Speaking From the Diaphragm
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. . .From the Counsel of Inter-Continental Balistic Principalities
Saturday, February 06, 2010
ZERSTÖREN COMMUNITY-PORTALE DIE SZENE?
Judy La Bruce and Anna Muelter of HAU threw a bad breast dinner at the yummy Kreuzberg bistro Gino´s. La Bruce regaled BB cast members with stories about his recent trip to Paris where he interviewed the Kaiser of high fashion Karl Lagerfeld for Vice Magazine. Vice has gone super corporate and upscale under editor Jesse Pearson who use to be a junior editor with Index Magazine when I was a regular contributing editor for that downtown NY rag under the auspices of the wonderful Bob Nickas. I always thought young Jesse was super cute with his lanky rabbit rooted big dicque arrogance, and sloopy junky/hustler manner.
Herr Lagerfeld and BLAB got along quite well so I´m anxious to read the article which will hit the stands in April under the subtitle: A Coupla Elderly White Chix Sitting Around Talking.
At the Ginos table a lot of juicy tongue wagging with the talented Jeanine of PlanningtoRock who just performed at the Transmediale Festival, humpy Senol Senturkk who is busy working on designing Berlinale installations, lovely Lisa Schmidt and the beautiful Susanne Sachsse. Sitting near our klatch was Hearst International Fashion scribe Suzy Menkes chowing down on a slab of lamb with a gaggle of faggot assistants.
The next evening John Heys, Marc Siegel and Frau Sachsse curated and hosted an enchanting and hilarious Evening for Superstar Taylor Mead at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst. The 85 year old Mr. Mead is an underground treasure trove of wisdom and moxy, still going strong living in his tiny cluttered Ludlow flat on the lower east side of Man!hattan. Actor and fellow downtown New York luminary John Heys is one of Mead´s dearest friends and led the curatorial team in spontaneous readings of Mead´s incredible poetry and prose texts with music and zany, whimsical surprises including the 2005 documentary Excavating Taylor Mead by William A. Kirkley. Seen enjoying this special tribute Mead´s number one fan, German experimental guru Wilhelm Hein, feminist filmmaker Evelyn Rüssler,Daniel Hendrickson the translator to the shtars, musical siblings Tim & Kjohnny Blue and Susanne Sachsse´s beautiful 16 year old twins Salome & Richard Gershe who were on their winter break from high school. I love the Gershe twins like they came out of my own womb. Both of them could be supermodels or teenage acting superstars, and would be much more interesting on TV or in the movies then the Jonas Bros or Hannah Montana. It was great to hear that their best friend Jakob who is in the US as an exchange student was able to free himself from a crazy uber fundamentalist religious family and transfer to a secular clan where he will be living until June. With Jacobs sweet demeanor I am sure he will meet lots of American girls who will go wild for a pretty & sexy German boy from Berlin.
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Had a wonderous time rehearsing for a new film project with the dynamic art filmmaking duo of Pauline Beaudry and Renate Lorenz. Pauline is a stunning Swiss/French beauty and musician who had a major following with her band Rhythm King and Friends. Renate is a handsome and intelligent butch. Their filmic aesthetic is similar to mine, and we spent a few jubilant hours working in the morning and late in the afternoon at the studio of vivacious and talented Spanish dancer/choreographer Arantxa Martinez who will be performing in this upcoming film in the s tyle of Jane Avril a dancer from the 1890s and turn of the last century. The Vagimule Davis creature will be interpreting the movements of great Black vaudeville star Aida Overton Walker. More on this as it develops.
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In the evening little Tele´macos Alexiou of the Chocolate Grinder Film kollective hosted a saturnal feast at his Mehringdamn compound to celebrate his experimental short A Dream of Norma being accepted into the Forum Expanded section of the 60th Berlinale Film Festival. I star in the film as a deluded R&B singer in the mode of Etta James or Whitney Houston. The flicker will screen everday at 4pm at the Temporäre Kunsthalle Schlossplatz in Auto Kinoi by Phil Colllins starting Feb 11th until Feb 21st. After dinner we watched Sweet Charity directed by Bob Fosse starring Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., Ben-Vereen, Chita Riviera and Pauly Kelly. I hadn´t seen the movie in over 25 years, and love i ts Fossesque razzle/dazzle. I use to hate this film, but somehow it has grown on me and I adore it. So much fun hanging with the Choc Grind rock steady crew of little Alex, Julian Radlmaier, and Mourning Becomes Elektra. Little Alex´s Israeli boyfriend Assaf Hochman and Anna Muelter were also part of the frivolilty.
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Received a screening copy of the magnificent experimental documentary film Scrap Metal by Jason Byrne. Jason was a loopy, mega juicy blondine neighbor of Professor jennifer Doyle in Silverlake. He was also a Cal Arts film student. He is all grown up and has been living in Tanzania, Afrika working on a project documenting war crime tribunals. If he ever comes through Berlin for a visit, I will have to give him a tongue bath from head-to-toe YUMMY!
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Received this emug from the sweet and lovely Ms. Elly Clark the gifted British art photog based here in Berlin. Check out her gallery and help her get a new camera, her´s was recently stolen. I know you readers of Speaking From the Diaphragm are generous patrons to us grassroots types. I cant tell you how many times my readers have sent me much needed $moula to get out of my financial scraps.
Dear Friends,
This is the first mail from Clarke Gallery this year – so although we are (finally!) in February, Happy New Year!
The first Clarke Gallery show of 2010 opens on 13th March. Put it in your diaries. It’s a group show. The invite will be sent out in a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile:
Christian is currently leading a workshop with schoolchildren in Dresden, organised by Kunsthaus Dresden. In August he’ll take part in a group show in Belgrade. He’ll also have another solo show at Clarke Gallery this year.
Elly is a recipient of the Goldrausch Kunstlerinnen IT 2010 Stipendium – and the next exhibition is with all the others on this program. Her exhibition ‘Some Places I have Been To’ continues at Melusine and next week, on Friday 12th February Elly’s participatory photo & video project ‘Moscow to Beijing’ opens at Center for Endless Progess (invite attached).
And... not so great: on 16th December Elly’s Leica was stolen from a bar in Kreuzberg. She had the camera for 6 years and travelled pretty much the world with it. Her insurance had just run out. To raise cash to buy a new one, she’s about to launch an Alternative Funding Project - selling signed Single Edition 6”x4” prints via Flickr for 35 Euros each. The link will be sent in due course – but please get in touch if you’d like to be one of the first to know about it.
Vicky curated and has work in 'Collect': a paper based exhibition featuring artists from around the UK. The show runs until 10th Feb at Westgate Studios, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, UK. Click here for more info. Plus, Axisweb.org have just made a film of Vicky talking about this show. You’ll be able to see this featured on Axisweb later this week. Otherwise Vicky is in a group show at The Rag Factory on Hanbury Street, London, called 'Danger: An Exhibition'. It opens on the 4th March, runs till 7th March. And meanwhile she’s on a residency at lumen.
Alexander is getting his website built by James Hurst, who did Antony Gormley’s site. He has also been putting in some all-night shift work painting gold leaf on ceilings in the Carlton club in London, which he describes as ‘hard core but fun.’ Meanwhile he’s waiting on news from several residency/post grad applications…
And finally, you can see photos from Liz’s December show COME here.
See you on 13th March if not sooner!
Elly
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CLARKE GALLERY
mail@clarkegallery.de
+49 (0)176 8716 2833
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
MADONNA HAS A WELL ORGANIZED PUSSY
Thus quoteth international film star Udo Kier when i asked him about working with the pop star in her Sex Book from the 1990s. We were in Blimy Birmingham England and i was curating the first Visions of Excess, and the philosophy of Gifts endurance art spectacular that was part of the Fierce Festival with Ron Athey, way back in 2004. I don´t know why Mr. Kier is in my thoughts lately, but he is. Udo and his black lover, whose name i forget. Udo owns a nice compound in Silverlake that he shares with his dinge companion, and he also has a mid century get-away house in palm springs that use to be a library. I was told that he still owns a flat in Berlin, but i was under the impression he got rid of it years ago.
Anyway I just got together with artist, filmmaker and musician Tim Blue at his pristine flat in Neu Kölln. Tim cooked a sumpteous feast for me. Its been months since I´ve spent any time with Tim who has been busy traveling with Irish artist and filmmaker Paul Rowley working on their new rationalist structure architecture film The Rooms which he gave me a sneak preview of. I really liked the movie, though i thought it was just a tad long. It reminded me of the 1964 Jean Paul Belmondo film l´Homme de Rio which features grand shots of Oscar Niemeyer´s Brasilia buildings.
Friday i went to the Bruce La Bruce opening at Peres Projects. La Judy was showing some silk screen Warholian prints of blue movie god Francois Sagan sagat and also previewing his new film LA Zombie-The movie that would not Die that also stars Mr. Sagat as a creature from benearth the sea whose mission is to fuck the dead back to life. The film looks incredible, and i even got nostalgic for a minute seeing my former hometown of Los Angeles. Plus there are cameos in the film by Tony Ward, who starred in Hustler White, and my favorite Hollywood eatery Ms. Donut on Melrose and HIghland Avenue.
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Its almost Berlinale time. Can´t wait to see Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes who have a program in Forum Expanded, and one of my fav homegirls Cheryl Dunye of Watermelon Woman and The Stranger Inside fame will be making a pitstop in town with a new film.
Also the beautiful Janez Janza of Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art in Ljubiana, Slovenia will performing and exhibiting some new work at Art Lab Berlin see below for details.
3 February 2010, 7PM
Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša
NAME Readymade
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
Art Laboratory Berlin, in collaboration with Aksioma - Institute for Contemporay Art, Ljubljana, is glad to invite you to NAME Readymade, the performative presentation of Janez Janša. The event will present the act of "name changing" perpetrated by three Slovenian artists who in 2007 officially, with all the required papers and stamps, changed their names to the then prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša (2004-08). All Janez Jansas' works, their private and public affairs, in a word their whole life, has been conducted under this name ever since.
"When the three artists changed their names to Janez Janša, they in fact adopted a critical stand to the state. To the Slovene government, in which until recently all posts seemed occupied as it were by a single person - Janez Janša. [...] Through the multiplication of Janez Janša's name, the function of the prime minister has assumed, within this specific artistic action, a similar position as the Campbell soup cans in Andy Warhol's works." (Zdenka Badovinac, Name Readymade, October 2008)
Janez Janša will take us through a series of artistic, political, administrative and media oriented actions performed by himself together with Janez Janša and Janez Janša, with a particular focus on their latest personal exhibition entitled NAME Readymade. Works exhibited in this show (valid ID cards, passports, credit and bank cards, driving licences, birth and marriage certificates, and so on) were generated by reality itself.
Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša cut right through the midst of their own realities, using procedures typical for art - transformation, translation, representation and mimicry. They turned around the classical relational scheme between art and life as it was developed in the 20th century. Art in the previous century was defined by way of reality entering into artistic contexts without mediation (Badiou defines the 20th century as the 'passion for the real'), while Janša, Janša and Janša want to achieve the opposite, so that their methods cut deeply into their material lives and the lives of their immediate surroundings.
This event will take place in the context of the ongoing exhibtion Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft (until 7.2.) which can be seen on 3 February from 6pm before and after the presentation.
Production: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art and the steirischer herbst Festival in collaboration with Maska and Moderna galerija Ljubljana.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
More information:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-7.htm
http://www.aksioma.org/name/
Marcela Okreti?
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
gsm: +386 41 250830
e-mail: aksioma4@siol.net
www.aksioma.org
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Oh and Marc Siegel of CHEAP kollective sent me this missive today that i will pass on to you.
Hello CHEAP Friends,
This Thursday February 4 2010 we should all meet at the Arsenal cinema at 7
pm to celebrate the first star of American underground cinema, Taylor Mead.
(Mario was the first drag superstar, Taylor the first starwe CHEAPies are
not embarrassed to love our stars.) No, thankfully, Taylor did not die. But
we just thought it's high time this inimitable 85 year old beat poet and
hilarious movie star received some attention. Actually, our friend John Heys
thought so. John is in regular contact with Taylor who he knows from his
days in the New York Lower East side gay and theater scene. Ever since John
got a copy of the documentary called EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD (2005) he has
been set on organizing an evening for Taylor. John enlisted the help of
Susanne Sachsse and me and garned the support of the trusty Arsenal and alas
"The Movies Are a Revolution: An Evening for Taylor Mead" was born. Nobody's
got no money and we ain't go no fancy technology, so we couldn't bring in
Taylor or even bring in mayn of his over 100 films. But we do have a nice
evening of readings, some unexpected images, including a rare screening of
Gary Goldberg's PLATES (1990) starring Taylor and Bill Rice, and the
documentary to offer you! A great way to learn something about this seminal
figure in American underground film and theater and who knows maybe the
first of many Taylor Mead evenings to come!
(below you find the text that appears on the facebook page for the evening
with some description of the various videos/films to be shown).
Hope to see you there
Best,
Marc
An Evening for Taylor Mead - Thursday 4th February 2010
Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art
Thursday, February 4, 2010
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Potsdamer Straße 2, 10785 Berlin
85 year-old Taylor Mead is the first superstar of the American underground.
Since 1960 he has appeared in over 100 films, including over 15 by Andy
Warhol. Mead is also a poet, filmmaker and stage actor of great acclaim:
bitchy, endearing, acerbic, anecdotal and jaw-droppingly indiscreet, Mead
is very much one of a kind. (Neil Young)
To pay homage to this exceptional talent, Mead's friend John Heys, with
Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel, has prepared a fittingly exceptional
evening including a documentary about Mead; film surprises; and readings
from Mead's poetry and essays.
Program
EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD William A. Kirkley USA 2005 OF 88
EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD is the story of one s man s journey and struggle
for survival in America s independent film and art community. Known
primarily in the inner circles of New York s art historians and followers
of Warhol, Mead s resume demonstrates how he may be one of underground film
s most prolific yet overlooked artists.
Filmed over a four-year period and spanning nearly eight decades, we follow
Taylors s eviction from his lower east side apartment to co-starring in Jim
Jarmusch s Coffe and Cigarettes. Filtered through his life choices,
EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD is an endearing character study of someone who has
lived an unique artistic path. Best put by Taylor, It s the opposite end
of the Robert Evans spectrum .
Featuring many clips from the early independent film movement including
never before seen Warhol shootage, EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD considers the fate
of those who helped bring about the new American cinema of the 1960 s and
raises questions as to the sacrifice we make for art.
(http://www.excavatingtaylormead.com/aboutthemovie.html)
GLAMOUR, GLORY & GOLD USA 1988 (in extracts)
Extracts from an exclusive documentation of an event held in NYC dedicated
to Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis. Taylor Mead directed a reading of
Curtis's celebrated play and appears on stage alongside Penny Arcade,
WarholĽs superstar Ondine and John Heys (who organized this program at
Arsenal)
PLATES Gary Goldberg USA 1990 11
with Taylor Mead und Bill Rice
In the early 1990s Goldberg produced a series of Beckettian short films
featuring Taylor Mead and Bill Rice. They are amazing as well as light and
profound comedies.
Texts by Taylor Mead, read by John Heys, Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel,
will be added to the film program. There will be drinks during the breaks.
CHEAP congratulates our own incorrigible friend WILHELM HEIN, winner of the
Manfred Salzgeber Preis 2010, presented during the Berlinale. For
information see: www.manfred-salzgeber.org/preis.html
(zur Info: obwohl ich ein Fan, Freund, und Unterstützer von Wilhelm bin und
bleibe, habe ich nicht gesagt was mir auf der Salzgeber Website
zugeschrieben worden ist. Na ja...)
You all have a chance to congratulate Wilhelm personally at the opening for
a rare show of his paintings in the exhibition "Es gibt kein Bier in Hawaii"
on Saturday, Feb. 6 2010 at 7 pm at Fischer&Fischer Gallery Straßburgerplatz
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AND I forgot to recommend Bruce LaBruce's show at Peres Projects, Berlin,
"LA Zombie: The Movie That Would Not Die" on view until April 24 2010, a
rare chance to see BLAB's latest film, L.A.Zombie starring the adorable
Francois "Piero on steroids" Sagat, who was wowing all at the opening with
free feels of his muscular goldstück.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
THE GOTH FROM IMPENEMA
So my guilty pleasure was going to see the hit blockboster 3-D film Gayvatar directed by James CamerOCTOROON.Having seen the previews months ago i was expecting to hate the movie. CGI seems too cartoonish for me,and i don´t go to the cinema to play engorged versions of Ms. Packman or DonkeyKong.The technology world in this flicker wasn´t always so convincing, but for the most part i did enjoy the depiction of forest and fauna on Planet Pandora´s Box.
I wanted more of mack mama Sigourney Weaver looking so pert in her henna curled bob, and that glorious diesel Michele Rodriguez. Yes I admit i am a daghag. Relunctantly i have to admit that male ingenue Sam Worthington is one nice slab of USDA American choice thrombone, playing the doe-eyed jarhead, but when he was transformed into the lithe pony tail queen i wanted to groan.
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The new year of 2010 is turning out to be as work laden as 2009.I am booked solidly until mid 2011,and will be going from project to project with absolutely no room for breathing.Hey! I guess its better then being unemployed.
Thursday i Djaned the after party for artist Keren Cytter´s rock block of presentations at HAU3. Performer/Audience/Mirror based on a piece by Dan Graham from the 1970s was short & sweet,just how i like my performance art, with knockout performances by CHEAP´s fearless leader Susanne Sachsse who is stunning in looks and superlative in seductive voice and manner. Frau Sachsse could make the reading of the phone book compelling. Partnering La Sachsse perfectly the dashing young German actor Knut Berger who shouldn´t have been allowed onstage with his street clothes. This royal prinzin should only appear in the nude.
Next up was The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Contents, that features the Keren Cytter D.I.E.Now Dance Theatre of Verona.I kept thinking of the 1970s film Who is Sheila Levine and Why is she Saying Those Horrible Things About me? In fact when it comes to the pretty Israeli tomboy Ms. Cytter I am awash with images of Elaine May´s daughter Jeannie Berlin who starred in The Heartbreak Kid or Melanie Mayron in Girlfriends.
The ladies in the cast Dafna Maimon and Susie Meyer held me spellbound. Andrew Kerton really knows how to work that charming British accent of his, and the lanky high cheekboned and smoldering Luc van Esch was very yowzina!
Seen dancing at the afterparty at WAU cafe Susanne Sachsse and film historian beau Marc Siegel, Tim Blue back from filming his new feature in New York, Daniel Hendrickson,members of Fight Club, a preggers and glowing Maike Harmsen & Stefanie Wenner, sweet Rahel Häseler, Anna Muelter, Christophe Gurk and the beauty of HAU Katrin Dod.
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The first Rising Stars, Falling Stars of 2010 at Arsenal Institute für Film und Videokunst was regally post Fordist with a salute to Danish silent great Asta Nielsen in Erdgeist 1923. Eunice Martin provided the luxuriant musical score on klavier as an unexpected large crowd took over Kino 2. With the freezing temperatures outside, no one was predicting such a stellar turnout, so after the screening everyone was feeling frisky slurping down Blue Caracoa and Grune Witwe´s the fav libation of Ms. Nielsen. Seen huddled together for warmth Arsenal Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus with her Forum Expanded team of Miss Bettina, Nanna Heidenreich and beauty boy Ulrich Ziemons. Also looking lovely Frau Susanne Sachsse with dapper film historian Marc Siegel, Tim Blue, Djane Olga Damnitz, assorted Danes, Spaniards from Barcelona, Flems and the Dutch plus lovely art photog Elly Clark with beautiful British ginger Ms. Sophia of live art troupe Plan B whose gorgeous daughter Ruby brought delicious presents for hostess Vaginal Davis. Looking very Darwinian actor Paul Bettany(Creation), journalist Daniel Mufson, sängerin Nena and actress Corolla Regnier the grandaughter of Frank Wedekind who wrote Erdgeist and Die Buchse der Pandora.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
S&M SHANTY´S/TESTOSTERON HYMNEN
Celebrities always die in threes. Such was the case this past week with the deaths of French New Wave director Eric Rohmer, Art Clokey the creator of that lil green slab of clay Gumby, and R&B Heavyweight crooner Teddy Pendergrass. Pendergrass got his start first as a drummer, then lead singer of Philadelphia International soul group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. By the mid 70s he had a solo career with his ladies only concerts. In 1982 Mr. Pendergrass became a paraplegic after a car accident. Its funny that in the obits on the radio and online, there was no mention of the tranny girl who was injured in the accident with him. The rumour in urban circles was that Teddy loved his chix with dix.
Friday at Search & Destroy rock club Judy La Bruce, and the Vagimule Doll hosted and DJaned a neurotic/erotic party till the bitter wee hours, and Teddy Pendergrass´s tranny loving spirit was watching over everyone. Ms. LaBruce is back in Berlina for her big art opening at Peres Projects Gallery on Jan 30th where she will preview a rough cut of her new LA Zombie flick that stars the steroid French blue movie studkin Francois Segat who will also be in attendance. All the bearded lady fags will all want to bury their faces in Mdm. Segat´s bodacious bubble buttkin.
A juicy gaggle of celebutants danced and pranced at Search & Destroy at the legendary Schwuz club at Mehringdamn. The New Yorker Magazines star staff writer Hilton Als looking dapper with his look-a-like posse in tow. The magnificent Mr. Als was just in Berlin for the weekend, but will be back in full glory in April reporting on all things teutonic throughout the Spring & Summer, so watch out world!
Swedish designer Lars Nilsson and Spanish coutourier Josep Font were having a hairy thyroid eyeball nigger fit over hunky experimental filmmaker Alejandro Duran, who was out with pretty Otto:Up With Dead People star Katherina Klewinghaus. Seen outrageously flirting: French director Olivier Assayas who was enthralled with Pork Club´s Tennessee Clafin, the performance artist/concubine to A-list Hollywood directors Bryan Singer & Gus Van Sant. Making everyone blush with his young boy beauty, the Slovakian artist Mario Dzurila, while intermedia actress Susanne Sachsse was chit chatting with Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and his muscular beau Enrico Dallman. Ms. Sachsse will star in Keren Cytter´s new piece that premieres Thursday at HAU 3. The Lady Ms. D will Djane the after party at WAU Cafe so stop by why dontcha? Ms.Cytter and her music curator lover Christoph Gurk were smooching to Jonathan Fireater´s „A Love Like That“ while the wildest dancing was being led by film historian Marc Siegel, musician kJohnny Blue with socialite Aaston Brooks, Anna Muelter, artist Dean Sameshima, and Flemish royal Koen Claerhouten. Sissi Magazines Toby Rauscher removed his jock strap and got all the boys to start doing helicopters with their genitals. Not to be undone a group of lesbianas started taking off their sports bras as LaBruce played music from Godspell. Looking ultra glam video artist Liz Rosenfeld with British live artist Richard James Hancock and juicy Gunnar Neumann. Everyones favorite good time Sally--- Mauro the Italian art critic was giving limousine lap dances to birthday boy Daniel Hendrickson, and his partner Piero Bellomo of La Collezione while watching all the action was Pablo&Vincent of Paris, male movie ingenue Justin Bartha, Greek curator Marga, Torsten & Cigdem of bbooks, Guillaume Airiaud and Der Spiegel writer Felix Knoke.
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Sunday it was Ladies Day for CHEAP´s fearless leader Susanne Sachsse and Ms. Davis as they brunched royally at the Schoenbrunn Restaurant in Volkspark Friedrichshain. The two pretty women are planning on performing together again as sisters, this time as famous sibling rivals Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland with sets & costumes by Serbian talent Nebuschar.
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Monday evening Marc Siegel and I went to the Arsenal Institut für Film und Video Kunst to see the wonderful short films curated by one of my former Weissensee students Beate Rathke aka: Justin Tyme. All the movies screened were exceptional, and that is something rare for a shorts program. What i liked best was the playful, whimsical nature of all the films. Usually in Germany nothing is taken seriously unless it is dry and dour. Seeing these shorts gives me hope that some new movement is on the rise in Germania.
We had to leave during the break to make it to bbooks for a lecture series hosted by Tim Stuttken that featured as a guest Tavia Nyongo, the Kenyan performance studies scholar from NYU who has been living in Berlin for the last few months on a fellowship. I first met Mr. Nyongo years ago through his collegue Professor Jose Munoz. The serene Mr. Nyongo gave an insightful talk on the oh so currant topic of Freaky. I loved how he wove the controversy about the South African Personal Best athlete Caster in with the Lee Daniels film Precious based on the book by Saphire. Last year all these tired pundits were attacking this strapping African woman Caster, and calling her a man-dinga!, but no one was criticizing in the same manner the big dique, webbed feet amphibian mota smoking tranny chasing Aqua Man gold medal winning swimmer Our Lady of the Perpetual Phelps.
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Don´t forget to mark in your calenderia Saturday January 23rd 9pm – Rising Stars, Falling Stars, my monthly performative silent film event. For our first program of the new year we will show Erdgeist (1923) directed by Leopold Jessner and starring the great Asta Nielsen. Tell everyone you know as this is a rare treat, and the print is newly restored from Amsterdam. Eunice Martin will accompany the film live on klavier and after the screening i will host a reception in the rote foyer where we will drink vino and Blue Curacao the favorite libation of Ms. Nielsen.
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My sexy and super brilliantine grad students from NYU are putting on this MFA exhibition. Remember the names of these radiant youths, because you will be reading about them EVERYWHERE really soon. They are on the verge of taking over, and its about time there was something interesting floating about in the institutional art world. Don´t you think?
NYU Steinhardt 1st Year MFA Exhibition
NEVER ODD OR EVEN
JESSICA GISPERT
SHADI HAROUNI
DAVID J. MERRITT
CARLOS REYES
BEN SCHUMACHER
ANDY SLEMENDA
JO-EY TANG
KEVIN YANG
LEAFE ZALES
Opening Reception Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
The Commons Gallery 34 Stuyvesant St (btw 2nd and 3rd) / On View from 1/20/10 - 1/30/10
he website is www.nyuopenstudios.com/neveroddoreven/
The Department of Art and Art Profession at NYU Steinhardt is chaired by artist Nancy Barton.
The MFA faculty includes Peter Campus, Ross Bleckner, John Torreano, Sue de Beer, Trisha Donnelly, Jesse Bransford, Jack Pierson, Maureen Gallace, Kathe Burkhart, Adam Putnam, David Rimanelli and Carol Bove.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
YELLO:EINFACH AUSGEZEICHNET!
When i go long periods without a new web posting, my poor student interns and assistants get quite the emug equivalent of an earful of complaints.What is happening with Ms. Davis? Why hasn´t she added anything new to her blog? Is she in rehab? I am so fortunate that i have a small army of devotees who work with me helping to keep my sundry life together. Lots of love, kisses and a million thanks to Andrea Novarin, Gleeson Brevard, Verle Oberon, Chrome Chastain, Marc Arthur and Lawrence Roberts who all work so hard contributing to the greater glory and cause of namely me, The Vaginal Davis doll. I am a fascinating monster, yet its not easy being friends with me let alone working gratis for such a demanding taskmistress.
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i left out a bunch of names of the very important guests at legendary filmmaker Wilhelm Hein´s amazing dinner party. So sorry about that. Here are the corrections:
Vivacious and cute Irish filmcurator Peter Taylor of WORM and the Rotterdamn Film Festival with his pretty German girlfriend Christiane Gruen, mighty and meaty Aleks Cigale of the Mad Angus musical project, sultry Polish artist Olga Lewicken with her
philosopher king beau Dr. Carsten Zorn, gifted Austrian poetess Sissi Tax and handsome gallerist Johannes Fischer of the Gallery FischerundFischer where Wilhelm will exhibit his painting on Feb 6th at 7pm The gallery is located at Strausberger Platz 18.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
EIN NÄCHTLICHER STREIFZUG
New decade, and like Ms. Patti LaBelle I´ve got a new attitude. Lund Universities Malmö Art Academy of Sweden has invited me to teach a block seminar in March.
The title of my class will be: Platinum Jungle–Screen Goddesses Caught Between Black&White
General Course Description-Jean Harlow, the literal whitest of white hot sex stars of 1930s Hollywood, pencil thin eyebrows, smoldering platinum über-blondine hair, skin and teeth. Josephine Baker, all legs, all ass, all the time, topped off by the ultimate Marcel wave, conquered Europe in the 1920s as the first international black superstar. At first glance these famous performers and their life trajectories couldn’t be more different. But appearances, as these women knew quite well, are often deceiving.
The influence of both stars can be felt to this day. Harlow’s image, despite her early death, has inspired numerous later performers and artists like Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol. La Baker’s signature banana skirt became a ubiquitous image throughout the 20th century, even when it overshadowed its creator. What are the factors governing the reception of these two sex symbols in and out of the art world? What might they offer to performers and other visual artists today?
In this course we will look at some of the rare films of these two extraordinary women, as well as examples of their influence in order to probe their non-conventional and innovative gender, racial and aesthetic politics for our purposes today.
Later in March I´ll be flown to New York to perform as part of Columbia Universities Semiospectacular that is the brainchild of the gifted Phd student Mashinka Firunts, who use to be one of my Bricktops girls back in Los Angeles. I´ll also be returning to my favorite stomping grounds of NYU thanks to Nancy Barton who is the chair of the Arts Professionals Dept. Not to leave New Jersey out of the equation, Professor Ricardo Montez will be inviting me to Princeton, and the students of Hampshire College in Massachutts ganged up on the administration to bring me to their tiny campus as well, so watch out Academia a giant black queen is running loose and rampant in your ranks.
It is cold, very cold in Berlin. The enchantment of snow has worn thin. The sidewalks are frozen and slippery so its very dangerous to simply walk about.
Thank Jehovah of Armies for Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras and Anna Muelter of HAU. The dynamic duo roused me from my new year depression and took me to dinner at this yumsty vegan restaurant in Mehringdamn. Joel also invited me to his huge compound in Neu Kölln for some homemade soup plantation. Its great feeling social again. I went to Uli Ziemons 28th birthday celebration in Kreuzberg. Uli is the best looking young man in all of Europa. He is tall, dark and very, very handsome. His soiree was held at the Champagneria Umtrunk located on Falckenstein Str. Its a very cute place, that use to be someones flat now turned into a bar/lounge for the twentysomething set. The crowd was fresh and friendly, which isn´t the usual fare in Berlin. Strangers actually were chit chatting with each other and several joined in on our groups conversation. Helping to celebrate the birth of the beauty boy: the Arsenal gang lead by Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, her right hand gal Nanna Heidenreich of Arsenal Experimental with girlfriend DJane Olga Damnitz, Bettina the Sandy Dennis Döppleganger who is curating Forum Expanded, Nadja Talmi, French cupcake Giuamme and his wife, Mourning Becomes Elektra of The Chocolate Grinder Kollective, Daniel Hendrickson and handsome fashion designer beau Piero Bellomo of la Collezione. Also seen in the room white girl rapper Invincible with Hollywood male ingenue Hunter Parrish.
Sunday the legendary experimental film guru Wilhelm Hein hosted a super dinner party at his Kali Films studio. You never know who you will meet at one of his feasts. Wilhelm and his art photog girlfriend Annette Frick know some of the most fascinating people in the world. Its hard to believe that Wilhelm will be turning 70soon, he has one of the most youthful spirits of anyone i know, and is randy & lovesexy like a teenage boy. At the Hein rectangular dinner table: Julia Pfeiffer and Roseline Rannoch of Montgomery Gallery, troubador Mad Angus, goodlooking hunk Ossip Sieverding, Paul the Irish curator for the Rotterdamn Film Festival and his girlfriend,plus Austrian poetess Sissy Text. Will update with all the names of the guests and also the name and date of the Gallery that Wilhelm will have an exhibit at on Feb 6th so check back to this blog a little later.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
LETTER FROM HOME
One of my old LA pals is a complete wang dang doodle of a voracious hornpig. He is always having sextulant adventures. Here is the first tale of a promised two. Hope you enjoy them as much as i did. Its certainly helped pick me up from my beginning of the new decade melancholia.
Dear Ms. Davis
This story starts at Trader Joe's in Lago de Plata. I walk into the store and I immediately see this curly haired cutie pie that looks like a young Federico Aubele, the Venezuelan singer. He is standing in the produce section wearing a white v-neck t-shirt and some gym shorts. He is tall and slim. He noticed my Cornelius look and gave me a Huge smile, the smile was almost too big for his face. I raise an eyebrow and make way through the store.
I get to the next aisle and he is there as well, this time I can clearly see that he is Freeballing at TJ's. Freeballing is all the rage for L.A. Fags! He smiles and continues shopping. On the third aisle he sees me and squats down to see some items, his legs spread with one knee on the floor. I look down and see that he is exposing his entire crotch with a semi hard-on! I look around and tell him, Boy u are going to get busted! He grins and laughs. We both move on and make our way to the register.
Outside he loads up his car and walks to my car with this huge smile and asks if I have time to stop by his place which is on Rowena. I agree on the spot. I walk into a sparse apt with books all over the place, he drops to his knees and starts unbuckling my pants and the sucking begins. He was a very good and hungry cocksucker. He takes my load partially in his mouth and some on his face.
We get dressed and we both make our way to our cars, he’s off to the gym and I’m going home.I tell him, you've got cum on u´r face, he smiles and tells me he likes it that way.
At the door of my car he asks for my email and invites me to a Bukkake party.
That Sunday night I agree to go to his party. It’s in Hollywood on one of those lil streets u`d never know existed. I get there at the given time. I am welcomed by an older man, about 70 yrs old or so. He offers me water and to have a seat, I thought it was very odd.The hottie who invited me walks out in a jock strap, he shows me the big couch for me to sit after he strips me naked. Now he is nude, and starts to suck on me. Within about 10 min or so about 8 guys show appear out of nowhere. All but one guy strip down and starts masturbating. I'm the only one getting sucked by the hottie. I thought it was strange, that none of the guests got into each other. There was a hot shaved head Latin guy with a nice big thick Chorizo, the other dudes were White. While the circle jerk was going on, the old man was in the living room sitting on the opposite side of the room shopping on the Wal-Mart website with his laptop.
So I’m getting sucked, I’m getting my chest squeezed, slapped, rubbed, my stomach was being man-handled by a few of the guests.Of the dudes there, 4 were really hot! The Latino had the biggest cock and like most big cocks,it never really got super hard. So there I was getting sucked for about 45 minutes or so when the boy signals to me that I can unload. That was the signal for all the circle jerk buds to start unloading. One by one, and a few at the same time started unloading on the boys face. I ended up just watching, fascinated by seeing these guys unload. It was very sexy and primal watching these guys work their dicks. The shaved head homie and I were the last ones to unload. Homey was having a hard time trying to unload, I started fondling his hot firm lean ass and playing with his hole. At that point he finally got hard and even bigger and thicker, it was a nice uncut rizo, he let out a fucking geyser of cum on the boys face and on his curly hair. By this time the cocksucker was covered in Cum. The cocksucker took my load in his mouth.
All this time Gramps continued to browse the Wal-Mart website.
We all got dressed and made our ways out the door. The cocksucker stood there smiling and licking the cum that was dripping around his mouth. The next morning I get an email from the cocksucker thanking me for my attendance. I asked if he enjoyed his evening, he said yes, he had not showered and made it to class that next morning. He tells me he gets turned on by the cum drying on his hair or face! Even if it’s globs of it.
So there you have, Silverlake residents at their finest.
Please feel free to send me your comments. I can´t wait for my friends next installment.
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