Wednesday, October 24, 2018
DER GELB-FIEBER-SCHRANK
Der Gelb-Fieber-Schrank
The unpleasant middle aged developmentally disabled man who lives on the ground floor of Ms. Davis’ flat listens non stop to hard core techno music. The man must have a job of some kind these days as one never sees him that much, but when he is home he seems to be soothed by his techno fix when he is not playing video games until the wee hours. Before this man moved in there was a young college student named Jonathan who was a dreamboat with a nice singing voice, who had a lot of adoreable young friends. Across the hall from the doll is a deaf girl, who use to have the most beautiful boyfriend with a rack on him that couldn’t be contained by a sports bra. This young juicy also had the bubble of all bubble butts and major ms. gorgeous face that was a cross between a young Richard “John Boy” Thomas and Keanu Reeves in Bill &Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The deaf girl chucked the beauty for some bald headed older dude who is very salty dog. She took the flat after a gay deaf boy moved out so he must have recommended her to the apartment manager Herr Koch. Two apartments that use to be used solely as work spaces were refurbished cheaply and quickly and are miniscule. An Irish gay couple use to own the building but they have just sold it so lets hope that doesn´t lead to some gentrification pains.
The Vagimule Doll went to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Art Book Fair to see an intriguing filmic performance by Discoteca Flaming Star. The performance was called Ingrid (2003-So Far) and is a non linear tela novella freaky styly salute to the deceased B-movie actress Ingrid Rabel(Maria Teresa Gomez Gutierrez, 1945-2002. I am all wrapped up in the house of Ingrid, whether its Bush Hogs in Love, Zombie Closet or Zombie Catwalk and Birth I feel that Ingrid will be on everyones lips as this year ends and moves into the next decade.
Congrats to lovesexy Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer of Discoteca Flaming Star & their fab co-horts. Also special kudos for their stylish and highly inspiring Ingrid zine with biographical notes and a poetic diary entries.
Jewish Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson hosted a sweet little cocktail soiree for new Berliner Monilola Ilupeju who moved to Berlin from New York City and was one of artist Jonathan Berger’s number one students at New York University. Monilola works for SAVVY Contemporary at the silent green Kulturquartier and is just a lovely and enchanting young artiste.
My former student at Malmö Art Akademy in Sweden is the brilliant genius feminist artist C. Maria Norrman, and she has a new performance called The Goddess that will take place on October 27, 6pm. The work will be visible as an installation from October 19-November 11, 2018. If you will be in Scandanavia you owe it to yourself to see her fabu work Weekly Mass at Skanes Konstförening Malmö. For more info go to marianorrman.net.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
NUSSBAUM FURNIERT ODER ECHTER SCHIEFERSTEIN
Nussbaum furniert oder echter Schieferstein
The Vagimule doll officially began her 2 year seminar/labzone at work master HEAD Geneva Haute e’cole d’art et design, the very open art university in Switzerland.
The young French curator Olga Rozenblum who was in New York City in 2015 and saw the CHEAP production of The Magic Flute an Opera in Six Steps felt that having Ms. Davis in Switzerland working with their students in a similar vein that she worked along with Susanne Sachsse at New York University and The New School would be utterly divine.
Ms. Davis was still quite knackered from her appearances in Copenhagen workshopping at the Royal Danish Academy of Art & Design and her teaching, performances and exhibitions back in the States.
The French section of Switzerland which includes Geneva is quite cutesy. Ms. Davis didn`t know what to expect as she heard a lot of different things from people. Our heroines accomodations provided by Hotel Adriatica in the Quartier Champel were quite luxe. The hotel manager who looks like Adolphe Menjou was very nice and accommodating to the Vagimule doll. There is also a young man who works at the hotel who is quite fetching. This man is usually floating about between the breakfast room and front desk in the morning hours.
Ms. Davis´ students were all sweet and are working in interesting modes of production.
She was met at the aeroport by Work Master HEAD Coordinator, Jonas Hermenjat who is young, handsome and very masculine. Ms. Davis didn’t expect such an interest by the students for her lab zone. Jonas was very helpful making her transition at the school complete.
The art school is part of a larger University which has moved to new digs in the suburbs near the airport. The art school will also move in two years time. The current location features some grand imposing structures that give the place the air of an old Swiss Finishing School. The Lady Ms. Davis finds that very appropriate as some of her exercises were inspired from the 1941 Robert Z. Leonard film Ziegfeld Girl that feature etiquette, poise and comportment. Leave it to Mme Arman de Caillavet to properly Lana Turner a new crop of art students on the rise.
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The other day Ms Davis ran into baby diaper Joel Gibb’s ex boyfriend Enrico Dallman. She hasn´t seen Enrico in years and he looked really good with his lean, tight muscular body. He still works as a physical therapist in a Nollendorfplatz doctor`s office. Ms. D. had just been eating dinner at the Zza Zza Gabor Burger Palast when she bumped into Enrico and his sweet colleague Dieter. Enrico seems to have put his acting career plans on hold, which is a shame as he has the perfect movie marquee face and matinee idol moniker.
A grand meeting with Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of the Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst, Gerrit Woltemarth, and Jewish Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson took placed at the Empress’ Wrangle Kiez compound. The group were tackling some long range planning for their new site specific performative film series Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome which has become the talk of the town.
A lot of wonderous ideas came plopping out of all that lovesexy collective brainage. Later in the evening they were joined by prima ballerina Trixie Cordua Schönherr and Uli Ziemons who all toasted the Vagimule Doll's winning that most talked about Queer/Art Prize.
When Ms. Davis was emailed that she won the award she ignored them thinking it was some kind of new fangled Nigerian internet scam. The award is quite new. 2018 is only the second year, last year’s winner was Catherine Opie.
Those of you who will be in the Pacific Northwest you only have till Saturday October 20th to see the Vaginal Davis exhibition An Invitation to the Dance at Adams& Ollman Gallery in Portland Oregon. If you can´t go tell all your PNW friends to buy the limited edition etchings on mirrored glass before they are all gone. Most of the paintings on exhibit have sold out.
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
GESUND LEBEN
Achtsamkeit
Was invited almost two years ago to come and give a lecture and workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. So with absolutely no time for recovery from being on the Theft Coast I was off to Denmark.
The curator Cecilie Schmidt is a Phd fellow in Theater and Performance Studies. My trip was also hosted by Curriculum an independent public school of performance art, which presents lectures of important figures of international performance art. Invited are researchers and practitioners: physically involved co-authors of the herstory of the performance art genre, which is based on the crisis of the subject; a genre that oscillate between performing and visual arts, unfolds in the grey zone between the black box and the white cube. Public lectures are held at various institutions: in the art gallery, at the university, at the academy and in the theatre. Curriculum is supported by the Danish Arts Council, Goethe Institut Kopenhagen in collaboration with Tarnby Tory 7.
My accomodations were provided by Guldsmeden Axel Hotel near the central train station in the red light district. The hotel breakfast was most excellent and the staff were congenial and helpful. On the day that a photographer came to take my picture for the Danish daily Dagbladet Information a Taz like newspaper the entire hotel staff seemed to jump into buzz mode to make sure that the international celebrity was being properly taken care of.
At my artist talk it was SRO with my former Malmo Art Academy student C. Maria Norman in attendance with her entourage that included photographers Rasmus Raphaelle and Johan Lundin, the young beautiful journalist Pauline Bendsen who interviewed me after the talk told me there were a lot of Danish celebs in the audience including film director Lars von Trier, actors Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Coster-Waldov from Game of Thrones, singer Lukas Graham, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. I had gotten an email from my old pal Viggo Mortensen who is Danish that he would be in Copenhagen and would attend, but I didn’t see him. You’re probably wondering how a Lord of the Rings movie star is connected to Vaginal Davis. Well Viggo use to be married to my dear friend Exene Cervenka of the LA punk band X, and they have a child together named Henry who is grown up now.
The Framing the Freakazoid Workshop I conducted was held in the suburbs at this very interesting mid century space called Tarnby Torv. One of the participants in my workshop the young curator and former fashion model Lotte would come every morning to my hotel and fetch me and take me to the space. Thank god for Lotte, without her I would never have found the place. Lotte is an independent curator who got her start working with Berlin’s SAVVY Contemporary before it moved to its current location as part of the silent green Kulturquartier compound.
I am also in debt to Andreas Liebmann who runs the Tarnby Torv space. Somehow my needs for the workshop weren’t communicated in advance but Andreas valiantly came to my rescue.
Taking part in the workshop was a very interesting and brilliant group of students and working artists that included Daniel Molholt, Meleat Fredickson, Ida Bogedal Jorgensen, Jurgen Calesen aka: Miss Fish, David Winfield Norman, Mulia Cecachal, Manon Siv, and Eira Frojdl.
Special thankx to my London gallerist Dan Gunn, The Love Camel aka Andrea Novarin, Cecilie, Amalia Kasakove for getting me from the aeroport to the hotel and to the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and the gorgeous and personable Miss Lotte.
Here is more information on upcoming events at Tarnby Torv:
Tarnby Torv Festival Program 2018
Wednesday November 14th
Opening Ritual – Andreas Liebmann
InElipses – DuquesnayLavrennikov and Crew
Wish You Were Here – Jon Hoff
Thursday Novemember 15th
Debate – Wouter Hillaert and guests
Friday November 16th
E.E. in Tarnby – Boaz Barkan, Nicolai Dahl-Hamilton, Andreas Liebmann, Dorthea Boyi and Tarnby citizens
Saturday November 17th
Teenage panel – Tarnby Teenagers
Philosophy for Kids – Rudi Gomez de Mello, Manon Siv Duquesnay and Tarnby kids
Children performance
Flying Tarnby – Pneuma Szov
Party Volumes – Karin Bergman, June Lysjo and Lukas Racky
Sunday November 18th
Tarnby Spiser – Refugees Invite for Lunch
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When I was still in Los Angeles I received a sweet emug message from the great ECO Sexual team of Annie Sprinkles and Beth Stephens. Annie and Beth are two of my most favourite people in the world. Besides being sexy and charming they are really committed to making permanent change to our planet for the better. Their latest project is a film called Water Makes Us Wet which is an Eco Sexual Adventure. The film screened in Los Angeles right after I left town, but it will be going on the road so make sure to see it when it comes to your town and support Annie and Beth who are the hardest working artists in the cosmos. For more information when the film is in your area go to these web sites: watermakesuswet.org and juno films.com which is the film’s distributor.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
APROPOS EROTIK
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After glorious successes in
the Pacific Northwest the Vagimule Doll had to go back to her hometown to deal
with the recent tragic death of her nephew Brian Keith Taylor. Being in Los Angeles was very much
butterscotch bittersweet for the diva.
Her oldest sister Gracie Lee
Taylor named the nephew after the Hollywood actor Brian Keith who was mainly
known for the 1961 Disney film The Parent Trap that starred Hayley Mills, and
the TV sitcom Family Affair (1966-1971) about a confirmed bachelor forced to take care of his nephew and nieces
after the death of their parents. The
series also featured drug overdose victim Anissa Jones as Buffy, and British
actor Sebastian Cabot as the uncle characters bear daddy lover pretending to be
his valet/butler.
Spending time with her la familia was beyond baroque depressing
for our fragile starina. I know its
difficult for anyone to imagine that Ms. Davis even has a family. Sometimes she feels like a hatched egg from
the primordial ooze of the La Brea Tar Pits.
Being back in Los Angeleeze
was at times very difficult for our Alexandre Dumas Lady of the Camilias as everyone in the city is either rich and
clueless living in a guilded bubble foam, or poor and ragged. Ms. Davis’ sister Teresa Ray is so stressed
out from her job at the County of Los Angeles’s Housing Authority that large
clumps of her hair are falling out. She
resembles a sad little rescue doggie with the mange.
No one in the USA can afford
to retire and so that is the case with Ms. Davis’ sister who turns 67 in
December. Being handicapped Ms. Davis' sister is just content that she
has a job, and a rent controlled apartment in Hollywood where she has lived for
over 40 years. Ms. Davis’ niece Terri
Lynn Johnson, her husband and five children were gentrified out of the LA basin
and live in the icky high desert town of Victorville which made national news lately because of a machette weilding robber. Terri Lynn works the gig economy as an Über driver along with a myriad of other very low wage paying jobs. The homeless problem in El Lay is out of
control with tented encampments dotted all over the landscape. They keep building cheaply made fugxury apartments all over the city which exasperates the situation.
Hector Martinez surprised his beloved doll with an impromptu soiree featuring a whose who of Los Angeles high society
that included beautiful Michele “Meesh” Mills who just won an Emmy Award for
her work on the reality TV series RuPaul's Drag Race. Meesh and Ms. Davis go way back with each other having collaborated on many important projects. In the early aughts Meesh was the guardian of the gate flapper dapper at
Ms. Davis’ heritage performance space/speakeasy Bricktops at the Parlourclub.
Also at the gathering was former LA Weekly managing editor Miss Kateri
Butler, Jamie Stewart &Angela Seo of XiuXiu, young lovesexy black artist
Elliot Reed who is part of the new breed of Los Angeles performance artists
making an international David Hockney Splash, gifted novelist and painter Lisa
Teasley, tattooed love god Ron Athey, Skot Armstrong and his hot lover James
Tallon of Science Holiday Kollektiv and the Museum of Fun, Andrew Gould aka:
Audre Beardsley the former manager of the Parlour Club now working with the One
Institute Archive at USC, who dragged his spiritual wifette to In&Out Burgers in Hollywood for lunch and late night snack of taco’s Verdi at the famous Mexican food stand next to the Santa Monica &Vermont
Avenue Subway Station, enchanting Kimberly Kim Nisgore who use to be the head
bartender at the Parlour Club who nows hosts LA’s hottest new club Day Goth,
inter media opera schtar Julianna Snapper, gorgeous sculptress Karen Lofgren
aka Debra Kara Hunger with muscular and handsome beau Colby, Alice Bag and her big
dicked husband Jailbait Greg Velasquez, Glen Meadmore, one of Ms. Davis' dearest and oldest girlfriends. Hector’s adoreable spouse Ericla Pierce
and their next door neighbor Charlie Carver who appeared in the Broadway
revival of Boys in the Band as the Hustler Cowboy.
With family commitments Ms.
Davis wasn’t able to spend time with any olde friends, but her Papa Athey who
get’s up at the crack of dawn like Ms. Davis managed to kidnapped her at
gunpoint and make one of his famous cuntry breakfasts of champion misfits that
included Lisa Teasley and young visiting artist from Greece Hermes
Pittakos. Big Daddy Ron also treated
his living doll to one of his sublime bodyworks, which helped Ms. Davis with
her post performance/jet lag stress and menapausa.
This trip to LA was the first
time since moving to Berlin in 2005 that Ms. Davis came to Los Ang without
performing and only to visit. She was
flown to the Pacific Northwest by her amazing gallerist Amy Adams of
Adams&Ollman along with PICA and PNAC so they arranged her return trip back
to Europe through LA proper so she could properly attend to her grieving and
forlorn family members.
The Vaginale Davista would
like to Thank Ms. Amy Adams and the staff, friends and supporters of
Adams&Ollman Gallery, Hector & Ericla for their generosity in allowing
her to stay at their spacious guest cottage at Plato del Lago in the Edendale
section of hillside Silverlake. Hector
also took Ms. D. to the “Bu” as in
Malibu, where she was able to cool down from the awful hot weather in the Los
Angeles basin and be at the beach to give the amazing broadshouldered, big
footed surfer boys her unconditional John Wayne Gacy style hairy eyeball.
Also thugular thanx and big
sloppy wet kissyz to Hector for taking
his living dollpart to the Farmers Market on Fairfax for fresh out of the oven
cinnamon rolls, Hector’s amazing parents the San Martine’s of Southgate who
cooked her a fab and authentic from scratch Mexican dinner, MarLou DeLuna and her husband Hal Marinus who
took her for breakfast at the Pacific Dining Car her favorite LA eatery and Kimberly
Kim of North Korea and her mother for the lovely flowers and home made split
pea soup.
Next stop for Lady
Hyacinth: A performative lecture at The
Danish Royal Akademy of Art and workshop in Copenhagen.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
AUSGEQUETSCHT
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The Vagimule Doll was feeling
very Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in the mighty Pacific Northwest taking
part in the Time Based Art Festival (TBA) at the Portland Institute of
Contemporary Art in conjunction with my west coast gallerist Amy Adams of Adams
& Ollman solo show of my new painting series An Invitation to the Dance
which runs until October 20th.
As part of the exhibition at Adams & Ollman I created a mural and an
etched mirror piece called Marge & Gower Champion which is an abstracted
portrait of the famed classic Hollywood dance duo in a limited edition of 20.
Also sponsoring my visit: Pacific Northwest College of Art’s MFA in
Visual Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and the Portland Museum of Art
where I am part of the group show Between – We Construct Marvels curated by the
vivacious Libby Werbel.
Hector Martinez flew in from
Los Angeles to assist his living doll.
Hector was in white boy heaven spending a lot of time at the gym oogling
the humpy lumbersexuals. Accomodations
were provided by the cute and stylish AC Hotel in Downtown Portland which has a
very good breakfast. With the Vagimule
its all about the food and Amy & Company took her out to some very exciting
eateries.
Helping Ms. Davis with her
mural was the gifted young artists Allynn Carpenter (PNCA Alumnus) Lauren Prado
(PNCA 2nd year) and Payton Barronian (PNCA 1st year). The
mural assistants were organized by Peter Simensky.
Ms. Davis performative
lecture at PICA was SRO with over 500 people in attendance. The list of whose who is endless but
included: Matt Groening, Carrie Brownstein, Sam Elliott, k.d. lang, Rainn Wilson, Claire Coffee, Chris Thile, Kristan Kennedy, PICA Artistic
Director, Roya Amirsoleymani, Curator of Visual Art, Libby Werbel of the
Portland Museum of Modern Art, Spencer Byrne-Seres the PICA Exhibitions
Director, Victoria Frey PICA Executive Director, Sara Krajewski the
contemporary art curator at Portland Museum of Art, Courtney Dailey PICA board
member, famed photographer and curator Paige Powell who took Ms. Davis to
luncheon at the marvelous Maurice Café that is around the corner from
Adams& Ollman. Ms. Powell and Ms.
Davis have many shared acquaintances and she took photos of the diva for Gusher
Magazine.
Also seen: Lisa Jarrett professor at Portland State
University, Amy Adams, Rose Dickson, Andrea Lounibos, Tim Blue with his fabulous
and famous sister Robin, Kitty Diggens and her hot beau Slayer, actors Jannis
Niewohner, Richie Merrit of the new film White Boy Rick, Courtney Taylor of the
Dandy Warhols and comic Matt Rife.
At the opening at Adams&Ollman: Denise Mullen the former
President of Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) who gave Ms. Davis a
beautiful gold necklace, Tim Blue and sister Robin with Slayer, Peter Simensky
PNCA Chair of MFA Visual Studies, Victor Platt who bought a piece from the
exhibit, Jeffry Mitchell artist, Mack McFarland PNCA Curator and Director of
the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Paige Powell with Thomas Lauderdale
of Pink Martini, Joanna Bloom the artist and co-founder of Ash Street Project,
Thomas Orr of Ash Street Project, Portland art schtars Ivan Carmona, Ellen
Lesperance, Jacqueline Bebb, Pepper Pepper, Libby Werbel, Jessica
Jackson-Hutchins, Storm Tharp, Gary Robbins owner of Container Corps Publishing
and Printing Press, Manu Torres, florist and life partner of Mr. Robbins. Ms Davis also met David Arrow the famed
lighting designer, producer of opera and ballet who brought with him Albert
Shepard who had worked on more then 50 TV and films including Mandingo, the
movie I showed a clip from during my lecture, and the 1976 film Norman, Is That You? Starring Redd Fox, Pearl Bailey, Michael Warren and Tamara Dobson. Mr. Shepard is now retired but worked in film from 1961-1988 as was one
of the few black members of the Directors Guild of America. He and Mr. Arrow were very charming older
gentlemen.
Also at the opening were a bunch of students of PNCA including Matt Perez, Brittany Winsor and Payton Barronian who Ms. Davis had studio visits with.
Ms. Davis was interviewed in Portland by Mathias Rosenzweig of V Magazine and the delightful Emily Prado who besides being a young journalista also is the creator of the wonderful zine Women of Color in Punk Rock.
Sunday, September 09, 2018
WISSEN ZUM SCHLUSS
WIN &
IMPRESSUM
Did I forget to tell you that
I saw a screening of the Jon M. Cho film Crazy Hung Asians that stars
rapper/comic Awkwafina, the heiress apparent to Margaret Cho?
The film would have been more
interesting if the sexy male actors were shown dry humping and doing the puppy
chow on each other. There is certainly a
need for all-Asian starring Hollywood films.
While this programmer was colourful and fast paced, it was also a bit
twee. Hearing Grace Chang on the soundtrack
was certainly a high point along with a very attractive cast.
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A little excerpt from Mary
Magdelene a novel by Vaginal Davis:
Nellent Forbrush, “Nelly” for
short was all up in Dinah Shore arms about the French Lieutenant’s wo-Man
chomping on her bit n apple. He was 34
years old and very tall breathing life back into her with his CPR style suck phace. The only thing she didn’t like about him was
that he vaped. She wanted to taste the
natural Frenchy flavours and Gallic odours and not his nicotine confectory.
Nelly also happened upon a giant
North Eastern Italiano. A competitive
swimmer with a perfect streamlined moderne body beautiful and peterfication
like a filled Cream soda bottle. He was
all mushroom headed wonder with massive gonads floating to the surface Run
Silent, Run Deep freaky styly. Nelly won
him over with her detached throat nodgules, that were bringing him to the point
of whoregasm before she decreased pressure and deflated him with one soulful
slurry. Miss Nelly wasn’t fully aware of
her hidden talents or skillz. All her life
she took scant notice of hearthy charms and wool worth on the open
marketa.
The Italian hare could have
easily impregnated any other girl, but fortunately for our heroine nothing
could ever be planted in her barren womba.
The next day Ms. Forbrush
traipsed in passions plurry with a thyroid eyed Ugandan hunchback with Plessy
vs Ferguson liver lips. He was passing
through Prussia on his way to a wedding in Brussels Belgium. He was fun and fancy free making her feel
desired, but it was a pillowlipped
Columbian Cartel solicitor with a receding hairline who really gave her the
girlish gnut she was craving. He dragged
her around the bedroom lifting her up high in the air and thumping her hard onto
the floor.
His crotch was in her face,
his feet were stomping on her. She was
wrapped around his torso, he was strumming her with Eddie Van Halen licks. One of her legs he put over the dresser and
the other down by the kitchen sink. His
kisses were carnivorous chomps drawing blood.
He looked so harmless. She
didn’t expect a man of his dimunitive stature to be so strong and tank like.
Between the biceps on his
toes, and the rest of his ironclad musculature she fared pretty much like an
Ostrich feather lost in his Mighty Joe Young arms.
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Contemporary Vinegar
Syndrome’s Borscht Belt Modalities evening at the Prinzessinnengarten am
Moritzplatz was a sterling success. The
screening of Jumping Nite at the Garden of Eden by Michal Goldman 1988 and
Granpa Sam 2001 left the publicum in a joyous summer nite mood.
Jewish Muzlim Daniel Hendrickson
was the overseer of our Nebesh Off, and made the delish pickles that everyone
was munching on. In the audience were
some very beautiful Nebeshy boys which bolstered our musical soundtrack
provided by The Glorious Barry Sisters.
Arsenal Empress Stefanie
Schulte Strathaus welcomed everyone with open arms, and the Arsenal membership
drive was certainly increased a thousand fold.
Our guardian at the gate the
lovely Salome Gersch was the perfect first person that everyone sees at the
kasse. Salome will be leaving Arsenal at
the end of the month to continue her studies in France and write her Masters
thesis.
So happy we have the Red
Baron Gerrit Woltemath Gottfried von Cramm as our sexy patrician Production
Coordinator. Gerrit takes care of every
little thing for us brilliantly with his wonderful attention to detail.
The Prinzessinen Garten staff
of Werner & Dennis, Mixologists Vivi & Ine at the bar also contributed
greatly to the standout evening. Arsenal’s senior projectionist Bodo Pagels did
a marvelous job with the 16mm projecting of Jumpin’ Night, a print that hasn´t
been screened in over 26 years.
The celebutants in
attendance:
teen star Aaron Hilmer (Das
schönste Mädchen der Welt), Michaela (Ela) Wünsch of BBooks Kollektiv, Markus
Ruff of Arsenal Leiter Archive außer sich, Uli Ziemons of Forum Expanded,
Mariam Frick of Panorama Section of the Berlinale, Anke Hahn of Deutche
Kinemathek, Natalie Knoll of Berlinale Forum, Popo Fan the juicy and stylish Chinese
filmmaker, activist and critic with DJane Bianca Kruk and sound designer Manuela Schinina, tall, hunky Luca Jacob Borkowsky head of Piranha
Film/Womex Films, Monilola Ilupeju the beautiful Nigerian recent NYU grad who
was the top student of my ex student artist Jonathan Berger, Kreuzberg local
Senol Senturk, makeup and hair god Christian Fritzenwanker, Katharina Bischoff
the Original Sin Production Coordinator, Discoteca Flaming Star’s Cristina
& Wolfgang with their hot Madrid posse including Cristina’s radiant Biology
professor best friend, hot young queer student Charlotte Peters of FU, Piero
Bellomo, Claire Molloy Assistant Curator at Martin Gropius Bau, and former
Goethe Universitaet curatorial studies student, sweet Verena Kittel of Liste
Art Fair Basel, art schtars Wu Tsang & Boychild, installation artist Raphaela Vogel,
Deutsche Welle and Bloomberg News
journalista Michael Scaturro, Joel Gibb the baby diaper of Canada’s Hidden
Cameras, Fearless Leader of CHEAP
Susanne Sachsse with film historian Marc Siegel aka: Marcuse
Siegelstein, who is also in the film Granpa Sam which is a loving tribute to
his famed photographer grandfather Sam Siegel, Linda Winkler of silent green,
artists Clarissa Thieme and Nicolas Pittarides visiting from London, Magda
Magdy, Stephan Ahrens of Zeughauskino, Michelle Ty and Johanna Rothe, Clarisse
Mehring, David Schöler and actress Diane Kruger.
The Day before I was the
DJane for the Christeene Concert at Berghain.
Christeene has become a huge superschtar in a very short time. Her Cajun party rap mix performance style blends
nicely with moments of timely introspection.
My mothers family are from Louisiana so I am quite familiar with the
nuance of the Christeene persona, and its brilliantine! She is both slick and polished, and not slick
or polished, and that’s what makes things flow so effortlessly on stage. Christeene is a post modern teene idol and
has been collaborating with photographer and video artist Matt Lambert and the
very cute Simon Kaiser.
I also adore her Bob
Fosse/Twyla Tharp back up dancers who are extroidinarily sexxxxy with boundless
psychic TV energy.
Opening up for Christeene was
the divine Michele Lamy the muse and lifepartner of designer Rick Owens. Michele has been making new music with her
daughter Scarlette Rouge and will be performing at the next Frieze Art Fair in
London. Michele’s performance at
Berghain was spellbinding. Joining her
on stage was Boychild and the two played off of each other to perfection. Michele is in her 70s but is so youthful, so
vibrant that she is the epitome of the ageless wonder. Michele reminded me that I’ve known her since
1979 when she had the West Hollywood store Too Soon To Know on Santa Monica
Blvd.
Wasn’t expecting to see Rick Owens at Berghain, but he came from Paris and
it was quite joyous to reunite with him and the high fashion comrades he
brought with him. I haven’t seen Rick since
last year in Paris when I modeled for his new collection, the photos of which
became part of his big retrospective Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman at the
Triennale di Milano.
In the audience at Berghain
was actor Neil Patrick Harris dancing wildly, Shaggy haired artist Jonathan
Meese, International DJane Honey Dijon, Richard Gabriel and girlfriend Lillian,
with muscular medical student roommate Hermann, Daniel Hendrickson & Piero
Bellomo, makeup artiste Akira Knightly with French fashion pals, and super
model Max, scholar Marcuse Siegelstein with gorgeous diva Susanne Sachsse of
CHEAP, Zeitkratzer percussionist Maurice De Martin, artist Tanja Schwarz,
Wolfgang from Discoteca Flaming Star and sizzling Madrid gang of 4our, Felix
Knoke of Der Spiegel, Liz Rosenfeld & Sam Icklow, beauty artists Wu Tsang and Elly Clarke, and sexy
young Frankfurt curator Jose’ Segebre.
Special thanks to Berghains
amazing chef who created the most scrumptious dinner for us and Krischan
Makswitat & Grinni Stangner who were so lovely in accommodating the
Vagimule doll.
Literary Figurine: To whoever is out there in the world wide web
firmament. Ms. Davis would love to get
her hands on a copy of the book One Drop:
A True Story of Family, Race, and Secrets by Bliss Broyard.
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