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August 2019
CHEAP Funk podcast
CHEAP Funk podcast #14:
CHEAP Mourning is online! Our radio tribute to the late great David
Pendleton of Harvard Film Archive and international singing sensations The
Boyfriend and Leave it to Jane.
Updated Press page includes many links to articles about
Vaginal Davis art in NYC in 2017 at Invisible-Exports and The New Museum.
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Contact page.
Pastelegram
interview with Vaginal Davis about Cholita! for the "Performance
Anxieties section of Pastelegram's Sexing up Social Theory issue.
Review
at Gallerist NY of the group show Daughters of Bad Girls at
Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York City which included art by
Vaginal Davis.
The issue of
Dazed & Confused
with an interview with Vaginal Davis is out as of May 2014.
Photos of
Vaginal Davis in MoMA / Girls Against God Magazine event Wolf Moon Gathering
and also Bob Mizer event at the Barnet Building
Vaginal
Davis
and Bruce LaBruce and others give their opinions of Christmas in this
German-langauge article from TAZ.
Help spread the word to help Participant Inc. Gallery in new york theonly
not for profit gallery in that hideous city of careerists. what other
gallery would give someone like Vaginal Davis a solo show.
They're closed for August as to prepare for Helen Oliver
Adelson's The Lunar Landing, opening September 8.
Your support will help launch the next decade of
PARTICIPANT:
http://participantinc.org/donate/
Video footage from the first Visions of Excess and the Philosophy of
Gifts endurance art festival curated by me and Ron Athey in Birminghman,
England in 2003 for the Fierce Festival at Limosine Lapdancing
establishment The Demon Club. The perfect place for a 24 hour tribute to
George Batailles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4cxpXR0zk
Video of Vaginal
Davis performing at
Ephemeropterae at
TBA21 Augarten in Vienna.
The
Illustrated Adventures of Vaginal Davis comic strip by Ali Fitzgerald
published by Bitch Magazine.
From Art21:
Queer Berlin:
A Look Back at the Career of Vaginal Davis
New
York Times Review of art show which includes Vaginal Davis's art:
'I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With
Joy': 'An Obsession With Pier Paolo Pasolini' organized by
Invisible-Exports
and presented at Allegra LaViola Gallery
in New York City through Mqrch 23, 2013.
Vaginal Davis nominated artist
Katja von
Helldorff for Dream The End N/N.
Artist
of the Month Club Announces Curators for 2013: with image of
Ms. Vaginal Davis, "Hanukkah/Kwanza," December
2012's Artist of the Month Club artwork.
Vaginal Davis appears in a photo-essay by Benjamin Huseby in issue 5 of Candy. Here's a preview of the photo.
Girls Like Us, new song by The Julie Ruin (new band of Kathleen Hanna,
Kathi Wilcox, Kenny Mellman, Carmine Covelli, Sara Landeau) with guest
vocals by Vaginal Davis, on special tour CD for T Cooper's new book, posted
by Pitchfork.
Fashion
Beyond Fashion:
Camp/Anti-Camp: Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm at the Saal.
Art
In America: The Teachings of Vaginal Davis
Opening of Vaginal Davis' Hag: small, contemporary, haggard at
Participant Gallery in New York. Photos & text by Glenn Belveri
Article from Huffington Post:
Vaginal Davis' 'HAG' Exhibit: Cult Artist Gets Major Solo Show
At Participant Inc
Guardian
UK Photo
gallery:
Backstage at Antony's Meltdown 2012: in pictures
This is
Cabaret interview with Vaginal Davis.
Video of Tenderloin at Antony's Meltdown Festival:
Das Lied von der
Glocke // No Soul *
Redemption /
Salome's Last Dance
12 Questions:
Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis is one of 30
LGBT Artists You Should Know at Huffington Post.
Vaginal Davis writes in
ArtForum about circa 1989 LA venue Jabberjaw
TV show
zdf.kultur
features camp/anti-camp with Vaginal Davis, Gossip, Holly Woodlawn, Douglas
Crimp, Narcissister, and more.
German-language interview with Vaginal Davis
at Artinfo Deutsch:
You
don't have to be gay or queer, to be a freak -- Vaginal Davis
über Vaginalness
Vaginal Davis interviewed in Out Magazine:
Queer
to the Core: an oral history of queercore.
Review
of the
camp/anti-camp screening of Nazimova's Salomé hosted by
Vaginal Davis
recaps magazine is a new
online magazine with material on Vaginal Davis - the text from
My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) - and much more.
Eating
Culture on Vaginal Davis's performance "My Pussy is Still in LA (I Just
Live in Berlin)"
Vaginal Davis interview in
Mono. zine issue #6 October 2011.
Vaginal Davis speaks, featured in sleek
magazine 31
A Visit with Vaginal Davis in Berlin by
Glenn Belverio
PrettyQueer
interviews Vaginal Davis
I Don't Like Mondays interview:
Fashion Friend: The legendary Miss Vaginal Davis
The
Vaginal Davis Recordings from Rising Stars Falling Stars -
the untold gossip concealed history of Hollywood and the European Film
since the silent-movie era with Dr. Davis and film critic
MAnuel Schubert, with soundscapes by DJ Felix Knoke.
City
Arts review of Notes on Notes on Camp art show
which includes art by John Waters, Vaginal Davis, Cary Leibowitz, and Bob Mizer.
Skot Armstrong
review of dejecta/protecta.
Video of Vaginal Davis at MOCA
shot by Jane Y. Kim.
Another Righteous Transfer discusses dejecta/protecta at the MOCA Grand
Avenue
Photos by Kas Chm of dejecta/proteca
Cheeseburger
Spit - demo song by Vaginal Davis new Berlin-based art band Tenderloin
(from their upcoming debut album, "Armegeddonist".)
Also in the band:
Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, Felix Knoke a writer with Der Spiegel
Online and law student member of Glen Meadmore's country band in
Europa Jan Klesse.
A couple videos Vaginal Davis recorded on a recent
visit to Los Angeles:
Video:
Revolution is My Boyfriend and
Vaginal
Davis in Bed with Damiana Garcia.
Docteur
fol amour by Bruce Benderson, Tetu, Jullet-Aout 2010
Berliner
Zeitung article on Vaginal Davis working with students on X-Schulen-Projekt
of Hau.
Out's
Popnography on Vaginal Davis at P.S. 122
NPR:
From Elvis To Lady Gaga: Playing With Shock Value In Music
New
York Press: Some Like It Vaginal
Flickr
page of Aztec Warrior's photos of Vaginal Davis: Speaking from the
Diaphragm
Video: Kembra Pfahler 'Actresstocracy' at opening nite of Vaginal Davis
Speaking from the Diaphragm at PS122
http://youtu.be/0VJ0K0g3C5Y
Glenn
Belverio on Speaking from the Diaphragm with photos
Vaginal
Davis interviewed in Paper Magazine about Speaking from the Diaphragm
Hilton
Als in the New Yorker on Speaking from the Diaphragm at PS122
Photo:
Ms. Davis and Warhol Superstar Bibbe Hansen at
book party for Nothing up my Sleeve at participant inc. gallery
XLR8R
Magazine on Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu collaborating with Ms. Davis.
Glenn Belverio blogged about
Judy LaBruce and Ms. Davis' middle aged
crazy auntie-crisis party at piano bar Marie's Crisis in Greenwich Village
and also a pic of Vaginal Davis at Columbia Universities Semiospectacle at PS 122
Art
in America review of Semiospectacle
Let
Her Teach You: Questions For Vaginal Davis by Alex Gartenfeld from
Interview Magazine
Spiegel
Online on The Bad Breast, directed by Bruce LaBruce,
in which Vaginal Davis appears.
Also Bild
and BZ
From the November 2009 Participant Gallery show and
PME reunion show in NYC:
Vaginal Davis is featured in the October 2009 #317
Queer issue of Maximum RockNRoll.
Vaginal Davis is all over the videos for the Gossip's
Music For Men TV covering the release party in London.
Check out all four parts:
Music For Men TV
Interview from Ponystep by Hynam Kendall:
Beware
the Holy Retarded Whore - a light introduction to Vaginal Davis
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:
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.
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.
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)
Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Saturday 14 December 2024, 20:00: The Last Rising Stars, Falling Stars performative film event at the Sony Film Center in Potsdamer Platz as Arsenal moves to its new home in Wedding. See Vaginal Davis, Daniel Hendrickson and Eunice Martins in their native habitat live! Film is Die Büchse der Pandora starring Louise Brooks. Tickets
Art opening and exhibit: There's Something About Maria: Vaginal Davis and ektor garcia
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20 from 5-7pm
exhibit runs
September 20-October 19, 2024
Adams and Ollman
418 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
More
information
"Magnificent Product" - Vaginal Davis solo exhibit at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Opens May 17, 2024 and runs through October 13, 2024.
More
information on Moderna Museet website
gown by Rick Owens
Silver CHEAP Kollektiv necklace by Jelena Behrend Studio
Vintage Beaded necklace Crepe Suzette Collection
The return of Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Friday June 9, 20:30: Special one off Rising Stars,Falling
Stars by Vaginal Davis and Daniel Hendrickson at 60th
Anniversary of Arsenal Institut fur Film und
Videokunst in Berlin.
Read about the icon of Los Angeles queer and punk
scene ~~ foundational figure of its music,
performance, theater, video art, and club
counterculture since the late 1970s.
Kimberly Kim, the head bartender at the Parlour Club
where Vaginal Davis did Bricktops is seriously ill
with two rare autoimmune diseases and needs support.
Kimberly Kim was intregal to making Bricktops so
special and unique and she is really a sweetheart and
so deserving. She can't work anymore and
needs her community to help her.
Vaginal Davis has art in the show Self-Creation at
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
SLEEP DISORDER
a worn-out concert
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to
announce
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to
announce
Sunday, November 14, 1 PM - 4 PM
Witch
Hunt features 16 critically acclaimed
international artists who employ feminist,
queer, and decolonial strategies to explore
gender, power, and the global impacts of
systemic patriarchy.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the
Hammer Museum and the
Institute of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), and works are on view
at both sites.
The exhibit runs October
10, 2021 to January 9, 2022 at the Institute for
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Thursday March 11 20:00 Zurich time: Tender Talk
Nr. 3: Carolin Emcke & Vaginal Davis -
Schauspielhaus Zurich
A Live-Talk on Zoom (link will be uploaded to below
link before the discussion.)
March 24-27, 2021 Vaginal Davis will
have art in the Online Viewing Rooms of Art Basel
under Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi.
More info:
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi at Art Basel
There's been a recent blitz of media with Vaginal Davis:
The Blank Generation
Director: Amos Poe
USA / 1975 / 55 min. / 16 mm / Without dialogue
At: SINEMA TRANSTOPIA, LINDOWER STR. 20/22, HAUS C,
13347 BERLIN
At the piano: Daniel Hendrickson
Book launch :"Accidental Archivism. Shaping
Cinema's Futures with Remnants of the
Past", edited by hg. von Vinzenz Hediger
(Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt) and Stefanie Schulte
Strathaus (Artistic Director Arsenal -
Institut fur Film und Videokunst), published in the
"Configurations of film" series with meson press.
Followed by:
Vaginal Davis's famous series, Rising Stars, Falling
Stars, which took place at the Arsenal from 2006 to
2018, is back for one evening. On the occasion of the
book launch, she presents Amos Poes's THE BLANK
GENERATION, a home movie about the birth of New York
punk with Iggy Pop, Blondie, and Patti Smith. Her
musical "partner in grime," as she would say, is the
one and only Daniel Hendrickson.
"Shortly after moving to Berlin from Hollywood in
2006, Vaginal Davis started sniffing through the
vaults of the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video
Art. She sensed that the Berlin archive was a good
place to start looking for early feminist and queer
traces. The result was Rising Stars, Falling
Stars -- a monthly series of experimental
rarities, long-forgotten commercial films, and even
familiar classics of early cinema, viewed from her
tilted perspective. Each screening was accompanied by
live musicians and introduced by Ms. Davis." (Davis,
2012, quoted from a conversation between Marc Siegel
and Vaginal Davis, in: Accidental Archivism. Shaping
Cinema's Futures with Remnants of the
Past.)
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/cinema/film-screening/2154/
https://sinematranstopia.com/en/cooperations/archival-assembly-2/book-launch-accidental-archivism-shaping-cinemas-futures-with-remnants-of-the-past
Vaginal Davis featured in Mousse magazine issue 83,
The Artists' Artist
https://www.moussemagazine.it/shop/mousse-83/
Please help Kimberly Kim
https://www.patreon.com/KimberlyKimsParlour
Vaginal Davis art in Australia
Open 26 November 2022 - 5 March 2023
https://www.thewag.com.au/exhibition/self-creation
1st concert in 3 years: Vaginal Davis with
CHEAP, XIU XIU and Jonathan Berger in Köln
October 22 5pm/6pm
in Köln
Altes Pfandhaus - Kartäuserwall 20
With
Jonathan Berger,
Vaginal Davis,
Christian Fritzenwanker,
Richard Gabriel Gersch,
Daniel Hendrickson,
Ilyich,
Chris Korte,
Ligia Lewis,
Nele Rucklehausen,
Susanne Sachsse,
Angela Seo,
Martin Siemann,
Marc Siegel,
Pola Sieverding,
Jamie Stewart
AKADEMIE KÜNSTE DER WELT
CHEAP WITH XIU XIU & JONATHAN BERGER
Free Admission!
more
info
Date correction: Vaginal Davis videos
screen at Attention Line at
Artists Space
Attention
Line Cinema Series: Vaginal Davis
Artists Space, New York, USA
corrected dates: July 27- August 6, 2022
As part of the exhibition, Attention Line,
Artists Space presents a selection of videos by
Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis art in NYC in Attention Line at
Artists Space
VAGINAL DAVIS
in
ATTENTION LINE
11 June - 20 August 2022
Opening: Saturday, 11 June, 6 pm
ARTISTS SPACE
11 Cortlandt Alley
New York 10013, USA
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information
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to
announce
Vaginal Davis
THE WICKED PAVILION is Now Extended
first part:
Opened Saturday, 4 December, 6-9 pm
(opening under current 2G+ state health
guidelines)
NOW EXTENDED through 12 March
Open Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Schöneberger Ufer 61, 10785 Berlin
second part at Eden Eden:
closes 12 February
Open Friday and Saturday 12-6pm
Eden Eden
Bülowstr. 74, 10783 Berlin
The Chanterelles Are Waning:
A Vaginal
Davis-style Los Angeles Bike Tour
Check-in and exhibition tour at 1pm
Ride promptly at 2pm
info and rsvp
ICA LA invites you to a bike tour of Downtown
Los Angeles to discover the city through the
lens and memory of artist Vaginal Davis
-- an iconic cultural figure whose
work, rooted in performance, adopts notions of
freakiness to dismantle cultural norms around
gender, sexuality, and race. Davis was born and
raised in Los Angeles and currently resides in
Berlin, Germany.
Vaginal Davis art in "Witch Hunt" exhibit at ICA
LA and Hammer Museum
The New York Times featured the art of Vaginal
Davis, including a portrait of punk
photographer Jenny Lens as part of their
coverage of Witch Hunt.
March 11, 2021: Tender Talk nr. 3: Carolin Emcke
and Vaginal Davis
Discourse meets Drag: Carolin Emcke meets Vaginal
Davis! In her art, Vaginal Davis works with an
explosive array of media and materials, her
performances have politicised generations of queer
artists (including our in-house director Wu Tsang),
and her lectures have taken her as far as the
lecture halls of Harvard. Where Vaginal Davis seems
to elude unambiguity, Carolin Emcke finds a
language for the inexpressible. Like hardly anyone
else, the philosopher and author succeeds in a
radical analysis of our current times without
losing the tenderness of the individual fate. We
are very much looking forward to the encounter
between the two Berliners by choice, to
intellectuality and intersexuality in Tender Talk
No. 3.
Link
for live talk on Zoom
Vaginal Davis in Art Basel March 2021
New Vaginal Davis Press
Email Volleyball Interview with Brontez Purnell
Vaginal Davis is one of four queer artists discussing their most powerful work with THEM.
The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum invited Vaginal Davis to record an
Artist Video
Diary about life during Covid-19.
Vaginal Davis art in virtual art FAIR
Vaginal Davis's artwork
"The End Of A Perfect Day"
is being exhibited by Adams and Ollman gallery in the
virtual NADA art fair FAIR
https://adamsandollman.com/This-is-Fair
thisisfair.org
Through May 29, 2020: Vaginal Davis in Arsenal 3 Virtual Cinema
As part of the virtual cinema program running
through May 29, the trailer to Vaginal Davis's
series Rising Stars Falling Stars - We Must Have
Music, and a Vaginal Davis short film from 2001 as
well as other CHeAAP Collective works will be
screened.
Details: English
- Deutsch
arsenal 3 free login
Vaginal Davis is one of the announced participants in the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, 26 February-9 May 2021.
The Gwangju Biennale has been postponed from 2020
to 2021. Vaginal Davis is one of the participating
artists.
Gwangju Biennale website
SAVVY Film Series: Take VIII with Vaginal Davis:
Velvet Goldmine
Vaginal Davis hosts a screening of Todd
Haynes' Velvet Goldmine at Savvy
Contemporary, Plantagenstrasse 31, Berlin on
Wednesday January 8, 2020
Facebook
event
Vaginal Davis in Chicago in 2020:
No One Leaves
Delilah lecture & dining on Feb 5, 2020 at Art Institute
of Chicago:
https://scaaic.org/event/vaginal-davis/
Gallery installation of Vaginal Davis's
film The White To Be Angry at Art Institute of
Chicago Feb 1-Apr 26, 2020
https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9441/vaginal-davis-the-white-to-be-angry
Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome encore: DIVA
For their Christmas special, archivists Vaginal
Davis und Daniel Hendrickson, who are otherwise on
the trail of Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome at
different locations in the city, return to Arsenal.
They are presenting DIVA by Jean-Jacques Beineix,
the 1981 cult film. Free entry for members!
Membership can be obtained at the
Wednesday, December 18, 8pm, presented by Vaginal
Davis followed by drinks
DIVA Jean-Jacques Beineix F 1981 35 mm
OVgerS 117'
Potsdamer Strasse 2,
10785 Berlin, Germany
"Jules is a postman, opera lover, and a fan of the
world-famous diva Cynthia Hawkins. During a concert
by the singer, he secretly makes a recording of the
performance. When the tape gets confused for
another, he ends up in unexpected difficulties.
DIVA is without doubt one of the most
important European films of the early 80s:
stylistically polished to the point of being
mannered, this thriller full of quotes and
references catapulted French cinema into the
present and combined fairy tale elements, film noir
lifts, and the neon-blue pop aesthetic of the New
Wave to create a total art work that set new
standards." (J. Kurz)
Vaginal Davis in London
London: Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest
London Solo Private Exhibition:
Vaginal Davis: In Search of Gnost Time Saturday
November 16, 2019 5:30-7:30pm at Stoke Newington
Library Gallery London England UK FREE
Ms Davis'
latest work salutes the women
of Marcel Proust filtered through Gnosticism, and
the Jewish Mysticism of Ms Davis'
Jewish
grandmother from her fathers side of the family as
well as Goddess Last of Sheila.
SPEAKING FROM THE DIAPHRAGM - A VAGTERNOON WITH MS
VAGINAL DAVIS
SUN NOV 17, 15:30
STOKE NEWINGTON LIBRARY GALLERY
18 Edward's Ln, Stoke Newington
3:30pm archive short film screening(52min):
VooDoo Williamson-Dona of Dance,
The White to be Angry,
Dot.
5pm, a lecture by Ms Vaginal Davis.
Presented with community partner And What? Queer.
Arts. Festival.
Supported by The Goethe Institut
http://fringefilmfest.com/vaginal-davis.html
Vaginal Davis art at NADA Chicago
Visual art by Vaginal Davis is showing in
NADA Chicago Invitational, September 18-21, 2019.
New Discretions, Hotel Room #402
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Wednesday, September 18: 2pm - 7pm
Thursday, September 19: 11am - 7pm
Friday, September 20: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, September 21: 11am - 7pm
For more info email benjamin@newdiscretions.com
Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome: Brazil's Cinema Nova
Tuesday, September 10th, 8pm:
Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome on the patio of
Vollguter Gemeinschaftsgarten! In the second
open-air edition of her series of performances from
the Arsenal archive, Vaginal Davis -
supported by Daniel Hendrickson as always -
will give an insight into Brazil's
Cinema Novo.
Free for members!
at Vollguter Gemeinschaftsgarten,
Werbellinstr. 50, Berlin-Neukölln, on the
grounds of the former Kindl Brauerei.
In case of rain, the event will take place at the
Infozentrale house next to the garden
Admission 12 Euros, Reduced 9 Euros,
Admission free for Arsenal members
Facebook
event
A program within the framework of
"Archive ausser sich".
Vaginal Davis Art at Condo New York
KATHERINE BRADFORD, VAGINAL DAVIS, JEFFRY MITCHELL
CONDO NEW YORK
JTT HOSTING ADAMS AND OLLMAN
191 CHRYSTIE STREET, SUITE 2F, NEW YORK
JUNE 27-AUGUST 2, 2019
PREVIEW: THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 12-8PM AND
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 12-6PM
Adams and Ollman is pleased to participate in Condo
New York with a group exhibition hosted by JTT and
featuring works by Katherine Bradford, Vaginal
Davis, and Jeffry Mitchell. Through passages of
contradictory space, non-linear narratives, or
riotous decoration that obscure a depth of meaning,
each artist in the exhibition establishes a
personal landscape that eludes clear boundaries.
Vaginal Davis conjures her paintings with a
concoction of cosmetics, beauty
products, domestic household goods, witchcraft
potions, elixirs and compounds. Layers
of expressive marks cover various found
substrates--magazine pages, exhibition
invitations, hotel stationery--as Davis
deploys a painterly language of turbulent strokes,
gestural lines, and smudgy wisps to form complex
portraits of underrepresented or neglected historic
figures, always with an eye on feminist and queer
traces. Highlighting essence over likeness, Davis
embraces an abstract definition of portraiture that
speaks to surface and public persona as it veils a
hidden, interior self.
Vaginal Davis intervention at Theaster Gates Black Image Corporation Exhibit at Gropius Bau
Ladies on Paper. Recent Works by Vaginal Davis is the first institutional
presentation of Vaginal Davis' paintings in Berlin. Over a
period of six weeks, six different recent portraits will be shown
successively in single hangings. Taken from a series of works created over
the last two years, the paintings depict six different public figures from
the worlds of art, film and literature.
On the occasion of the current exhibition The Black Image Corporation.
Theaster Gates, the Gropius Bau invites artists to choose their own
individual ways to respond to the photographs on display. Ladies on Paper
is Vaginal Davis' response.
Ladies on Paper begins with a portrait of Julian Eltinge, who was not only
a female impersonator in the early twentieth century, but also the editor
of Eltinge Magazine, a women's fashion periodical. Vaginal
Davis' alternative cover girls form counterparts to the
photographic images to be seen in the exhibition The Black Image
Corporation. Theaster Gates.
Thursday July 4, 5pm-5:45pm:
Hinten Gymnasium, vorne Museum:
Performative Reading by Vaginal Davis
On the occasion of the exhibition The Black Image
Corporation. Theaster Gates, Vaginal Davis presents
a performative reading that brings her late
mother's copy of the July 1956 issue of
Jet magazine to life.
Facebook
event
Theaster Gates Black Image
Corporation Exhibit.
Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963
Berlin, Germany
Original Sin A Concert: June 19 and 20 in Berlin
June 19/20: Susanne Sachsse & xiu xiu: Original Sin: A Concert. With
Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Angela Seo (Xiu Xiu), Marc Siegel and Jamie
Stewart (Xiu Xiu).
Ballhaus Berlin GmbH
Chausseestrasse 102
10115 Berlin
Germany
tickets
Vaginal Davis art in Art After Stonewall 1969-1989
Art by Vaginal Davis is featured in the exhibit "Art after Stonewall,
1969-1989" at New York University's Grey Art Gallery
and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. The exhibit runs April
24-July 20, 2019.
Grey
Art Gallery website
Free: April 8: Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome - what is a Kollektiv?
Montag 08.04. 20.00
*Winnie Wright, Age 11: Suzanne Davenport, Greg Grieco, Betsy
Martins, Gordon Quinn, Teena Webb USA 1974 16mm/engl. OF/25 min
*Frame-up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre: Steven Fischler, Joel
Sucher, Howard Blatt USA 1974 16mm/engl. OF/ 30 min
und special surpise!
Präsentiert von Vaginal Davis und Daniel Hendrickson
bei b_books, Lübbenerstr. 14., Berlin-Kreuzberg
Freier Eintritt
CHEAP Kollektiv art band Ruth Fischer will perform March 9 at The Berliner Festspiele
More information to be announced.
Berliner
Festspiele website
Vaginal Davis art in group show in Amsterdam
Vaginal Davis has art in the group show
Fabric Faces, Powder Phrases at Althuis Hofland Fine
Arts, Amsterdam
Installation
Views
Althuis Hofland Fine Arts
Hazenstraat 11
1016 SM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
22 November - 05 January, 2019
althuishofland.com
Next in the film series Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome from Vaginal Davis and Daniel Hendrickson: White Christmas
Vaginal Davis and Daniel Hendrickson's
new film series with Arsenal Berlin is Contemporary
Vinegar Syndrome.
Third installment runs Sunday December 16 at 18:00
a musical and an agitprop film:
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, USA 1954)
White Christmas (Harun Farocki, BRD 1968)
Wu Tsang and Liz Rosenfeld
Late Night Fermentation Salon: an event with
cocktails and delicacies
Film and salon 25 Eur (22 Eur Arsenal members)
Film only 8 Eur (5 Eur Arsenal members)
At Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963
Berlin
gropiusbau.de
arsenal-berlin.de
(click images to enbiggen.)
The Vaginal Davis Institute of HIGH Performance Art
Weirdos and oddballs unite. Its time that The Maladjusted Rule!
Its not the normative ones who move culture forward its the freakazoids.
If you're hungry to break free of the chains of normalcy why not take a
pitstop to Berlin Germany and attend The Vaginal Davis Institute of HIGH
Performance Art
Yes yes and more yes. A 5 day intense one-on-one Master Class with the
Mistress of Trespass Cinema, Queercore Zine Movement and Outsider Art.
She'll turn you out and pimp up your skills. After time spent with La Diva
Ms. Davis they won't recognize you back at art school.ess Vaginal Davis is
the definate cure for ennui, shyness, dandruff and knockknees.
Vaginal Davis has taught performance art workshops, and seminars at major
universities, colleges and art schools all over the world. Her Framing the
Freakazoid-DBD: (Doing-By-Doing) Course is legendary.
sliding scale fee based on your poverty/prosperity level.
Limited housing options also available.
Contact: andreanovarin@gmail.com, for more info and scheduling.
Vaginal Davis Art in museum show in Portland, Oregon
The show Between that features
Vaginal Davis's art opened at the
Portland Art Museum on Friday July 20 and runs
until October 14, 2018:
more info
Vaginal Davis Art solo art show and artist talk in Portland,
Oregon Sept 12 and 13
In
addition
Ms. Davis is also giving an
artist talk at PICA - Portland Institute of
Contemporary Art on Sept 12th and a solo painting
exhibit Invitation to the Dance, a meditation on
female movement opens at Adams & Ollman Gallery on
Sept 13.
More
information on Invitation to the Dance at Adams & Ollman
Vaginal Davis DJane set before Christeene at Berghain
Wednesday Sept 5 in Berlin:
8:00 door and Vaginal Davis DJane Set
9:30/10 Michele Lamy
10:30 CHRISTEENE
At Berghain
Event
info
Thursday July 12: Vaginal Davis & Marc Siegel: A (W)rap on Desire at Ästhetik des Begehrens in Berlin
What are the common laws of desire?
Vaginal Davis, the doyenne of intermedia arts and
sciences, and film historian Marc Siegel, aka
Marcuse Siegelstein, will ponder this question and
others in their intimate performative conversation
"No one Leaves Delilah: A (W)rap on
Desire."
This is the fourth in the international
"(W)rap series" that began in
2012 in New York City with Davis and the late
theorist José Esteban
Muñoz's "(W)rap on
Race".
Ästhetik des Begehrens
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
more information on Facebook
CHEAP presents Susanne Sachsse and Xiu Xiu: Original Sin. A Concert in Cologne and Basel
Sunday, June 10, 8:30 pm at the Stadtgarten in Cologne
CHEAP presents Susanne Sachsse and Xiu Xiu: Original Sin. A Concert
with Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Angela Seo, Marc Siegel and Jamie
Stewart
We are very happy to be guests of the Akademie der Künste der Welt
in Cologne with our live installation version of Original Sin. Come check
it out! Or tell you friends in the Cologne area. For more info check out
the following website:
https://www.academycologne.org/en/article/1381_original_sin_a_concert
Thursday, June 14, 9:00 pm at the Kaserne in Basel
CHEAP presents Susanne Sachsse and Xiu Xiu: Original Sin. A Concert
with Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Angela Seo, Marc Siegel and Jamie
Stewart
We are very happy to have been invited by Ewa Birkenstock to participate in
the Liste Art Basel Performance Project with Original Sin. This version
will also be a live installation but with some nice additional set
elements. Come check it out or tell your arty or Swiss friends!
Liste.ch
website information on the performance
April 5: Vaginal Davis gives opening talk, workshop in Vienna at Independent Film School.
Talk is open to the public, workshop is closed.
The School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film is pleased to invite you to
an evening with Vaginal Davis: Framing the Freakazoid: Doing-by-Doing (DBD)
FB Event
Vaginal Davis with Seth Bogart and Dynasty Handbag in Oslo April 11
Vaginal Davis will be performing along with Seth Bogart and Dynasty Handbag
at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway on April 11. Part of the series
Trollkrem Import.
More
information
Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures, Saturday 27 January at Acud Macht Neu (Studio)
Performative conversation sat 8pm at Acud:
No one leaves Delilah a (W)rap on Riots with Natasha Ginwala
At Acud Macht Neu (Studio), Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119 Berlin
more
information
Feb 10, 2018: Vaginal Davis at Groove Ball in Porto, Portugal
more info: facebook/houseofgrooveball
Vaginal Davis DJane at Forum Party February 22 in BerliN
in Berlin on Thursday Feb 22 as part of the 68th International Filmfestspiele The Berlinale and 48th Forum - In the Realm of Perfection and Elsewhere and 13th Forum Expanded- A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself Vaginal Davis will DJane for the 5th year in a row the Forum Party at Akademie der Kunste at Hansaplatz in Tiergarten.
'Vaginal Davis presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars': Every Day's a Holiday screens January 12, 2018
Every Day's a Holiday (1937) is directed by Louise Brooks' husband
A. Edward Sutherland and stars the great Mae West.
Arsenal
listing
Vaginal Davis Presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Sweet 16mm, Never Been Kissed
Friday January 12, 2018 8:00pm
Arsenal Institut für Film- und Videokunst @
silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstrasse 35
13347 Berlin
(click images to enbiggen.)
Vaginal Davis in New Museum Exhibition "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" (September 27, 2017-January 21, 2018)
"Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" investigates
gender's place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of
political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an
intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to
usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity.
Sept 28 Vaginal Davis performance: Blick und Begehren (Gaze and Desire)
at New Museum in NYC. Tickets
Trigger:
Gender as a Tool and a Weapon on New Museum website
Vaginal Davis Visual Art at NADA Miami December 7-10
Vaginal Davis has art at two booths at NADA Miami
December 7-10:
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
at
NADA Miami
Booth 6.03
Vaginal Davis
Duncan Hannah
Matthew Porter
Marianne Vitale
07 - 10 December 2017
Preview 7th December, 10am - 12pm
Booth 1.04
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
December 8-11, 2017 in Berlin: CHEAP presents Susanne Sachsse anD Xiu Xiu: Original Sin. A Concert
With Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Angela Seo, Marc Siegel,
Jamie Stewart.
at silent green, Berlin
More
details at silent green website
Fr, 08.12.2017 - Mo, 11.12.2017, Kuppelhalle, 20:00 - 22:00
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Vaginal Davis at We Make Waves Festival in Berlin
We Make Waves Festival runs 9-11 November, 2017 in Berlin.
Art exhibit: Vaginal Davis & Louise Nevelson: Chimera.
September 8-October 22, 2017.
Hannah Hurtzig / Mobile Akademie Berlin:
The Immobilized or: Salle Des Pas Perdus:
Das Meer als Transitraum zwischen Leben und ToD
Vaginal Davis No One Leaves Delilah will be appearing Friday, April 28 at 11:30pm
at Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel
As part of a two-day Wikipedia Editathon March 4-5 at the National Archive in
Paris, France, "No one Leaves Delilah": a
conversation between Vaginal Davis and Wu Tsang on the late punk professor
Jose Estaban Munoz of NYU will take place on March 4 at 3:30 pm.
The january CHEAP Funk theme was Carte Blanche with Vaginal Davis, DJane
Nancy aka Daniel Hendrickson the Jewish Muzlim with Manuel Schubert aka
Vicki Baum of Filmanzeiger podcast and Taz.de and special guest celebrity
from Hollywood the award winning novelist Lisa Teasley.
Vaginal Davis will be participating in GenderFest 2017 in Athens, Greece
on January 28, 2017.
More information at GenderFest.gr and
Facebook
Vaginal Davis is one of a number of Experts
appearing at this conference on Disability,
techno-bodies and the question of autonomy.
The World's Largest International Conference on Art and Social Change,
Creative Time Summit will have Vaginal Davis as a Keynote Speaker.
The conference takes place October 14-16, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Ms. Davis
will be giving an artist talk, have a film
installation, and painting exhibition as part of the
Tanz Congress at the Kunstverein Hannover. Her
artist talk is June 17th 5pm and her visual art will
be on exhibit in the musuem for a month.
The Board of Trustees of PARTICIPANT INC cordially invite you to
PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK (Vol. 2)
The Goethe-Institut, 80WSE Gallery, and Cheap Collective
cordially invite you to The Magic Flut Part Two: A Film in Pieces Opening
Celebration, June 7, 2016.
VAGINAL DAVIS - Come on Daughter Save Me
The Magic Flute in NY Times Top 10
of 2015
The Magic Flute
with special guest Susanne Sachsse & moderated by Tavia Nyong'o
November 10, 2015, 6:30 pm, Goethe-Institut New York, 30 Irving Place,
NYC
Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics
presents the work of transgender artists and archives.
The exhibit
historicizes the sexological and cultural imaginary of transgender through
a curatorial exploration of the Kinsey Archives. Simultaneously it presents
contemporary transgender art and world making practices that contest
existing archival narratives and construct new historical genealogies.
Invisible Exports Gallery in NYC presents Vaginal Davis performance score "Orifice
Descending" (2015) written for NYC artist Clifford Owens performed by his
troupe.
Vaginal Davis will appear at the Are You For Real? Art & Film Congress in
Lisbon, Portugal July 5th that explores
Blaxploitation cinema and afrofuturism at the Portuguese Cinematheque.
Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, is pleased to announce its participation in the
2015 edition of NADA New York, taking place May 14-17, at Basketball City, located at 299 South Street on the East River. This is the
gallery's third participation in a NADA fair (New York, 2014;
Miami Beach, 2014).
The Festival will run March 13-15. Vaginal Davis will give an
artist talk and performance lecturina on Saturday, March 14:
Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo -- Black Screen Images and the Notion
of Freakiness.
GLITCH is a queer, trans, intersex, people of colour film festival March
19-28 in Glasgow presented by Digital Desperados.
KEY FIGURES
Opening of Forum Expanded at the Akademie de Kunst in the infamous
Tiergarten Feb 4th
Vaginal Davis puts on her Dr. Davis hat to give a peformative lecture as
part of the Perverse Gefuege Heteronormative Ordnungen Inter/Medial Queeren
Internationale Tagung Jan 29-31st Features talks by Raju Rage (London)
Marc Siegel (Frankfurt am Main) and Mimi Thi Nguyen (USA)
Vaginal Davis gives performative artist talk as part of Visuelles
Dekolonisieren Congress and Workshop, Donnerstag Nov 6th 7pm at the Ort
Filmstudio HBK Braunschweig-Johannes-Selenka Platz 1 38118 Braunschweig
A Yayoi Kusama Collage Vaginal Davis made is in a group show in Japan
at Lamp Gallery/Sheros
At Hoerspiel Forum NRW 2014 in Koln, Germany, Friday Sept 26th,
Vaginal Davis will present the lecture "Sassafras Cypress &
Indigo-Black screen images and the [e]motive notion of Freakiness."
DJaning Friday Feb 28th at Sud Block Admiral Str 1-2 at Kotbusser Tor in
Kreuzberg 10-12pm at a premiere party of 5 songs from the upcoming album
NEW CUISINE by the hot Berlin based group duo Easter.
Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Perineum
Sunday, January 26, 2014, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Adams and Ollman
Nu Age Hustle
Vaginal Davis will do a performative intervention "Lesbi Tropicalia-Tea &
Sympathy" as part of the Helio Oiticica Exhibit at the Palmengarten at the
MMK Museum fur modern Kunst in Frankfurt on Wed Sept 11th 7:15-9:15 pm
Vaginal Davis DJane set Sat Sept 21st from 2am-4am
Vaginal Davis will perform Friday July 19 at 19:00 in Vienna, Austria as part of
Ephemeropterae 2013 at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21).
The Living Archive Festival and 50 Years of Arsenal takes place
all of this month of June at Arsenal Inst fur film und video kunst and
KW-Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
Vaginal Davis's event RSFS-WMHM closes the Living Archive Festival June 30 Sunday
9:30pm with a screening of On a Clear Day You Can see Forever (1970)
directed
by Liza's dad Vincente Minnelli, starring Babs Streisand, Yves Montand and
Jack Nicholsen.
VAGINAL DAVIS AND PHILADELPHIA WIREMAN
BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS is dedicated to the legacy of the
Black Power Movement in the context of the "Cold" War from a Global South
perspective. A co-production of Art Labour Archives and
Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige
GmbH . Berlin, 19-23.05 2013. In cooperation with AfricAvenir and Heinrich
Böll Foundation. alannalockward[at]yahoo.com
Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm 1&2:
Vaginal Davis is in New York City and is safe, but obviously would
rather be in Berlin.
New date: Tuesday November 13, 7 pm
"No One Leaves Delilah": A (W)rap on Race
Vaginal Davis' first solo visual art exhibition in New York was scheduled
to open Nov 4 but due to hurricane Sandy is postponed. New opening date
Friday, November 9, 7-9pm.
Show originally scheduled to run trough December 16, 2012
at participant inc. gallery, 253 East Houston Street,
NY NY 10002
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present Bloodyminded, a group exhibition
featuring work by Lucas Ajemian & Julien Bismuth with Black Square Gallery,
Awst & Walther, Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE, Vaginal Davis, Rajkamal Kahlon,
Jana Leo, Lucas Michael, Clement Price-Thomas, and Mickey Smith.
Tenderloin featuring 17 year old lead singer Dagmar Hopfisterei play
with Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black Aug 10 at Royal
Elizabeth Hall as part of Antony's Meltdown Festival in London
during Olympics.
27 July 2012:
Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories will be in Basel appearing at the
Kaserne Theater on June 13 & 14!
Friday March 16th
present
Friday Feb 3rd and Saturday Feb 4, 2012
MS. VAGINAL DAVIS RETURNS TO LA FOR WHAT MAY BE HER LAST VISIT FOR SEVERAL
YEARS--THIS IS A MUST SEE SO GET YOUR TICKETS NOW BEFORE IT SELLS OUT.
SPACE IS LIMITED AT THE SITE SPECIFIC LOCATION OF THE FAMOUS BULLOCKS WILSHIRE
DEPT STORE ON OLDE WILSHIRE BLVD IN LAFAYETTE PARK.
Performance-Star und Stummfilmexpertin Vaginal Davis präsentiert den
Film KURUTTA IPPEIJI (Eine Seite des Wahnsinns, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan
1926), ein Produkt der Gruppe shinkankakuha, die versucht hat,
naturalistischen Repräsentationsformen entgegenzuwirken. Ein ehemaliger
Seemann arbeitet unerkannt in einer Nervenheilanstalt, um bei seiner
wahnsinnig gewordenen Frau zu sein. Der Film kulminiert in
halluzinatorischen Sequenzen, in denen wir im Inneren der Patienten
miterleben, wie sich die reale Welt in Angst und Wahnsinn auflöst.
Anschliessend Drinks im Roten Foyer. (22.12., am Klavier:Eunice Martin)
Additional Performances December 9/10/11
The third iteration of a biennial meeting that brings artists and experts
together in
Barcelona to debate present-day questions of experimental film. This year.s
event is
devoted to reflection on the performance aspect of experimental film and
video, from the
practices of expanded cinema to the deconstructions of social, cultural and
sexual actions. 4 to 6 November 2011.
Vaginal Davis at Tate Modern Oct 29th 9pm: yes VD Trashes TM and you thought
the riots were bad enough.
One day the only thing to eat will be the rich and Ms. Vaginal Davis is
one step ahead of that moment of pure cannibalism.
Vaginal Davis: Memory Island
Vaginal Davis will return to Los Angeles to host a West of Rome
Fundraiser October 3, 2011 at historic Union Station.
Rising Stars, Falling Stars presents
Swedish Realness Night Saturday September 24, 2011 8pm with a rare
screening of Norrtullsligan (Webliche Jungesellen/The Norrtull Girl Gang)
Directed by Per Lindberg 1923. With live musical accompanyment by the
Mighty Blue Bros.-Tim&kJohnny. After the screening join hostess and series
curator Vaginal Davis for an intimate angst-y wine reception in the world
famous Rote Foyer.
Party for Freedom with Oreet Ashery (Sept)
DJane Vaginal Davis is spinderella behind the wheels of steel at Search &
DestroyQueer Rock Nite at Schwuz club Friday July 15th starts at 11pm at
Mehringdamm 61. U7 and U6 UBahn Stations.
02.07.2011 18:00 -
Piss Göttin, queer-punk experimentelle Konzert-Performance
von und mit Katja von Helldorff, Cristian Forte, Senta Burma (aka: Vaginal
Davis), Sophie Heartbreakin' Fatale, Nean Lhok und Lady Gaby
Monday June 6th 8:30 pm at bbooks in Kreuzeberg screening of Evie
Ruesseler's "Queer Animal Praxis" featuring the world premiere of
Teddy's Beastiary starring Vaginal Davis.
12-14th May 2011 Hamburg
Vaginal Davis is a subject in this photographic exhibit of performers.
18-24 April, Barbican Centre, London
Introducing We Make Waves, a new Berlin-based festival and conference made
for women and non-binary people poised to disrupt the music industry. This
November, we will bring together a group of renegade performers, artists,
and activists from Berlin and beyond in order to share transformational
ideas, experiences, and motivation for future projects and collaborations.
Vaginal Davis will perform at St. Elisabeth Kirche on Saturday, November
11th, 2017.
We
Make Waves tickets
We Make Waves
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Vaginal Davis and Louise Nevelson: Chimera at Invisible-Exports in NYC
Reception: Friday, September 29, 6-8pm
Invisible-Exports, 89 Eldridge Street, NY NY 10002.
Invisible-Exports.com
June 6 & 7: Susanne Sachsse and Vaginal Davis at Hannah Hurtzig's Mobile Academy at Kampnagel in Hamburg
DATE / TIME
06.06. 19:00 - ca. 20:30
07.06. 18:30 - ca. 20:00
07.06. 21:00 - ca. 22:30
LOCATION:
Kampnagel, K6
Jarrestrasse 20
22303 Hamburg
English
info
German
info
Vaginal Davis At Documenta 14, April 27-30 in Kassel, Germany
This is part of The Parliament of Bodies: How does it feel to be a problem?
More information on this section of Documenta14:
Here
See also unofficial venue info from U in U.
Documenta14.de
Vaginal Davis and Wu Tsang at L'Editathon Art+Feminisms in Paris March 4
Information in French
Information in English
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CHEAP Funk at reboot.fm January podcast now available
January Podcast
http://reboot.fm/category/cheap-funk/
GenderFest 2017 in Athens, Greece
MobileAcademy:The Extraordinary Ordinary
Friday, October 21, checkin 6:30pm, Kapnagel,
Jarrestrasse 20, Hamburg.
English
listing information
Deutsch
info
Vaginal Davis Keynote Speaker at Creative Time Summit in Washington DC
Creative Time Summit
website
October 14-16, 2016
If you are not to make it to the summit in person, it will be
streaming online and at
various sites worldwide.
Vaginal Davis's keynote will be at 10am Eastern Time on Saturday, Oct 15.
Vaginal Davis at Kunstverein Hannover June 17
Participant After Dark Secret Garden Party in NYC June 8
A secret garden party in honor of Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse of
CHEAP kollectiv
On the occasion of The Magic Flute, Part Two: A Film in Pieces by Michel
Auder and Michael Stickrod, at 80WSE Gallery.
Wednesday, June 8, 7-10pm
VIP Cocktails, 7-8pm
Hors d'Oeuvres and garden mingling, 8-10pm
At Izhar Patkin Studio, East Village
To purchase tickets, visit
participantafterdark.org
The Magic Flute Part Two: A Film In Pieces in NYC opening in June
6:30-8pm: Goethe-Institut, 30 Irving Place, NY, NY:
Press Conference:
brings together Magic Flute collaborating artists Michael Auder, Jonathan
Berger, Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Jamie Stewart, and Michael
Stickrod for a live conversation about the creative process,
from performance to film. Moderated by Lia Gangitano. Free and open to the
public.
8:30-1:30pm, 80WSE Gallery, 80 Washington Sq E, NY, NY:
Exhibition Opening Party, Free and open to the public.
Exhibition runs June 7-August 12, 2016 at 80WSE Gallery, 80 Washington
Square West, New York, NY 10003
Full
graphics with information at NYU 80WSE
Vaginal Davis solo art exhibit in NY at Invisible-Exports:
Come on Daughter Save Me
November 20 - December 19, 2015
Opening reception: Friday, November 20, 6-8pm
Invisible-exports, 89 eldridge street, new york ny, 10002, 212 226 5447
New York Times Rave Review:
Vaginal Davis's Feminist Wall Reliefs Pledge 'Open
Revolt' by Holland Cotter
The Magic Flute - Dec 1-5 in New York City
written by Vaginal Davis
directed by Susanne Sachsse
music by Jamie Stwart of Xiu Xiu
December 1-5, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm
by Reservation Only - 80wsefrontdesk@nyu.edu
At NYU's 80WSE Gallery, 80 Washington Square East (between West 4th St and
Washington Place)
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/80wse/
November 17: Youth Hostelling with Vaginal Davis at NYU
November 17, Tuesday, 7 to 8:30 pm
Vaginal Davis, performer, artist
Susanne Sachsse, performer, artist
Tavia Nyong'o, Performance Studies, New York University
This performative interview with artists Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse
is timed to coincide with Vaginal Davis's staging of The Magic
Flute at NYU. Both artistes will be on hand to discuss their current and
past collaborations as part of the Cheap Collective, Berlin: collaborations
that include the original evening-length melodrama, Communist Bigamist.
Decrypt masonic symbols! Learn more about Dr. Davis's namesake!
Exult in the sheer force of Ms. Sachsse's presence!
Performance Studies Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality,
Department of Performance Studies, & 80WSE Galleries.
This event is free & open to the public. Venue is wheelchair-accessible.
NYU
website listing
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Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse Artist Talk: Ready for my Next Display at Goethe-Institut New York
website
In conversation with Berlin-based artist Vaginal Davis, director and
actress Susanne Sachsse speaks about her experience in queer film and
performance and her East German background. Presenting her work with stage
directors such as Einar Schleef and Vegard Vinge as well as her
collaborations with queer film, theater, and performance artists (including
Davis, Ronald Tavel, and Bruce LaBruce), Sachsse discusses the relationship
between actress, performer, and role to rethink female agency on stage and
screen.
This evening event at the Goethe-Institut takes place in conjunction with
the performance of a radical reinterpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart's The Magic Flute by Sachsse and Davis in a unique
collaboration with composer Jamie Stewart, lighting designer Jackie
Shemesh, musicologist Roger Grant, filmmaker Michel Auder, and Jonathan
Berger and Jesse Bransford of NYU Steinhardt. The acclaimed group of
international artists will be in residence at 80WSE Gallery throughout the
fall.
The Magic Flute is an installation and critical transformation of
Mozart's celebrated 1791 musical drama. Reimagining and
disordering the narrative of the opera, the installation amplifies the
subversive alternatives to humanism already quietly suggested in
Mozart's music and Schikaneder's libretto. Staging an
interrogation of the fragile boundary between humanity and mechanization,
it elaborates a set of inquiries begun in the eighteenth century about
human life and its others. The Magic Flute will have free public
performances December 1st to 5th at 80WSE. On December 6th and 7th, the
performances will be closed to the public, allowing them to function as the
subject of a film shoot directed by Michel Auder.
Vaginal Davis in group art show Bring Your Own Body at Cooper Union in NYC
Participating artists: Niv Acosta, Mark Aguhar, Math Bass, Effy Beth,
Justin Vivian Bond, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Vaginal Davis, Zackary
Drucker, Chloe Dzubilo, Reina Gossett & Sasha Wortzel, Juliana Huxtable,
Greer Lankton, Pierre Molinier, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Flawless Sabrina,
Buzz Slutzky, and Chris Vargas and the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and
Art.
Presented with support from Kinsey Institute, Empire State Pride Agenda,
Visual AIDS, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and the
Department of Performance Studies at NYU.
Organized by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory
Opening Reception October 13th 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm, October 13-November 14,
2015
website
Vaginal Davis performance art score "Orifice Descending" performance in NYC
Saturday, September 5, 2015, 4:30-5:30pm.
At
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, 89 Eldridge St, New York, New York 10002.
Vaginal Davis solo visual art show of sculpture panels and audio text opens Nov 20th
at Invisible-Exports gallery and the exhibit is called Come on daughter save me
FB
Event for Orifice Descending
Are You For Real? Art & Film Congress in Lisbon, Portugal
Are
You For Real program
New Vaginal Davis installation: Flirtation Walk - The Ho Stroll
at the Nada Art Fair in NYC
Rod Bianco Gallery is presenting Berlin based artist Vaginal Davis'
solo exhibition "Flirtation Walk (The Ho Stroll)." Vaginal Davis is the internationally revered intersexed
doyenne of intermedia arts and sciences.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Coming from a long line of Louisiana Black Creole sex workers, courtesans,
concubines, temple
prostitutes, voodoo priestesses, shamans, and witchy women the lure and
lore of this form of
renumeration has long held me in fascinating rhythm. For many years in my
hometown of Los
Angeles, California I worked as a drag dominatrix calling myself Mistress
Veronica V'Interest at the
infamous House of Domination in Hollywood of the famous German American
Mistress Ilsa Strix
who is now married to the A-list transgendered film director Lana Wachowski
of the Matrix
franchise. For three years in the Russian Quarter of West Hollywood
(2002-2005) I curated a
weekly salon/performance space and speakeasy called Bricktops at the
Parlour Club that was
housed in a building that in the 1920s had been a bordello. I feel that the
time is ripe to mount an
installation or cubby hole featuring small intimate portraits in my iconic
make-up style of famous
female courtesans and concubines from the Belle Epoch to
Hollywood's Golden Era plus tiny
sculptural art objects similar to my votive bread effigies of well endowed
male hustlers, rent boys
which of course will include some well known names of mainstream he-man box
office stars and
of the legendary art
rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, "We all monkey
down the street."
Vaginal Davis at Utopias Performance Art Festival in Kingston, Ontario
Facebook Event
info
Vaginal Davis in Glasgow, Scotland for GLITCH Film Fest
GLITCH
Program
Festival closes Saturday March 28 with
Presentation and analysis of films and occasions past by Ms. Vaginal Davis.
Vaginal Davis in group art show KEY FIGURES in Portland, Oregon
FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 28, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 FROM 6-9PM
Chris Bradley
Vaginal Davis
Luc Fuller
Arnold Joseph Kemp
Brian Kokoska
Michael Lazarus
Gladys Nilsson
Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso
Brion Nuda Rosch
at
Adams and Ollman
209 SW 9th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
MS. VAGINAL DAVIS AND CHEAP AT 10 YEAR Anniversary of Forum Expanded at
65th Berlinale Film Festival
Ms. Davis is back this year as Spinderella on the Wheels of Steel at the
Forum Party
Internationales Forum des Jungen Films
Feb 12th Green Salon at Volksbuhne 10pm -4:30am
Vaginal Davis in Oldenburg on the German/Dutch Border
The bad English translation: Perverse Assemblages Queering Heteronormative
Orders Inter/Medially
2015 Campus Haarenfeld Gebauude A9/Raum 0-0018 Carl von Ossietsky
Universitaet Oldenburg Ammerlaender Heerstrasse 114-118 D-26111 Oldenburg
>a href="http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/hlk-queer/">
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/hlk-queer/
Vaginal Davis at Visuelles Dekolonisieren Congress and Workshop
www.hbk.bs.de
Featured speakers include Nanna Heidenreich, Ulrike Bergermann, Tobias Nagl
and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Vaginal Davis art in group show at Lamp Gallery/Sheros in Tokyo,
Japan
Tokyo Japan 4-28-15 Jinguamae
Shibuyaka-ku Tokyo 150-1000j Japan
curated by Jennifer Armbrust.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Vaginal Davis Lectures in Koln Friday Sept 26.
For more information, see http://hoerspielforum.net/die-referenten/#vaginaldavis
Upcoming Vaginal Davis DJane Gigs in Berlin
Facebook event
Vaginal Davis DJanes at the Schwuz club on Sunday Feb 9th at the party for Bruce LaBruce/Susanne Sachsse's Pierrot Lunaire party after the screening at the
Berlinale
Ms. Davis also DJanes Thursday Feb 13 at the Forum Berlinale Party at the
Volksbuhner
Physique Tutorial: VD's BM
Tuesday, January 28th @ 8pm
Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Einstein Auditorium, ground floor
New York City
Vaginal Davis is Extemperaneously Excavating Bob Mizer.
Vaginal Davis, the doyenne of intermedia intersex art and culture, along
with co-host Billy Miller of Straight to Hell magazine presents a special
edition of her award winning talkshow/installation, Vaginal Davis is
Speaking From the Diaphragm. This new edition features a lovesexy panel of
internationally revered artists, writers, critics and personalities who
will vamp on everything that is the world of the late
photographer/filmmaker Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild and Physique
Pictorial.
With Special Guests: Art Critic Vince Aletti! Mizer Foundation President
Dennis Bell! Archivist Tonya Blazio-Licorish! Author C. Carr! Curator and
Light Industry Founding Director Ed Halter! L.A. Underground Legends Bibbe
Hansen and Sean Carillo! Artist K8 Hardy! Conceptual Pornstar Colby Keller!
Circus of Books Owner Karen Mason! Mizer's Studio Assistant and
Artist John Sonsini! Author Justin Spring! Fales Library Director Marvin
Taylor!
DJ and Soundscapes by Ross Menuez/Salvor Projects! Video and Visuals by
Jean Kim!
Vaginal Davis in New York at MoMA PS1
Girls Against God magazine hosts
Wolf Moon Gathering, an afternoon of performance
Girls Against God Magazine, published by Capricious, co-edited by Bianca
Casady and Anne Sherwood Pundyk gathers the forces for a celebration of the
wild female soul. Hosted by Fairy Goddess Mother Vaginal Davis, we will
journey inward through a myriad of rituals and prayers. With guided
mediation lead by Bryn McKay and a plant-channeling performance by Melanie
Bonajo, we will listen to the voice of nature in connection with the sacred
feminine.Casting The Circle and Drawing Down the Moon, a dance ritual
evoking the Goddess will be performed by Johanna Constantine and J.Z.araA.
We will sing together in a group chant ignited by singers Diane Cluck
andYasmine Hamdan, calling to Skeleton Woman, to dance The Dance of
Life/Death/Life, embodied by Rebecca Wright with musical accompaniment by
water-soul-conjurer Doug Wieselman and cellist Danny Bensi.
The first hour of the program will be an informal ritual of initiation.
Through healings of sound, hand washing, and many forms of feathered-smoke
blessings we invite you into the subterranean forest. We suggest that
everyone bring an object of personal significance to offer to the altar for
the casting of spells. Tuning out the outer-world, leaving at the door our
fragmented selves and distraught sense of focus, we ask you to be present
in the moment: turn off your phones, document the experience with your mind
and heart, listen and be here.
TICKETS : $10 in advance, $12 day-of
Tickets and info
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084
Vaginal Davis Art in NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach
NADA Art Fair
December 5-8, 2013
Booth 110
Peter Attie Besharo
Emery Blagdon
Felipe Jesus Consalvos
Chris Corales
Vaginal Davis
Sol LeWitt
Justin McCarthy
Philadelphia Wireman
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Acharya Vyakul
Bill Walton
The Deauville Beach Resort
6701 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach
Vaginal Davis art in group show "Nu Age Hustle" in Brooklyn
Organized by Katie Cercone
November 1 - December 1, 2013
Sanford Biggers, Katie Cercone, Lainie Love Dalby, Vaginal Davis
Elisa Garcia de la Huerta, Greem Jellyfish, Jacolby Satterwhite, Tobaron
Waxman & Saya Woolfalk
Opening reception + performance by Lainie Love Dalby:
Friday, November 1, 7-9 pm
"Shak-Tea Party" co-hosted by Go! Push Pops and A
Feminist Tea Party: Sunday, November 10, 3-6pm
Momenta Art,
56 Bogart Street,
Brooklyn NY
Vaginal Davis in Liverpool, Friday 8 November 2013
Chew Disco: Vol 12 featuring Ms Vaginal Davis.
Part of Homotopia 10.
18+ ONLY
Liverpool queerpunk party Chew Disco returns for its 12th edition,
featuring legendary performance and multimedia artist, filmmaker, musician,
and utterly fierce drag-punk icon Ms Vaginal Davis!!! Hailed as
"the future of art" by Artforum and likened to a
"punk rock RuPaul" by Paper Magazine, Ms Davis is an
originator of the queercore DIY punk scene, and a genderqueer art, music
and drag-terrorist performance icon. Recently chosen by Antony Hegarty
(Antony & the Johnsons) to perform at Meltdown Festival 2012, this is her
first performance in Liverpool.
With live performances from London postpunk supergroup Shopping,
Galaxians,
and more TBA...
Plus new video art, bad adult dancing, and special guest DJs (from Bollox,
Raw Like Sissy, and more) playing a mess of electro, hip hop, post punk,
alternative, dance anthems and houseparty jams all night long.
Proceeds go to LGBTQ organization "Coming Out" in St
Petersburg, Russia.
TRAVELING FROM MANCHESTER??? Arrive in style on the Party Bus!
The Chew Disco Party Bus is designed to let you travel in absolute
(discount) luxury to the Wonderland of Liverpool from the Jewel of the
North (Manchester).
Conveniently timed to ensure that John Waters ticket holders arrive in time
for This Filthy World, and Chew-Only Sisters arrive in time for comfortable
strolls, Bold St cruising and pre-loading in/on any of the
city's fine pubs/stoops/alleyways.
The Kazimier, 4-5 Wolstenholme Sq, Liverpool L1 4JJ
Friday 8 November, 2013
Doors 9.30pm
Advance
Tickets: (£5 ADV/NUS), £15 (ADV ticket PLUS Manchester-Liverpool)
"Lesbi Tropicalia-Tea & Sympathy" in Frankfurt
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de/en/events/program-helio-oiticica/
Vaginal Davis DJanes at Listen Up Festival, Berlin
http://listenupberlin.de/2013/
Vaginal Davis in Vienna July 19
http://www.tba21.org/program/current/230/artworks2?category=current
http://ephemeropterae.tumblr.com
Location:
TBA21 Augarten
1020 Wien, Scherzergasse 1A
Living Archive Festival and 50 Years of Arsenal
Vaginal Davis art show in Portland, Oregon
May 3 - June 1, 2013
Installation
view
Adams and Ollman
811 East Burnside #213
Portland, Oregon 97214
www.adamsandollman.com
DECOLONIZING THE "COLD" WAR / BE.BOP 2013. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS BE.BOP 2013.
May 23:
10:30 - 12 pm: Vaginal Davis performance-lecture
http://decolonizingthecoldwar.wordpress.com/
Critic's Pick in Artforum
Camp/Anti-Camp Frankfurt
Sa. 01.12.2012 8pm: Booty Politic
tonight the theme of VD is SFTD is Booty Politic. we are recreating the
Frankfurt School on stage and I am Horkheimer and Marc Siegel is Adorno
our guests are Zusanne and her Vagina Dentata
downtown NYC legends legend Carmelita Tropicana
Sina from Tehren, Iran
British art shtar Phil Collins
Spanische Scholar Juan Suarez
experimental filmmaker Michael Stadnik
rare Taylor Mead footage
Frankfurt's divine Manuela Mock sharing memories of her friendship with the
late great Eartha Kitt
and from cologne the Living Sculpture Group Just Cuz u feel it doesn't mean
it's there
Fr. 30.11.2012 7pm: Hate is a Very Exciting Emotion
Guests for Friday:
gorgeous young international art shtar Zac Dempster
Mitternachtskino Frankfurt's Fabian and Sofie
Louise Burkart and her LoveSexxy 16mm Film Apparati
Sina of Cologne
video artists Jaska Klocke and Claudia Sebestyen
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Waldschmidtstrasse 4., Frankfurt am Main
http://www.mousonturm.de/web/en/veranstaltung/campanti-camp-
Phil Colins, Vaginal Davis, das_em, Daniel Hendrickson, Jakob Lena Knebl,
Just 'Cause You Feel It, Doesn't Mean It's There, Tan Binh Nguyen,
Andrreas Riegler, Susanne Sachsse, Hans Scheirl, Senol Senturk,
Marc Siegel, Juan Suarez, Carmelita Tropicana, Unterground Unterwegs,
and many surprise guests.
A CHEAP production of Camp/Anti-Camp: A Queer Guide to Everyday
Life
co-produced by HAU/Berlin
supported by the Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern
as well as the Lehrstuhl Für Filmwissenschaft
fundeed by Hauptstadrkulturfonds Berlin
Vaginal Davis survives Hurricane Sandy
New Date: Vaginal Davis at NYU
a conversation with Dr. Vaginal Davis
Postponed due to power outage after Sandy.
Vaginal Davis, performance artist in conversation with José Muñoz, Performance Studies, New York University.
This event is free and open to the public. Venue is wheelchair accessible.
New opening date: Friday, November 9: Hag Gallery at participant inc. in NYC
HAG Press Release (pdf)
Ms. Vaginal Davis, LA born and raised doyeanne of drag and outsider arts
who has been based in Berlin, Germany since 2006 will recreate her infamous
HAG Gallery-small, contemporary, haggard within the confines of the beloved
not for profit gallery participant inc. in new york city. Ms. Davis ran
HAG Gallery from 1982-1989 at 7850 Sunset Blvd at the Villa Rosa Apartment
Building in Hollywood on the Sunset Strip. This is also the location where
she created her enfluential Fertile La Toyah Jackson Magazine and its
supplement Shrimp, the magazine for licking and sucking bigger and better
feet. Some of the artists that Ms. Davis discovered who went on to
international careers include art photographer Mari Kono and assemblagist
Charles LeDray plus dozens of others whom she nurtured and developed. Hag
Gallery at participant inc will include installation, paintings, collage
work and for the first time totem sculpture made from bread.
participant inc., 253 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002
participantinc.org
Invisible-Exports presents Bloodyminded at The Wye, Berlin
September 15-30, 2012
THE WYE
The Post Building, Skalitzer 86, Berlin
http://invisible-exports.com/exhibitions/44a_bloody/bloodyminded.html
www.thewye.de
Tenderloin at Antony's Meltdown Festival
TENDERLOIN is a mutating music, art and action kollektive featuring a
revolving cast of calamities. The current line-up is festering in Berlin,
Germany, the European capital where youth culture movements never die.
Tenderloin features Dagmar Hofpfisterei, the teenage protégé of
Vaginal Davis the grande Doyeanne of Outsider Arts and the Homocore music
scene. Ms. Hofpfisterei is the femme top out lesbian 17-year-old daughter
of infamous junkie/prostitute Christian F. of the Children of the Bahnhof
Zoo. Providing able assistance are Joel Gibb of Canadian folk music group
the Hidden Cameras, writer/musician Felix Knoke, twisted German noble
Landgraf Jan Klesse of the Court of Good Taste and Minister of
Disidentification DisInformation Tiffany Middlesex. Their debut album
Fellating History: Which Way is Up? will be released at the end of the
year on Butch Vig's new Cosima Wagner imprint label.
http://meltdown.southbankcentre.co.uk/
Radical Cross-Currents in Black Berlin
One-day symposium at Humboldt-Universität
Includes at 14:00 "Wir haben kein Zimmer für
Auslander": Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse (via Skype), CHEAP & more.
Moderated by Tavia Nyong'o.
http://radicalblackberlin.wordpress.com/
Communist Bigamist in Switzerland
http://www.kaserne-basel.ch/Tanz_Theater/ZAP__Communist_Bigam/ZAP__Communist_Bigam_1
camp/anti-camp
a queer guide to everyday life
Gavin Butt, Frederico Coelho, Jayne County, Douglas Crimp, Vaginal Davis,
Diedrich Diederichsen, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Jakob Lena Knebl/Hans
Scheirl, Bruce La Bruce, Elizabeth Lebovici, Heather Love, Taylor Mead(via
Skype), Richard Move, Jose Munoz, Narcissister, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Juliane
Rebentisch, Rafael RG/Fabiana Faleiros, Liz Rosenfeld/Sam Icklow, Juan
Suarez, Tenderloin, Carmelita Tropicana, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen
Black(with Kembra Pfahler) Holly Woodlawn, Zazie de Paris . . .plus
Jonathan Berger, John Blue, Daniel Hendrickson, b_books and the Voodoo
Chanel Bar
curated by Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel
camp/anti-camp program pdf
April 19-21, 2012
HAU 2
Hallesches Ufer 32 Berlin,
hebbel-am-ufer.de
also. . .
the film series
March 19/23, April 3/9/14/16
Arsenal Inst fuer film und Video Kunst
Potsdamer Str 2 Berlin,
arsenal-berlin.de
Bruce LaBruce & Vaginal Davis
DJ the Queerulanten Floor
of Search and Destroy at Schwuz
Schwuz,
Mehringdamm 61
www.myspace.com/destroyberlin
www.schwuz.de
Rising Stars, Falling Stars and
camp/anti-camp the queer guide to everyday life festival
Alla Nazimova in Salome(1923) directed by Charles Bryant
with live music by Tim &kJohnny Blue
hosted by Vaginal Davis
after the screening an intimate wine reception in the Rote Foyer
Friday March 23rd 8pm
Arsenal Inst for Film & Video Art
2 Potsdamer Strasse
Sony Filmhaus Basement Kino 2
in Historic Potsdamer Platz
www.arsenal-berlin.de
Communist Bigamist in Dusseldorf
At Forum Freies Theater Duesseldorf
With: Vaginal Davis, Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, Daniel Hendrickson.
Eine CHEAP Produktion in Koproduktion mit dem HAU und in Kooperation mit
dem FFT Düsseldorf. Gefördert aus Mitteln des
Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Vaginal Davis in Los Angeles
January 29, 2012
Vaginal Davis
My Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin)
Sunday, January 29, 1:00-3:30 pm
Bullocks Wilshire
3050 Wilshire Blvd, 5th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tickets are $50 (Limited edition, handmade artist book signed. High Tea
Party with finger foods, pink bubbles...)
Purchase tickets at http://www.westofrome.org/future or by calling (626) 793-1504
Limited Capacity, Reserve Your Ticket Now!
Rising Stars Falling Stars:
Kurutta Ippeiji (1926), Thursday 22 December
Arsenal Kino 2
Potsdamerplatz, Berlin
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/
Communist Bigamist Opening December 8, 2011 in Berlin.
Starring Vaginal Davis as Angela Davis, Susanne Sachsse as Ruth Fischer
with Marc Siegel and Daniel Hendrickson
A CHEAP Production, Coproduction HAU.
Hau 3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin
hebbel-am-ufer.de
Barcelona: Vaginal Davis at XPERIMENTA '11: Contemporary Glances at Experimental Cinema
On Saturday 5 November at 6:30pm:
Performing Pop I: Performance by Vaginal Davis:
'Memory Island'
5 November 7:30 pm:
Performing Pop III:
Talk with Carles Congost and Vaginal Davis, moderated by Marc Siegel
XPERIMENTA '11
Website
VD Trashes TM (Vaginal Davis Trashes Tate Modern)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/24868.htm
October, 2011: Vaginal Davis returns to LA
http://trespassparade.org/party
Berlin, Saturday September 24 2011:
Rising Stars, Falling Stars:
Swedish Realness Night: Norrtullsligan
Norrtullsligan 1923 8pm
Kino2 Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Kunst
Potsdamer Str 2, Berlin
Sony Center Filmhaus Kino 2
in historical Potsdamer Platz
www.arsenal-berlin.de
An international call for participants for Trashing Performance workshops
2011
Framing The Freakazoid with Vaginal Davis (Oct/Nov)
Don't miss this opportunity to take part in two exceptional and
intensive workshops led by the internationally renowned artists Oreet
Ashery and Vaginal Davis. The workshops are taking place within the context
of Trashing Performance, the second themed year of Performance Matters.
Application deadline 18 August, 2011
Trashing Performance explores the worth of creative expression which
willfully debunks, or ignores, cultural ideals and hierarchies of critical
value. Full Trashing Performance public programme and booking details will
be announced in August.
Both workshops are aimed at artists working with performance, image making,
gender and body politics, action, sound and music.
More information on workshops and application:
http://thisisperformancematters.co.uk/Workshops.html
DJane Vaginal Davis Friday July 15 in Berlin
Please no requests for Lady Gaga, Madonna or Techno!
After the Butcher at Kunst Werke Museum Berlin in Mitte
PISS GÖTTIN HAT aNGST VOR uNSICHERHEIT, Konkurrenz und Entfremdung
Desweggen pisst sie Piss Göttin -ist stolz, besitzergreifend und
markiert ihr Revier wie eine Hundin DESWEGEN PISST SIE
Subkutanen Reflektionen über Machtverhältnisse und Entfremdung in der
(Kunst)Welt.
World Premiere of Teddy's Beastiary starring Vaginal Davis
b_books,
Lübbenerstr. 14, 10997 Berlin
Die Untoten Life Sciences Pulp Fiction
The Undead. Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction
Congress and Mise-en-scéne
12th-14th May 2011, Kampnagel Hamburg
http://www.untot.info
When does a life end? When does it begin? And who determines this?
The congress "The Undead. Life Science & Pulp Fiction"
is the location of an encounter between various persons and languages which
currently define what is still/already alive and what is still/already
dead. The zone in-between, an unclear zone of the undead, is the subject of
controversial discussion in the life sciences and is being continually
extended at a furious pace. The research undertakings of biotechnology, the
considerations of medical ethics, the achievements of transplantation
medicine and the hesitating help of philosophy will be confronted and
charged with the visual worlds of pop culture.
Through lectures and talks, presentations and dialogues encounter more than
50 speakers and presenters -- gerontologists, theatre and film
scholars, lawyers, philosophers, medical professionals, carers and artists
-- one another in the in the mise-en-scéne of a film set:
hospital, laboratory, cemetery, -- a tribute to the cinematic
figure of the zombie, who appeared on screen without any significant
antecedent in literature or art history. At these interfaces the congress
shall gather narratives, signs, images and ciphers for an archive of the
undead. The congress directed by Hannah Hurtzig takes up a form of
mise-en-scéne from the 19th century: the theatrical popularization
of scientific knowledge in an age firmly believing in progress, under the
motto: "Making scientific knowledge a tangible experience of
shock and astonishment".
"When The Curtain Falls" Margarita Broich - Photographs
March 18-May 30th
Martin-Gropius Bau Museum
Berlin
http://www.margaritabroich.de
Spill Festival Performance Tarot Exhibition
Barbican
website
Los Angeles, January 22, 2011: dejecta/protecta
dejecta/protecta
A performance by Vaginal Davis
in conjunction with The Artists Museum
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
MOCA Grand Ave.
Inspired by Andy Warhol.s screen tests, and the midnight performances of
Jack Smith, this expanded cinema piece is a new work created by Vaginal
Davis, an originator of the homo-core punk movement and a gender-queer
art-music icon. Berlin based, Ms Davis made her name in LA's club
performance scene, and has earned herself a similar notoriety as a cultural
antagonist and erotic provocateur, renowned for her performance,
experimental film and video practice. This original work will be staged at
MOCA for one night only and will feature production and costumes design by
Jonathan Berger,video by Jean Kim and special guests Wu Ingrid Tsang (Club
Wildness)& ZacKary Drucker hosting a Richard Serra Minimalist Feast, Jean
Spinosa of Wigout as Lucia Joyce, Dr. Robert Summers with a lecturina on
Judy Garland Modalities, Kuntry Cowpoke Mr. Glen Meadmore, Larry-Bob
Roberts of Holy Titclamps, sophisticated song stylings by Mark Simon and
The Boyfriend, experimental films by Lewis Klahr & Janie Geiser and an
endurance movement piece by Julie Tolentino with assist by
Pigpen (AKA Stosh Fila) with other sex laden surprises.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit
http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=1290
-Jeffrey Hilbert
The New Republic
Vaginal Davis at the Haunted House in Frankfurt
An den Tagen 28., 29. und 30. Oktober
öffnet das Geisterhaus ab 20 Uhr seine Türen.
This Halloween prepare to feel terrified.
This house will not be for the faint of heart. Those who scare easily are
advised not to enter.
The Haunted House is open October 28, 29, 30.
The doors to the House open at 20:00 each night
Located at Kleine Rittergasse 19-21, Alt-Sachsenhausen,
Frankfurt Am Main.
Live shows in the Chapel quarter of the Haunted House:
On Thursday, October 28th @ 19:00 Vaginal Davis will come and perform her
piece:
Am Donnerstag, 28. Okt. um 19:00 Uhr: Vaginal Davis' Performance:
Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo-Black Screen Images, and the Notion of
Freakiness.
Like a modern day version of French diarist Euge'nie de Gue'rin Vaginal
Davis will reconfigure the artist talk as if she is spiraling over the edge
of the world.
On Friday, October 29th @ 21:00 Jean-Louis Costes will come and perform his
piece:
Am Freitag, 29.Okt. um 21:00 Uhr: Jean-Louis Costes' Performance:
The Witch, the Cat and the Dead Parents
Since it will be halloween, the performance will be constructed around
ghosts of the past haunting a child, including a witch and dead parents...
and a cat being the good magician of the story.
it will be trash Walt Disney for adults!
On Saturday, October 30th @ 20:00 Bradley Eros has curated for us a special
film presentation:
Am Samstag, 30. Okt. um 20:00 Uhr: Filmscreening kuratiert von Bradley Eros
The Nerves of Knowledge
We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde; i.e.
to bore, tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process dictated by
practical convenience stand guilty as charged.
(Nick Zedd, Cinema of Transgression)
We have also heard, although we are hesitant to speak these things lightly,
that a medium from New Orleans is here and is prepared to perform a seance
for Ms. Baker.
Presented by the
Städelschule
Facebook
link
RE:akt!: Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting
curated by: Domenico Quaranta
www.reakt.org
Rotovz Exhibition Salon, Maribor Art Gallery
Trg Leona Stuklja 2, Maribor, Slovenia
21 October -- 19 November 2010
Exhibition opening: 21 October 2010 at 19:00
Featured artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, IOCOSE, Irwin, Janez
Jansa, Eva and Franco Mattes
(aka 0100101110101101.ORG), OHO group, SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez
Jansa, Bojana Kunst, Igor Stromajer)
Includes
VD as VB (2007), a series of actions in which Vaginal Davis, the
"grande dame" of the queer underground in Los
Angeles, dialogues with Vanessa Beecroft's performances.
Vaginal Davis at UCLA in October
Ms. Vaginal Davis quietly slunk out of town in 2006 for Berlin German,
never to live in LA or the USA again. Now she's back by popular demand!
Vaginal Davis Returns to Los Angeles After a 4 year Absence, Thanks to
UCLA!
UCLA Queer Arts Conference
Saturday, October 9, 2010 6:00pm at Royce Hall
Room 314. See a rare performative lecture
entitled
"Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo--Black Screen Images, and the Notion of
Freakiness" by the legendary diva and
outsider artist extroidinaire. She will change your life!
Visit UCLA
LGBT Studies website for more information and to register to see
Vaginal Davis' free performance.
". . .I'm Not One to Gossip, So You Didn't Hear It From Me---The Lore & Lure of Archival Modalities"
Friday Aug 27th 4-6pm:
Vaginal Davis and Nanna Heidenreich conduct special
workshop at Arsenal Inst für Film und Video Kunst Summer Curator's
School
what makes an archive? they emerge from dealings with relationships and
people, they grow out of passion, obsession, idiosyncrasies, but also
coincidences. They consist of stories, loose ends, wild associations, and
true encounters. Their ingredients are constantly rearranged, as memories
are made up or fail, knowledge is passed on, or forgotten and reinvented.
Archives are gossip and gossip is the one true endless archive.
Bio: Petite Fraulein Vaginal Davis, the Hollywood grande dame of intermedia
arts & culture has been living in stylish exile in Berlin's famed political
Rote Insel neighbourhood for the past four years, where she continues to
make fresh enemies with her scandalous web blog "Speaking from the
Diaphragm" that boasts over a quarter of a million daily subscribers at
www.vaginaldavis.com. Ms. Davis curates the monthly silent film program
Rising Stars, Falling Stars at Arsenal, and has also curated for The Los
Angeles Film Festival(Outfest), Anthology Film Archive, Sundance, and the
traveling endurance art festivals Platinum Oasis and Visions of Excess &
the Philosophy of Gifts, Tribute to George Bataille. She has taught at
NYU, Cal Arts, Otis Art Institute, Weissensee Art School, Merz Academy, and
Malmö Art Academy/Lund University in Malmö Sweden.
"What 80 Million Women Want" on August 25th
Vaginal Davis, Tim & kJohnny Blue and Daniel Hendrickson, the Scandanavian
Muslim
"What 80 Million Items Want -- Archives in Motion" Wednesday
August 25, 2010 8pm
"From August 25 to 28, the ArsenalCurators Summer School will take place
for the second time. Under the title "What 80 Million Items Want --
Archives in Motion," ten events -- workshops, discussions,
performances, and screenings -- as well as lecturers from theory
and practice will deal with different conceptions of archives, their
accessibility and mediation.
The workshops are booked out but the opening event is open to the public.
We will screen the silent movie WHAT 80 MILLION WOMEN WANT (Will Louis, USA
1913) hosted by Vaginal Davis and a sound collage from archival materials
by kJohn and Tim Blue." After the screening a sophisticated wine reception
in the Rote Foyer.
Curators Summer School
Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
www.arsenal-berlin.de
Tel. 49-30-26955-110
Fax 49-30-26955-111
Bruce LaBruce Retrospective
Vaginal Davis will be appearing at the opening night of the Bruce
LaBruce retrospective at Arsenal Berlin on July 15, 2010.
LaBruce
at Arsenal
Site Specific Project at Hector Peterson High School
Following is linked the program information for a new piece that Vaginal
Davis
is collaborating on with
young students at The Hector Petersen High School in Berlin through Hebbel
Am Ufer Theatre. Friends and family can come to the press performances on
Wed June 30, 2010 10 am and 4pm but need to contact
presse@hebbel-am-ufer.de as space is limited to small groups in 10 minute
intervals.
the public views are July 1-4th Thur July 1 and Friday July 2nd 10am and
6pm. Sat July 3 and Sunday July 4th 2pm & 7pm.
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
More information (PDF)
Der
Tagesspiegel article
Berliner
Zeitung article
DJing June 18 2010 at Search & Destroy
Bruce La Bruce, Vaginal Davis, and Joel Gibb of the HIdden Cameras DJ Friday 18 June at Search & Destroy Rock Club at Schwuz
Berlin 8 Juni 2010: Performative LECTURE II
Ms. Vaginal Davis "Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo-Black Screen Images, Vaginal Davis and the Notion of Freakiness"
Interflugs Presents.
II UdK Berlin Hardenbergstr.33
on June 8th. At 7:30 room 101
May: Vaginal Davis in New York: Speaking From the Diaphragm
2010 Ethyl Eichelberger Award Winner Vaginal Davis is Speaking From The
Diaphagm May 15th-27th at PS 122 in the East Village in Man!hattan. Join
Ms. Davis and co-hosts Carmelita Tropicana and Jennifer Miller as they
explore issues of failuretics, mayhem, gossip, misegenation and murder in a
nightly daytime chat show format with a plethora of stimulating guests that
include: Kathleen Hanna and her new Julie Ruin band, Adam Horowitz of the
Beastie Boys, Beth Ditto and Gossip, Annie Oakley of the
SexWorkersArtShow, JD Samson & MEN, Jamie Stewart and Xiu Xiu, Gio Black
Peter, Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, Carol Pope, Kembra Pfahler of the
Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black,Glen Meadmore,Bruce Benderson, Samuel
Delaney,Glenn Belverio, Jose Munoz, Jennifer Doyle,Billy Miller of
STH,Justin Bond, Nao Bustamante, Rick Owens & Michele Lamy, Pierrot,Black
Eyed Susan, Agosto Machado, Joanie Moossyy,Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens,
Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny, John Heys, Ela Troyano and Uzi Parnes, Lucy
Sexton & Annie Lobst, Jackie Raynal, Michel Auder, Joey Jeffreys,Bruce La
Bruce, Dynasty Handbag,Bibbe Hansen, Sean Carrillo, Kim Gordon & Thurston
Moore, Claudia Gonson of the Magnetic Fields
--
plus supermodel Jenny Shimizu, Mickey Boardman the style editor of
Paper Magazine and Adam Greene of the Mouldy Peaches --
& special surprises.
Artistic Director for the
Ethyl Eichelberger Commission prize performance is the Divine Anne Sexton.
http://www.ps122.org/performances/speaking_from_the_diaphragm.html
April Rising Stars, Falling Stars in Berlin
Vaginal Davis Presents, Rising Stars, Falling Stars
A monthly utopian performative silent film event for the discerning
filmgoer
www.arsenal-berlin.de
Vaginal Davis in New York March 22 at PS 122
Art
In America review of Semiospectable
SEMIOSPECTACLE: A LITERARY REVUE
WWW.SEMIOSPECTACLE.COM
http://www.ps122.org/performances/semiospectacle.html
This verbal varieté strategizes the explicitly semiotic spectacle in a
multimedia showcase of live art representing an encounter between academic
lecture hall, poet.s theater, and house. Its players cut across the
disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, pedagogy, cabaret, poetics, and
performance in an investigation of linguistic mechanisms of spectacular
identity formation. Linguistic illusionists expose the parlor trick of
transparent speech, conjuring floating signifiers that levitate forty-four
feet above the floor. Costumes sewn from three million majuscules burst at
the semes. The auditorium oscillates between reading room and
performatorium. The linguistic turn transmogrifies into a shimmy. Curated
by Mashinka Firunts.
MEDIA CO-SPONSOR: UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
STENO POOL - AN INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE Featuring: Leesa Abahuni | Nicole
Abahuni | Jen Zak | Matt Jones | Kristen Rhea van Liew | Fyodor Pavlov |
Lawrence Gullo | Kyle Hittmeier | Lindsay Comstock
CODEXKAMMER: A FUNCTIONAL LENDING LIBRARY
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY: Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators
INTERTITULAR TAP BY: The Minsky Sisters
ONE-MINUTE CURATORIAL MICRO-LECTURES BY Mashinka Firunts
MARCH 22ND, FREE (but must reserve a ticket)
PLEASE NOTE THAT RESERVATIONS FOR SEMIOSPECTACLE ARE NOW AT MAXIMUM
CAPACITY. TO BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST, PLEASE EMAIL SEMIOSPECTACLE AT
GMAIL.COM WITH YOUR NAME, TELEPHONE NUMBER, AND THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU
WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE.
Performance Space 122
150 First Avenue (at 9th Street)
Doors Open at 7:30, Staged Performance Commences at 8PM
Reception To Follow
The Bad Breast in Vienna
Brut Theater 16/17/18/19 Dez
www.brut-wien.at/start.php?navid=detail&id=342
Vaginal Davis in The Bad Breast, written & directed by Bruce LaBruce
The Bad Breast,
written and directed by Bruce LaBruce.
Stage design by Marc Brandenburg.
Original music and sound design by Planningtorock.
with: with Vaginal Davis, Alejandro Durán, Michael Giardina, Katharina
Klewinghaus, Nando Messias, Robin Poitras, Susanne Sachsse, Lisa Schmidt
and Laurie Young
PREMIERE: 10 DECEMBER 2009 / 20.00 H / HAU 2
ALSO 11 UNTIL 13 DECEMBER 2009 / 20.00 H / HAU 2
HAU 2/ Hallesches Ufer 32/ 10963 Berlin/ tickets 030-25900427
Party after the Premiere at WAU
Postkarte (pdf)
The Bad Breast has emerged from my long-standing desire to create a Female
Melodrama, a genre that all my favourite gay film directors - from George
Cukor to George Kuchar - have worked in. As a graduate student at
university I took a course called Psychoanalysis and Feminism, so I have
long been familiar with the work of such post-Freudian practitioners as
Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. (It's beyond significant - and dare I say
highly "Freudian" - that the two major psychoanalysts who ended up carrying
on a relatively orthodox tradition of Freudian psychoanalysis were both
female.) Klein's theory of "object relations" always intrigued me in its
feminist reconceptualization of Freud's more phallocentric symbolism,
positing, as it does, the breast, as opposed to the penis, as the primary
infantile object whose presence or lack influences the psychosexual
development of the child. (I don't even want to get into the fact here that
I was a bottle-fed baby, and its implications in my own childhood
development, although I'm sure it will significantly inform the development
of The Bad Breast!). As a student of cinema in university I was also
strongly influenced by repeated viewings of Ingmar Bergman's Persona, a
highly Freudian interpretation of the relationship between two intense and
dramatic women. The Bad Breast takes these influences as its starting
point, a heady mixture of psychoanalytic theory, feminism, classic European
art film, and Hollywood melodrama!
Bruce LaBruce
Toronto, 2009
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Vaginal Davis in FEEL LESS! COOLING DOWN PASSION || Mobile Academy || 3-5 Dec, Berlin
On the Scene of Intimacy. A Phantasmagoria.
With a Silhouette Film, the Excellence Cluster "Languages of
Emotion" of the Free University Berlin, Charismatic Counseling and
several oxytocinists.
SILHOUETTES
Based on the true story by Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel of
Berliin's CHEAP kollective and friends (1999 - 2009).
Recorded by Hannah Hurtzig.
Chapter 10: Susanne & Zazie
Chapter 14: Stephan & Nico
Chapter 18: Jennifer & Susanne
Thu, 3rd - Sat, 5th of December 2009
From 7pm - 11pm, continuous entry
HAU 1, Stresemannstr. 29, Berlin
A project of Mobile Academy at HAU and the Excellence Cluster
"Languages of Emotion", Free University, Berlin.
Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
www.mobileacademy-berlin.com
Plattenspieler at HAU Zwei
Saturday/Samstag 28 November 8pm HAU Zwei Plattenspieler with Novelist
Thomas Meinecke and special guest Vaginal Davis. Plattenspieler is where
you play some records and talk about them. It is something very German,
the closet thing we have to this is going on National Public Radio.
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Rising Stars, Falling Stars 2 year anniversary
With a screening of Prix de Beaute starring Louise Brooks directed by Augusto Genina 1929 musical accompaniment by Eunice Martin Join hostess Vaginal Davis in the Rote Foyer after the screening for drinkin,flirten, cruisen, und sexen Sunday November 29th 9:30pm Arsenal Institut für film und videokunst 2 Potsdamer Str Sony Ctr Kino 2 at Historic Potsdamer Platz
YES MS. DAVIS RETURNS TO NYC FOR 2009 PERFORMA BIENNIAL
That tiny little lady of outsider art Vaginal Davis returns to Manhattan
and the USA after an absence of over two years. Everyones favorite woman
in exile will participate in the group show Nothing Up My Sleeve curated by
gorgeous beauty boy, the first child of high art Jonathan Berger. Nothing
Up My Sleeve is based on the work of the widely unknown, yet highly
influential artist Stuart Sherman. Sherman was an early member of both the
Charles Ludlam and Richard Foreman theater companies. Nothing Up My
Sleeeve focuses on the notion of artists using various forms of deception
and illusion. The artists included in the exhibition span a 150 year
period, representing a diverse range of practices and relationships to art
and culture. The exhibition will take place at PARTICIPANT INC in
Nov-December, 2009. The exhibit will include documentation of
multiple "spectacle" performances by
Stuart Sherman as well as surviving objects from the performances of
legends Harry Houdini and comedian Andy Kaufman plus performances and work
from M.I.A., James Lee Byars, Carol Bove, Matthew Brannon, Superstudio,
SITE Projects, Nancy Barton and Mrs. Michael Glass with Allison Somers and
Eric Van Speights, Katarina Burin with Eileen Gray, KIOSK/Alisa Grifo and
Marco Romeny, Albert Cullum, Little Switzerland, Stefanie Victor, Jeff
Weiss/Hot Keys and director Robert Downey Sr.
Vaginal Davis will present an original performative lecture/oratorio
at NYU Monday, November 9.
Also, don't miss the stellar
reunion performance by Pedro, Muriel & Esther
[PME] featuring original members Glen Meadmore, Dean "the
babe" Opseth, Big Dique Sneaky Pete and Vaginal Davis-Yowza!
Vaginal Davis w/ P.M.E. and guests and
Tony Clifton & The Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra,
plus DJ sets by Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Kathleen Hanna
of Le Tigre, and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) of the Beastie Boys.
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 8:00 PM EST
at Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St, Manhattan, NY 10013.
Tickets
for PME
www.participantinc.org
www.performa-arts.org
Vaginal Davis DJane / VJane Oct 16 Phoenix Radio : Politik queer-feministischer Räume
Vernissage: Freitag, den 16.10.09, Beginn 19.00 UHR
Projektraum 1, Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin.
Mit love sexy D- und Vjane Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin von
Hohenzollern.
Künstl_erinnen:
Finn K. Buchwald, Sarah Harro, Jenny Hauke, Kerstin
Honeit, Kaj Osteroth und Lydia Hamann.
*Phoenix Radio ist ein
Piratinnensender. Das Programm: neue queer-feministische
Utopien.
Der Titel der
Ausstellung "Phoenix Radio" bezieht sich auf Lizzie
Bordens radikalfeministische
Utopie "Born in Flames" (USA, 1983), in der sich
Frauen im Untergrund militant organisieren,
um die Revolution
für eine gerechtere Welt zu erkämpfen.
Phoenix Radio Myspace
Vaginal Davis premiere Oct 30th at HAU 1 "Memory Island"
This new film and performance are
part of Live Film!Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented
World Festival Oct 28-Nov 1st.
www.Arsenal-Berlin.de
www.Hebbel-Am-Ufer.de
Vaginal Davis Präsentiert: Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Vaginal Davis presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars, with a special Rusky salute to Sergij Eisenstein and his classic silent Statschka (Streik). Live music by the Blue Bros. Tim & kJohnny. Wine reception after the screening in the Rote Foyer. Sunday September 13, 2009 9pm Kino 2 at Arsenal Institute für Film und Video Kunst 2 Potsdamer Strasse at the Sony Center Filmhaus in historic Potsdamer Platz.
LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH!
Five Flaming Days in a Rented World
New Films and Performances - Over 50 International Guests - Superstar Mario Montez Live!
From October 28- November 1 2009 Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel-am-Ufer (HAU) Theater present "LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World", a monumental event that brings together over fifty international artists and scholars to pay homage to the pioneering American underground artist and queer icon Jack Smith twenty years after his death from AIDS.
Through performances, film and video screenings, installations, concerts, lectures and discussions, LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! not only offers a variety of perspectives on the gender and genre bending work of Smith, Andy Warhol and fellow .60s avant-gardists, but also situates this work in dialogue with that of a diverse group of international contemporary artists.
LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! participants were invited to Berlin in March 2009 for private screenings of the restored copies of Smith's films that were placed in the Arsenal film archive by film restorer Jerry Tartaglia of the Plaster Foundation, the organization founded by performance artist Penny Arcade and critic/scholar Jim Hoberman to save and archive Smith's work after his death. Following extensive discussions about Smith's work and the context of its production, participants have had almost six months to prepare new work for the public festival.
Special festival guest is the legendary underground Superstar Mario Montez who will be making his first live appearance in over thirty years! With a special star-studded production of Warhol screenwriter Ronald Tavel's play "The Life of Juanita Castro", LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! will also pay homage to Tavel, who was Smith and Montez's close collaborator and who died unexpectedly after the March screening weekend.
Participants include: Bini Adamczak, Callie Angell, Penny Arcade, Tim Blue, Nao Bustamante, Christoph Chemin, Eric D. Clark, Tony Conrad, Beatrice Cordua, Douglas Crimp, Martin Dannecker, Vaginal Davis, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jennifer Doyle, Rainald Goetz, Ulrich Gooss, Karola Gramann, Chloe Griffin, Herbert Gschwind, Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein, John Edward Heys, Werner Hirsch, Jim Hoberman, Oliver Husain, Ken Jacobs (live Skype appearance), Dominic Johnson, Kinky Justice, Andrew Kerton, Sean Michael Kirk, Jakob Lena Knebl, Michael Krebber, Deirdre Logue, Renate Lorenz, Marie Losier, Guy Maddin, Thomas Meinecke, José Muñoz, Ulrike Ottinger, Uzi Parnes, Phantom/Ghost, Gwenäel Rattke, Juliane Rebentisch, Evelyn Rüsseler, Hans Scheirl, Heide Schlüpmann, Isabell Spengler, Tim Stüttgen, Juan Suárez, Jerry Tartaglia, Amy Taubin, Chris Tedjasukmana, José Teunissen, Ela Troyano, Gordon W. and Klaus Walter.
Curated by Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel, and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus. "LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World" is a co-production by Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel-am-Ufer (HAU) Theater, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.
Vaginal Davis in Daddy
Daddy is a play written by Travis Jeppesen, directed by Ron Athey.
Click on image for larger flyer.
Info and tickets at
HAU3
(Deutsch)
(English)
Vaginal Davis in Naples
Vaginal Davis will
perform on June 6th, 2009 in Naples at the Museo Madre Contemporary Art Museum
of Donna Regina in The History of Ecstasy with Ron Athey, Ernesto Tomasini,
Julie Tolentino and Pig-Pen.
http://www.museomadre.it
"Smell it!: Friendship as a form of living, production and action" in Vienna
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends and colleagues, we are very pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Smell it! Friendship as a form of living, production and action on May 27, 2009
Smell it!: Friendship as a form of living, production and action
Exhibition: May 28 - June 27, 2009
Opening: May 27, 2009 at 7 pm
Artists: CHEAP / Vaginal Davis, Katrina Daschner, Hubert Fichte / Lil Picard, Marina Grzinic / Aina Smid, William E. Jones, G.B. Jones, Bruce LaBruce / Candy Parker, Marie Losier, Paolo Mezzacapo de Cenzo, Karol Radziszewski, Deborah Schamoni, Isabell Spengler, Dasen Stambuk, Jaan Toomik / Jaan Paavle / Risto Laius, Joyce Wieland / Hollis Frampton. Curation and Organization: Dietmar Schwärzler, Exhibition Architecture: Robert Vörös
Friendships are not only one of the most important forms of social coexistence in every single biography; they also represent an essential requirement in the art world for cooperations as well as work and production conditions. But friendships also manifest as a way of life or as a part of subcultural community forms. Michael Foucault once said (as example) that the threat of homosexuality is not the sex one has with another rather the lifestyle one creates with another: friendships and networks. The exhibition Smell it! primarily presents artistic works that generate queer references or address the queer context within an open dialogue. Following the theme, productions from post-socialist countries will also be integrated, where reactionary and homophobic forces currently have a direct impact, and no sustained, visible queer tradition in artistic production exists.
The exhibition takes place in cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute.
A magazine accompanying the exhibition will be published! Interviews with Katrina Daschner / Dorit Margreiter, William E. Jones, Rosa von Praunheim, Joao Pedro Vale / Nuno Alexandre Ferreira / Pedro Campos Rodrigues.
Contributions by: Jan-Frederik Bandel, Christa Benzer, Victor Brand, Vaginal Davis, ____fabrics interseason, Martin Frey, Sylvia Gruber, Marina Grzinic, G.B. Jones, Mario Kozina, Bruce LaBruce, Pawel Leszkowicz, Boyd McDonald, Ulrike Müller / Dean Spade, Carola Platzek, Karol Radziszewski (DIK Fagazine featuring Fag Fighters), Hans Scheirl in cooperation with house of the very island, Dietmar Schwärzler, Stefanie Seibold.
SMELL IT!
Freundschaft als Lebens-, Produktions- und Aktionsform
28.05.2009 bis 27.06.2009
13:00 - 18:00 Di bis Fr
11:00 - 14:00 Sa
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
WUK, Währinger Strasse 59, 1090 Wien
http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/
Vaginal Davis Präsentiert: Rising Stars, Falling Stars
Can't wait to see you at our Nell Shipman salute at Rising Stars, Falling Stars Saturday May 23rd 9:00pm at the Kino Arsenal intimate theater 2, where we will be screening Back To God's Country (1919), the hit film sequel by the outspoken Canadian feminist, and early cinema pioneer Ms. Nell Shipman. Accompanying the film live on klavier Ms. Eunice Martin. After the screening join earthmother hostess Vaginal Davis in the infamous Rote Foyer for a sophisticated wine reception.
Seen last month at our Charlie Chaplin tribute: Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, raw foods celebrity chef Boris Lauser with his visiting San Francisco posse, young sexy filmmaker Tilemachos Alexios Alexiou with super hot lover Assaf Hochman, translator to the stars Daniel "Haji" Hendrickson,dapper composer and music theorist Volker Straebel, Maerz Music Festival Director Mattias Osterwold, gorgeous cineaste Julian Schubert, Gabriele Knapstein curator at Hamburger Bahnof Museum, vivacious ballerina Trixie Cordua, film scholar Christian "F" Weber, academe Vincent Hediger, Christian Siekmieir of Exile Gallery with Japanese New York based artist Kazuko Mijamoto, curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Tim &kJohnny Blue, LA fashion designer Cornel Collins, artist Bertand Bodenave, Alannah Weston, the creative director of Selfridges, male ingenue Jake Myerson, British provacateuse Isabela Blow with writer Hamish Bowles, art star Elias Hassos and Julia-Restoin Roitfeld.
Vaginal Davis Presents Rising Stars, Falling Stars a monthly Utopian oasis for the descriminating filmgoer. Saturday May 23, 2009 9:00pm Back To God's Country 1919 A Nell Shipman Tribute. Live music by Eunice Martin. Arsenal Institute Für Film und Videokunst 2 Potsdamer Str at Filmhaus Sony Center
Vaginal Davis wins 2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award
The Ethyl Eichelberger Award is a commissioning award created by Performance Space 122 in 2005 and made possible with the generous support of the Gesso Foundation. The Ethyl Eichelberger Award is given to an artist or group that exemplifies Ethyl's larger-than-life style and generosity of spirit; who embodies Ethyl's multi-talented artistic virtuosity, bridging worlds and vitalizing those around them. Recipients include Taylor Mac (2005), Julie Atlas Muz (2006), Justin Bond (2007) and Jennifer Miller (2008).
Vaginal Davis performs with Johanna Fateman and JD Sampson of Le Tigre
Vaginal Davis performs as part of Girl Monster at the Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany on Wed April 22nd. The event is curated by Chicks on Speed and features Johanna Fateman and JD Sampson of Le Tigre´s new dance project Men(ex-Le Tigre) featuring LTTR. Vaginal Davis will perform her peice "Advanced Capitalism Interspecies HooDoo".
Vintage Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis performs in film version of Ibsen´s The Doll House circa 1980.
Vaginal Davis presents a performative lecture "Flesh for LuLu: Taking the High Road to Sexual Failure"
Saturday Feb 14, 2009 7:30-9pm Vaginal Davis presents a performative lecture, "Flesh for LuLu: Taking the High Road to Sexual Failure" as part of the Economies of Failure series at Arco 09 Madrid-Feria. Internacional De Arte Contemporaneo part of the 7th International Contemporary Art Expertos Forum. More info here.
Vaginal Davis returns to the Berlinale for the third year.
Feb 11, 2009 12 noon 59th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin/Forum Expanded
Vaginal Davis returns to the Berlinale for the third year in a row this time presenting performative short format piece "Berlin Babylonia Gorgon - Babbling on with Gossip, Song and Dance". More information here.
Vaginal Davis presents a performative lecture "Fornication No! Theocracy Yes! Conjuring Voice in the Spirit"
Tuesday Jan 27th 22 uhr as part of the Vocal Ecstasy series of the Politics of Ecstasy Festival at HAU 2 Hallesches Ufer 32 10963. More information here.
Tim & kJohnny Blue guest star in Wilhelm Hein's You Killed The Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt.
Sunday Jan 25th 19 uhr Vaginal Davis. This will be the Expanded Cinema Version at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Augustrasse 69 10177. More information here.
Patrons of the Arts, Atendez-vous!
Yes, the economy may be in the toilet, but we still need to look
after the stars.
Vaginal Davis is performing a few songs at this long running Berlin nite spot January
15 Thur Chantals House of Shame@ Bassy Club Schönhauser Allee 176
10119, Berlin in the cellar of the Pfefferberg accompanied by kJohnny Blue
of Cheap on Cello. Show starts at 1am.
Your donation will help to keep Vaginal Davis making the art which
she so freely shares with the world.
Vaginal Davis at Chantals House of Shame
Vaginal Davis at Search and Destroy: Queer Noises
2009 Tour: Vaginal Davis' VDas VB and the Madonna of Laibachdorf
Vaginal Davis' VDas VB and the Madonna of Laibachdorf are part of
RE:akt! | reconstruction, re-enactment, re-reporting
a traveling show that confronts current ideological and intellectual
canons, power structures, policies, and distribution channels by
re-enacting selected historical and culturally-relevant events.
Venues:
MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
January 22 - March 13, 2009
ŠKUC gallery, Ljubljana
March 25 - April 17, 2009
MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka
May 22 - June 21, 2009
Curator: Domenico Quaranta
http://www.domenicoquaranta.net
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.
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
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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fon +49 30 259 004 76
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
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
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
Vaginal Davis now based in Berlin, Germany
Vaginal Davis in Slovenia
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.
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
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
AB 22 Uhr im HAU 2
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
tel.259004 27
Womanizer group show in New York at Deitch Projects
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
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
http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at
Vaginal Davis in Ohio
Vaginal Davis in NYC
Where Art and Life Collide-A Festival of Subcultural Performances New York University April 26-May 5th
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.
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
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!
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
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
European Tour Accolades
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 President of the United States in an L.A. Weekly cover story.
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Vaginal Davis in Sissymag on women of Bruce La Bruce's The Misandrists: Susanne Sachsse, Viva Ruiz and Kembra Pfahler
New books with stuff about VD: 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
Download the video for the song "mamma's not dead" by Technova, featuring Vaginal Davis.
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
UK website interview
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