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New updates:
NY Times article
by Guy Trebay on designer Rick Owens quotes Vaginal Davis. Owens made
costumes for "Cheap Blackie."
TAZ Newspaper review (in German) of "Max und Moritz" by
Cheap Kollective featuring
Vaginal Davis.
Hollywood Reporter story on the Berlin
Film Festival including Vaginal Davis
and Cheap Collective's Gossip Studio.
Collages by Vaginal Davis:
Wall of Gay Shame, Aretha & Shaun Fanning Part One
Wall of Gay Shame, Aretha & Shaun Fanning Part Two
"Dorian Corey Sequin Gown Near Opie Print at Koreatown Studio"
Wall of Gay Shame Black&White, Sepia (Collage)
Vaginal Davis appeared at the Homo A Gogo festival
in Olympia Washington. The festival ran August 1-6, 2006 and
Dr. Davis' appearances included hosting the Friday, August 4th show.
www.homoagogo.com
Account of Bricktops Takes Manhattan
Vaginal Davis is interviews by John Sanchez on the
podcast Feast of Fools.
Vaginal Davis' paintings appeared in the show
"Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention"
curated by Jonathan Berger, 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.
Images of Vaginal Davis' paintings:
small image
large image
LA Weekly
preview of the last Bricktops.
Vaginal Davis gives a tour of Hollywood Boulevard on the program
"Pacific Drift" on KPCC 89.3. The show is being rebroadcast Sunday
March 6 at 9 pm, or listen online.
article
at RainbowNetwork about Vaginal Davis' appearances in the UK.
Lust:
Best Places to Get Serviced with Zeal and Abandon by
Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis.
Vaginal Davis inteviews the
Ditty Bops
in the LA Weekly article.
New York Times article by Guy Trebay about Vaginal Davis from May 23, 2004.
[if you don't want to sign up for a password, you can get one from
bugmenot.com .]
The LA Times has a large feature article on Vaginal Davis.
Also available
here
with a clipping with photo of Abby Travis.
Wikipedia article on
Vaginal Davis.
Webpage with
photos of Visions of Excess, courtesy of
Paranoid
Android.
Article by Vaginal Davis:
Entertaining L.A. Style: The Rules of Party Conduct.
Ms. Davis
explains where to go in the LA Weekly's Best of LA issue.
Vaginal Davis is now doing a
weblog.
Check out this newfangled technological breakthru!
From Paper Magazine, Ann Magnuson's LA Woman
column about Bricktops.
Teaser interviews with
Keanu Reeves, Eminem and Missy Elliot from
the upcoming book, Beware the Holy Whore ---celebrities
shooting the breeze with retarded whore Vaginal Davis.
Vag reviews music
Bricktops gets a writeup in the
LA Weekly
New York Times article on a dinner party thrown by designer
Rick Owens and his ladylove Michele Lamy which was attended by
Vaginal Davis.
Issue 36 of the highly lauded French fashion magazine Dutch includes
an article by Vaginal Davis.
Dutch is an English language magazine based in Paris with
administrative offices in Holland.
The article is titled "LA My Way" and features
photos of Margaret Cho as post-modern flapper vamp
Clara Cho photographed at Chapman Market.
Purchase the CD featuring Vag's shrimping song "Cherries in the
Snow" on the Merchandise page.
Creme de la Creme -- article on Ms. Davis from the Detroit MetroTimes.
Bruce LaBruce confesses his Platinum Oasis
experience. Plus, a kiss-and-tell-all column by Bruce about
Dr. Davis.
Platinum Oasis is featured in the current high-brow
issue of art magazine Frieze. Check out
page 1 and
page 2
Read all the hot gossip here on who was
at Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey's Platinum Oasis all-night
sex-laden performance art fest Platinum Oasis.
The LA Weekly drops all the
well-known
names that were there and gives an
expose
on Platinum Oasis.
And here's an Artists
statement describing some of the wild goings-on.
Some gossip Vag sent from Europe to
Glue Magazine --
Whoopi Goldberg and more.
The Beauty of the Dork -- LA Weekly cover story written by Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey.
Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey edited the special fashion issue of the
LA Weekly including an
article by Vag on retro shop
Re-Mix.
Vag interviews
Le Tigre,
and the conversation is both erudite and amusing.
A report on Vag's star-studded birthday party
Vag reviews the photo book
California
Boys
Vaginal Davis has a song on the Mr.
Lady compilation "Calling All Kings and Queens", along with songs by
Sleater-Kinney, The Butchies and Le Tigre.
Vaginal Davis punditizes about the sorry state of American politics
at PlanetOut
Vaginal Davis: an in-depth
interview
with one of the world's most
important personalities.
Vag gets intimate with
with dyke heartthrobs
The Butchies
Vaginal Davis is featured in the book
The Changing Room: Sex, Drag, and Theatre by Laurence Senelick,
published by Routledge.
Vaginal Davis interviews the
Magnetic Fields
in the L.A. Weekly.
There is an interview with Vaginal Davis by John Sanchez, including
photos of Vag's apartment, in the July 2000 issue of Index Magazine.
Vag had a piece on plushies in the previous Index Magazine.
Vag interviews The Acres.
Vaginal Davis rakes
Slowrider
over the coals.
Vag pontificates on the
Feminization of Menswear.
Vag's top 5 records, from PlanetOut.
Vag's interview with The Need in the
San
Francisco Bay Guardian.
Vag's interview with
Bibbe Hansen, Beck's mom, from Index magazine is now available on-line.
Vaginal Davis' film
The White to be Angry screened in Australia with
Skin
Flick at
Queer Screen
in Sydney, February 22nd, 2000.
Vag and Johnny Ray
Huston do some tag-team record reviewing in the SF Bay Guardian. |
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Vaginal Davis Presents "La Souriante Madame Beudet" at Rising Stars, Falling Stars as part of the Sunscreens Sommer Experimental Film Festival
Germaine Dulacs´s 1923 film will have musical accompaniment by art kollective Cheap featuring Susanne Sachße, Marc Siegel, Tim Blue, John Blue, & Daniel Hendrickson. Afterward a star studded soiree with hostess Vaginal Davis with special guest Bibbe Hansen(the youngest of the Warhol superstars and mother of pop wunderkind Beck)
Samstag, 30th of August 10pm on the Rooftop Garden of the Filmhaus Sony Center -
Kino Arsenal at 2 Potsdamer Strasse in Potsdamer Platz
Trailer for New Vaginal Davis Film Series
Her new cinematic series introduces the 16 year old art prodigy DeRohan Chabot. DeRohan Chabot is the new Rimbaud, a teenage genius who is shattering the art world.
Vaginal Davis makes rare appearance in Prince
Harryland, London-England Aug 2-5th
Ms. Davis will officiate the pink mass for gorgeous Stuart Comer of the
Tate Modern
Sat Aug 2nd 9pm at Bistroteque, then the next day Sunday Aug 3rd
starting at 5pm will DJ, perform, and host the Butt Magazine Salty Dog
Beer Bust
finally on Tuesday Aug 5th her residency at Bistroteque
concludes with a magically alchemic evening called, Vaginal Davis is
looking for the perfect Ginger Concubine, which will feature a rare
selection of her electronic cinema ouvre, special treats and delusional
voidoid vortexing.
www.bistrotheque.com
Vaginal Davis Presents Hans Richter shorts
at Rising Stars, Falling Stars
An atmosphere unlike any other this Saturday is another exciting installment of the most talked about monthly event in Berlin, “Rising Stars, Falling Stars,” which celebrates experimental films, the silent era, and early cinema treasures in a whimsical performative environment.
Seen at last month's tribute to Mabel Normand were internationally renowned independent curator Nicholas Weist (The Dulcet Clime of the Bed Chamber), well endowed German artist Christian Siekmeier, who has returned to Berlin after 11 years spent in New York, lovesexy experimental film darling Wilhelm Hein with his brilliant art photog girlfriend Annette Frick, gorgeous British live artist Keira O`Reilly, movie ingenue Brady Corbet, author Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, vivacious actresses Alexandra Maria Lara and Susanna Sachße and the grande dame des deutschen Schauspiels Senta Berger. You never know who you´ll see at Rising Stars, the only event in Berlin that mixes people from divergent scenes.
This Saturday Vaginal Davis presents an homage to the great Hans Richter with a specially crafted selection of his short subjects. With daring musical accompaniment by New York composer Kjohnny Blue. After the screening join hostess Vaginal Davis & her cosmopolitan guests in the Roter Foyer for a wine reception.
A Hans Richter shorts program with musical accompaniment from kJohnny Blue.
10pm with wine reception after the screening.
Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at
Potsdamer Platz Sony Center
Potsdamer Str 2
Saturday July 26th
Arsenal web
Vaginal Davis and Tim Blue of Cheap
with the beautiful and amazing youth of Berlin
Sunday June 22nd 5pm at HAU I
The Arrogance of Youth
. . .And if they are not, they should be. They are everything;
at the height of their physical strength and beauty, creative, eager
to participate and change a world that should belong to them. At the
threshold of adulthood, their enthusiasm and concern is what this world
torn with war, disease and violence needs the most. It is time to take
what only belongs to them.
Coming out of workshops with Vaginal Davis and Tim Blue of art
kollective Cheap, an army of 100 youth, shod in gold and raiment, from
all over Berlin will attack the senses in a showcase of love, humor,
beauty and power.
HEBBEL AM UFER
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Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin
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fax +49 30 259 004 49
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www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Vaginal Davis presents "Tillie's Punctured Romance " at Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Tillie's Punctured Romance starring cinemas first big comedy star Mabel Normand
9:30 with wine reception after the screening.
Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at
Potsdamer Platz Sony Center
Potsdamer Str 2
7 June 2008
Arsenal Web
Tillie's Punctured Romance starring cinemas first big comedy star Mabel Normand
Happening
at the Halla
Vaginal Davis and her sexy Wei&slig;ensee art students will
present a one time akshunist event - Happening at the Halla ---"You'll
Know What To Do" this Friday May 23rd 8pm at the
Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin-Neukölln at the former Kindl-Brewery
Werbellinstr 50 U8 Boddingstr.
http://www.raumerweiterungshalle.tk
FREE
Vaginal Davis in wealthy southern Germany!
Sugar daddies beware!
The great insane professor Vaginal Davis
will be conducting a performance workshop
with the students of Merz Akademie
Art and Design University in Stuttgard
from May 26-May 30th
Vaginal Davis presents "The Perils of Pauline" at Rising Stars, Falling Stars in the intimate Kino 2 space
The Perils of Pauline, 1913-14 starring Pearl White
directed by Donald Mackenzie
live music by the Blue Bros. Tim and kJohnny
after the screening join Ms. Davis in the famous Rote Foyer for a reception
drinken,flirten, kissen and sexen
Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at
Potsdamer Platz Sony Center
Potsdamer Str 2
24 May 2008
Arsenal web
Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap will open for Kill Rock Stars "The New Bloods".
Accompanied by kJohnny Blue on cello, Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap
will open for Kill Rock Stars recording artists from Portland, Oregon
"The New Bloods" at West Germany skalitzer str. 133 10999 Berlin
22 May 2008
doors open at 9pm Vaginal Davis and Kjohnny go on at 10pm and the new bloods
at 11pm $4.00 cover
http://www.myspace.com/lamoustacheberlin
Vaginal Davis teaches workshop with the art students of Wiesensee- open to the general community as well.
For all of you Francophiles
Vaginal Davis will be in gorgeous Paris, France making a rare appearance on Gallic shores at the prestigious La Palais de Tokyo Museum on April 9, 2008 where she will give the performative interactive lecture "Porno Adorno-F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks"
for more information go to www.palaisdetokyo.com.
Vaginal Davis returns to the states for the first time in over a year
Vaginal Davis returns to the states for the first time in over a year with her "Present Penicative" Installation that is part of the group show The Way That We Rhyme-Women, Art, Politics March 29-June, 2008 at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, the show will also include special performative events. More information on the show here.
Vaginal Davis with kollective Cheap back by popular demand
The Cheap Gossip Studio Installation will be included as part of Forum Expanded at the Berlinale Film Festival 2008 from Feb 7-17th. This year we will be giving out Cheapy Awards to the most accomplished people in the Outsider Arts Movement
Cheap Blacky in Art Forum
Vaginal Davis quoted in Art Forum. And check out her performance from the show on Youtube!
Vaginal Davis at Peres Projects Gallery in Berlin
Saturday Sept 29th at 7 pm, Ms. Davis will perform as part of the Bruce la
Bruce/Terence Koh installation at Peres Projects Gallery in Berlin.
Vaginal Davis DJs at "FM Queer: A Big Night Out" in Vienna Austria
FM Queer in Vienna Austria on October 20th. Also on the bill is jean genet, lesbians on ecstacy and TNT Jackson. For more information see the FM Queer website.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars
mit Vaginal Davis
at
Kino Arsenal
Sonntag, 21.10.2007, 21:00
Ein performativer Abriss von Stummfilme, early talkies, dem Avantgarde und jenseits from Baghdad to Tinseltown mit special guest hostess globale Dragartiste Vaginal Davis of Hollywood.
Join Fräulein Davis und andere Frühfilmfanatiker für einen
intimen Abend saluting the luminous Louise Brooks and her director,
G.W. Pabst, with a screening of the Berlin Klassiker Die Buchse der Pandora.
Nach der Vorführung folgt a Weimar-style Empfang, where Freunde der
deutschen Kinemathek prizes will be awarded für die beste Lulu-
und Franz Wedekind Doppelgänger.
A performative survey of silent films, early talkies, the avant-garde and beyond from Baghdad to Tinseltown, with special guest hostess global drag artiste Vaginal Davis of Hollywood.
Join Fräulein Davis and other early cinema fanatics for an intimate evening saluting the luminous Louise Brooks and her director, G.W. Pabst, with a screening of the Berlin classic Die Buchse der Pandora. The screening will be followed by a Weimar-style reception, where Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek prizes will be awarded for the best Lulus and Franz Wedekind Doppelgängers.
http://www.fdk-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programm.html
The lady DJs opening party for 2nd Int'l Porn Film Festival in Berlin
Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007
22:00 Uhr PORNFILMFESTIVAL-OPENING-NIGHT CUM2CUT-PORNGIVING-NIGHT
DJ/VJ Vaginal Davis
WHOREGASMS
Join global Dragkünstlerin/DJane Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin
von Ho!henzollern from Hollywood, for a sultry evening of sensual
diphtheria visuals from her award-winning trespass cinema arsenal of
schwarze gonzo porn. Bring someone you've leased, rented, or bought to
watch this crazy sexual maniac behind the wheels of steel as she
spins freestyle classix, indie punque slop, and rock dance puddy. http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/07-special-programm.html
Cheap Projects in Germany, resumes in November 2007
Don't forget to check out Cheap Project's strangely successful efforts at corrupting German children at the Theater an der Parkaue: CHEAPs DR.SEUSS's ABC and CHEAPs MAX AND MORITZ, starring VAGINAL DAVIS (with brand new surprise ending for the new season!!!) and of course SUSANNE SACHSSEs STOFFEL FLIEGT ÜBERS MEER. All three productions are in repertoire this season at the Parkaue. info: www.parkaue.de
Max & Moritz with
Cheap Kollective features
Vaginal Davis as Witwe Bolte. The famous Beavis & Butthead of
German fairytales have been transplanted to a cholita-style
girl gang with one boy as the girls' bitch.
Max und Moritz:
conceived by cheap with Vaginal Davis,
starring the amazing, legendary German actors Frau Elvira Schuster as Bäckerin and Herr Dieter Korthals as Bauer
with Corinna Mühle, Katrin Heinrich, Elisabeth I.M. Heckel,
Sofie Hüsler and Denis Pöpping as the notorious street
gang The M&M's featuring Mathias Biele as
Müller, Peter Priegann as Onkel Fritz and
Frauline Vaginal Davis as Witwe Bolte.
The premiera was april 19th.
Performances resume in November--
For more information, see the website of Theater an der Parkaue.
Cheap, Blacky this November
Premiering in November: Cheap with Vaginal Davis
will have a new stage production at
HAU 2 Berlin
of Cheap, Blacky.
This drama of malfunctional family values features
Vaginal Davis as the mother of the title character.
Bruce La Bruce directs with costumes by couturier
Rick Owens and if that isn't enough, and it isn't, Susanne Sachße
(Raspberry Reich) will appear as a saloon singer. This is going to be ill.
In the spring this production will travel to Graz, Zurich, Hamburg
and Liverpool just to name a few cities who want to get in on the zanyness. Check out Bruce La Bruce's statement.
Vaginal Davis now based in Berlin, Germany
Vaginal Davis has left Los Angeles for good. She wasn't appreciated
enough and now is based in Berlin, Germany to better be available
for art appearances throughout the European continent.
To book Vaginal Davis for a performance or for other information,
contact Gleeson Breevard at Gleebrevard{AT}aol.com
Vaginal Davis in Slovenia
Vaginal Davis went to Slovenia to do
another version of her infamous VD as VB parody of Vanessa Beecroft. This time it's called VD as VB Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) # 27-29 10827.
The performance on June 21st, 2007 was at
Kapelica Gallery, produced by Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art as part
of the City of Women Festival, Association for the Promotion of
Women in Culture, which also gave important assistance in finding
the beautiful living sculptures.
A video of the VD as VB performance can be viewed here: http://www.dnevnik.si/novice/kultura/253264/
On the Aksioma web site are photos from the piece, plus a VD as VB
photo shoot called The Madonna of Laibachdorf.
http://www.reakt.org/vd/index.html
Vaginal Davis visits Montreal, Québec.
Friday March 16th, 2007:
5 pm:
Queer Horizons
Lecture by Professor José Esteban Muñoz
AND... Beware of the Holy Whore,
A performative presentation by Vaginal Davis.
McGill University (855 Sherbrooke W)
Leacock 132
(this event is wheelchair accessible)
Saturday March 17th, 2007:
Gays of Our Lives Opening at
articule Gallery (262 Fairmount O).
*queer shorts program
*Performance and Video screening by Vaginal Davis
*Informal discussion about queer video and performance moderated by Vaginal Davis and Jose E Munoz
Presented by articule Special Projects and La Centrale Powerhouse Gallery
(this space is wheelchair accessible)
www.articule.org
Saturday March 17th,11pm:
After Party at
Le Studio (2111 Saint-Laurent Boulevard)
Hosted by Vaginal Davis
With DJ Will Munro and the Asspirates
Performances by Mikiki, Donzelle and more.
$5 (no one turned away)
(this event is wheelchair accessible)
March 21th to March 25th:
Gays of Our Lives Installation.
La Centrale Powerhouse Gallery (4296 Blv. St. Laurent)
http://www.lacentrale.org
Vaginal Davis and Cheap installation and film screenning at Berlinale 2007
Cinema Beyond its Boundaries: For the second time, Forum expanded presents video art, experimental and underground films.
The heart of Forum expanded this year is the "Gossip Studio" in the Atrium of the Filmhaus, an underground parlor for the creation and circulation of gossip with its cocktail bar and beauty moments -- designed and presented by the artists group CHEAP (Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson, and Tim Blue)
and Vaginal Davis.
Screening will be films that Vaginal Davis filmed in
berlin le petite tokinoise and granpa sam part of the gossip studio, cheap rumourville
The opening of Gossip Studio is on Friday 9th of February at 16:00 at Arsenal 1.
It runs from the 10th of February through the 18th of February at the
Filmhaus Atrium with
Works by Vaginal Davis, Birgit Hein, Sam Siegel and Danny Williams, presented by Cheap with Vaginal Davis,
plus for the same dates the
Forum expanded Rooftop Garden with Films by Vaginal Davis, Marie Losier and Shannon Plumb at Filmhaus Blackbox.
More information on the
press release and
New Year's Eve/Silvester Art Party with Cheap & Vaginal Davis in Berlin
After last year's chaotic success, CHEAP + holy retarded whore Vaginal Davis transformed HAU 2 into a horror theme park at New Year's RUTH FISCHER's MONSTERLAND: Hideous creatures big and small from Bagdad to Hollywood. Lick and chew on the giant black racehorse arse of hostess with the mostess on her hairy eyeballs, Vaginal Davis. Plus the Whoracle et Delphi, and other misfortune tellers, pinheads, humpy dorks, trolls, happy hookers, snaggle tooth hustlers, crosseyed cheesesticks, grizzly half-naked communists and refined thrill rides for the descerning! Unexpected film and video projections by Wilhelm Hein, carnel casting couch by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, PopPunque Pulsations from the band Ruth Fischer featuring Ibadette and Mickey of the Super 700s. Sexually maniacal star appearances and DJs b_books, nancy goes to rio and prinzessin von ho!hernzollern!!!
AB 22 Uhr im HAU 2
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
tel.259004 27
Womanizer group show in New York at Deitch Projects
Yes the Lady Ms. Davis is part of the Womanizer exhibit that opens at Deitch Projects in SoHo on January 6, 2007 Curated by Kembra Pfahler and Julie Atlas Mus. Vaginal Davis will present a living installation called Present Penicative, that features videos, photos, paintings, drawings, and ephemera from her illustrious outsider art career. Plus she will perform for a male audience of one in the new piece, "Colonize Me" and will perform and host an intimate women only salon called "Bilitis-A Feminine Seperatist Political State"(Located somewhere in Palestine).
Porno Adorno - F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks:
A Performative Workshop
with Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin Von Ho! henzollern
Vaginal Davis Returns to Austria, Fall 2006
The Cheap Collektive with Vaginal Davis will be performing in
the steirische herbst 2006 performance festival in
Graz, Austria Sept 20-October 15, 2006.
http://www.steirischerbst.at
Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap will
DJ at the Art Festival Center wed 11 Oct from 9pm - kunstlerhaus in
volkspark in graz entritt frei. Come to the Party!
Vaginal Davis in Austria
Vaginal Davis in Ohio
Friday, April 21, at 8 pm, Vaginal Davis did a performance
in Mitchell Auditorium, Siegfred Hall, Athens, Ohio, at Ohio University.
webpage -
email contact: livewodeadtime@gmail.com
Vaginal Davis in NYC
Where Art and Life Collide-A Festival of Subcultural Performances New York
University April 26-May 5th
Vaginal Davis performed along with others in New York in
April/May 2006.
Read this account of Bricktops Takes Manhattan
More information at www.artofnightlife.net
April 26- artists arrive
April 27- studio visits with MFA students, 2-5pm
April 28- Roselee Goldberg/Performa hosts "NOT FOR SALE" panel with C. Carr, Lucy Sexton, Robert Storr, and other special guest scholars and critics, 6-8 pm, followed by reception, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE
May 1- Ron Athey, "Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle", durational performance 5-10pm, Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, $10
May 2- Franko B, "Why are you here?", one to one performances, 4pm-midnight by appointment (212-254-4334), Participant Gallery, 95 Rivington Street, ($20)
May 3- LesbiansToTheRescue presentation of special edition poster project, followed by screening of Simeon Hutner's documentary film about Ron Athey, "Martyrs and Saints," including Q+A with film maker, 6:30pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE
May 4- Vaginal Davis, "Bricktops Takes Man!hattan", 6pm student installation opening reception, 10pm showtime ($10), Siberia, 356 West 40th Street featuring DJ's Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Pirate Jenny of Montpelier and Billy Miller of the Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts and performances by The Toxic Titties Collective, Anderson Cooper channeling Bobby Short, John Blue Quartet, Birds in Guilded Cages, Boydello Lounge, Taxi Dancing and many surprises!
May 5- Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B Artist lectures, followed by panel discussion with the artists moderated by Jose Munoz and Jennifer Doyle, 6-8pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant street, FREE
"BRICKTOPS! - ROARING 20s NIGHTCLUB!
a utopian oasis for the literary clubgoer
The Parlour Club, Bricktops old Los Angeles venue,
has closed. Watch here for the reappearance of Bricktops at
other venues, worldwide.
Beautiful Bricktops art noveau posters are
on sale at Bricktops. The posters were lovingly
designed by Cory Marie Podielski
of the Moveable Feast, there are
limited quantities of these highly prized collectors item, so be the first
on your blocka to purchase. There are three so far
in a special series of posters featuring Bricktop luminaries, all
numbered and signed by the artist. Click on images below for
larger views.
August 5, 2005 - Final Bricktops at the Parlour Club:
Mink Stole, Abbie Travis, Kristian
Hoffman, Reny Monk as Josephine Baker accompanied by Tom, Cabinet of
Curiosities, Pretty Things, My Barbarian, Selene Luna, Michele Carr
of the Velvet Hammer, La Poubelle Twins, Anna Bells, The Fishnet
Floozy, Rebekah Del Rio, Jose Promis, Jean Spinosa, Augusta! Hobo
Jazz, Penny Starr Junior and almost everyone who has ever played
Bricktops doing one short piece.
Dress Fancy, No cellphones, No Hummers, No Range Rovers, and absolutely no
plastic surgeries.
Andrew Gould, and tranny temptress, Vaginal Davis present Bricktops! at the
Parlour Club, 7702 Santa Monica Blvd in the Russian Quarter of West
Hollywood. Bricktops faithfully re-creates the splendour of Jazz Age Cafe
Society Paris, Weimar Berlin, and Greenwich Village bohemian intelligentcia.
For literate clubgoers sick of the corporate careerist vulturism and youth
culture myopia that plagues the tired and stagnant LA club scene, Bricktops
provides the only satisfying true alternative. The style and allure of the
1920s has created a "flaming" youth movement and sub-culture, that
excercise
in camp and kitch, but something more demanding that explores our not so
distant past in an environment ripe to promote the creation of new political,
artistic and cultural movements.
Appropriate lost generation attire requested.
WWW.PARLOURCLUB.COM.
Visions of Excess at
Fierce Festival in Birmingham England
Visions of Excess --
A Tribute to George Bataille --
at The Demon Club Strip. Join in.
Birmingham. Sunday May 25th 4pm - Monday May 26th 10am. curated by Vaginal
Davis and Ron Athey 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.
Vaginal Davis opening for Siouxsie and the Banshees
Yes that's right -- the beautiful diva of all Diva's Siouxsie Sioux and her
Banshees are playing at the Hollywood Paladium on Saturday Aug 11, 2002
-- and kicking off the show who else but
special guest Technova featuring Vaginal Davis and David Harrow, who co-wrote
the smash Billy Ray Martin hit "Your Loving Arms."
Platinum Oasis July 13/14 2002
PLATINUM OASIS: La Terra Vista Dalla Luna
Here's the media reports:
LA Weekly's Slush,
New Times LA -- unfortunately the Advocate's story is not on their
website.
Yes, we've gone mad, but here it is anyway back by popular demand part two of
our mega-multi-media, hyper-intellectual, 18-hour arts'n'culture celebration
of sleaze known the world over as Platinum Oasis at the notorious Coral
Sands Motel. This year's theme serves as a tribute to the sick genius of the late
poet, author and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, 120 Days of Sodom.)
Couture fashion wunderkind Rick Owens has specially designed garments this
year, which will be custom fitted to you in our high tech sweat shop. First come first serve so get there early! The hot to trot Velvet Hammer revue will pull it to the bumper alongside the likes of Kid Congo Powers and Little Annie; F2M underground Rap androgenues The End of The World;
telenovella brats gone wild! Los Super Elegantes; Israeli pop star Burger!; My Barbarian summoning the
Big Anus Devil from Canterbury Tales; New Zealand's Ann Shelton; Italy's Accatone strega-diva Diviana
Ingravallo; Turkish fascistic movement performer Mehmet Sander; South Africa's Brian Hecker and Spain's Number One sexy conceptualist Marcos Lutyens; and many
more. The 40 rooms of installation include art stars Catherine Opie, Le
Tigre's JD Samson' 120 Days of JD, Russian dissident poet Slava, Billy Miller/Straight to
Hell, Brendan Mullen/Adam Parfrey, Emilio Cubiero's "Death of an Asshole" Hosted by Mark Simon with special guest Annie Sprinkle, the One Institute Archive's "Degeneration of the Invert," and everyone's fav libertine: Bruce La Bruce with St'Eve Hall. Round midnight, a Platypus-style "Reeperbahn.² At dawn, St. Salicia Tate leads her Mormen Jrs. in gospel-funk aerobics with a hymn service by Glen Meadmore's Hot Horny and Born Again Cuntry Band.
Hogma Soleil,
Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis
Full list of artists and installations.
Dr. Davis opens for Margaret Cho!
In a dizzying, coast-to-coast spree of comedy and crime,
Dr. Vaginal Davis opened for comedian Margaret Cho's "Notorious C.H.O." tour
which started August 30 in Miami and continued
through January, culminating in an appearance at New York City's
Carnegie Hall!
Read Vag's Tour Diary for all the
astounding details!
Check out this interview with Margaret Cho from the L.A. Times
where she mentions her fondness for this very Vaginal Davis website!
Deutschland, Switzerland, and England
Dr. Vaginal Davis has returned from her summer tour of Europe.
Here is a
German
review of one of her performances.
In May, Vaginal Davis performed in Berlin in the theatre piece
"Cheap Jewelry" as part of
"Reich und Berühmt",
a performance festival sponsored by Podewil, with a
premiere party in
Bastard on May 9.
As part of her European tour, Dr. Davis stepped off the continent for a
packed-to-the-rafters feature performance at London's
primo performance art nightspot
Duckie
on Saturday May 26th at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London.
Ms. Davis also appeared to thunderous approval in Zurich, Switzerland at
Seminar fur Filmwissenschaft at the Universitat Zurich and at
Shedhalle Zurich.
And back in Germany, Dr. Davis performed her piece "Sucking Her Un-Born Cock"
at Praeter in Berlin on June 9th,
sponsored by the Volksbruner
and Podevil,
featuring la diva picking unique well endowed Germanicuses
for a special one-on-one in a specially designed and unique setting.
Vaginal Davis on the Wheels of Steel
Proving that Boy George is not the only tired drag queen re-styling
herself as a DJ,
Vaginal Davis DJed at the LA debut party for art-world darlings
Fischerspooner (as seen on the cover of über-hip Index Magazine.) in March 2001.
If you liked Ms. D.'s Sucker DJ-ing as spinderella behind
the wheels of steel you'll love what she does at the West Coast Passerby in
conjunction with Manhattan gallery Gavin Brown's Enterprise.
And check out Vag's
interview with Fischerspooner from the L.A. Weekly.
Vag Gets Bestial With Le Tigre
Vag's performance with Le Tigre show was a blast. Missing
in-action was underground film legend Sadie Benning who apparently doesn't like to tour.
400 people had
to be turned away and it was so hot and stinky at the Smell that Vaginal
Davis passed out and was given mouth-to-mouth resesitation by Kathleen Hanna
and boyfriend Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys and then Vaginal sucked the
rapper's toes ate out his bung hole right on stage to the shrieks of the
adoring fans.
Patrons of the Arts, Atendez-vous!
The economy is booming so all you dot.com millionaires and industry queens
need to send Vaginal Davis some money. $$$ yes $moula. The hard green.
Right now! Don't be selfish. Help support the arts. Make it personal by
supporting this particular black diva! How many more BMW's or sexual
assault vehicles can you buy? You can only drive one at a time. Ms. Davis'
form of transportation is a broken down beat up bicycle, thats too small for
her 6'6" frame. Donate her a new bike. Take her to dinner. Subsidize her
performance pieces and musical ventures. I'm serious. Don't take her for
granted. So get with it or when the revolution comes she'll remember you
slighted her, and it will be your head on the guillotine.
To book Vaginal Davis for a performance or for other information,
contact Gleeson Breevard at Gleebrevard{AT}aol.com. [replace {AT} with @]
Contact by mail:
Vaginal Davis
PO Box 741278
LA CA 90004-9278
European Tour Accolades
Dr. Davis showed The White To Be Angry at film festivals in Milan, Bologna,
Turin, and Rome, and also performed in Zurich at the Kunstgewerbe-Schule.
Vaginal Davis is features on the cover of Jose Eseban Munoz' book
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics,
and is the subject of a chapter of the book, "Vaginal Creme Davis's
'Terrorist Drag.'" Please seek out and read this important document
of queer studies.
Vaginal Davis has a chapter, "The
Guadalamara Canal Diary" in the bestselling new book The Underground
Guide to Los
Angeles edited by punk princess Pleasant Gehman from San Francisco's
Manic D.
LaMonica's Story:LaMonica Rhys-Jones tells of her relationship with the
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New books with stuff about VD:
Vaginal Davis has an essay in "Blinded By Love", a beautifully bound
coffee table art book tribute to Franko B the Italian-born British art star.
And newly available is the Performa New Visual Art Performance book
by Roselee Goldberg which has some sketches, text and photos from
the VD as VB performance in New York.
In a recent blog entry, Vaginal Davis commented about an academic
article from 1997 from the journal College Literature by Michael du Plessis
and Kathleen Chapman titled "Queercore: The distinct identities of subculture".
Here's a link to the specific sections, page 7 and page 8.
Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu in an interview volunteered this quote about the
influence of Vaginal Davis on his work:
"I am bi and found artists that were androgynous hit me hard -- Peter Murphy, David Bowie, Morrissey. But there was a drag queen named Vaginal Davis that changed my life. I had no idea you could be punk and a drag queen and ultra intense and insane and hot and brilliant all at the same time."
The February 2006 issue of Paper Magazine has photos of the Bricktop's gang
representing 1920's Glamorpusses Tribe (Flappers, Dappers,
Speakeasies/Weimar Berlin Chic!).
Vaginal Davis has an article in the latest issue of
Zoo Magazine.
Zoo is a quarterly on fashion, art, design, architecture, photography, film,
music and books in English and German, published in Europe (The Netherlands)
and distributed worldwide. Zoo features the work of top fashion
photographers including:
Steven Klein, Terry Richardson, Alex Cayley, and Alexei Hay.
The latest
issue is on the stands now. Their website is
www.zoomagazine.de
Interview with Ms. Davis at
LAist.com
Vaginal Davis reports on the John Waters Christmas Party event for
LA Weekly -- third item in this
column
TECHNOVA
Vaginal Davis provides vocals on the new Technova musical releases, the
project of David Harrow.
The full-length CD/LP is titled Electrosexual, and the
first single is "I Could Have Sex" (the song is also available
on the Nag Nag Nag compilation.) Here's a review
of the CD, and the CD and single are available from
tunes.co.uk
Download the
video for the song "mamma's not dead" by Technova,
featuring Vaginal Davis.
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Beyond
Ghetto Fabulous article by Vaginal Davis.
Dr. Davis goes to Michigan for academia and
to England to scout locations for her upcoming
Birmingham gig and has sweaty sauna fun --
details in the
personal diary
of Vaginal Davis. [Also check out the
tour diary from Vag's trek around
the U.S. with Margaret Cho.]
LA Alternative Press article on Bricktops
New film reviews from Vag --
A Mighty Wind,
The Hours, Russian Ark, and more.
Dr. Davis put
on her highbrow professor hat and performed Saturday,
January 19th 5:30 pm at UCR/California
Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside, California.
The event was part of a two day symposium called Queer(ing) Warhol: Examining
Andy Warhol's Queer(ed) Performances and features leading contemporary
scholars including Douglas Crimp, Amelia Jones, and Jose Esteban Muñoz
discussing Warhol's art, and historical presence as a queer subject.
Vaginal Davis'
short story "The Everlasting Secret First Family of Fuck." appears
in the new anthology Aroused edited by performance
artist Karen Finley and published by
Thunder's Mouth Press.
Other celebrity contributers are
Lydia Lunch, John Waters, Hubert Selby Jr, Wallace Shawn, Jerry Stahl,
Richard Hell and bell hooks.
Review of Margaret Cho and Vaginal Davis' show in
San
Francisco.
Vaginal Davis on
bike riding
in L.A.
Contessa Cycle:
a day in the life of Vaginal Davis.
Ms. Davis gives an unorthodox perspective on current events
to Great Britain's
Rainbow Network.
Back up to the
Main Page to see a
drawing of Vaginal Davis by Dan Clowes, creature of "Ghost World,"
the new Terry Zwigoff film.
Dr. Davis gets all indie-rock in an article from the
Advocate
on Mr. Lady Records.
Berlin Diaries
Vaginal Davis pulls an Isherwood, as in Christopher,
demonstrating how the capital of Germany should be properly serviced
in the pages of
Das Tagebuch einer
Verlorenen.
UK website interview
Check out this
interview with Vag from
the British queer website Rainbow Network.
Rocky Mountain Oysters
Vaginal Davis appeared at the
Queer Arts Festival at the University of Colorado at
Boulder on Friday April 6th.
Campus
Crusade for Queers is one of the groups that put on the
event
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