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Vaginal Davis' Performances, Lectures, and Exhibitions This page includes a partial listing of Vaginal Davis' many Performances, Lectures, Solo Exhibitions and Performances, and Group Shows. Performances Toronto Alternative Art Fair International Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Friday November 10 to Sunday, November 12, 2006 http://www.taafi.org/ "Weimar New York" Joe's Pub, NYC, Monday, March 27, 2006 "Beware the Holy Whore" At 'making LOVE, queering SEX', Sager Symposium 2006, Friday, March 24th 2006, 9pm, Upper Tarble performance space, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/sager/sager2006/schedule.htm Vaginal Davis in Berlin New Years Eve December 31, 2005, CHEAP Silvester party with Vaginal Davis, Bruce La Bruce, Sandy Dennis, Ruth Fischer, Max Riemelt, Roddy Frame, Michelle Carr.....and other sexual repulsives. At HAU (Hebbel-am-Ufer), Hallesches Ufer 32 / 10963 Berlin tickets: 030.25900427 publicity materials weblink: http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/de/kuenstler/kuenstler_5360.html?HAU=2 "VD as VB: Black and White Men and Women Together Again Forever piece 483-8070" Vaginal Davis performed her VD at VB piece as part of Roselee Goldberg's first Biennial of New Visual Art Performance in New York City. Ms. Davis's piece spoofing international art star Vanessa Beecroft took place at the Participant Inc. Gallery on Saturday November 19, 2005 at 7pm. The Biennial took place from Nov 3-21, 2005. http://05.performa-arts.org/ "Cheap Club" with Vaginal Davis, Wilhelm Hein, Katarzyna Kozyra, Gloria Viagra. October 2, 2005, HAU 2 Hallesches Ufer 32 10963 Berlin, Germany "Beware the Holy Retarded Whore: An Evening of Electronic Cinema mit Vaginal Davis" Friday, Sept 30, 2005 9 pm, Kino Arsenal, Potsdamerstr 2, in Sony Center, Berlin, Germany. http://www.fdk-berlin.de/arsenal/text2005/0905cheap.html "CHEAP: It happened to me: a revolutionary horror ride." performance about the lesbianic meeting in Paris in 1961 between Angela Davis and famous communista Ruth Fischer. Playing both Davis and Fischer and viceversa, Vaginal Davis and Susanne Saschsse, the star of Bruce La Bruce's latest film Rasberry Reich. In conjunction with the Cheap Collective. At HAU 1 (Hebbel-am-Ufer), Stressemannstr.29, 10963, Berlin, Germany, September 23-24, 2005. Poster designed by Cory Marie Podielski. "VD is VB" Performance at opening of "poker im osten" festival. Friday, Sept 23, 2005 HAU 2 Hallesches Ufer 32 10963 Berlin, Germany "V.D. is V.B.: Black and White Men and Women Together Forever" For the Afterparty for the July 13, 2005 opening night of Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper's performance "The Judas Cradle", Vaginal Davis hosted with a special performance from her Vanessa Beecroft series and Amanda Piasecki presented a cradle cake performance. Photos and account at LAist. Cal Arts website with further information Theorizing Queer Visualities Conference In April 2005, Vaginal Davis appeared at the Theorizing Queer Visualities Conference in Manchester, England. Vaginal Davis was artist in residency at the University of Manchester and presented a workshop for the students and community called "Maladjustment Rules" that culminated in a sharing on May 7th. And she did a full length work in progress preview of "Orifice Descending" on May 10th as part of Queer up North. More information is available at the conference website. "Orifice Descending" (excerpt) New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, February 2005. http://www.newmoves.co.uk/ "Vaginal Davis Film Retrospectacle" Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington. January 20, 2005. "Orifice Descending" (excerpt) "Visitions of Excess, The Balkans" performance festival curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis. in Lubljana, Slovenia, December 17, 2004 http://www.aksioma.org/visions Vaginal Davis will performed excerpts from her one woman show "Orifice Descending" accompanied by the musical collective Bast: Gal Gjurin: bass guitar, double bass, trumpet, Andraž Mazi: guitar Matjaž Manček: guitar Vuk Krakovik: Violin Boštjan Gombač: MC Wattican, voice, clarinet and flute Marjan Stanik: drums and percussion Aldo Ivančik: programming, mix and production Visions of Excess -- A Tribute to George Bataille Curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis and featuring artists from around the world such as David Grassi of Slovenia, Marcus Lutyens, Spain and Yuraslav Mogutin of Russia with The Velvet Hammer Review(LA) Bruce La Bruce(Canada) Udo Kier(Germany) and many others. Part of the Fierce Festival. Birmingham, England, Sunday May 25th- Monday May 26th, 2003 Opening performings for Future Bible Heroes (Magnetic Fields related project) Troubadour, Los Angeles, Thursday April 10th, 2003 "Intimacy and Tomorrow" At Gay Shame Conference, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, March 2003. http://www.umich.edu/~lgqri/gayshame.html "Platinum Oasis: La Terra Vista Dalla Luna" Durational performances, inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis. Los Angeles, July 13/14, 2002. "Platinum Oasis" Durational performances, curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis. Los Angeles, July 14/15, 2001. "Sucking Her Unborn Cock" Praeter, Berlin, Germany, sponsored by the Volksbruner and Podevil, June 9, 2001. solo performance At Duckie, London, England, May 26, 2001. "Cheap Jewelry" in "Reich und Berühmt" festival, Berlin, Germany, May 9-12, 2001. "Inspiration From Los Angeles" Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich, 1999 "More Inspiration From Los Angeles" Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, 1999 "Beyond Underground" Book Soup Los Angeles, 1999 "La Prima Volta Della Plastic" Milano 1999 "The Magic of Vaginal Davis-Her Experimental Film Ouvre" Cinema Eliseo, Milano, 1999 "Sexual Repulsives - A Night of Sticky Icky Films" Ed Gould Plaza Los Angeles, 1999 "Feed and Focus" California Institute For The Arts Los Angeles "Stupidity, Today" Waldron Arts Center Bloomington, Indiana "Desperality Room-The Films of Vaginal Davis" Woodburn Hall, Indiana University at Bloomington "Farm Fresh/Free Range" Second Story, Bloomington, Indiana "Body As Object" Art Center College of Design, Pasadena 1998 "Fluxus Tribute: Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Thread Waxing Space, NYC, September 1998 with Yoko Ono, Beck Channing and Bibbe Hansen, Marianne Faithful, Foot featuring Thurston Moore, Don Fleming and Jim Dunbar, Larry Miller, and Cat Power. "Representation And Identity" New York University Fine Art Dept-September 1998 "Wigstock 98" NYC-September 1998 "Yes, Ms. Davis" Vaginal Davis Film Retrospective, Outfest 98 at Director Guild Los Angeles-July 1998 "The Merry Widow" with Ron Athey, Fetish Ball/Variety Arts Center Los Angeles-July 1998 "Queer Publics, Queer Privates" New York University Tisch School of the Performing Arts-April 1998 "Queer Images, Queer Media" University of California at Los Angeles-June 1998 "Alternative Arts" Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles-January 1998 "Intimacy & Tomorrow" Chicago Art Institute-May 1997 "Dischord" University of California at Los Angeles-April 1997 "Queer Looks" California School of the Arts-March 1997 "Intimacy & Tomorrow" Nirvana: Capitalism & The Consumed Image Series; Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle-November 1996 "Intimacy & Tomorrow" Six Sex Weeks Festival; Schmidtt Theatre, Hamburg-October 1996 "Intimacy & Tomorrow" Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions-September 1996 "A Season In Hell" Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions-August 1996 "Zines & Queens Kill Zinesters" Ben is Dead Magazine Tour, Jacques, Boston-August 1996 "Last Zine Before Brooklyn" Kill Zinesters Tour, Luna Lounge NYC-July 1996 "Wigstock West" Fort Mason San Francisco-May 1996 "Epiphany: A Techno Gospel Rock Opera" with Ron Athey, Los Angeles-April 1996 "In The Realm of Senses" Center on Contempory Art Seattle-January 1996 "English is Spoken Here" Highways Performance Space Santa Monica 1995 Lectures 2006 Vaginal Davis Lecture/Video Presentation on Tuesday, January 3, 2006, at 10:00am in Marc Siegel's Seminar "Queer Theory and Film" in the Department of Film Studies, Free University--Berlin, Grunewaldstrasse 35, Seminar Room II, 14195 Berlin (U or S Bahn Rathaus Steglitz) 2005 Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. 16 February 2005. http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/calendar.php 2002 At symposium "Queer(ing) Warhol: Examining Andy Warhol's Queer(ed) Performances" California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California. January 19, 2002. 2001 Seminar fur Filmwissenschaft at the Universitat Zurich, May 2001. Shedhalle Zurich, May 2001. at the "Queer Arts Festival", at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Friday April 6th, 2001. 2000 "Re-Centering the Margins: Queer women of color building coalition in the millennium" conference, California State University, Long Beach. 1999 Yale University, School of Art, Department of Sculpture, New Haven, CT SVA, School of Visual Arts, Introduction to Video Art, Alix Lambert, New York, NY New York University, Graduate Studio Critique Hyun Cody Choi, School of Arts Professional NYC 1998 The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Core Artist, Residence Program, Houston, TX Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Se'minaire d'Art Contemporain de Lionel Bovier, Lausanne, Switzerland Solo Exhibitions and Performances 1999 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Galerie Axel Momer, Stockholm Sweden Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1998 Galleria Il Capricomo, Venice, Italy Galerie Analix Geneva, Switzerland Gallerie Lia Rumme, Naples, Italy Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece Kunstmuseum, Milwaukee WI Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK 1997 Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA FRAC, Le Noveau Muse'e, Lyon, France XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice Biennial, Venice Italy Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France Fri Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy Galerie Tre, Stockholm, Switzerland Galerie Analix, Geneva Switzerland Deitch Projects, New York, NY Stedeljk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Nederlands 1996 Wallraf-Richartz-Muiseum and Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL CAPC, Muse'e d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Factory, Athens, Greece 1995 Fuori Uso 95, Pescara, Italy Palazzina Liberty, Milan, Italy Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Galerie Schipper & Krome, Cologne, Germany Courtesy Fac-Simile, Milan, Italy PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Andrae Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Feature Gallery, New York, NY Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy Selected Group Shows 2005 "Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention" curated by Jonathan Berger, running from July 7 - August 24 2005 at Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 3rd floor in New York City. http://www.grimmrosenfeld.com/ There is a review in the New York Times with mention of Vaginal Davis at the start of the second page. small image    large image 2004 "The Leopard Spots" visual art exhibit at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA. http://www.18thStreet.org "Fade (1990-2003)", a survey of African American Artists working in Los Angeles. curated by Malik Gaines. Craft and Folk Art Museum , Los Angeles. 2001 Vaginal Davis video installation in Beyond Origin at the Hellenic American Union Art Center Gallery, Athens, Greece. 1999 Gallerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Curated by L. Cherubini 504, Zentrum fur Kunst, Medien und Design, Braunschweig, Germany. Curated by J. Armleder Some kind of Heaven, South London Gallery, London, UK Curated by S. Coles & E. Meyer-Hermann 1998 Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London UK Veronica's Revenge, From Man Ray to Mathew Barney, The Prague City Gallery LAC, Switzerland Helmut Newton, Big Nudes, L'Elac, L'Espace Lausannois d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 1997 Heaven, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Curated by J. Decter Fatto in Italia, Institute of Contemporary Art, London UK Curated by P. Colombo Display, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Curated by M. Andersen. Persona X, Saltzburger Kunstverein, Saltzburg, Austria Curated by H. Amanshauser. Les Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France Curated by J. Sans

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