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New updates: 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)" Photos by Christa Holka of Vaginal Davis performing in Memory Island at Trashing Performance at the Tate Modern 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: Diane Pernet writeup on Nothing Up My Sleve with photos by Glenn Belverio Glenn Belverio writeup of Vaginal Davis with PME show at Santos Party House Photos from GuestOfaGuest of Vaginal Davis performing with PME, Adam Horovitz, and Tony Clifton PME performance photos courtesy Giorgio Handman 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: Wall of Gay Shame, Aretha & Shaun Fanning Part One Wall of Gay Shame, Aretha & Shaun Fanning Part Two "Dorian Corey Sequin Gown Near Opie Print at Koreatown Studio" Wall of Gay Shame Black&White, Sepia (Collage) Vaginal Davis appeared at the Homo A Gogo festival in Olympia Washington. The festival ran August 1-6, 2006 and Dr. Davis' appearances included hosting the Friday, August 4th show. www.homoagogo.com Account of Bricktops Takes Manhattan Vaginal Davis is interviews by John Sanchez on the podcast Feast of Fools. Vaginal Davis' paintings appeared in the show "Founders Day: Jack Smith and the Work of Reinvention" curated by Jonathan Berger, from July 7 - August 24 2005 at Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 3rd floor in New York City. http://www.grimmrosenfeld.com/ There is a review in the New York Times with mention of Vaginal Davis at the start of the second page. Images of Vaginal Davis' paintings: small image    large image LA Weekly preview of the last Bricktops. Vaginal Davis gives a tour of Hollywood Boulevard on the program "Pacific Drift" on KPCC 89.3. The show is being rebroadcast Sunday March 6 at 9 pm, or listen online. article at RainbowNetwork about Vaginal Davis' appearances in the UK. Lust: Best Places to Get Serviced with Zeal and Abandon by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis. Vaginal Davis inteviews the Ditty Bops in the LA Weekly article. New York Times article by Guy Trebay about Vaginal Davis from May 23, 2004. 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.

Vaginal Davis art show in Portland, Oregon VAGINAL DAVIS AND PHILADELPHIA WIREMAN 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. 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 May 23: 10:30 - 12 pm: Vaginal Davis performance-lecture http://decolonizingthecoldwar.wordpress.com/ Rising Stars. Falling Stars: We Must Have Music! Curator and hostess Vaginal Davis re-vamps her long running early cinema series. April 21 2013: SALOME'S LAST DANCE, Ken Russell, Great Britain 1988 35mm, OV, 89 min May 26 2013: BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940, Norman Taurog, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell, USA 1940, OV, 102 min Arsenal Inst for Film & Video Art 2 Potsdamer Strasse Sony Filmhaus Basement Kino 2 in Historic Potsdamer Platz www.arsenal-berlin.de Critic's Pick in Artforum Camp/Anti-Camp Frankfurt Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm 1&2: 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 der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main fundeed by Hauptstadrkulturfonds Berlin Vaginal Davis survives Hurricane Sandy Vaginal Davis is in New York City and is safe, but obviously would rather be in Berlin. New Date: Vaginal Davis at NYU New date: Tuesday November 13, 7 pm "No One Leaves Delilah": A (W)rap on Race 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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 27 July 2012: 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 Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories will be in Basel appearing at the Kaserne Theater on June 13 & 14! 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 Friday March 16th 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 present 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 Friday Feb 3rd and Saturday Feb 4, 2012 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 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. 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 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) Arsenal Kino 2 Potsdamerplatz, Berlin http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/ Communist Bigamist Opening December 8, 2011 in Berlin. Additional Performances December 9/10/11 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 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. 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) 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 http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/24868.htm October, 2011: Vaginal Davis returns to LA Vaginal Davis will return to Los Angeles to host a West of Rome Fundraiser October 3, 2011 at historic Union Station. http://trespassparade.org/party Berlin, Saturday September 24 2011: Rising Stars, Falling Stars: Swedish Realness Night: Norrtullsligan 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. 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 Party for Freedom with Oreet Ashery (Sept) 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 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. Please no requests for Lady Gaga, Madonna or Techno! After the Butcher at Kunst Werke Museum Berlin in Mitte 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 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 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. b_books, Lübbenerstr. 14, 10997 Berlin Die Untoten Life Sciences Pulp Fiction 12-14th May 2011 Hamburg 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 Vaginal Davis is a subject in this photographic exhibit of performers. March 18-May 30th Martin-Gropius Bau Museum Berlin http://www.margaritabroich.de Spill Festival Performance Tarot Exhibition 18-24 April, Barbican Centre, London 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 The only way I can describe Ms. Davis. latest performance piece dejecta/protecta is to say its a bit of Little House on the Prairie meets The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant as directed by Gregg Araki, featuring choreography by Mummenshantz.. -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 PERFORMANCES BY: Vaginal Davis | Lord Whimsy | Dr. Lucky | Jeremy J F Thompson | Paolo Javier | Daniel Scott Snelson | Shonni Enelow 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 www.arsenal-berlin.de 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. www.arsenal-berlin.de 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 www.arsenal-berlin.de 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". More information here.   Vintage Vaginal Davis Vaginal Davis performs in film version of Ibsen´s The Doll House circa 1980. Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 4   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. 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 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. Vaginal Davis at Search and Destroy: Queer Noises http://www.myspace.com/destroyberlin 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. www.bistrotheque.com   Vaginal Davis Presents Hans Richter shorts at Rising Stars, Falling Stars An atmosphere unlike any other this Saturday is another exciting installment of the most talked about monthly event in Berlin, “Rising Stars, Falling Stars,” which celebrates experimental films, the silent era, and early cinema treasures in a whimsical performative environment. Seen at last month's tribute to Mabel Normand were internationally renowned independent curator Nicholas Weist (The Dulcet Clime of the Bed Chamber), well endowed German artist Christian Siekmeier, who has returned to Berlin after 11 years spent in New York, lovesexy experimental film darling Wilhelm Hein with his brilliant art photog girlfriend Annette Frick, gorgeous British live artist Keira O`Reilly, movie ingenue Brady Corbet, author Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, vivacious actresses Alexandra Maria Lara and Susanna Sachße and the grande dame des deutschen Schauspiels Senta Berger. You never know who you´ll see at Rising Stars, the only event in Berlin that mixes people from divergent scenes. This Saturday Vaginal Davis presents an homage to the great Hans Richter with a specially crafted selection of his short subjects. With daring musical accompaniment by New York composer Kjohnny Blue. After the screening join hostess Vaginal Davis & her cosmopolitan guests in the Roter Foyer for a wine reception. A Hans Richter shorts program with musical accompaniment from kJohnny Blue. 10pm with wine reception after the screening. Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz Sony Center Potsdamer Str 2 Saturday July 26th Arsenal web Vaginal Davis and Tim Blue of Cheap with the beautiful and amazing youth of Berlin Sunday June 22nd 5pm at HAU I The Arrogance of Youth . . .And if they are not, they should be. They are everything; at the height of their physical strength and beauty, creative, eager to participate and change a world that should belong to them. At the threshold of adulthood, their enthusiasm and concern is what this world torn with war, disease and violence needs the most. It is time to take what only belongs to them. Coming out of workshops with Vaginal Davis and Tim Blue of art kollective Cheap, an army of 100 youth, shod in gold and raiment, from all over Berlin will attack the senses in a showcase of love, humor, beauty and power. HEBBEL AM UFER ------------------- Hallesches Ufer 32 10963 Berlin ------------------ fon +49 30 259 004 76 fax +49 30 259 004 49 ------------------- www.hebbel-am-ufer.de Vaginal Davis presents "Tillie's Punctured Romance " at Rising Stars, Falling Stars Tillie's Punctured Romance starring cinemas first big comedy star Mabel Normand 9:30 with wine reception after the screening. Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz Sony Center Potsdamer Str 2 7 June 2008 Arsenal Web   Tillie's Punctured Romance starring cinemas first big comedy star Mabel Normand Happening at the Halla Vaginal Davis and her sexy Wei&slig;ensee art students will present a one time akshunist event - Happening at the Halla ---"You'll Know What To Do" this Friday May 23rd 8pm at the Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin-Neukölln at the former Kindl-Brewery Werbellinstr 50 U8 Boddingstr. http://www.raumerweiterungshalle.tk FREE Vaginal Davis in wealthy southern Germany! Sugar daddies beware! The great insane professor Vaginal Davis will be conducting a performance workshop with the students of Merz Akademie Art and Design University in Stuttgard from May 26-May 30th   Vaginal Davis presents "The Perils of Pauline" at Rising Stars, Falling Stars in the intimate Kino 2 space The Perils of Pauline, 1913-14 starring Pearl White directed by Donald Mackenzie live music by the Blue Bros. Tim and kJohnny after the screening join Ms. Davis in the famous Rote Foyer for a reception drinken,flirten, kissen and sexen Kino Arsenal The Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz Sony Center Potsdamer Str 2 24 May 2008 Arsenal web   Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap will open for Kill Rock Stars "The New Bloods". Accompanied by kJohnny Blue on cello, Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap will open for Kill Rock Stars recording artists from Portland, Oregon "The New Bloods" at West Germany skalitzer str. 133 10999 Berlin 22 May 2008 doors open at 9pm Vaginal Davis and Kjohnny go on at 10pm and the new bloods at 11pm $4.00 cover http://www.myspace.com/lamoustacheberlin   Vaginal Davis teaches workshop with the art students of Wiesensee- open to the general community as well. For all of you Francophiles Vaginal Davis will be in gorgeous Paris, France making a rare appearance on Gallic shores at the prestigious La Palais de Tokyo Museum on April 9, 2008 where she will give the performative interactive lecture "Porno Adorno-F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks" for more information go to www.palaisdetokyo.com. Vaginal Davis returns to the states for the first time in over a year Vaginal Davis returns to the states for the first time in over a year with her "Present Penicative" Installation that is part of the group show The Way That We Rhyme-Women, Art, Politics March 29-June, 2008 at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, the show will also include special performative events. More information on the show here. Vaginal Davis with kollective Cheap back by popular demand The Cheap Gossip Studio Installation will be included as part of Forum Expanded at the Berlinale Film Festival 2008 from Feb 7-17th. This year we will be giving out Cheapy Awards to the most accomplished people in the Outsider Arts Movement Cheap Blacky in Art Forum Vaginal Davis quoted in Art Forum. And check out her performance from the show on Youtube! Vaginal Davis at Peres Projects Gallery in Berlin Saturday Sept 29th at 7 pm, Ms. Davis will perform as part of the Bruce la Bruce/Terence Koh installation at Peres Projects Gallery in Berlin. Vaginal Davis DJs at "FM Queer: A Big Night Out" in Vienna Austria FM Queer in Vienna Austria on October 20th. Also on the bill is jean genet, lesbians on ecstacy and TNT Jackson. For more information see the FM Queer website. Rising Stars, Falling Stars mit Vaginal Davis at Kino Arsenal Sonntag, 21.10.2007, 21:00 Ein performativer Abriss von Stummfilme, early talkies, dem Avantgarde und jenseits from Baghdad to Tinseltown mit special guest hostess globale Dragartiste Vaginal Davis of Hollywood. Join Fräulein Davis und andere Frühfilmfanatiker für einen intimen Abend saluting the luminous Louise Brooks and her director, G.W. Pabst, with a screening of the Berlin Klassiker Die Buchse der Pandora. Nach der Vorführung folgt a Weimar-style Empfang, where Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek prizes will be awarded für die beste Lulu- und Franz Wedekind Doppelgänger. A performative survey of silent films, early talkies, the avant-garde and beyond from Baghdad to Tinseltown, with special guest hostess global drag artiste Vaginal Davis of Hollywood. Join Fräulein Davis and other early cinema fanatics for an intimate evening saluting the luminous Louise Brooks and her director, G.W. Pabst, with a screening of the Berlin classic Die Buchse der Pandora. The screening will be followed by a Weimar-style reception, where Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek prizes will be awarded for the best Lulus and Franz Wedekind Doppelgängers. http://www.fdk-berlin.de/de/arsenal/programm.html The lady DJs opening party for 2nd Int'l Porn Film Festival in Berlin Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 22:00 Uhr PORNFILMFESTIVAL-OPENING-NIGHT CUM2CUT-PORNGIVING-NIGHT DJ/VJ Vaginal Davis WHOREGASMS Join global Dragkünstlerin/DJane Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin von Ho!henzollern from Hollywood, for a sultry evening of sensual diphtheria visuals from her award-winning trespass cinema arsenal of schwarze gonzo porn. Bring someone you've leased, rented, or bought to watch this crazy sexual maniac behind the wheels of steel as she spins freestyle classix, indie punque slop, and rock dance puddy. http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/07-special-programm.html   Cheap Projects in Germany, resumes in November 2007 Don't forget to check out Cheap Project's strangely successful efforts at corrupting German children at the Theater an der Parkaue: CHEAPs DR.SEUSS's ABC and CHEAPs MAX AND MORITZ, starring VAGINAL DAVIS (with brand new surprise ending for the new season!!!) and of course SUSANNE SACHSSEs STOFFEL FLIEGT ÜBERS MEER. All three productions are in repertoire this season at the Parkaue. info: www.parkaue.de Max & Moritz with Cheap Kollective features Vaginal Davis as Witwe Bolte. The famous Beavis & Butthead of German fairytales have been transplanted to a cholita-style girl gang with one boy as the girls' bitch. Max und Moritz: conceived by cheap with Vaginal Davis, starring the amazing, legendary German actors Frau Elvira Schuster as Bäckerin and Herr Dieter Korthals as Bauer with Corinna Mühle, Katrin Heinrich, Elisabeth I.M. Heckel, Sofie Hüsler and Denis Pöpping as the notorious street gang The M&M's featuring Mathias Biele as Müller, Peter Priegann as Onkel Fritz and Frauline Vaginal Davis as Witwe Bolte. The premiera was april 19th. Performances resume in November-- For more information, see the website of Theater an der Parkaue.   Cheap, Blacky this November Premiering in November: Cheap with Vaginal Davis will have a new stage production at HAU 2 Berlin of Cheap, Blacky. This drama of malfunctional family values features Vaginal Davis as the mother of the title character. Bruce La Bruce directs with costumes by couturier Rick Owens and if that isn't enough, and it isn't, Susanne Sachße (Raspberry Reich) will appear as a saloon singer. This is going to be ill. In the spring this production will travel to Graz, Zurich, Hamburg and Liverpool just to name a few cities who want to get in on the zanyness. Check out Bruce La Bruce's statement. Vaginal Davis now based in Berlin, Germany Vaginal Davis has left Los Angeles for good. She wasn't appreciated enough and now is based in Berlin, Germany to better be available for art appearances throughout the European continent. To book Vaginal Davis for a performance or for other information, contact Gleeson Breevard at Gleebrevard{AT}aol.com Vaginal Davis in Slovenia Vaginal Davis went to Slovenia to do another version of her infamous VD as VB parody of Vanessa Beecroft. This time it's called VD as VB Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) # 27-29 10827. The performance on June 21st, 2007 was at Kapelica Gallery, produced by Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the City of Women Festival, Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture, which also gave important assistance in finding the beautiful living sculptures. A video of the VD as VB performance can be viewed here: http://www.dnevnik.si/novice/kultura/253264/ On the Aksioma web site are photos from the piece, plus a VD as VB photo shoot called The Madonna of Laibachdorf. http://www.reakt.org/vd/index.html Vaginal Davis visits Montreal, Québec. Friday March 16th, 2007: 5 pm: Queer Horizons Lecture by Professor José Esteban Muñoz AND... Beware of the Holy Whore, A performative presentation by Vaginal Davis. McGill University (855 Sherbrooke W) Leacock 132 (this event is wheelchair accessible) Saturday March 17th, 2007: Gays of Our Lives Opening at articule Gallery (262 Fairmount O). *queer shorts program *Performance and Video screening by Vaginal Davis *Informal discussion about queer video and performance moderated by Vaginal Davis and Jose E Munoz Presented by articule Special Projects and La Centrale Powerhouse Gallery (this space is wheelchair accessible) www.articule.org Saturday March 17th,11pm: After Party at Le Studio (2111 Saint-Laurent Boulevard) Hosted by Vaginal Davis With DJ Will Munro and the Asspirates Performances by Mikiki, Donzelle and more. $5 (no one turned away) (this event is wheelchair accessible) March 21th to March 25th: Gays of Our Lives Installation. La Centrale Powerhouse Gallery (4296 Blv. St. Laurent) http://www.lacentrale.org Vaginal Davis and Cheap installation and film screenning at Berlinale 2007 Cinema Beyond its Boundaries: For the second time, Forum expanded presents video art, experimental and underground films. The heart of Forum expanded this year is the "Gossip Studio" in the Atrium of the Filmhaus, an underground parlor for the creation and circulation of gossip with its cocktail bar and beauty moments -- designed and presented by the artists group CHEAP (Marc Siegel, Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Hendrickson, and Tim Blue) and Vaginal Davis. Screening will be films that Vaginal Davis filmed in berlin le petite tokinoise and granpa sam part of the gossip studio, cheap rumourville The opening of Gossip Studio is on Friday 9th of February at 16:00 at Arsenal 1. It runs from the 10th of February through the 18th of February at the Filmhaus Atrium with Works by Vaginal Davis, Birgit Hein, Sam Siegel and Danny Williams, presented by Cheap with Vaginal Davis, plus for the same dates the Forum expanded Rooftop Garden with Films by Vaginal Davis, Marie Losier and Shannon Plumb at Filmhaus Blackbox. More information on the press release and New Year's Eve/Silvester Art Party with Cheap & Vaginal Davis in Berlin After last year's chaotic success, CHEAP + holy retarded whore Vaginal Davis transformed HAU 2 into a horror theme park at New Year's RUTH FISCHER's MONSTERLAND: Hideous creatures big and small from Bagdad to Hollywood. Lick and chew on the giant black racehorse arse of hostess with the mostess on her hairy eyeballs, Vaginal Davis. Plus the Whoracle et Delphi, and other misfortune tellers, pinheads, humpy dorks, trolls, happy hookers, snaggle tooth hustlers, crosseyed cheesesticks, grizzly half-naked communists and refined thrill rides for the descerning! Unexpected film and video projections by Wilhelm Hein, carnel casting couch by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, PopPunque Pulsations from the band Ruth Fischer featuring Ibadette and Mickey of the Super 700s. Sexually maniacal star appearances and DJs b_books, nancy goes to rio and prinzessin von ho!hernzollern!!! AB 22 Uhr im HAU 2 http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de tel.259004 27 Womanizer group show in New York at Deitch Projects Yes the Lady Ms. Davis is part of the Womanizer exhibit that opens at Deitch Projects in SoHo on January 6, 2007 Curated by Kembra Pfahler and Julie Atlas Mus. Vaginal Davis will present a living installation called Present Penicative, that features videos, photos, paintings, drawings, and ephemera from her illustrious outsider art career. Plus she will perform for a male audience of one in the new piece, "Colonize Me" and will perform and host an intimate women only salon called "Bilitis-A Feminine Seperatist Political State"(Located somewhere in Palestine). Porno Adorno - F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks: A Performative Workshop with Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin Von Ho! henzollern 21st October, 2006, 20:00, Kant-Kino 5, Berlin. Part of Porn Film Festival Berlin 2006. http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/work_davis.html Vaginal Davis Returns to Austria, Fall 2006 The Cheap Collektive with Vaginal Davis will be performing in the steirische herbst 2006 performance festival in Graz, Austria Sept 20-October 15, 2006. http://www.steirischerbst.at Vaginal Davis and kollective Cheap will DJ at the Art Festival Center wed 11 Oct from 9pm - kunstlerhaus in volkspark in graz entritt frei. Come to the Party! Vaginal Davis in Austria Vaginal Davis did a series of performances April 5-April 13th, 2006 in Breganz, Austria with the Viennese art collective Gelitin. Their web page is http://www.gelitin.net Also see the venue's webpage at http://www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at Vaginal Davis in Ohio Friday, April 21, at 8 pm, Vaginal Davis did a performance in Mitchell Auditorium, Siegfred Hall, Athens, Ohio, at Ohio University. webpage - email contact: livewodeadtime@gmail.com Vaginal Davis in NYC Where Art and Life Collide-A Festival of Subcultural Performances New York University April 26-May 5th Vaginal Davis performed along with others in New York in April/May 2006. Read this account of Bricktops Takes Manhattan More information at www.artofnightlife.net April 26- artists arrive April 27- studio visits with MFA students, 2-5pm April 28- Roselee Goldberg/Performa hosts "NOT FOR SALE" panel with C. Carr, Lucy Sexton, Robert Storr, and other special guest scholars and critics, 6-8 pm, followed by reception, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE May 1- Ron Athey, "Incorruptible Flesh: Dissociative Sparkle", durational performance 5-10pm, Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, $10 May 2- Franko B, "Why are you here?", one to one performances, 4pm-midnight by appointment (212-254-4334), Participant Gallery, 95 Rivington Street, ($20) May 3- LesbiansToTheRescue presentation of special edition poster project, followed by screening of Simeon Hutner's documentary film about Ron Athey, "Martyrs and Saints," including Q+A with film maker, 6:30pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant Street, FREE May 4- Vaginal Davis, "Bricktops Takes Man!hattan", 6pm student installation opening reception, 10pm showtime ($10), Siberia, 356 West 40th Street featuring DJ's Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Pirate Jenny of Montpelier and Billy Miller of the Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts and performances by The Toxic Titties Collective, Anderson Cooper channeling Bobby Short, John Blue Quartet, Birds in Guilded Cages, Boydello Lounge, Taxi Dancing and many surprises! May 5- Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B Artist lectures, followed by panel discussion with the artists moderated by Jose Munoz and Jennifer Doyle, 6-8pm, NYU Barney building, 34 Stuyvesant street, FREE "BRICKTOPS! - ROARING 20s NIGHTCLUB! a utopian oasis for the literary clubgoer The Parlour Club, Bricktops old Los Angeles venue, has closed. Watch here for the reappearance of Bricktops at other venues, worldwide. Beautiful Bricktops art noveau posters are on sale at Bricktops. The posters were lovingly designed by Cory Marie Podielski of the Moveable Feast, there are limited quantities of these highly prized collectors item, so be the first on your blocka to purchase. There are three so far in a special series of posters featuring Bricktop luminaries, all numbered and signed by the artist. Click on images below for larger views. August 5, 2005 - Final Bricktops at the Parlour Club: Mink Stole, Abbie Travis, Kristian Hoffman, Reny Monk as Josephine Baker accompanied by Tom, Cabinet of Curiosities, Pretty Things, My Barbarian, Selene Luna, Michele Carr of the Velvet Hammer, La Poubelle Twins, Anna Bells, The Fishnet Floozy, Rebekah Del Rio, Jose Promis, Jean Spinosa, Augusta! Hobo Jazz, Penny Starr Junior and almost everyone who has ever played Bricktops doing one short piece. Dress Fancy, No cellphones, No Hummers, No Range Rovers, and absolutely no plastic surgeries. Andrew Gould, and tranny temptress, Vaginal Davis present Bricktops! at the Parlour Club, 7702 Santa Monica Blvd in the Russian Quarter of West Hollywood. Bricktops faithfully re-creates the splendour of Jazz Age Cafe Society Paris, Weimar Berlin, and Greenwich Village bohemian intelligentcia. For literate clubgoers sick of the corporate careerist vulturism and youth culture myopia that plagues the tired and stagnant LA club scene, Bricktops provides the only satisfying true alternative. The style and allure of the 1920s has created a "flaming" youth movement and sub-culture, that excercise in camp and kitch, but something more demanding that explores our not so distant past in an environment ripe to promote the creation of new political, artistic and cultural movements. Appropriate lost generation attire requested. WWW.PARLOURCLUB.COM. Visions of Excess at Fierce Festival in Birmingham England Visions of Excess -- A Tribute to George Bataille -- at The Demon Club Strip. Join in. Birmingham. Sunday May 25th 4pm - Monday May 26th 10am. curated by Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey and featuring artists from around the world such as David Grassi of Slovenia, Marcus Lutyens, Spain and Yuraslav Mogutin of Russia with The Velvet Hammer Review(LA) Bruce La Bruce(Canada) Udo Kier(Germany) and many others. Vaginal Davis opening for Siouxsie and the Banshees Yes that's right -- the beautiful diva of all Diva's Siouxsie Sioux and her Banshees are playing at the Hollywood Paladium on Saturday Aug 11, 2002 -- and kicking off the show who else but special guest Technova featuring Vaginal Davis and David Harrow, who co-wrote the smash Billy Ray Martin hit "Your Loving Arms." Platinum Oasis July 13/14 2002 click image for huge version PLATINUM OASIS: La Terra Vista Dalla Luna Here's the media reports: LA Weekly's Slush, New Times LA -- unfortunately the Advocate's story is not on their website. Yes, we've gone mad, but here it is anyway back by popular demand part two of our mega-multi-media, hyper-intellectual, 18-hour arts'n'culture celebration of sleaze known the world over as Platinum Oasis at the notorious Coral Sands Motel. This year's theme serves as a tribute to the sick genius of the late poet, author and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salo, 120 Days of Sodom.) Couture fashion wunderkind Rick Owens has specially designed garments this year, which will be custom fitted to you in our high tech sweat shop. First come first serve so get there early! The hot to trot Velvet Hammer revue will pull it to the bumper alongside the likes of Kid Congo Powers and Little Annie; F2M underground Rap androgenues The End of The World; telenovella brats gone wild! Los Super Elegantes; Israeli pop star Burger!; My Barbarian summoning the Big Anus Devil from Canterbury Tales; New Zealand's Ann Shelton; Italy's Accatone strega-diva Diviana Ingravallo; Turkish fascistic movement performer Mehmet Sander; South Africa's Brian Hecker and Spain's Number One sexy conceptualist Marcos Lutyens; and many more. The 40 rooms of installation include art stars Catherine Opie, Le Tigre's JD Samson' 120 Days of JD, Russian dissident poet Slava, Billy Miller/Straight to Hell, Brendan Mullen/Adam Parfrey, Emilio Cubiero's "Death of an Asshole" Hosted by Mark Simon with special guest Annie Sprinkle, the One Institute Archive's "Degeneration of the Invert," and everyone's fav libertine: Bruce La Bruce with St'Eve Hall. Round midnight, a Platypus-style "Reeperbahn.² At dawn, St. Salicia Tate leads her Mormen Jrs. in gospel-funk aerobics with a hymn service by Glen Meadmore's Hot Horny and Born Again Cuntry Band. Hogma Soleil, Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis Full list of artists and installations. Dr. Davis opens for Margaret Cho! In a dizzying, coast-to-coast spree of comedy and crime, Dr. Vaginal Davis opened for comedian Margaret Cho's "Notorious C.H.O." tour which started August 30 in Miami and continued through January, culminating in an appearance at New York City's Carnegie Hall! Read Vag's Tour Diary for all the astounding details! Check out this interview with Margaret Cho from the L.A. Times where she mentions her fondness for this very Vaginal Davis website! Deutschland, Switzerland, and England Dr. Vaginal Davis has returned from her summer tour of Europe. Here is a German review of one of her performances. In May, Vaginal Davis performed in Berlin in the theatre piece "Cheap Jewelry" as part of "Reich und Berühmt", a performance festival sponsored by Podewil, with a premiere party in Bastard on May 9. As part of her European tour, Dr. Davis stepped off the continent for a packed-to-the-rafters feature performance at London's primo performance art nightspot Duckie on Saturday May 26th at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London. Ms. Davis also appeared to thunderous approval in Zurich, Switzerland at Seminar fur Filmwissenschaft at the Universitat Zurich and at Shedhalle Zurich. And back in Germany, Dr. Davis performed her piece "Sucking Her Un-Born Cock" at Praeter in Berlin on June 9th, sponsored by the Volksbruner and Podevil, featuring la diva picking unique well endowed Germanicuses for a special one-on-one in a specially designed and unique setting. Vaginal Davis on the Wheels of Steel Proving that Boy George is not the only tired drag queen re-styling herself as a DJ, Vaginal Davis DJed at the LA debut party for art-world darlings Fischerspooner (as seen on the cover of über-hip Index Magazine.) in March 2001. If you liked Ms. D.'s Sucker DJ-ing as spinderella behind the wheels of steel you'll love what she does at the West Coast Passerby in conjunction with Manhattan gallery Gavin Brown's Enterprise. And check out Vag's interview with Fischerspooner from the L.A. Weekly. Vag Gets Bestial With Le Tigre Vag's performance with Le Tigre show was a blast. Missing in-action was underground film legend Sadie Benning who apparently doesn't like to tour. 400 people had to be turned away and it was so hot and stinky at the Smell that Vaginal Davis passed out and was given mouth-to-mouth resesitation by Kathleen Hanna and boyfriend Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys and then Vaginal sucked the rapper's toes ate out his bung hole right on stage to the shrieks of the adoring fans. European Tour Accolades Dr. Davis showed The White To Be Angry at film festivals in Milan, Bologna, Turin, and Rome, and also performed in Zurich at the Kunstgewerbe-Schule. Vaginal Davis is features on the cover of Jose Eseban Munoz' book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, and is the subject of a chapter of the book, "Vaginal Creme Davis's 'Terrorist Drag.'" Please seek out and read this important document of queer studies. Vaginal Davis has a chapter, "The Guadalamara Canal Diary" in the bestselling new book The Underground Guide to Los Angeles edited by punk princess Pleasant Gehman from San Francisco's Manic D. LaMonica's Story:LaMonica Rhys-Jones tells of her relationship with the President of the United States in an L.A. Weekly cover story.

New books with stuff about VD: Vaginal Davis has an essay in "Blinded By Love", a beautifully bound coffee table art book tribute to Franko B the Italian-born British art star. And newly available is the Performa New Visual Art Performance book by Roselee Goldberg which has some sketches, text and photos from the VD as VB performance in New York. In a recent blog entry, Vaginal Davis commented about an academic article from 1997 from the journal College Literature by Michael du Plessis and Kathleen Chapman titled "Queercore: The distinct identities of subculture". Here's a link to the specific sections, page 7 and page 8. Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu in an interview volunteered this quote about the influence of Vaginal Davis on his work: "I am bi and found artists that were androgynous hit me hard -- Peter Murphy, David Bowie, Morrissey. But there was a drag queen named Vaginal Davis that changed my life. I had no idea you could be punk and a drag queen and ultra intense and insane and hot and brilliant all at the same time." The February 2006 issue of Paper Magazine has photos of the Bricktop's gang representing 1920's Glamorpusses Tribe (Flappers, Dappers, Speakeasies/Weimar Berlin Chic!). Vaginal Davis has an article in the latest issue of Zoo Magazine. Zoo is a quarterly on fashion, art, design, architecture, photography, film, music and books in English and German, published in Europe (The Netherlands) and distributed worldwide. Zoo features the work of top fashion photographers including: Steven Klein, Terry Richardson, Alex Cayley, and Alexei Hay. The latest issue is on the stands now. Their website is www.zoomagazine.de Interview with Ms. Davis at LAist.com Vaginal Davis reports on the John Waters Christmas Party event for LA Weekly -- third item in this column TECHNOVA Vaginal Davis provides vocals on the new Technova musical releases, the project of David Harrow. The full-length CD/LP is titled Electrosexual, and the first single is "I Could Have Sex" (the song is also available on the Nag Nag Nag compilation.) Here's a review of the CD, and the CD and single are available from tunes.co.uk Download the video for the song "mamma's not dead" by Technova, featuring Vaginal Davis. WANTED Men of all ages, races and body types for classy modern, burlesque review. College age to senior citizen welcome. Can be fat, femme or F2M. Must have youthful spirit, be uninhibited, with personality, charm and sex appeal galore. Contact Gleeson Brevard at gleebrevard (at) aol.com for more information and to set up time for an audition. Beyond Ghetto Fabulous article by Vaginal Davis. Dr. Davis goes to Michigan for academia and to England to scout locations for her upcoming Birmingham gig and has sweaty sauna fun -- details in the personal diary of Vaginal Davis. [Also check out the tour diary from Vag's trek around the U.S. with Margaret Cho.] LA Alternative Press article on Bricktops New film reviews from Vag -- A Mighty Wind, The Hours, Russian Ark, and more. Dr. Davis put on her highbrow professor hat and performed Saturday, January 19th 5:30 pm at UCR/California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside, California. The event was part of a two day symposium called Queer(ing) Warhol: Examining Andy Warhol's Queer(ed) Performances and features leading contemporary scholars including Douglas Crimp, Amelia Jones, and Jose Esteban Muñoz discussing Warhol's art, and historical presence as a queer subject. Vaginal Davis' short story "The Everlasting Secret First Family of Fuck." appears in the new anthology Aroused edited by performance artist Karen Finley and published by Thunder's Mouth Press. Other celebrity contributers are Lydia Lunch, John Waters, Hubert Selby Jr, Wallace Shawn, Jerry Stahl, Richard Hell and bell hooks. Review of Margaret Cho and Vaginal Davis' show in San Francisco. Vaginal Davis on bike riding in L.A. Contessa Cycle: a day in the life of Vaginal Davis. Ms. Davis gives an unorthodox perspective on current events to Great Britain's Rainbow Network. Back up to the Main Page to see a drawing of Vaginal Davis by Dan Clowes, creature of "Ghost World," the new Terry Zwigoff film. Dr. Davis gets all indie-rock in an article from the Advocate on Mr. Lady Records. Berlin Diaries Vaginal Davis pulls an Isherwood, as in Christopher, demonstrating how the capital of Germany should be properly serviced in the pages of Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen. UK website interview Check out this interview with Vag from the British queer website Rainbow Network. Rocky Mountain Oysters Vaginal Davis appeared at the Queer Arts Festival at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday April 6th. Campus Crusade for Queers is one of the groups that put on the event

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