule, Daniel Hendrickson with fellow Muslim convert Sean Stone the 27 year old son of film director Oliver Stone, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Renate Lorenz and Paula Beaudry, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine, Anna Muelter, Nazli & Yorgos, Nanna Heidenreich, DJane Olga Damnitz, Evelyn Ruesseler and Uli Ziemons. After the event several of us went across the street to Andy’s Diner to do some Lesbian processing.
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The other evening I was feeling nostalgic and started thinking about What Ever Became Of . . . and popping into my head was the shadow of two hot boys of the mid to late 1980s. One was a Puerto Rican GoGo god I met in New York whose name is fuzzy . . . maybe Raul ? He was one tight bodied big peniled bubble butt concocktion of a youth who was just pure living, breathing sex, and also a sweet natured good time Charlie. He was one of the most popular GoGo boys of New York besides Ty Bassett, the muscular uninhibited ginger kid who was the big dicked lover of party priestess Susanne Barsche before she married bodybuilder David Barton. He burned out on New York and moved to San Francisco(the poor kid what was he thinking?) in the late 1980s and became part of the scene surrounding Gregg Deborah Taylor, and the late great scene queen Doris Fish and Michael Angelo who was the legendary LA DJ of Ginos II and the founder of the drag collective The Cosmetics. Michael Angelo left LA for San Francisco in the mid 80s and recreated his following at a club in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek. Michael died in the Bay Area.
Another boy of that era was a blondine/ginger mix who had one of the most perfect bodies I have ever seen. His rack was purely amazing. The most well developed pectorals west of the Mississippi. Michael Angelo and Doris Fish used the kid in a mock fisting/scat performance where they ate chocolate pudding out of his ass like it was feces during one of Gregg Deborah Taylor’s events which I performed at on a bill which featured Lady Bunny, Lurleen from Atlanta,and Ms. Glen Meadmore. Poor Glen was singing a song and some overly enthusiastic fan jumped on Glen’s back and it went out causing him grievous pain and anguish the entire Gay Pride Week-end that we were in town. G.Deborah Taylor arranged a ride for Ms. Meadmore, Beulah Love and I up to the Bay Area with Jo Mama the best friend and gay boy confidante of Courtney Love. Jo Mama scored some Heroin from the projects in the Mission District and wound up ditching us at one point. I took all my stuff with me after we used the home of the girls in the band Frightwig as a place to freshen up and get dressed after the long sweltering car ride. Glen and Beulah thought they could come back to the Frighwig pad after the gig but Jo Mama was a no show strung out somewhere near the Panhandle. I wisely arranged different accomodations expecting Jo Mama to flake on us. I always trust my instincts. This was the last time I accepted a long carride as transportation to a gig, and was the last time i worked with Ms. Taylor.
If any of my readers know what happened to Raul or the blondine/ginger boy I would be delighted to find out. Perhaps both of these sexy boys succumbed to Mrs. AIDS.
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This just in from our pals at La Moustache:

Freut Euch auf Kaffee, Kuchen und den Film über das "Rampenfiber"-Festival 2009 in Wien!

Ein Mitglied des rampenfiber-Kollektivs wird vor Ort sein. Plus Heavymental Zine Distro Tisch!!
Sonntag 8.4. // 16h Kuchen und Kaffee, 17h Film.
Projektraum, 2. HH, 1. OG mitte
Hermannstraße 48, 12049 Berlin

rampenfiber. der film
(Doku, büro arbiträr, Bea Bösiger & Roland de Roo, Ö 2011, dt./engl. OV.)

Von theoretischer Auseinandersetzung und performativer Praxis.

rampenfiber ist ein queer-feministisches Musikfestival, das sich aus dem Umfeld des Zeitschriftenkollektivs fiber. werkstoff für feminismus und popkultur entwickelt hat. Im Film kann dem viertägigen Festivaltreiben noch einmal beigewohnt werden, von allen die nicht vor Ort waren oder noch einmal zurückblicken wollen. Mit der Zielsetzung dem männlich dominierten, heteronormativen Mainstream im Musikbusiness etwas entgegen zu halten startete das Festival 2009 in die zweite Runde. Ein dichtes Programm aus Diskussionen, Workshops, Filmen sowie abendlichen Konzerten und Performances wurde auf die Beine gestellt, sodass sich den Besucher_innen gleichermaßen wie Musiker_innen, Journalist_innen, Techniker_innen und Produzent_innen eine Plattform für Erfahrungsaustausch in der lokalen als auch internationalen queer-feministischen Musikszene bot.

Der Film, als kondensiertes Format, macht einmal mehr den Anspruch von rampenfiber deutlich, theoretische Auseinandersetzungen und performative Praxis zu verknüpfen. Für rampenfiber war es essentiell, einen queer-feministischen Raum zu schaffen. Die praktische Umsetzung dieser viel diskutierten Raumnahme in einem ansonsten heteronormativ geprägten Umfeld und die daraus resultierenden Maßnahmen sind genauso zu sehen wie ausgiebige Konzertmitschnitte und zahlreiche, spannende Inputs rund um die Fragen nach den eigenen als auch kollektiven politischen Forderungen.

http://www.fibrig.net
http://www.fibrig.net/?page_id=122
http://heavymentaldistro.org
http://www.facebook.com/events/344378452270515

AT HOME WITH INGRID CAVEN
That mucho macho Tenderloin studkin Jan Klesse spent the night at my Cheese Endique Trifecta and treated me to breakfast in the morning at Café Sur before heading back to Bremon and his law duties. I love all my quality time spent in the masculine company of Herr Klesse who I am forever intrigued and surprised by. Jan is super intelligent, talented with an Equifax computer like mind that is always bubbling with possibilities and if that isn't enough he also has the most dreamy matinee idol eyes.
Went with Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim and video art shtar Nguyen Tan Hoang to Gayhana Salon Oriental the Middle Easter Dance Club at historic SO36. Got all dolled up which is something I never do anymore unless I am being paid. Had a great time celebrating finishing my Jabberjaw memory essay for Art Forum Magazines summer issue.
Gayhana's late nite performance featured a sexy male belly dancer who certainly titillated the SRO crowd. After the show Hoang and his visiting academic pal Ricardo Reyes retreated to Rosa’s pub next door while Daniel and I being settled aged women left the club around 3am which is really late for us.
Earlier in the day I got together with Tenderloin at Noizy Rooms rehearsal space in Friedrichhain and later had a wonderful dinner with Jan & Joel Gibb the baby diaper of the Hidden Cameras at Santa Maria. The diaper had been running around with Judy LaBruce at Pet Shop Bears the other night so it’s a surprise he even made it to rehearsal. When we were leaving the humpy German male ingenue film star Max Riemelt and posse were arriving. The blondine actor sure is well built for a tiny lap top of a boy.
Sunday evening the super talented artist and filmmaker Evi Ruesseler and scholar Christian Weber came over for dinner to discuss ideas for VD is Speaking From the Diaphragm talk show installation that is part of camp/anti-camp. We had a lovely time and I can’t believe my cooking came out pretty good. Earlier that afternoon I had a makeup and styling consultation with Tan Binh and his cute cuddly Persian friend for SFTD and we wound up having a hoot of a girlish scream fest. Tan Binh has some incredible ideas of how he wants to glam me out for the festival.
Earlier in the week I met with Christian Weber and Jonathan Berger’s cute NYU student Kay to discuss more SFTD plans and strategies, and afterwards we ate hamburgers at Nollendorky Platz’s Zza Zza Burger where I had their famous Silence of the Lamb Burger with fries &silk worm onion rings---yummy. Eating at the restaurant was the young British actor Alex Pettyfer with a very muscular slightly older man who must be his beau or f*ck buddy. I’d sure like to be the fly on the wall or the mud from the slide when they go at each other.
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Looking for something fun to do in Berlin. Just got this sent to me:

yay, a cooperation and two bands we are really excited about!

two more nights and then..

://about band & la moustache present:
+++ CANDELILLA + JASON & THEODOR +++

Wednesday, April 4 9pm at ://about blank, Markgrafendamm 24c, S Ostkreuz

Show flyer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/6871370662/in/photostream Announcement in Missy Magazine: http://missy-magazine.de/2012/04/02/nachsten-mittwoch-im-about-blank-candelilla/#more-14815
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/268115799934742

C A N D E L I L L A
candelilla haben im August 2011 ihr zweites Album mit Steve Albini (Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Scout Niblett) in Chicago aufgenommen, das in diesem Jahr auf dem Label ZickZack / Indigo veröffentlicht werden soll. Im Frühjahr diesen Jahres geht die Band auf eine erste kleine Tour um ihre Vorabsingle 23/33 vorzustellen. Die Tour beginnt in Berlin und führt sie einmal quer durch Deutschland um dann am 17.04. in London zu enden.
candelilla sind keine Newcomer im klassischen Sinne. Ihre Biographie beginnt vor einem guten Jahrzehnt als sich das Quartett in einem Münchner Vorort gründet. Darauf folgen drei 6-Track- Releases, eine EP im Eigenverlag (“... dont rely on what others say”/2008) und das Debüt-Album (“reasonreasonreasonreason”/2009) auf dem Münchner Underground-Label Red Can. Zum Release des Albums tourte die Band durch Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz. Neben Konzerten in kleinen Clubs – etwa dem Schokoladen Berlin oder dem Hafenklang in Hamburg – wurde die Band auch zu renommierten Festivals eingeladen: Zu nennen wäre hier das Donaufestival in Krems/ Österreich (2011), das Queerbeatsfestival in Berlin (2012) oder das on3-Festival im Münchner Funkhaus (2011).
Zur Vorbereitung des kommenden Albums hat candelilla im November 2011 ein Remix-Album („ReasonRemixed“) im Eigenverlag veröffentlicht. Immer ist die Nähe zu befreundeten Künstlern wichtig: für die Artworks der letzten Veröffentlichungen zeigten sich verschiedenen bildende Künstler und Graphiker verantwortlich; und auch bei der Wahl der Remixer war die stilistische Vielfalt verschiedenster Musiker ein wichtiger Aspekt: So reihen sich zwei Hip Hop-Produzenten neben den Schlagzeuger der Indie-Band Ja, Panik und der House-Track eines Nürnberger-Techno-DJs trifft auf den Pop-Appeal des Berliner Multiinstrumentalisten Petula.
http://www.candelilla.de
http://candelilla.bandcamp.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696xcjwb_Bc

J A S O N & T H E O D O R
in love with that song... http://vimeo.com/35315418
http://jasonundtheodor.tumblr.com
http://www.soundcloud.com/jasonundtheodor http://vimeo.com/jasonundtheodor

Entrance: 6-8€

Hope to see you!!
Yr mstchs <3

UPCOMING
08.04. rampenfiber. der film at Projektraum
14.04. Female Drum Fest w/ STLS & Dark Times at Bei Roy
28.04. The Very First Riot Grrrl Compilation Release Party w/ Abstract Random & Cat Nguyen, at Schokoladen
12.05. Lovers at West Germany
03.07. Les Trucs at Bei Roy
14.09. La Moustache 5th Anniversary Festival at Bei Roy
15.09. La Moustache 5th Anniversary Festival at Festsaal Kreuzberg

IHR VERRUECKTES MAENNER-CASTING
Forgot to give my review of J. Edgar, the story of ueber hissy control queen J. Edgar Hoover who ruled the FBI for almost 50 years. This Hollywood mainstream flicker written in QBVII style by ganymede hackscrib Dustin Lance Black and directed by Clint Eastwood in the style of a somber chamber piece just thuds along at warp factor minus 470.
Poor Naomi Watts and Leo DiCaprio look embarrased and lost throughout both acting with their eyebrows. Only scooter boy Arnie Hammer comes off alright with his patrician bearing and speech.
Mr. DiCaprio and I go way back. He was a regular at my Club Sucker and even performed at Sucker with his band Old Hickory. He lived with his parents around the corner from my Finley Arms flat and next door to Dennis Cooper. I remember him hanging out at Amok Bookstore Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz Village with Mrs. Michael Glass.
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Love Camel sent me copies of American cable TV series American Horror starring Jessica Lange doing a so bad its good Blanche DeBois, and Dylan McDermott from The Practise running around nude with his sexy muscular body and penetrating eyes. Loved Breaking Bad featuring Giancarlo Esposito of Spike Lee film fame as a soft spoken drug kingpin and Enlightenment starring horseyfaced Laura Dern and her very beautiful mother Diane Ladd as well as Luke Wilson who hasn’t aged too well and Mike White who wrote and produced this show along with Ms. Dern. Funny looking dweeb Mr. White picked up quite the reputation for haunting the toilets of the Sunset Five Cineplex Theatre on Sunset & Crescents Heights looking for large drippy knoke. I wonder if now that he’s a big TV honcho if he still is a heavy hornpig on the homo prowl---god love em if he is.
My friend in los ang has become a social worker of sorts for the criminally big dicked. His latest note to me via emug:
Hey Doll,
My little project 100 Bucks has me photographing some young men from different walks that lead them to offer their wares for 100 Bucks.
I have a collection of about 11 men at this point. My favorite of the these men is a super fit and big cocked straight dude who is totally into Punk music. I have had many conversations with this dude about Music, the punk scene, food, his future and other subjects. I have photographed him more then any of the other subjects. He is smart and equally a mess. I could see the roughness in him, I've also seen the results of his weekend fights, etc... I have scolded him as if he were my son. He started to check in with me on occasion, he'd run an opportunity by me, I'd make my suggestions, and he'd go on his way. I hadn't heard from him in a few months. Last week sometime I sent him an email, It was a one line note. Are you Ok? Just checking in.
Last night I get an email back. It says, Hi, I am a friend of N. He is in jail, I don't know who you are, but he's in Oregon.
This morning I did a search, He's in jail for 1st Degree Robbery, which based on what I see on line, he attempted to rob with a weapon. His mug shot is on line, looking very handsome. So he's in a county jail in Oregon. He is good looking with a fierce body, Fierce Ass and a huge Dick. I wonder how that will work out for him in prison.
This dude grew up with a Harley Mom, and different step dads. Was first paid 10 bucks by his uncle's friend to play with his cock when he was about 14. He didn't know he had a big dick until that encounter. 10 became 20, and finally 50bucks for his first man blow job.
He was in school for culinary arts, i kept on him about his rough edge tendencies. He asked me once or twice why I was concerned about his future. I told him I saw his opportunities and that he needed to see them as well. I understood that he made a good amount of money getting his dick sucked, but for how much longer. He was already 30. He told me that nobody looked out for him, he asked me if I wanted to suck his dick in return for the photo sessions. I said, No. He was a bit uncomfortable with my reply and later told me he really respected my trust and that he was saving money as I suggested.
Well, I understand the whole situation is a complicated social issue, but I was a little disappointed to see his current situation.
Warrior
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Rehearsals at Noisy Rooms with Tenderloin and that hot 19 year old sensation Dagmar Hopfisterei have been going great in anticipation for their performance at camp/anti-camp the queer guide to everyday life at HAU 2 April 19-21st. Everyone is talking about this art festival,not just in Berlin but globally and many people are planning their vacations around it so they can check out Berlin in the Springtime.
The camp/anti-camp & Rising Stars Falling Stars merger last Friday at Arsenal Inst fuer film und video kunst was SRO with a bustling young and energetic crowd who came to see the rare screening of Alla Nazimova in Oscar Wilde’s Salome with live music by the Blue Bros Tim & kJohnny who were in fine form. The next Rising Stars will be April 22nd right after camp/anti-camp and it’s the re-launch called Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music with a screening of George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess. Seen hobnobbing in the Rote Foyer: young artist Darce, Markus Ruff of Living Archive, Christian Weber, DJ Snax and his sexy young beau, beautiful Nazli Kilerci & Yorgos the Greek, Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus who is off to Cairo for 3 weeks, camp/anti-camp curators Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson, Manuel Schubert, Toby Rauscher, the wonderful parents of Anna Muelter of HAU visiting their daughter from Hanover,cutesy Garrett, curator Joao Ribas, Daniel Bimbaum of Moderna Museet,Gavin Brown of Gavin Brown Enterprises,the beautiful Brazilian actress and filmmaker Melissa Dullius,Trixie Schonherr with
Daniel Heer the furniture designer,intermedia Portugese actress Elsa,DJane Tina Pornflakes,Paolo, the Italian architecture professor who is a long term CHEAP fan since CHEAP club days,Renate Kochenrath (film scholar from Mainz) and Paul
Hankinson (singer/songwriter from Brisbane; he calls himself Montmorensy on
stage; here is a link to his website, www.montmorensy.com) and humpy Turkish actor Elyas M'Barek.
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Here are some things to check out from the pals of Speaking From the Diaphragm including singer Billy Ray Martin who has a new CD album out, Participant Inc. Gallery in New York City, British artist based in Berlin Elly Clark and others:

hi all.
sorry for the second e mail about the new double cd album.
we did want to let you know that there are only about 20 copies left. we can
probably get another shipment from hong kong but it would take time.
so we wanted to let you know. people do always work us when an album is sold out
in the mart so..:))))
here it is, buy at www.billieraymartin.com/mart
but of course you can also buy or order the album worldwide (incl. asia) in your
local record store, or get it at hmv, amazon etc. etc.
also we have a bunch of lovely 'making of' photos from billie's new video shoot
for the next EP. e mail us and we'll send.

billie ray martin
disco activisto records
www.billieraymartin.com

La Moustache is happy to present:
LIANNE HALL at Silver Future
Weserstraße 206, Neukölln
Monday 26th March, 8pm (!!)
(As usual, there will be a donation hat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_d6qaM7zlA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjbNqGKS6U
http://liannehall.bandcamp.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantastischelastisch/6856736410/in/photostream
I started writing songs when I hit my teens, growing up in deepest peterborough (UK). Would wait till I was home alone and record EPs on my cassette player and sometimes give them to my friends at school if I was feeling really brave. Have been making it up as I go along ever since. I’ve had a few partners in crime along the way: A well-spent youth making crazy jazz punk noise with Witchknot, born out of the Leeds/Bradford riot grrrl movement…where I later moved on-site and lived in a bus for five years and made acoustic folk with cellist Bela Emerson as Hiphuggers and electronica as Pico with bedroom producer Andy Wills. Here I met my hero John Peel on his channel 4 programme ‘Sounds of the Suburbs‘. I recorded 4 Peel sessions after that with a variety of line-ups/good friends. I left my bus and moved Pico to Brighton in 2000; lived in a house again and got an electric guitar and formed the Broken Heart Club with Matt Eaton, Alice Eldridge and Susanne Lambert. I released my first full length CD album in 2006 with Local Kid records entitled ‘Abandon Ship’. Around this time I met Paul Hartnoll from Orbital and co-wrote a song on his solo album, ‘the Ideal Condition’, released in 2007. We went on tour and have been collaborating on new material ever since, I’m also singing on Paul’s score for the film Tormented which came out last year. Another project I have on the go is a collaboration with d_rradio from Newcastle. Our album ‘Making Spaces’ was released in April last year, check it out here. My latest solo album ‘Crossing Wires’ is out now and you can hear it here.
When not making music I sell books to make a living and volunteer at my local community centre running West Hill Music Club which has hosted lots and lots of amazing shows over the last 3 or 4 years or so..I am very proud of the village hall..
UPCOMING
04.04. Candelilla + Jason & Theodor, ://about blank (in cooperation with ://about blank)
08.04. Rampenfiber - der Film, Projektraum H48
14.04. Female Drum Fest w/ STLS & Dark Times, Bei Roy (in cooperation with Girl Gang Zine)
28.04. The Very First Riot Grrrl Compilation Release Party w/ Abstract Random + Cat Nguyen (in cooperation with Riot Grrrl Berlin and Megapeng)
12.05. Lovers, West Germany
14.09. La Moustache 5th Birthday Festival, Bei Roy
15.09. La Moustache 5th Birthday Festival, Festsaal Kreuzberg
PARTICIPANT INC / YEAR 10 / BENEFIT AUCTION
SATURDAY APRIL 14, 2012

Matthew Higgs, Jacqueline Humphries, Tony Oursler, Mari Spirito, Joseph Wolin / PARTICIPANT 10th Anniversary Benefit Committee

Charles Atlas, Justin Vivian Bond, Gary Indiana, Stefan Kalmár, Kembra Pfahler / Host Committee

Derrick Adams, Antony, Lutz Bacher, Alvin Baltrop, Josh Blackwell, Matthew Brannon, Cecily Brown, Kathe Burkhart, Paul Chan, Dan Colen, Anne Collier, Vaginal Davis, Renée Green, Wade Guyton, Rachel Harrison, Matthew Higgs, Jonathan Horowitz, Jacqueline Humphries, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Nate Lowman, Virgil Marti, Nick Mauss, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, Enoc Perez, Jack Pierson, Adam Putnam, Heather Rowe, Børre Sæthre, Spencer Sweeney, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian), Paul Thek, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein / Donating Artists

Justin Vivian Bond, Breyer P-Orridge, Glen Fogel, Robin Graubard, Andy Kaufman, Lisa Kirk and Jelena Behrend, Sigalit Landau, Lovett/Codagnone, Alice O’Malley, Luther Price, Shellburne Thurber, Alejandro Vidal, and Rona Yefman / Limited Editions

Tickets are $100 and can be reserved by calling 212 254 4334 or emailing lia@participantinc.org

Opening Reception and Dead Flowers book launch, Sunday, April 1, 7-9pm
FRIENDS preview hosted by NADA, Saturday, April 7, 7-9pm
AUCTION, Saturday, April 14, 7-11pm

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Jeffrey Gibson, one becomes the other, is made possible through the support of the Harpo Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian, Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program

PARTICIPANT INC's exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties.

Archiving and documentation projects are supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Our programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

PARTICIPANT INC receives generous support from the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; The Blessing Way Foundation; Bloomberg; The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston; Foundation 20 21; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Gesso Foundation; Harpo Foundation; The Ruth Ivor Foundation; The Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber Foundation; Puffin Foundation; The Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; an anonymous donor of the Community Foundation of Abilene; FRIENDS of PARTICIPANT INC; numerous individuals; and Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.
And this call out from artist Elly Clarke:
The late notice of this offer (due to an unexpected gap in the programme) makes applying to the Arts Council for funding not possible. And there seems to be no other official avenue I can pursue. So I have set up a crowd funding site, with my goal being around £1500 to cover my flight plus some money to live on for the three weeks I'll be there. Here's the link: http://www.indiegogo.com/clarkegallery?a=508188

Alongside this exhibition, I will use the opportunity of being in Melbourne to chase up some (surprise) contacts I have recently discovered are there for my Richmond Project. There is also an alternative arts festival going on that month - Next Wave. Kim Donaldson will also organise an artist dinner around me, to introduce me to specific people in the art scene in Melbourne. And, finally, I plan to find and bring back work from there for the third and final part of my ongoing exhibition BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND / at mac birmingham.

I know that contributing money isn't possible for all of you by any means, but if you could help spread the word that would be great. There are clever 'like' buttons on the site so you can spread the news via social networks etc. Or forward this mail to any keen art supporters you might know.

It's just not possible to do this trip without cash. To make time for all this, I quit my job in Jan, and since then have been operating once again on a very tight shoestring! Any help would be most gratefully received. All sponsors will be acknowledged.

Thanks all! Hope to see you soon. Next opening at the mac, for those of you near Brum, is on 14th April.

Elly x

ellyclarke@gmail.com // art: http://www.ellyclarke.com // photography: http://www.ellyclarkephotography.co.uk // Clarke Gallery: http://www.clarkegallery.de // twitter: @elly_clarke

** current exhibition: BERLIN / from BERLIN / BIRMINGHAM / BEYOND at mac birmingham. Buy art and get to choose the next work to be displayed. **ALLES ZU IHRER BLITZHOCHZEIT

My heavenly father papa Ron Athey sent me this email from olde London town:

this is the part of getting older i find hard, the decomposition, holding onto things that you don't even know left you high and dry. watching it. isn't that part of the reason we escaped? We're crazy but somehow adapting. btw, camp/anticamp looks like a blast (1st and 3rd nights), if i can scrape up airfare without endangering my summer i'll hop over. gagging to see kembra again, she was such a treasure in new york. and you're working you're tail off, no? both the chat show and the band?

and i hear you about the spring, i'm coming back to life. arroagant enough after two days back at the gym to sun in a small park near mine, hot thick dicked italian not quite walking his whippet smiled and i popped a boner and luckily his flat was within a block. good morning spring.

i have birmingham coming up super soon, have a heavy workweek so i'd better do all my pulling in quick time. fathers love to you

ALLES ZU IHRER BLITZHOCHZEIT
Had a VD is SPTD meeting with my sweet and very cute assistant Christian Weber at the Trifecta. We got a lot accomplished and then went had a snack at the Thai food joint Papaya. The day before was the opening at the Arsenal of the camp/anti-camp film program with a screening of the 1946 musical Copacabana starring Carment Miranda, Groucho Marx and hunky Steve Cochran. Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muslim introduced the picture with some fab tidbits of information that primed the audience for enjoying the movie’s utter madness. It was a SRO crowd that included some divine luminaries like Noll Brinckman, Carolla Graumann and Dorothea Wenner along with Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine, Bruce “Judy” LaBruce, Anna Muelter, Nazli & Yorgos the Greek, Toby Raucher, Trixi Schonherr, and Paula Winkler of Hugs &Kisses Magazine and her hot friend Christian.
My latest interview with Manuel Schubert of Film Highlights Magazine:

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