FÜR DIE IDEENGEBER UNSERER STADT

Rising Stars, Falling Stars-We Must Have Music was sheer delight Sunday evening with a screening of 91 year old director Alain Resnais 1997 film On connait la Chanson (Same Old Song)lots of French tyros to the monthly event with a glorious mix of  international celebutantes like curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, artist Juan Betancurth,artsis wheeler cadealer Daniela Balice who really gets around globally, lady severe Beatrice Ruf of Kunsthalle Zurich, Stephen Ira the 21 year old transgendered son of Hollywood stars Warren Beatty and Annette Benning, Amber LeBon the supermodel daughter of Duran Duran´s Simon LeBon and 80s mannequin Yasmin LeBon, and humpy Olympic gold medalist Louis Smith.  What an athlete was doing at RSFS I don´t know as I didn´t talk to him, but was reported that he was there by my ‘It boy’ spies DeRohan Chabot and Acme Singt who every month  scan the crowd for VIP´s as I never know who anyone is as all I ever do is sit in one spot and hold majestic court.  This month missing-in-action was our beautiful and enchanting Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, film historian Marc Siegel and intermedia actress/director Susanne Sachsse who were all in Bangalore India representing at  Experimenta Film Festival where Susanne Sachsse's SERIOUS LADIES will be shown and she will give an artist talk plus the program and installation of Ludwig Schönherr's work. Experimenta, is India's most important independent festival of experimental image and sound work and takes place from Nov. 27-Dec.1. For more information, see: http://experimenta.in/?p=1954.  The RSFS regulars:  my partner in grime Daniel Hendrickson the Scandanavian Muslim on klavier, Markus Ruff of Living Archive Project who said that Alain Resnais is the French Woody Allen, love sexxxy Byzantine/Ottoman artiste Yorgos Sourmelis, Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded,interpretive dancer Assaf Hochman, cineaste Tatjana Kononenko and Little Alex Tilamachos of Macedonia who expertly did my hair/make-up and styled me to look like French film star Fanny Ardant.  Next month on Sunday Dec 29^th as part of our Global South Post Christmas celebration we present the 1954 Paramount Hollywood musical extravagagadada White Christmas starring Rosemary Clooney the aunt of modern day homosexual matinee idol George Clooney with the engaging dancing talents of Vera-Ellen, alcoholics alcoholic Bing Crosby and hysterical Ganymede Danny Kaye with the music and Yiddish lyrics of Irving Berlin.  Don´t miss it!!!! 

For those of you venturing to Berlin in the coming weeks here are a few things that you may be interested in checking out:

Last show... this year!

Unrecords Night #2
w/ STE MCCABE (Queer-feminist one-man electro punk band, Edinburgh)
& MAYR (Queer-feminist one-mayr electro punk band, Vienna) 

Friday November 29, 7pm, Silver Future, Weserstraße 206, Neukölln
entrance free but please donate for the artists if you can

STE MCCABE

Ste McCabe is an electro-pop-punk one-man-band from the UK who started performing in 2006, using only a drum machine, electric guitar, synth samples and a very loud voice! Ste sings about serious topics such as homophobia, abuse and classism but always with a lot of fun, energy and humour. In the last year Ste has performed in over 15 countries and has appeared everywhere from punk squats and DIY queer festivals to Glastonbury, where he performed onstage alongside legend Billy Bragg. 

“At heart, McCabe is a brightly coloured pop-punk artist who gets better with each release” - Artrocker Magazine
 

"Ste McCabe is angry, hilarious and brilliant. Most importantly, he gives a shit. It’s time you started to give a shit about him too." - The Line of Best Fit
 

"This is that particular brand of electro synth DIY punk, which reminds you that our differences can be celebrated without any sort of conformance whatsoever." - GT Magazine 

MAYR

MAYR is the solo project of Viennese musician Birgit Michlmayr. MAYR is working with guitar, synthesizer, violin, effect pedals and loops to produce songs which sound like punk rock, chanson or both (and sometimes smell like cat). This 7inch-split is Mayr's first release and comes in anticipation of a full album, which is due in 2014. Birgit Michlmayr also drums and sings for Viennese queer-kitsch-Schweinerockjazzpunk-band FIRST FATAL KISS, plays violin and bass in the noise/impro band Mutt/Mayr/Hackl and participates as a singer and performer in the performance-group NINCOMPOOP. 

UNRECORDS

Viennese label UNRECORDS was founded in 2012. The aim of the label is to support experimental/noise/punk/rock music in a queer-feminist context.

http://www.ste-mccabe.co.uk/
http://mayr.cccp.at/
http://unrecords.me
http://silverfuture.net

O and one of my top students in London when i did a block seminar at Kings College is putting on this Happening:

Vell

1pm-8pm

Monday 25th November- Sunday 1st December 2013. 

Vell is the third part of a trilogy of durational performances called Tuul, which means 'duration, or 'length' in Farsi. In Tuul, I expose my experiences as a British-Iranian girl who lost and found herself in dreams of transgression, hospitality and song. 

Having developed Tuul between 2011-2013, I aim to perform the entire trilogy once a year for the rest of my life. 

In this debut of Vell I stitch a tapestry for seven hours every day for seven days. 

You can watch me on this live stream channel. 

You can pray for me to your own gods. 

Love you and yours

To the limitlessness of time 

Your one and only,

Sara Zaltash 

HANDBUCH FUER KRISENZEITEN

For all of you dear and lovely Vagimule fanatics in the New York trifecta I highly recommend or rather demanda of you to attend the exhibition Devotion:  Excavating Bob Mizer that opens tomorrow.  This very important art event by two of my smartest and most talented comrades of armic delicacy Billy Miller of STH fame and Jonathan Berger who is my very first child of Manhatta High Art is the be all and end all so you would be a fool not to see it and I pity such a fool.  

DEVOTION: Excavating Bob Mizer

NYU Steinhardt / 80WSE Gallery
80 Washington Square East, NYC
November 23, 2013 - February 15, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION November 23rd 6-8pm

Afterparty: THE MONSTER NYC (DJ's SALVOR Projects & Johynny Dynell)

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development is pleased to present the exhibition "DEVOTION: Excavating Bob Mizer", on view at 80 Washington Square East Gallery from November 23rd, 2013 to February 15th, 2014. DEVOTION will be the first major institutional solo presentation of Bob Mizer's work to be shown anywhere in the world. The exhibition is organized by Billy Miller and Jonathan Berger in collaboration with Dennis Bell of The Bob Mizer Foundation and students and faculty from the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.

Info:

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/80wse/
http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/bob-mizer-photographs-in-new-exhibits.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/arts/design/bob-mizer-artifacts.html?ref=arts
http://www.invisible-exports.com/exhibitions/46_mizer/mizer_artifacts_images.html
http://www.ybca.org/bros-hos

JENNYANYKIND

Rising Stars Falling Stars - with Vaginal Davis & Alain Resnais - November 2013 by Filmanzeiger on Mixcloud

DIE FUSSBAL ESKORTE

Met with the lovely and stylish Ryann Donnelly at WAU Café who interviewed me for the new popular music mag Popular Noise. Ms. Donnelly is in a Phd program with my wonderful British academic hornpig pal Gavin Butt in London but came to Berlin to perform at HAU 2 as part of Andrezej T. Wirth: Flucht nach vorn-mit Gertrude Stein Im Gepaeck. Pretty Lady Miss Donnelly wrote a fabtastic article about my paintings and sculpture for Art in America last year. Love going to WAU café and seeing all the staff including their sweet manager Thomas and also getting the chance to chit chat with the HAU technical teams including the great gorgeous Susanne Goerres who is my neighbor in the Rote Insel kiez.

Monday night I was invited to a super duper 35 course catered Sri Lankan dinner party at the Hofjaeger Palais Embassy Row home of the El Salvadoran Embassador to Germany Anita Escher who is lovely and most gracious. Ms. Escher and her brother Frank Escher grew up in the German part of Switzerland to a Swiss father and Salvadoran mother, but they were raised also in the US and hold dual passports. I met Frank Escher and his lover and architectural partner Ravi Gune Wardena when they were my production designers for my West of Rome/Getty/Pacific Standard Time piece in Los Angeles in 2012 My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles(I Just Live in Berlin). Frank and Ravi are in Berlin to visit Frank’s sister and then do lectures in Poland and France. Their illustrious party started with high tea at 4pm, cocktails at 6pm and a George Cukor Dinner at 8 with a dazzling array of international celebutants including glamour puss Angelika Taschen of the Taschen book publishing dynasty,UDK architecture professor Andreas Fuhrimann who is the proud owner of five automobiles, vivacious Kimberli Meyers the director of the MAK Center for the Arts & Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles who use to be a regular at my Club Sucker, the punk rock beer bust and olde English T-dance, and her personable German wife Silke,lovesexxy young Australian choreographer Adam Linder who has worked with Michael Clark and his French beau Shahryar Nashat.

Saturday I tag teamed DJaned along with baby diaper Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras at the re-opening of the new Schwuz Club in Neu Koelln. Joel and I handled the spinderella chores during the VIP private shindig from 8-11pm. The new Schwuz is massive and from the looks of things its still a work in progress. I think it was smart to leave the Mehringdamn Corridor of Kreuzberg for fresher digs. Seen partying up a storm at Schwuz: film historian Marc Siegel and his lady love Susanne Sachsse. Earlier in the day I had a girlacious luncheon with La Sachsse at the Shaunbraun in Friedrickshein Park. Also scene and herd: Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muzlim, with his lover Piero Bellhomo, Bruce La Bruce’s long time film producer Jurgen Brunning with Klaus, Michael Bidner the filmpartner of John Heys, beautiful diva Kaey, DJ Nicolas Tange Lange, handsome French art fotog Thomas Dozol minus his significant other Michael Stipe who is in Athens, Georgia having Thanksgiving with his parents, Manuel Schubert of FilmHighlights Magazine and too many others to mention.

Went to a short film program of the Interfilm Festival at the Passagen Kino in Rixdorf to see Akmed Constantine Berger’s short subject Lunch Hour which is a very charming film with strong performances from wonderful lead actors. There were several other good films including a documentary about that stupid billion dollar castle they are building in the center of Berlin, another documentary about a homeless man and a short subject involving a young patrician fellow trying to break free from the constraints of growing up in a “good German bougie family”.

JERSEY CROSS THE MERSEY

Oh my gawd. The Vagimule doll just got back from a glorious three nights in Liverpool, England for the Queer Up North art,music, film, heritage & culture festival Homotopia. I performed a short format piece called Data Industrial Complex Friday nite at Chew Disco @ the Kazimier at 4-5 Wolstenholme Square which is a circular olde music hall venue that looks a lot like the Vauxhaul Tavern in London where Ducky takes place. The curators of Chew Disco are two young talented children who I immediately fell in love with Khalil West and Emma Obong. Khalil is a muscular and tall ebony Adonis who reminds me of my great friend the African American artist Mrs. Michael Glass of Amok Books. Khalil even wears the same black, thick framed Wally Cox glasses. Khalil is American from New Jersey who has lived in the UK for eight years and is based in nearby Manchester which is 40 minutes from Liverpool. His art partner is the major Ms. Gorgeous and lovesexxxy Miss Emma who is a British lass with a black Nigerian father and white English mother. Khalil and Miss Emma are so lively and personable and kept me laughing and in high spirits as I was a little down in the depths of the 90th floor leaving Berlin where my electric heater in my apartment exploded with torrents of water going everywhere and the smell of burning electrodes in the air. Thank goodness for my wonderful neighbors Christine and Sabine and also Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muslim and Marc Siegel & Susanne Sachsse who called the fire department for me all the way from Frankfurt where Marc was hosting the famed journalist Amy Taubin at the Goethr Univerität. My flat Wednesday nite was filled with hunky German firemen, and police officers who were actually quite cheery and sweet. The night before a trip I am always frantic but this time I was downright hysterical. Khalil and Emma were so soothing picking me up at the airport and rushing me to my hotel suite and later after i rested treating me to a scrumptious meal and drinks at Café Tabac where I chowed down famously and even woofed three Vodka Gimlets- straight up that were mixed to perfection. Its usually very difficult to get proper olde fashion American cocktails in Europa. My flight on Easy Jet was packed with so many fugly people and to make matters worse I was sitting in the middle seat. Thank god its only a two hour trip but it seemed like seven hours max. The day of my performance Andrea Novarin aka: The Love Camel came up from Bristol to assist me and I really needed him as I was well rested but still a bit of a messtikal.
My performance went over pretty well I wore my stiff long black Rick Owens cloak gown with an olde CHEAP klub Leigh Bowery inspired necklace that Susanne Sachsse gave me last week when she invited me over to luncheon at her famous circular dining room table. I love Liverpool. The crowd was very mixed and not jaded like London audiences. Liverpool kids are all good time Sally´s out for a laugh. I ran into stately Lady Jo aka: Ms. Moist and her wonderbar significant other Harry Pie at my performance. Lady Jo is a beguiling English performer who I first met over 20 years ago at the niteclub Jackie 60 in New York Cities meatpacking district through Hapi Phace of the Pyramid. It was also the evening I had a brief flirtation and shared a kiss with hunky John-John Kennedy Jr. Chew Disco was SRO packed and the round of notables included: John Waters who was performing his My Fithy World lecture, legendina David Hoyle aka: Divine David, Julian Cope of the TearDrop Explodes, humpy British Calvin Klein model Oliver Cheshire, Israeli androgynous mannequin Stav Strashko, Alan Sparkhawk and Mimi Parker who have not aged well and super cute Steve Garrington of one of my favorite slowcore bands Low, cub darling Gray the beau of Khalil, their juicy fun loving pal Dav-id, and Gary Everett the Artistic Director of Homotopia and The Unity Theatre Liverpool. Also performing at Chew Disco was the fantastic young all female rock band Ill who are from Manchester and have only been performing for one year but are quite sensational reminding me of feminist lesbian rockers Cypher in the Snow from San Francisco in the 1990s but minus the trumpet. After my performance I sat down for an impromptu radio interview with the lovely Fiona Ledgard the drummer of Ill and Helen Shanahan. Ill have a single on Valentine Records and a self produced EP that you can purchase through their website at: www.We Are Ill.com. They do a cover of the tired Kylie Minogie pop song “Cant Get You Out of My Head” Of their originals ditties I liked the song “Kremlin” The other band on the bill was the delicious Shopping from North and East End of London. The cute members of the group include: Andrew Milk, Billie Easter and Rachel Aggs. I really loved their Gang of Fourish sound as filtered through Siouxie Sioux and you can find out more about them and their products at www.Facebook.com/WeAreShopping.com.
The entire evening was a sheer delight and I actually stayed till the end which is something that I rarely do as I feel I am too old to hang out at clubs. Special shout outs to the helpful and friendly staff of The Kazimier and sound guy Rob and crew and Thomas plus yummy DJane Paula Pixie who played L7´s "Shitlist" and Shannon´s "Let the Music Play" for me and bearded baby daddy DJ David Jones Lockerroom, Irish juicyboy fotog Pete,  GoGo treats Louise, Joe, Paul & Amy with the unicorn heads and pleather chaps. Sunday I was able to recouperate with Love Camel for a breakfast in town and the weather was sunny with just a wee bit of a chillfactor and then for luncheon Miss Emma, Khalil and Gray took us to the bodacious Shipping Forecast, an alehouse and eatery where I chowed down on the most scrumptious fried chicken. Love Camel took the train back to Bristol and at my hotel Khalil and Emma surprised me by arranging three handsome young ginger, big footed college jocks and two blondine Babylonian gorgons to come to my room and pull a gang bang train on me. The first time curators made all my sick sex dreams come true. Merci!