Thanks Teal xox
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
zine cover art in teal triggs' new book
Cover shots of two of my zines, 'UK Ladyfest Artwork Zine' (2007 - somehow I managed not to include the cover on this PDF version of the zine - glad it's been captured by Teal elsewhere then!!) and the really old 'I'm Not Waiting: Doin It Yrself Now' (2003?) are to feature in the wonderful Teal Triggs' new book 'FANZINES' which is to be published by Thames & Hudson, Oct 2010.
Thanks Teal xox
Thanks Teal xox
laura mckellar interview on pikaland
My new interview with the wonderful Laura McKellar is now up here on the Pikaland site. I heart Laura's work big time!
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
purple rhinestone eagle are heading over the ocean
Purple Rhinestone Eagle - The European Tour 2010 - looks a little something like this:
CONFIRMED SO FAR:
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EUROPE
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1rd september @Madame Moustache, Brussels, BELGIUM
3rd september @Le Sfero (squat), St. Etienne, FRANCE
4th september @Sonic, Lyon, FRANCE
7th september @Le dynamo, Toulouse, FRANCE
8th september @La pequena Bety, Madrid, SPAIN
9th september @Moog, Barcelona, SPAIN
10th september @El Refugio del Crápula, Zaragoza, SPAIN
14th september @Rhiz, Vienna, AUSTRIA
15th september @Kapu, Linz, AUSTRIA
16th september Leipzig
17th september @SO36 (ladyfest berlin), Berlin, GERMANY
18th september @ AZ, Cologne
19th september @AJZ, bielefeld (with cloak/dagger)
UK DATES
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22nd September - Swansea, UK
@ Bar Sigma w/ Woolf, Trash Kit and more tbc
23rd September - Bristol, UK
@ Midnimo Centre w/ Trash Kit and Bellies
24th September - Glasgow, UK
@ Nice N Sleazy w/ Comanechi and DIVORCE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135465609820619
25th September - Leeds, UK
@ Upstairs at Mook w/ Trash Kit + more tbc
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145139015513571&index=1
26th September - London, UK
@ Korsan Bar w/ Trash Kit, Woolf, Italian Casuals and Truly Kaput and Unskinny Bop DJs
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133482116689581
27th September - Manchester, UK
@ TBC
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=sent#!/event.php?eid=148306088532699&ref=mf
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Tour organised by the bloody ace Em Ledger xox
CONFIRMED SO FAR:
--------------
EUROPE
-------------
1rd september @Madame Moustache, Brussels, BELGIUM
3rd september @Le Sfero (squat), St. Etienne, FRANCE
4th september @Sonic, Lyon, FRANCE
7th september @Le dynamo, Toulouse, FRANCE
8th september @La pequena Bety, Madrid, SPAIN
9th september @Moog, Barcelona, SPAIN
10th september @El Refugio del Crápula, Zaragoza, SPAIN
14th september @Rhiz, Vienna, AUSTRIA
15th september @Kapu, Linz, AUSTRIA
16th september Leipzig
17th september @SO36 (ladyfest berlin), Berlin, GERMANY
18th september @ AZ, Cologne
19th september @AJZ, bielefeld (with cloak/dagger)
UK DATES
-------------
22nd September - Swansea, UK
@ Bar Sigma w/ Woolf, Trash Kit and more tbc
23rd September - Bristol, UK
@ Midnimo Centre w/ Trash Kit and Bellies
24th September - Glasgow, UK
@ Nice N Sleazy w/ Comanechi and DIVORCE
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135465609820619
25th September - Leeds, UK
@ Upstairs at Mook w/ Trash Kit + more tbc
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145139015513571&index=1
26th September - London, UK
@ Korsan Bar w/ Trash Kit, Woolf, Italian Casuals and Truly Kaput and Unskinny Bop DJs
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133482116689581
27th September - Manchester, UK
@ TBC
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=sent#!/event.php?eid=148306088532699&ref=mf
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Tour organised by the bloody ace Em Ledger xox
Thursday, 19 August 2010
lynnee breedlove on kathy acker - an interview
Bloody ages ago in 2009 I did an interview with Lynnee Breedlove. I thought I'd put it up here for folks who want to read it. The interview was about inspirations...
Lynnee Breedlove is the founder/frontperson/main yeller of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8. Tribe 8 has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility, and influenced and inspired the hell outta me in my late teens.
Lynnee is also the author of the highly acclaimed autobiographical novel – Godspeed - later converted into Godspeed the short film. Lynnee has also toured regularly with the spoken word troupe, Sister Spit.
Most recently though, Lynnee has been touring the world with One Freak Show, a solo, queer, punkrock spoken word/ standup comedy show on transgender bodies, feminism, family, and "community." It was after the Leeds and Manchester shows and subsequent workshops that this interview, about the influence of American writer Kathy Acker happened…
How have the shows/the tour been going so far in the UK/Europe?
Great. I was reminded that English and American are two different languages. Not to mention my own made up words and the fact that I am a member of one of the most miniscule cultures in the world: sf queer transfeminist. So I drew pictures like I do for Germans and Frenchies, and it helped a lot.
What is ‘One Freak Show’ all about, for those who haven’t seen it?
It’s about being a bridge between warring factions that are supposed to be on the same side but aren’t. It’s about being a no-op transguy who is not a real fill in the blank. Doesn’t measure up to anyone’s standards but his own.
Thinking about this interview, I recently read Tobi Vail state,
‘as with any oral history, my favorite part is listening to those involved track their influences. It involves hours of research and hanging out, [with] people who have been around longer than you, asking them questions, listening to how they discovered what means the most to them and learning how what they unearthed evolved into their own art and how it provided them with the tools to create a meaningful existence and try to change things via participation...to be more than a consumer...to realize your place in history....that history forms you ...and then to try and use that same methodology to impact future history...to use being in a band or making a fanzine as a way to create the world you want to exist...and to recognize that this is totally possible because it has happened before and it will happen again.’
In thinking about this, how important to you was knowing and working alongside/under Kathy Acker, as somebody who had ‘gone before’, doing what you were embarking on doing at the time (writing)?
Kathy was a queer leather clad Harley Davidson riding gnarly death bitch. We were all posers. She had her shit together but had been to some dark places. She had risen to a place of power in academia and used it for good, still bringing in the punks and encouraging us to make art out of whatever we were doing. She was a mom and a big sister to us. We all need older role models to bring us up. She believed in us. We needed someone who was like us to believe in us. Our parents didn’t get it. But we needed parenting. She said ok, so you’re a bike messenger. Write about it. She validated our experience, instead of what I was doing which was more ephemeral, in the moment, and just out of total self destruct mode, flying through life. She encouraged me to chronicle it as I went.
Kathy’s writing classes encouraged you, with Kathy telling you to write as a result of your attendance; leading to Godspeed chapter 1 being written (and beyond)
How important to you were those classes?
The classes were the seed of the writing community that supports me today. Writing is lonely work. We need each other to read to , to listen, comment on each others work.
What were they like? (format/ideas shared/atmosphere)
Kathy would talk about some esoteric shit I didn’t comprehend, then read some Bataille or de Sade I didn’t comprehend. Then she would tell us to write then we would read what we wrote. Sometimes there were shows where her students would read and the rest of us would listen.
Who attended?
We were punks, queers, whores, strippers, messengers, junkies, survivors. Many of us went on to become university professors and published writers like Daphne Gottlieb and Anna Joy Springer. Some died of AIDS. Some died of overdoses. But what we created was a moment in time that would inspire all of us to keep passing on that encouragement: “write.”
What was it about Kathy’s presence that was so inspiring?
She was a badass. She didn’t take any shit, she was an intellectual, and she did shit like jerk off and write like Jean Genet and challenged us to do it too. She brought the ghosts of literary heroes into our lives. She brought queer history to life. She lived it.
I read that those classes were secret, open classes that Kathy did (unpaid) in order to make such education open to poor punx (etc).
Well the cool thing was she got paid by SF Art Institute and she held them at a pub called Edinburgh Castle where anyone could come in addition to the students that were paying tuition.
How did you hear about them / become involved/active?
Anna Joy, one of the singers of Blatz, a punk band at Gilman Street who did a split 45” with us called Bitches and Brew, brought me. I thought she was the hottest most fascinating babe on the planet so whatever she told me to do I did.
How important do you think it was that it was Kathy’s intention to increase accessibility to writing in that way?
She put her money where her mouth was. She modeled integrity. And she let us know that punks and academia were not mutually exclusive. Where I went to school, I was the only queer punk stomping around in a Mohawk and a leather jacket with a skull painted on the back. So for her to say yeah you are writing something important and you don’t have to put on a suit to do it, that was different than what my parents and my school said.
And, as a result, is this something you too also hope to achieve by performing internationally to punk/DIY/queer crowds, and by doing associated workshops?.. To increase those waves of participation?
I do feel we created community through art, we encouraged each other to talk about our lives intimately in a public forum, politically, humorously, wildly. I do want to pass on that gift.
Kathy believed in the performative function of language.
I know that verbal expression is really important to you – as heard in Tribe 8 lyrics; there’s a definite urgency there to be heard and understood.
However, did Kathy’s ideas of the performative function of language lead (in part) to your wish to present your writing as spoken word performance; performance that elicits audience attention?
Before then I had written for 25 years, journals, poems, but it was private. Yes, I handed them to girls, but I never read them aloud in front of an audience. I had performed other people’s work onstage since I was a kid though, so it was natural for me to fuse the two forms.
Going back to talking about punk, and performing to punk audiences, how influential to your current work is your punk background / present?
It’s integrated. When I perform solo shows, comedy, it’s in your face, funny, naked, impertinent, asking questions designed to wake people up.
I am working on a book with my mom, working title, How I Became an American Anarchist. It’s about not understanding what’s happening politically as a child but being a product of it anyway, and later as an adult putting it all together and choosing actions based on a retrospective analysis.
Do you still believe punk is about Intellect, Education, and Social Commentary?
Yeah. That sounds right. Why, did I say that? It’s also about humor. I know I am at a punk show when I am cracking up. There’s all this jumping around and childlike stuff. It’s about freedom, not censoring yourself. The government will take care of that. It’s our responsibility not to hold back.
Kathy too was deeply entrenched in punk, and this showed in her portrayals of subcultures, and in her experimental/anarchic approach to literature that created her transgressive writing style.
Was Kathy’s body of work influential to you; in terms of it confounding expectations of what fiction should be? (i.e. showing you that fiction could be transgressive and punk and queer)
She was a balls out plagiarer. She said, “That’s right. I plagiarized it. What. Men have plagiarized women forever. Anon. is a woman. Shut the fuck up.”
That told me I could freely incorporate pop culture into my work without trying to come up with something new under the sun. It was punk for me to admit that I was a product of pop culture, that I was old, and quote a led zeppelin song, without worrying, oh they’re not punk enuff, I have to prove I am cool, all this self conscious bullshit. I felt free to just be as uncool as I was, and that I had the balls to admit it, that made me cool.
I see a huge parallel in the use of “queer theory” and queerness in yours and Kathy’s writing and performance.
Kathy’s work [not to sound too poncey] was incredibly post-structuralist and deconstructive. She played with characters and autobiographical personas and pronouns, upsetting conventions, and thus opening up gender possibilities (in a time before this was to become more commonplace).
Her writing wasn’t universal writing that would be maintaining a skewed concept that rested on normativity.
Was this encouraging to the queerness of your work to come? To you, as a no-op trans writer?
I actually never read Kathy. I knew Kathy. It was who she was and who we all were together in the bearded Lady café, dykes reading to each other about acting out politically incorrect straight rape fantasies on our girlfriends that let me know, like Pat Califia let me know, like diet popstitute, and all the homocore queens and fags and dykes and transsexuals, it didn’t matter what our bodies were or what anyone told us feminism was or what rules we had to adhere to. We were going to break down every barrier that we had built for ourselves. We stood by as each of us did it brick by brick. Kathy stood with us shoulder to shoulder. It didn’t matter if I understood Foucault. What mattered is Kathy and all of us stood up for each other’s right to be any kind of fucked up way we wanted to be. As long as we wrote it and lived it and made art and made it funny or hot as long as it was smart and called society on its shit by saying what real people felt. Thanks to her I read Genet and knew that a whole line of queer writers and outsiders came before us. And it was up to us to carry on the tradition.
How do you process all of your influences in life in terms of ways in which you are then able to share it all, creatively, with your community?
I integrate into my life what I have learned everyday. So when it is time to pass it on, it’s easy to put together spiritual and intellectual concepts. What I see as key to building the community we want to live in is looking inside, bringing it out in art, sharing it. That is trust. When you trust a group of people with your deepest emotional experience, you create community. However you bring it, you are modeling it for the rest. So bring your very best, and what you want to see in your world everyday, because it will instantly be reflected back to you.
Huge thanks for this Lynnee,
Thanks pal. My pleasure…
lynnee
Lynnee Breedlove is the founder/frontperson/main yeller of the first American out dyke punk band Tribe 8. Tribe 8 has always stood for queer, transgender, multiracial, and working class visibility, and influenced and inspired the hell outta me in my late teens.
Lynnee is also the author of the highly acclaimed autobiographical novel – Godspeed - later converted into Godspeed the short film. Lynnee has also toured regularly with the spoken word troupe, Sister Spit.
Most recently though, Lynnee has been touring the world with One Freak Show, a solo, queer, punkrock spoken word/ standup comedy show on transgender bodies, feminism, family, and "community." It was after the Leeds and Manchester shows and subsequent workshops that this interview, about the influence of American writer Kathy Acker happened…
How have the shows/the tour been going so far in the UK/Europe?
Great. I was reminded that English and American are two different languages. Not to mention my own made up words and the fact that I am a member of one of the most miniscule cultures in the world: sf queer transfeminist. So I drew pictures like I do for Germans and Frenchies, and it helped a lot.
What is ‘One Freak Show’ all about, for those who haven’t seen it?
It’s about being a bridge between warring factions that are supposed to be on the same side but aren’t. It’s about being a no-op transguy who is not a real fill in the blank. Doesn’t measure up to anyone’s standards but his own.
Thinking about this interview, I recently read Tobi Vail state,
‘as with any oral history, my favorite part is listening to those involved track their influences. It involves hours of research and hanging out, [with] people who have been around longer than you, asking them questions, listening to how they discovered what means the most to them and learning how what they unearthed evolved into their own art and how it provided them with the tools to create a meaningful existence and try to change things via participation...to be more than a consumer...to realize your place in history....that history forms you ...and then to try and use that same methodology to impact future history...to use being in a band or making a fanzine as a way to create the world you want to exist...and to recognize that this is totally possible because it has happened before and it will happen again.’
In thinking about this, how important to you was knowing and working alongside/under Kathy Acker, as somebody who had ‘gone before’, doing what you were embarking on doing at the time (writing)?
Kathy was a queer leather clad Harley Davidson riding gnarly death bitch. We were all posers. She had her shit together but had been to some dark places. She had risen to a place of power in academia and used it for good, still bringing in the punks and encouraging us to make art out of whatever we were doing. She was a mom and a big sister to us. We all need older role models to bring us up. She believed in us. We needed someone who was like us to believe in us. Our parents didn’t get it. But we needed parenting. She said ok, so you’re a bike messenger. Write about it. She validated our experience, instead of what I was doing which was more ephemeral, in the moment, and just out of total self destruct mode, flying through life. She encouraged me to chronicle it as I went.
Kathy’s writing classes encouraged you, with Kathy telling you to write as a result of your attendance; leading to Godspeed chapter 1 being written (and beyond)
How important to you were those classes?
The classes were the seed of the writing community that supports me today. Writing is lonely work. We need each other to read to , to listen, comment on each others work.
What were they like? (format/ideas shared/atmosphere)
Kathy would talk about some esoteric shit I didn’t comprehend, then read some Bataille or de Sade I didn’t comprehend. Then she would tell us to write then we would read what we wrote. Sometimes there were shows where her students would read and the rest of us would listen.
Who attended?
We were punks, queers, whores, strippers, messengers, junkies, survivors. Many of us went on to become university professors and published writers like Daphne Gottlieb and Anna Joy Springer. Some died of AIDS. Some died of overdoses. But what we created was a moment in time that would inspire all of us to keep passing on that encouragement: “write.”
What was it about Kathy’s presence that was so inspiring?
She was a badass. She didn’t take any shit, she was an intellectual, and she did shit like jerk off and write like Jean Genet and challenged us to do it too. She brought the ghosts of literary heroes into our lives. She brought queer history to life. She lived it.
I read that those classes were secret, open classes that Kathy did (unpaid) in order to make such education open to poor punx (etc).
Well the cool thing was she got paid by SF Art Institute and she held them at a pub called Edinburgh Castle where anyone could come in addition to the students that were paying tuition.
How did you hear about them / become involved/active?
Anna Joy, one of the singers of Blatz, a punk band at Gilman Street who did a split 45” with us called Bitches and Brew, brought me. I thought she was the hottest most fascinating babe on the planet so whatever she told me to do I did.
How important do you think it was that it was Kathy’s intention to increase accessibility to writing in that way?
She put her money where her mouth was. She modeled integrity. And she let us know that punks and academia were not mutually exclusive. Where I went to school, I was the only queer punk stomping around in a Mohawk and a leather jacket with a skull painted on the back. So for her to say yeah you are writing something important and you don’t have to put on a suit to do it, that was different than what my parents and my school said.
And, as a result, is this something you too also hope to achieve by performing internationally to punk/DIY/queer crowds, and by doing associated workshops?.. To increase those waves of participation?
I do feel we created community through art, we encouraged each other to talk about our lives intimately in a public forum, politically, humorously, wildly. I do want to pass on that gift.
Kathy believed in the performative function of language.
I know that verbal expression is really important to you – as heard in Tribe 8 lyrics; there’s a definite urgency there to be heard and understood.
However, did Kathy’s ideas of the performative function of language lead (in part) to your wish to present your writing as spoken word performance; performance that elicits audience attention?
Before then I had written for 25 years, journals, poems, but it was private. Yes, I handed them to girls, but I never read them aloud in front of an audience. I had performed other people’s work onstage since I was a kid though, so it was natural for me to fuse the two forms.
Going back to talking about punk, and performing to punk audiences, how influential to your current work is your punk background / present?
It’s integrated. When I perform solo shows, comedy, it’s in your face, funny, naked, impertinent, asking questions designed to wake people up.
I am working on a book with my mom, working title, How I Became an American Anarchist. It’s about not understanding what’s happening politically as a child but being a product of it anyway, and later as an adult putting it all together and choosing actions based on a retrospective analysis.
Do you still believe punk is about Intellect, Education, and Social Commentary?
Yeah. That sounds right. Why, did I say that? It’s also about humor. I know I am at a punk show when I am cracking up. There’s all this jumping around and childlike stuff. It’s about freedom, not censoring yourself. The government will take care of that. It’s our responsibility not to hold back.
Kathy too was deeply entrenched in punk, and this showed in her portrayals of subcultures, and in her experimental/anarchic approach to literature that created her transgressive writing style.
Was Kathy’s body of work influential to you; in terms of it confounding expectations of what fiction should be? (i.e. showing you that fiction could be transgressive and punk and queer)
She was a balls out plagiarer. She said, “That’s right. I plagiarized it. What. Men have plagiarized women forever. Anon. is a woman. Shut the fuck up.”
That told me I could freely incorporate pop culture into my work without trying to come up with something new under the sun. It was punk for me to admit that I was a product of pop culture, that I was old, and quote a led zeppelin song, without worrying, oh they’re not punk enuff, I have to prove I am cool, all this self conscious bullshit. I felt free to just be as uncool as I was, and that I had the balls to admit it, that made me cool.
I see a huge parallel in the use of “queer theory” and queerness in yours and Kathy’s writing and performance.
Kathy’s work [not to sound too poncey] was incredibly post-structuralist and deconstructive. She played with characters and autobiographical personas and pronouns, upsetting conventions, and thus opening up gender possibilities (in a time before this was to become more commonplace).
Her writing wasn’t universal writing that would be maintaining a skewed concept that rested on normativity.
Was this encouraging to the queerness of your work to come? To you, as a no-op trans writer?
I actually never read Kathy. I knew Kathy. It was who she was and who we all were together in the bearded Lady café, dykes reading to each other about acting out politically incorrect straight rape fantasies on our girlfriends that let me know, like Pat Califia let me know, like diet popstitute, and all the homocore queens and fags and dykes and transsexuals, it didn’t matter what our bodies were or what anyone told us feminism was or what rules we had to adhere to. We were going to break down every barrier that we had built for ourselves. We stood by as each of us did it brick by brick. Kathy stood with us shoulder to shoulder. It didn’t matter if I understood Foucault. What mattered is Kathy and all of us stood up for each other’s right to be any kind of fucked up way we wanted to be. As long as we wrote it and lived it and made art and made it funny or hot as long as it was smart and called society on its shit by saying what real people felt. Thanks to her I read Genet and knew that a whole line of queer writers and outsiders came before us. And it was up to us to carry on the tradition.
How do you process all of your influences in life in terms of ways in which you are then able to share it all, creatively, with your community?
I integrate into my life what I have learned everyday. So when it is time to pass it on, it’s easy to put together spiritual and intellectual concepts. What I see as key to building the community we want to live in is looking inside, bringing it out in art, sharing it. That is trust. When you trust a group of people with your deepest emotional experience, you create community. However you bring it, you are modeling it for the rest. So bring your very best, and what you want to see in your world everyday, because it will instantly be reflected back to you.
Huge thanks for this Lynnee,
Thanks pal. My pleasure…
lynnee
remind me again why i live the wrong side of the ocean?
I wish I could be at this:
Tammy Rae Carland
Funny Face, I Love You
September 10 - October 23, 2010
Silverman Gallery, 804 Sutter Street (between Jones and Leavenworth), San Francisco, CA 94109
Opening Reception: September 10, 6 – 8PM
Silverman Gallery is pleased to present Funny Face, I Love You, an exhibition of new work by Tammy Rae Carland on view from September 10 - October 23, 2010.
The artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery features a suite of new photographs, a selection of mixed media works as well as a cast porcelain sculpture. Inspired by the history of female comedians, Carland explores questions of humor and desire,
juxtaposing images of empty stages with singular figures caught mid-act. These works isolate the body, focusing less on the artifice of public personas than the sheer spectacle of performing corporealities. Through these, Carland foregrounds the fragility and pathos inherent in these acts of vulnerability and self-humiliation—acts which also resonate with the unraveling of gender roles through acting out. Invariably, the conversation opens onto a larger meditation on the fragmentation of the body and the currency of the abject, while engaging the politics of performativity and the legacy of feminism.
Tammy Rae Carland received her MFA from UC Irvine, and also attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her work has been screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and Sydney. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Artforum and Pulse. She is co-founder and owner of Mr. Lady Records, an independent record label and video distribution company. She is currently chair of Photography at California College of Arts and Crafts. Carland lives and works in Oakland, California.
For more information contact info@silverman-gallery.com
Tammy Rae Carland
Funny Face, I Love You
September 10 - October 23, 2010
Silverman Gallery, 804 Sutter Street (between Jones and Leavenworth), San Francisco, CA 94109
Opening Reception: September 10, 6 – 8PM
Silverman Gallery is pleased to present Funny Face, I Love You, an exhibition of new work by Tammy Rae Carland on view from September 10 - October 23, 2010.
The artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery features a suite of new photographs, a selection of mixed media works as well as a cast porcelain sculpture. Inspired by the history of female comedians, Carland explores questions of humor and desire,
juxtaposing images of empty stages with singular figures caught mid-act. These works isolate the body, focusing less on the artifice of public personas than the sheer spectacle of performing corporealities. Through these, Carland foregrounds the fragility and pathos inherent in these acts of vulnerability and self-humiliation—acts which also resonate with the unraveling of gender roles through acting out. Invariably, the conversation opens onto a larger meditation on the fragmentation of the body and the currency of the abject, while engaging the politics of performativity and the legacy of feminism.
Tammy Rae Carland received her MFA from UC Irvine, and also attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her work has been screened and exhibited in galleries and museums internationally including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin and Sydney. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Artforum and Pulse. She is co-founder and owner of Mr. Lady Records, an independent record label and video distribution company. She is currently chair of Photography at California College of Arts and Crafts. Carland lives and works in Oakland, California.
For more information contact info@silverman-gallery.com
wears the trousers meets ladyfest ten for zine fun
The seriously lovely Charlotte of Wears The Trousers Magazine is putting a zine together in time for Ladyfest Ten.
She's looking for anything from 50–200 words about your favourite female-centric band, singer, song or album and why they mean so much to you. Photographic submissions are also welcome.
When she has a good spread of chord-riffed memories and girl-sung nostalgia, it'll all be collated into a one-off, free-for-all zine that will be distributed at this year’s Ladyfest Ten events in London in November. It'll also be available to download.
See all the info, and details on where to send your contributions here on the Wears The Trousers blog post about it all.
She's looking for anything from 50–200 words about your favourite female-centric band, singer, song or album and why they mean so much to you. Photographic submissions are also welcome.
When she has a good spread of chord-riffed memories and girl-sung nostalgia, it'll all be collated into a one-off, free-for-all zine that will be distributed at this year’s Ladyfest Ten events in London in November. It'll also be available to download.
See all the info, and details on where to send your contributions here on the Wears The Trousers blog post about it all.
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
katy on pikaland
My interview with Katy Horan went up on the Pikaland site today... go read what Katy has to say about her amazing artwork.
xox
xox
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
female illustrators needed
Rag (Maga)zine are looking for women illustrators to contribute to their fifth annual magazine.
See their blog post for the list of articles that need illustrating, plus contact details: http://ragdublin.blogspot.com/2010/08/calling-all-women-illustrators.html
See their blog post for the list of articles that need illustrating, plus contact details: http://ragdublin.blogspot.com/2010/08/calling-all-women-illustrators.html
Sunday, 15 August 2010
feminist poster project
There's many reasons why I love Nina Nijsten; her latest project, The Feminist Poster Project is just one of those reasons.
The Feminist Poster Project website archives feminist posters, postcards and stickers for you to print and paste. It will offer a network for feminist poster artists and a space for inspiration. You can share your own self-made posters, postcards and stickers too.
The Feminist Poster Project wishes to support feminist poster making by offering a space where feminist posters are collected and archived. All posters on this website are available for downloading in pdf and can be easily printed.
The Feminist Poster Project website archives feminist posters, postcards and stickers for you to print and paste. It will offer a network for feminist poster artists and a space for inspiration. You can share your own self-made posters, postcards and stickers too.
The Feminist Poster Project wishes to support feminist poster making by offering a space where feminist posters are collected and archived. All posters on this website are available for downloading in pdf and can be easily printed.
Saturday, 14 August 2010
the worlds a mess 2
Em Ledger has released issue 2 of her zine, 'The World's A Mess And You're My Only Cure' and it's really really great
There's an interview in it that me and Em did in 2009 with The Thermals, plus oodles of other stuff including articles and interviews by: Osa Atoe of 'Shotgun Seamstress' Zine and New Bloods, Pike, Em herself, Author and Musician Debi Withers, Elizabeth Rockett of 'Riot Grrrl Life' Zine, and a seriously kick-ass Charlotte Cooper interview.
Find out more, and buy copies here
riot on the page: thirty years of zines by women
Zines in the Museum of Modern Art... Riot on the Page: Thirty Years of Zines by Women
Sunday, 8 August 2010
carnival of feminist cultural activism
3-5 March 2011, York, UK
www.feminist-cultural-activism.net
We welcome proposals for a three-day festival and conference of presentations, performances, exhibitions, academic papers & workshops.
The carnival is designed to offer a huge variety of activities, from zine workshops to art exhibitions; from skill sharing to band showcases; from open mic sessions to scripted plays; from radical stitching to interactive installations; from comedy to academic papers.
We welcome people new to presenting and performing as well as those with years and decades of expertise and experience.
We ask: can feminist art* change the world and, if so, how? and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.
The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire, celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
It is a deliberately open invitation - surprise us!
We welcome provisional ideas as well as full proposals. Please send draft ideas asap, and full 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography, by 31 October 2010.
Contact:
E: carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
P: Carnival of feminist cultural activism
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York
Heslington
York
Yo10 5DD
UK
W: www.feminist-cultural-activism.net
Facebook: here
See website for further details or email if you have queries.
www.feminist-cultural-activism.net
We welcome proposals for a three-day festival and conference of presentations, performances, exhibitions, academic papers & workshops.
The carnival is designed to offer a huge variety of activities, from zine workshops to art exhibitions; from skill sharing to band showcases; from open mic sessions to scripted plays; from radical stitching to interactive installations; from comedy to academic papers.
We welcome people new to presenting and performing as well as those with years and decades of expertise and experience.
We ask: can feminist art* change the world and, if so, how? and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.
The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire, celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
It is a deliberately open invitation - surprise us!
We welcome provisional ideas as well as full proposals. Please send draft ideas asap, and full 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography, by 31 October 2010.
Contact:
E: carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
P: Carnival of feminist cultural activism
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York
Heslington
York
Yo10 5DD
UK
W: www.feminist-cultural-activism.net
Facebook: here
See website for further details or email if you have queries.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Thursday, 29 July 2010
leeds alternative comics fair
The following is being organised by right-good-lad Hugh 'Shug' Raine and Steven 'Banal Pig':
Leeds Alternative Comics Fair
18 September 2010
12:00 - 18:00
At: Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds (Cookridge St, behind the Art Gallery)
More info Comics, zines, and more from the cream of small press creators from Leeds and the North.
List of exhibitors to be announced soon.
See the Facebook Page
Leeds Alternative Comics Fair
18 September 2010
12:00 - 18:00
At: Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds (Cookridge St, behind the Art Gallery)
More info Comics, zines, and more from the cream of small press creators from Leeds and the North.
List of exhibitors to be announced soon.
See the Facebook Page
'big society'
A window exhibition, viewed from the street
4/08/10 – 28/10/10
Space Station Sixty-Five invites you to respond to the notion of ‘Big Society’.
What is the 'big society' if not arts for everyone? Tiny grants already stretch far into communities, making music, dancing and art, engaging with history and heritage, drawing people together in shared emotions and experiences. Civic pride, quality of life, pleasure and endeavour (and art for arts sake) is cheap for its rich returns, but it's not free. Polly Toynbee, 'Arts for everyone is cheap considering its rich returns', The Guardian, Wednesday 28th July 2010
Your contributions may be selected to make an evolving window exhibition at Space Station Sixty-Five.
To take part please email us a Word, RTF or Pages document or a jpeg with an image at 300dpi.
You may also post contributions, no larger that A4, to Space Station Sixty-Five, 65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET
We are sorry, original artwork will not be returned, copies are preferred.
If selected, your work will be attached to the inside of the Space Station Sixty-Five window and viewed from the street.
We look forward to receiving your emails and postal contributions; the exhibition will develop as they arrive. As we receive submissions they will be put up in the window, so the sooner you send us stuff, the longer your work will be seen for.
Space Station Sixty-Five
65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET
020 8299 5036
http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
info@spacestationsixtyfive.com
4/08/10 – 28/10/10
Space Station Sixty-Five invites you to respond to the notion of ‘Big Society’.
What is the 'big society' if not arts for everyone? Tiny grants already stretch far into communities, making music, dancing and art, engaging with history and heritage, drawing people together in shared emotions and experiences. Civic pride, quality of life, pleasure and endeavour (and art for arts sake) is cheap for its rich returns, but it's not free. Polly Toynbee, 'Arts for everyone is cheap considering its rich returns', The Guardian, Wednesday 28th July 2010
Your contributions may be selected to make an evolving window exhibition at Space Station Sixty-Five.
To take part please email us a Word, RTF or Pages document or a jpeg with an image at 300dpi.
You may also post contributions, no larger that A4, to Space Station Sixty-Five, 65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET
We are sorry, original artwork will not be returned, copies are preferred.
If selected, your work will be attached to the inside of the Space Station Sixty-Five window and viewed from the street.
We look forward to receiving your emails and postal contributions; the exhibition will develop as they arrive. As we receive submissions they will be put up in the window, so the sooner you send us stuff, the longer your work will be seen for.
Space Station Sixty-Five
65 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET
020 8299 5036
http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
info@spacestationsixtyfive.com
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
the big bum jumble
(From my inbox...)
The Big Bum Jumble
Saturday 14 August 2010, 12-5pm
Stratford Circus
Theatre Square
London E15 1BX
www.stratford-circus.com
Email: bigbumjumble@gmail.com
Blog: www.bigbumjumble.blogspot.com
Facebook group: Big Bum Jumble
The Big Bum Jumble, where Fatshion in the UK takes an ethical turn
The Big Bum Jumble is landmark fatshion event selling low-cost second-hand and vintage clothes in sizes XL+. It will take place on 14 August 2010 in London's East End, and will comprise a traditional jumble sale, a catwalk show and other activities, as well as the chance to participate in a film of the event.
Kay Hyatt, its principle organiser, is a fat activist who often struggles to find clothes to fit. Knowing that other people were in the same position, she decided to do something about it after attending a similar event in the US. Kay explains: "I was impressed by the celebratory atmosphere, the friendliness, the sense of community and, of course, the excellent fashion. It was like jumping into a giant dressing-up box. I wanted to bring that feeling home."
Kay says: "Fashion can be creative and playful, it can help you feel really good about yourself. I think this should be available to everyone regardless of size or background." She adds: "Although The Big Bum Jumble is a sale, it's also anti-consumerist, all about reusing and recycling, and it has a DIY-culture ethic of making something out of the resources available to you."
"The situation is improving but, unless you can afford the high-end stuff, plus-sized fashion is often limited to poor quality, overpriced and ethically-dubious products sold by companies who see fat people as self-hating, desperate consumers. We deserve better."
The Big Bum Jumble is a fundraiser for further fat activist community events in the UK, including the proposed 2012 Fattylympics. The Big Bum Jumble has been partially funded by The Fat of The Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival, which took place in London on 3 October 2009. Please visit that event's blog for more information: http://queerchub.blogspot.com
The Big Bum Jumble
Saturday 14 August 2010, 12-5pm
Stratford Circus
Theatre Square
London E15 1BX
www.stratford-circus.com
Email: bigbumjumble@gmail.com
Blog: www.bigbumjumble.blogspot.com
Facebook group: Big Bum Jumble
The Big Bum Jumble, where Fatshion in the UK takes an ethical turn
The Big Bum Jumble is landmark fatshion event selling low-cost second-hand and vintage clothes in sizes XL+. It will take place on 14 August 2010 in London's East End, and will comprise a traditional jumble sale, a catwalk show and other activities, as well as the chance to participate in a film of the event.
Kay Hyatt, its principle organiser, is a fat activist who often struggles to find clothes to fit. Knowing that other people were in the same position, she decided to do something about it after attending a similar event in the US. Kay explains: "I was impressed by the celebratory atmosphere, the friendliness, the sense of community and, of course, the excellent fashion. It was like jumping into a giant dressing-up box. I wanted to bring that feeling home."
Kay says: "Fashion can be creative and playful, it can help you feel really good about yourself. I think this should be available to everyone regardless of size or background." She adds: "Although The Big Bum Jumble is a sale, it's also anti-consumerist, all about reusing and recycling, and it has a DIY-culture ethic of making something out of the resources available to you."
"The situation is improving but, unless you can afford the high-end stuff, plus-sized fashion is often limited to poor quality, overpriced and ethically-dubious products sold by companies who see fat people as self-hating, desperate consumers. We deserve better."
The Big Bum Jumble is a fundraiser for further fat activist community events in the UK, including the proposed 2012 Fattylympics. The Big Bum Jumble has been partially funded by The Fat of The Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival, which took place in London on 3 October 2009. Please visit that event's blog for more information: http://queerchub.blogspot.com
birmingham zine festival postcards exhibition
From my inbox, from Lizz Lunney...
Artists! Email birminghamzinefestival@gmail.com for a postcard for the
Birmingham Zine Festival Postcards Exhibition
Tell your friends! details are on the website www.birminghamzinefestival.com
(it's exciting, you get artwork sent to you by someone else at the exhibition!)
Also to express interest in being involved in any other part of the festival- get in touch! yes yes
We will be sorting out stall bookings in the next couple of weeks (there is limited space but we have communal tables too and plenty of other stuff you can be involved in)
Artists! Email birminghamzinefestival@gmail.com for a postcard for the
Birmingham Zine Festival Postcards Exhibition
Tell your friends! details are on the website www.birminghamzinefestival.com
(it's exciting, you get artwork sent to you by someone else at the exhibition!)
Also to express interest in being involved in any other part of the festival- get in touch! yes yes
We will be sorting out stall bookings in the next couple of weeks (there is limited space but we have communal tables too and plenty of other stuff you can be involved in)
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
out of the closet and into the street exhibition
Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggle
July 3, 2010 - September 26, 2010
Venue: ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
Location: 626 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA
Website: www.politicalgraphics.org
Gallery Hours:
Friday: 4:30-8:30
Saturday & Sunday: 1-5
Despite decades of affirmation and positive role models engendered by the LGBTQ liberation movements, discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation continues. Hospitals still refuse to allow lesbians and gays to be with their sick or dying partners by restricting visitation to “family” only. Same-sex couples are denied equal inheritance rights, pensions and health-care benefits, and lesbian and gay parents are often denied custody of their children. Violent attacks and homicides against members of the LGBTQ community continue and recent legal gains are tentative and subject to reversal—Californian’s right to marriage equality was taken away; open lesbians and gays continue to be excluded from the military; and as recently as February 2010, the Governor of Virginia signed an executive order deliberately removing gays and lesbians as a protected class in state-wide hiring procedures.
For more than 40 years, political posters have been one of the primary art forms to challenge the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and communities. Whether institutionalized through legislation or conducted culturally through physical violence or psychological negativity, this exhibition focuses on homophobia as a violation of human rights and uses the power of graphics to expose injustice, defend rights and celebrate victories.
July 3, 2010 - September 26, 2010
Venue: ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
Location: 626 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA
Website: www.politicalgraphics.org
Gallery Hours:
Friday: 4:30-8:30
Saturday & Sunday: 1-5
Despite decades of affirmation and positive role models engendered by the LGBTQ liberation movements, discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation continues. Hospitals still refuse to allow lesbians and gays to be with their sick or dying partners by restricting visitation to “family” only. Same-sex couples are denied equal inheritance rights, pensions and health-care benefits, and lesbian and gay parents are often denied custody of their children. Violent attacks and homicides against members of the LGBTQ community continue and recent legal gains are tentative and subject to reversal—Californian’s right to marriage equality was taken away; open lesbians and gays continue to be excluded from the military; and as recently as February 2010, the Governor of Virginia signed an executive order deliberately removing gays and lesbians as a protected class in state-wide hiring procedures.
For more than 40 years, political posters have been one of the primary art forms to challenge the oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and communities. Whether institutionalized through legislation or conducted culturally through physical violence or psychological negativity, this exhibition focuses on homophobia as a violation of human rights and uses the power of graphics to expose injustice, defend rights and celebrate victories.
Sunday, 4 July 2010
taking cultural production into our own hands - online
The content of the zine, Taking Cultural Production Into Our Own Hands is now available to read online, via the Grassroots Feminism website.
Thanks to Red for organising this.
Read it here: http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/701
Thanks to Red for organising this.
Read it here: http://www.grassrootsfeminism.net/cms/node/701
bedizzened
Rachael House is exhibiting at this; I therefore suspect it's likely to be bloody great!
Bedizzened
A thorough diffusion of feeling
APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
8 – 18 July 2010
Free exhibition, all welcome
Thursday to Sunday from 12noon to 5pm and at other times by appointment.
Preview: Wednesday 7 July 6pm to 8pm
Discussion with artists: Thursday 8 July 3pm to 5pm
Tea party: Sunday 18 July 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Performance by Calum F Kerr: Sunday 18 July 3.30pm
Transport:
DLR – Deptford Bridge or Greenwich
British Rail – Deptford Station from London Bridge
Bus – 47, 53, 177, 188, 199
Free parking on Creekside
Exhibitors:
Edwina Ashton, Jennifer Ball, Donna Barnett, Johanna Berger, Cornford & Cross, Jenny Dawes, Othello De’Souza-Hartley, Sophie Eade, Russell Eade, Sandra Erbacher, Mia Fernandes, Rebecca Fortnum, Karin Hanlon, Rachael House, Robin Hutt, Marcus Jefferies, Calum F Kerr, Louisa Minkin, Richard Moon, Damien O’Connell, Cathie Pilkington, Nicola Plant, Matilda Power, Alice Prior, Liam Scully, Lucy Soni, Finlay Taylor, Lindi Tristram, Jessica Voorsanger, Sara Willett, Rosalie Woods, Amy Petra Woodward
Cathie Pilkington appears courtesy of Marlborough Gallery
Edwina Ashton appears courtesy of WORKS|PROJECTS
Bedizzened
A thorough diffusion of feeling
APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 4SA
8 – 18 July 2010
Free exhibition, all welcome
Thursday to Sunday from 12noon to 5pm and at other times by appointment.
Preview: Wednesday 7 July 6pm to 8pm
Discussion with artists: Thursday 8 July 3pm to 5pm
Tea party: Sunday 18 July 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Performance by Calum F Kerr: Sunday 18 July 3.30pm
Transport:
DLR – Deptford Bridge or Greenwich
British Rail – Deptford Station from London Bridge
Bus – 47, 53, 177, 188, 199
Free parking on Creekside
Exhibitors:
Edwina Ashton, Jennifer Ball, Donna Barnett, Johanna Berger, Cornford & Cross, Jenny Dawes, Othello De’Souza-Hartley, Sophie Eade, Russell Eade, Sandra Erbacher, Mia Fernandes, Rebecca Fortnum, Karin Hanlon, Rachael House, Robin Hutt, Marcus Jefferies, Calum F Kerr, Louisa Minkin, Richard Moon, Damien O’Connell, Cathie Pilkington, Nicola Plant, Matilda Power, Alice Prior, Liam Scully, Lucy Soni, Finlay Taylor, Lindi Tristram, Jessica Voorsanger, Sara Willett, Rosalie Woods, Amy Petra Woodward
Cathie Pilkington appears courtesy of Marlborough Gallery
Edwina Ashton appears courtesy of WORKS|PROJECTS
carnival of feminist cultural activism
I'm on the organising committee for this upcoming conference/festival. Please feel free to submit proposals...
Love, Melanie x
[edit as of Sept 2010: I am no longer personally involved with this event]
CARNIVAL OF GRASSROOTS CULTURAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND ART
www.FEMINIST-CULTURAL-ACTIVISM.net
3-5 March 2011
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York,
UK
E: carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
Conference Announcement
We welcome proposals for a three-day international conference and festival of academic papers, presentations, performance, exhibitions & workshops.
The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire, celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
We ask: can feminist art change the world and, if so, how? and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.
To get involved, send 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography to:
carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
or post to:
Carnival of feminist cultural activism
Centre for Women’s Studies
University of York
Heslington
YO10 5DD
UK
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2010.
Please see website for further details.
FLIER
Love, Melanie x
[edit as of Sept 2010: I am no longer personally involved with this event]
CARNIVAL OF GRASSROOTS CULTURAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND ART
www.FEMINIST-CULTURAL-ACTIVISM.net
3-5 March 2011
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York,
UK
E: carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
Conference Announcement
We welcome proposals for a three-day international conference and festival of academic papers, presentations, performance, exhibitions & workshops.
The event is designed to generate action as well as debate, and to inspire, celebrate & challenge understandings of women, grassroots art & politics.
We ask: can feminist art change the world and, if so, how? and we invite responses from activists, artists and academics.
To get involved, send 300-word proposals for papers, panels, exhibitions, workshops and performances plus a 50-word biography to:
carnival@feminist-cultural-activism.net
or post to:
Carnival of feminist cultural activism
Centre for Women’s Studies
University of York
Heslington
YO10 5DD
UK
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2010.
Please see website for further details.
FLIER
Friday, 18 June 2010
i heart melanie and jesus!
Melanie Cervantes: Thanks to Josue Rojas, we have a really awesome video of Jesus Barraza and my (Dignidad Rebelde) thoughts on creating art as a generative act of resistance to racist and nativist legislation like AZ's SB1070.
i wanna see this film
The Heretics
USA, 2009, 95 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Arts & Literature, Biography / History, Bisexual, Discrimination, Documentary, Gender, Lesbian, Politics
Program: Documentary
Language: English
DIRECTOR: Joan Braderman
Welcome to the New York City art world of the 1970s, where women are underrepresented in the MOMA, in publishing, in theaters, as well as in pretty much every other artistic institution. What’s a group of feminist woman artists — painters, filmmakers, designers, writers, architects — to do? Form an art collective, hold endless meetings and publish a progressive magazine called HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. That’s what.
Filmmaker Joan Braderman, a member of the collective, tracks down twenty-four other members who are now accomplished artists living around the globe. The women talk about the magazine that published Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker and Barbara Ehrenreich.
They reminisce about what it was like to be a woman in a man’s world: from an instructor who praised Ida Applebroog, “That is good, you paint just like a man,” to Mark Rothko, who said to Lucy Lippard, “You’re too cute to be an art critic.” They also recall differences and disagreements; since editors changed for each issue, some women protested when it was determined that only self-identified lesbians would edit the magagzine’s Lesbian Art and Artists Issue.
A collage of intimate interviews, archival footage and photographs, digital animation, contemporary art works, and music by women, this is far from an historical piece. Rather, The Heretics emphasizes that collective feminism is as relevant today as ever. It’s a call to action to transmit this “gift, this collective energy of woman’s togetherness” to the younger generation. — NANI RATNAWATI
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
polish queer comix for pomada, july 2010
I translated this message with Google Translate, so apologies if it doesn't read entirely correctly...
"Draw queer - send a job!"
During scheduled in July, Pomades (http://www.pomada.info.pl/) - an alternative to the Europride events - will take place, including a comix queerz "lesbijskiemu" block devoted to comics and queers.
One of the points of the program is displayed Fri "Queer in the Polish comics." The list of artists and artists whose works will be shown is not yet closed, because for obvious reasons we are not able to reach everyone. Therefore, if your comic or ilustratons are queer works and you want to share it with others, select one of the work and send it to us. The technique and color is not important. The minimum quality is 600 dpi. We will contact you to authorize publication and other information.
The work should be sent to the addresses chaosxgrrlz@gmail.com comix.grrrlz @ gmail.com or until 06/25/2010.
* * *
POMADA (mentioned above) is a group of several people and one collective, for the first time joining forces to present our points of view - the perspective of nonheterosexual sensitivity.
We are different in many ways, but what bring us togehter are: cultural and artistic activity, fun of constantly eluding compulsory heterosexuality, a sense of local identity, sensitivity to the commercial entanglement of LGBTQ movements, passion for grassroots action in the spirit of DIY, and above all a sense of humor, especially about ourselves.
We invite you to take part in cultural events in the first half of July (5-18.07.2010), organized by us and by other organizations, institutions, and collectives in our network.
Our activities will take place parallel to the Warsaw EuroPride 2010 events.
We encourage everybody to cooperate and participate, regardless of gender and orientation - whatever, or, as we say in Poland: ganc Pomada!
* * * * *
"Draw queer - send a job!"
During scheduled in July, Pomades (http://www.pomada.info.pl/) - an alternative to the Europride events - will take place, including a comix queerz "lesbijskiemu" block devoted to comics and queers.
One of the points of the program is displayed Fri "Queer in the Polish comics." The list of artists and artists whose works will be shown is not yet closed, because for obvious reasons we are not able to reach everyone. Therefore, if your comic or ilustratons are queer works and you want to share it with others, select one of the work and send it to us. The technique and color is not important. The minimum quality is 600 dpi. We will contact you to authorize publication and other information.
The work should be sent to the addresses chaosxgrrlz@gmail.com comix.grrrlz @ gmail.com or until 06/25/2010.
* * *
POMADA (mentioned above) is a group of several people and one collective, for the first time joining forces to present our points of view - the perspective of nonheterosexual sensitivity.
We are different in many ways, but what bring us togehter are: cultural and artistic activity, fun of constantly eluding compulsory heterosexuality, a sense of local identity, sensitivity to the commercial entanglement of LGBTQ movements, passion for grassroots action in the spirit of DIY, and above all a sense of humor, especially about ourselves.
We invite you to take part in cultural events in the first half of July (5-18.07.2010), organized by us and by other organizations, institutions, and collectives in our network.
Our activities will take place parallel to the Warsaw EuroPride 2010 events.
We encourage everybody to cooperate and participate, regardless of gender and orientation - whatever, or, as we say in Poland: ganc Pomada!
* * * * *
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
bitch media zine library
The people behind Bitch magazine have set up a zine library in Portland, USA:
http://www.bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-bitch-library-an-introduction-and-a-call-for-zines
That’s right, we’ve added a zine library to the 1,000-plus books already in our collection. We’re excited to watch our zine collection grow, and we can’t wait to share the breadth of self-published feminist materials. There are a couple of ways that you can get involved with our zine library:
1) You can send us your zines. Whether you’re a zinemaker yourself or you have a zine collection that you’d like to send to a new home, we’d love to include your zines in our library. If you’ve got a big collection to ship, contact me at ashley@b-word.org. Otherwise, just write “zine donation” on your envelope and send it to us at 4930 NE 29th Avenue, Portland, OR 97211. To sweeten the deal, I will be reviewing zines that show up in our mailbox.
2) Come to the library and check some zines out! Again, we’re open from 5-8pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the library can also be opened by appointment during weekday hours.
http://www.bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-bitch-library-an-introduction-and-a-call-for-zines
That’s right, we’ve added a zine library to the 1,000-plus books already in our collection. We’re excited to watch our zine collection grow, and we can’t wait to share the breadth of self-published feminist materials. There are a couple of ways that you can get involved with our zine library:
1) You can send us your zines. Whether you’re a zinemaker yourself or you have a zine collection that you’d like to send to a new home, we’d love to include your zines in our library. If you’ve got a big collection to ship, contact me at ashley@b-word.org. Otherwise, just write “zine donation” on your envelope and send it to us at 4930 NE 29th Avenue, Portland, OR 97211. To sweeten the deal, I will be reviewing zines that show up in our mailbox.
2) Come to the library and check some zines out! Again, we’re open from 5-8pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the library can also be opened by appointment during weekday hours.
laydeez who do comics zine event
News from Alternative Press...
Alternative Press Talk at Laydeez do Comics
We will be doing a short presentation at this excellent monthly comic evening at the Rag Factory next Monday 21st June. The subject of this months meeting is;
ZINES
Guest Speakers:
Dr Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Author of Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels (2001)
Prof Teal Triggs, Professor of Graphic Design and Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Graphic design historian, critic and educator.
Co-author with Roger Sabin of Critical Radar: Fanzines & Alternative Comics From 1976 To Now (2001)
Gareth Brookes and Jimi Gherkin, comix artists and members of Alternative Press
http://www.alternativepress.org.uk
Rachel House, artist and Co-director of Space Station Sixty-Five www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
Katie Allen, feminist zinester and editor of women’s magazine
www.fat-quarter.co.uk
You can find out more about Laydeez do comics at: http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/laywhen.htm
Alternative Press Talk at Laydeez do Comics
We will be doing a short presentation at this excellent monthly comic evening at the Rag Factory next Monday 21st June. The subject of this months meeting is;
ZINES
Guest Speakers:
Dr Roger Sabin, Reader in Popular Culture at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Author of Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels (2001)
Prof Teal Triggs, Professor of Graphic Design and Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Graphic design historian, critic and educator.
Co-author with Roger Sabin of Critical Radar: Fanzines & Alternative Comics From 1976 To Now (2001)
Gareth Brookes and Jimi Gherkin, comix artists and members of Alternative Press
http://www.alternativepress.org.uk
Rachel House, artist and Co-director of Space Station Sixty-Five www.spacestationsixtyfive.com
Katie Allen, feminist zinester and editor of women’s magazine
www.fat-quarter.co.uk
You can find out more about Laydeez do comics at: http://www.nikjep.demon.co.uk/laywhen.htm
proper academic!
Feminism and its Methods: an interdisciplinary colloquium
12-13 July 2010, Manchester Museum
This event is organised by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), and is co-sponsored by: School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and CESAGen (Centre for Research on Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics). This event is also part of the Manchester Feminist Theory Network.
The conference will have a dual focus on:
* methods as a means for rethinking feminisms, as well as
* the histories, transformations and travels of feminist methods and methodologies.
Academic reflections on feminism and its recent past have tended not to encompass feminist methods and methodologies. This workshop aims to explore how our understanding of feminism might be transformed if we focus in particular on methods. The widespread influence of feminist methods across the social sciences and humanities could be taken as evidence of feminism's vitality, countering narratives of its demise. However, this influence often goes unmarked and unacknowledged. Feminist methods and methodologies have not been taken up evenly across disciplines, and do not necessarily index the same debates. In this event, we are keen to promote dialogue within and between different quarters of feminist practice, research and activism. This colloquium will explore how feminist methods have been taken up and transformed in and across disciplines, that is, how feminist methods have travelled.
Methods have been central to feminist practices, from the making of women's history and the creation of feminist archives, to the speak-out, consciousness-raising groups, manifestoes, oral histories, feminist utopian fiction. This historical centrality poses questions about the contemporary relationship between methods and feminism.
Speakers include: Bridget Byrne, Rachel Cohen, Ann Cvetkovich, Jacqui Gabb, Magaretta Jolly, Joan Haran, Amelia Lee , Julie McLeod, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan, Nirmal Puwar, Rachel Thomson, Kath Woodward, Sophie Woodward
For more information please go to http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/feminism_and_its_methods/
12-13 July 2010, Manchester Museum
This event is organised by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), and is co-sponsored by: School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and CESAGen (Centre for Research on Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics). This event is also part of the Manchester Feminist Theory Network.
The conference will have a dual focus on:
* methods as a means for rethinking feminisms, as well as
* the histories, transformations and travels of feminist methods and methodologies.
Academic reflections on feminism and its recent past have tended not to encompass feminist methods and methodologies. This workshop aims to explore how our understanding of feminism might be transformed if we focus in particular on methods. The widespread influence of feminist methods across the social sciences and humanities could be taken as evidence of feminism's vitality, countering narratives of its demise. However, this influence often goes unmarked and unacknowledged. Feminist methods and methodologies have not been taken up evenly across disciplines, and do not necessarily index the same debates. In this event, we are keen to promote dialogue within and between different quarters of feminist practice, research and activism. This colloquium will explore how feminist methods have been taken up and transformed in and across disciplines, that is, how feminist methods have travelled.
Methods have been central to feminist practices, from the making of women's history and the creation of feminist archives, to the speak-out, consciousness-raising groups, manifestoes, oral histories, feminist utopian fiction. This historical centrality poses questions about the contemporary relationship between methods and feminism.
Speakers include: Bridget Byrne, Rachel Cohen, Ann Cvetkovich, Jacqui Gabb, Magaretta Jolly, Joan Haran, Amelia Lee , Julie McLeod, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan, Nirmal Puwar, Rachel Thomson, Kath Woodward, Sophie Woodward
For more information please go to http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/feminism_and_its_methods/
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
symposium discussion group gets a mention
Amelia Wells of Amelia's Magazine has written a neat review of London Zine Symposium here: http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/art/zine-symposium-review/2010/06/08/
She mentiones the discussion group I ran with Patrick, Debi, and Em... it's rad to hear what people made of the group, and to hear that it was important and worthwhile :)
Thank you Amelia <3
girls who draw - cornwall
Girls Who Draw invite you to come and visit their amazing ‘Travelling Menagerie’ which will be at the Here and Now Gallery in Falmouth throughout July. The exhibition will feature an exotic array of artwork from the ‘Menagerie’ postcard book as well as new work based on the same theme.
There are 10 illustrators participating in the exhibition and they are Gemma Correll, Anke Weckmann, Mary Kilvert, Sarah Ray, Kate Hindley, Ruth Green, Currentstate, Yee Ting Kuit, Karoline Rerrie and Michelle Turton.
Travelling Menagerie at Here and Now Gallery, Falmouth,
July 2nd – July 31st 2010 (Private view Fri 2nd July 6-9pm)
Here and Now Gallery
41 a Killigrew Street
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 3PW
http://girlswhodraw.wordpress.com
Monday, 7 June 2010
serbia and london - diy photo zines
From my inbox (Thanks Josh!)...
Between East and West.
From Novi Sad in Serbia to London in UK.
DIK Fagazine in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina and The Photographers' Gallery.
We are happy to invite you to exhibitions featuring self publications and artists books as well as artistic "products in development". DIK Fagazine and it's publisher - Karol Radziszewski will be participating in both shows.
The exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina will present some selected issues of DIK Fagazine and pictures taken last year during Karol Radziszewski's residency in Novi Sad. This announces the new book documenting his research focused on homosexuals in contemporary Serbia as well as on gays life in the communist past. The unique publication will be out this year!
* * * * *
RESIDENCY CULTURE
2-10 June 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia
Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, 2nd of June, 8 pm
The exhibition "Residency Culture" consists of artists taking part in programs Opening Our Closed Shops and Schloss Solitude. Exhibition will show artists' production developed and produced both during residency time but also production that is developed during "everyday life" time.
Artists:
Bernhard Herbordt & Melanie Mohren, DE / Min Kyoung Lee, KOR/ Darinka Pop-Mitic, SRB / Karol Radziszewski, PL / Dubravka Sekulic, SRB / Helene Sommer, NOR / Natasa Vujkov, SRB
* * * * *
We are also happy to announce that MARIOS DIK photo book by Karol Radziszewski will be presented at The Photographers' Gallery:
Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend
5 - 6 June 2010
The Photographers' Gallery
16 Ramillies Street, London
A weekend showcase of 60 exceptional contemporary DIY photo books, selected by Bruno Ceschel. A talk and signings throughtout the weekend will provide an opportunity for art book lovers to discuss, admire and buy publications originating from around the world.
From the more obscure zines assembled in student bedrooms to impeccably printed photobooks, Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend will offer inspiration and happiness for everybody.
Featuring work by: Adam Murray & Robert Parkinson, Alastair Levy, Alec Soth, Alex Mctigue, Alexander Binder, Alexandra Klein, Asa Johannesson, Asher Penn, Aubrey Mayer, Charlotte Dumas, David Schoerner, Derek Henderson, Erik Kessels, Erik Van Der Wejjde, Esther Teichmann, Gerry Badger, Grant Willing, Heather McDonough, Jan Von Holleben, Japp Scheeren, Jason Evans, Jeff Luker, Jeremie Egry and Nicolas Poillot, Joachim Schmid, Joshua Deaner, Karol Radziszewski, Katrina Umber, Lester B. Morrison, Lina Scheynius, Lucas Blalock, Marten Lange, Maxwell Anderson, Morten Andersen, Morten Spaberg, Ofer Wolberger, Patrick Waugh, Ricardo Cases, Richard Renaldi, Sam Falls, Sebastien Girard, Shane Lavalette, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Sophie Morner, Stephen Gill, Terence Hannum, Tim Barber and Victor Sira.
A selection of the books will be availble for sale in The Photographers' Gallery Bookshop. Come and get your piece of happiness.
Self Publish, Be Happy is an organisation founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010 with the aim to celebrate and promote self published photobooks through events (fairs, exhibitions and conferences), books and online. Self Publish, Be Happy also organises workshops aimed to help photographers to make and publish their own books. For more information visit: http://www.selfpublishbehappy.wordpress.com/
http://www.mariosdik.com/
www.karolradziszewski.com
http://www.dik.blog.pl/
Between East and West.
From Novi Sad in Serbia to London in UK.
DIK Fagazine in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina and The Photographers' Gallery.
We are happy to invite you to exhibitions featuring self publications and artists books as well as artistic "products in development". DIK Fagazine and it's publisher - Karol Radziszewski will be participating in both shows.
The exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina will present some selected issues of DIK Fagazine and pictures taken last year during Karol Radziszewski's residency in Novi Sad. This announces the new book documenting his research focused on homosexuals in contemporary Serbia as well as on gays life in the communist past. The unique publication will be out this year!
* * * * *
RESIDENCY CULTURE
2-10 June 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
Dunavska 37, Novi Sad, Serbia
Opening of the exhibition: Wednesday, 2nd of June, 8 pm
The exhibition "Residency Culture" consists of artists taking part in programs Opening Our Closed Shops and Schloss Solitude. Exhibition will show artists' production developed and produced both during residency time but also production that is developed during "everyday life" time.
Artists:
Bernhard Herbordt & Melanie Mohren, DE / Min Kyoung Lee, KOR/ Darinka Pop-Mitic, SRB / Karol Radziszewski, PL / Dubravka Sekulic, SRB / Helene Sommer, NOR / Natasa Vujkov, SRB
* * * * *
We are also happy to announce that MARIOS DIK photo book by Karol Radziszewski will be presented at The Photographers' Gallery:
Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend
5 - 6 June 2010
The Photographers' Gallery
16 Ramillies Street, London
A weekend showcase of 60 exceptional contemporary DIY photo books, selected by Bruno Ceschel. A talk and signings throughtout the weekend will provide an opportunity for art book lovers to discuss, admire and buy publications originating from around the world.
From the more obscure zines assembled in student bedrooms to impeccably printed photobooks, Self Publish, Be Happy Weekend will offer inspiration and happiness for everybody.
Featuring work by: Adam Murray & Robert Parkinson, Alastair Levy, Alec Soth, Alex Mctigue, Alexander Binder, Alexandra Klein, Asa Johannesson, Asher Penn, Aubrey Mayer, Charlotte Dumas, David Schoerner, Derek Henderson, Erik Kessels, Erik Van Der Wejjde, Esther Teichmann, Gerry Badger, Grant Willing, Heather McDonough, Jan Von Holleben, Japp Scheeren, Jason Evans, Jeff Luker, Jeremie Egry and Nicolas Poillot, Joachim Schmid, Joshua Deaner, Karol Radziszewski, Katrina Umber, Lester B. Morrison, Lina Scheynius, Lucas Blalock, Marten Lange, Maxwell Anderson, Morten Andersen, Morten Spaberg, Ofer Wolberger, Patrick Waugh, Ricardo Cases, Richard Renaldi, Sam Falls, Sebastien Girard, Shane Lavalette, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Sophie Morner, Stephen Gill, Terence Hannum, Tim Barber and Victor Sira.
A selection of the books will be availble for sale in The Photographers' Gallery Bookshop. Come and get your piece of happiness.
Self Publish, Be Happy is an organisation founded by Bruno Ceschel in 2010 with the aim to celebrate and promote self published photobooks through events (fairs, exhibitions and conferences), books and online. Self Publish, Be Happy also organises workshops aimed to help photographers to make and publish their own books. For more information visit: http://www.selfpublishbehappy.wordpress.com/
http://www.mariosdik.com/
www.karolradziszewski.com
http://www.dik.blog.pl/
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
zine on sale online
The zine, Taking Cultural Production Into Our Own Hands (see blog post below this one) is now available to order online, via my etsy site: www.etsy.com/shop/COTL
It'll also be available to buy at Bradford Zine Fayre on the individual zine table.
It'll also be available to buy at Bradford Zine Fayre on the individual zine table.
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
latest zine
Taking Cultural Production Into Our Own Hands.
A collaborative zine, made for the discussion group on Creating Our Own Culture that I'm running at London Zine Symposium this Saturday.
It's a big bunch of info from a host of *amazing* people on the hows and whys of creating culture yourself... inspiring and skills-sharing.
Thanks to the contributors for writing about:
Starting your own clubnight
Making your own animations
Organising Comedy Nights
Starting your own publishing house
Setting up a zine library
Starting your own theatre company
Recording albums
Creating your own independent gallery space
Writing and publishing your own book
Making zines
Opening your own shop/cafe
PUtting on gigs
Starting your own record label
Screenprinting
Starting your own band
Booking and organising spoken-word tours
Curating art shows
Running a magazine
Making your own (documentary) films
Making comics
Making poster artwork for gigs and events.
£1.40 (or free if you contributed!!)
If there's any left, I'll put copies for sale online after the symposium.
More info on the LZS website
Monday, 24 May 2010
more UK zine fests...
As well as London Zine Symposium this Saturday [see you there], Zine Fest at the Women's Library, London on 12th June, and Leeds Zine Fest on 27th June [EDIT: This event has been cancelled], the following Summer events have also been announced:
Bradford Zine Fayre on 20th June 2010
Join us for a day of stalls, workshops, performances and overall DIY lovliness.
Interested in getting involved? having a stall? performing? helping out? email us! bradfordzines@hotmail.co.uk or bradfordzines@northern-indymedia.org
Birmingham Zine Festival in the planning stages... see: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=104056762967490&v=wall&ref=ts
Bradford Zine Fayre on 20th June 2010
Join us for a day of stalls, workshops, performances and overall DIY lovliness.
Interested in getting involved? having a stall? performing? helping out? email us! bradfordzines@hotmail.co.uk or bradfordzines@northern-indymedia.org
Birmingham Zine Festival in the planning stages... see: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=104056762967490&v=wall&ref=ts
queer zine festival in brussels
From my inbox...
Hi,
I received the mail below about a zine festival on June 26th-27th in Pink Ponk, a queer space in Brussels (Belgium)!
If you are interested in going there with your zines or do something else, mail to freefree@laposte.net. Apart from zine selling, zine showing, zine making and zine reading, there wil be an open stage, performances and a queer party.
It would be nice to see your zines too! If you've never made a zine before, now is the time! If you've ony made zines in a long-forgotten dark past, you should dig them up, or even better, start making zines again!
There's no website for the festival (yet) as far as I know, so you should ask more info or mail your questions to freefree@laposte.net
See you there hopefully!
Nina
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From: freefree
Subject: 26 et 27 juin festival intergalactique du fanzine à bruxelles
hola
voici un appel pour vous invités à venir au local pink ponk à bruxelles le 26 juin
dans le cadre d'un festival inter galactique du fanzine venez avec vos table de presse !
vos zine et autre réalisation votre matériel !
découpage !collage !cadavre exqui !sont au programme!
dès 14 h ensuite vers 20 h scène ouverte pour vos performances ! lecture de textes ! et tour de chants suivi d'une queer party le tout prix libre une photocopieuse sera à disposition au bunker à 200 mètre du pink ponk ou de nombreux fanzineusEs exposeront et comploteront de nouvelles page en votre compagnie le 26 et le 27 juin
local pink ponk 2 rue marie popelin bruxelles à 100 mètre de la place rogier
nous annoncé votre présence peux nous aidé à évalué le nombre de table à prévoir n'hésité pas
Hi,
I received the mail below about a zine festival on June 26th-27th in Pink Ponk, a queer space in Brussels (Belgium)!
If you are interested in going there with your zines or do something else, mail to freefree@laposte.net. Apart from zine selling, zine showing, zine making and zine reading, there wil be an open stage, performances and a queer party.
It would be nice to see your zines too! If you've never made a zine before, now is the time! If you've ony made zines in a long-forgotten dark past, you should dig them up, or even better, start making zines again!
There's no website for the festival (yet) as far as I know, so you should ask more info or mail your questions to freefree@laposte.net
See you there hopefully!
Nina
---
From: freefree
Subject: 26 et 27 juin festival intergalactique du fanzine à bruxelles
hola
voici un appel pour vous invités à venir au local pink ponk à bruxelles le 26 juin
dans le cadre d'un festival inter galactique du fanzine venez avec vos table de presse !
vos zine et autre réalisation votre matériel !
découpage !collage !cadavre exqui !sont au programme!
dès 14 h ensuite vers 20 h scène ouverte pour vos performances ! lecture de textes ! et tour de chants suivi d'une queer party le tout prix libre une photocopieuse sera à disposition au bunker à 200 mètre du pink ponk ou de nombreux fanzineusEs exposeront et comploteront de nouvelles page en votre compagnie le 26 et le 27 juin
local pink ponk 2 rue marie popelin bruxelles à 100 mètre de la place rogier
nous annoncé votre présence peux nous aidé à évalué le nombre de table à prévoir n'hésité pas
Saturday, 15 May 2010
leeds zine fest
There's gonna be a Leeds Zine Fest on 27th June at Brudenell Social Club. I don't know much about it, but the organiser, Katie is still looking for distros and zinesters to have tables (and I think she's still looking for bands to play afterwards too)
Email her at: katie_thirkill@hotmail.co.uk to get a table/state your interest!
More info here
[EDIT 25/5/10: I heard today that this event has now been cancelled]
Email her at: katie_thirkill@hotmail.co.uk to get a table/state your interest!
More info here
[EDIT 25/5/10: I heard today that this event has now been cancelled]
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
henry and glenn
Henry & Glenn Forever comic by Tom Neely looks so totally great.
Buy Via: Microcosm
Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from super-notorious soft-rockdudes Hall and Oates) Henry & Glenn Forever is a love story to end all love stories! The premise of this Cantankerous Titles-released comic is explained at the front of the zine: “Henry and Glenn are very good 'friends.' They are also 'room mates.' Daryl and John live next door. They are satanists.” What follows is ultra-metal violence and cryfest diary entries, cringing self-doubt and mega-hilarious emo-meltdowns. Who knew Danzig was such a vulnerable, self-conscious sweety-pie? Who knew Rollins was such a caring spouse? Who knew Hall and Oates were so infernally evil—yet so considerate? Well, illustrating/writing team Igloo Tornado (featuring super-awesome comixdude Tom Neely) did and they kicked down 64 fully-illustrated pages with it. Genius on all fronts. Terrifyingly cute. Cutely terrifying. As the real-life Rollins says, quoted on the back cover, “Has Glenn seen this? Trust me, he would not be impressed.”
EDIT: I just read a rad interview with the creator, Tom Nealy, who was asked:
Personally, I see the comic as a brilliant commentary on the fact that metal and hardcore scenes are incredibly homoerotic. Agree, disagree?
Yeah, I think that’s definitely part of it. But there’s also a lot of homophobia in the metal scene that we’re making fun of. Henry and Glenn are easy targets because they are both such strong personalities who take themselves very seriously. They’re also beefy attractive dudes, so the strips almost write themselves.
For my own part of the book, I drew a lot of inspiration from past relationships and my own neuroses. There's a little bit of me in both Henry and Glenn. And there’s a little bit of my ex-girlfriends in both of them, too. There’s even a few in jokes about me and my wife as well. I’m making fun of myself as much as either of them.
There’s another side to the book for me, though. With all that’s gone on with the Prop 8 out here in California in recent years, I really wanted to just present them as a normal couple (although kinda neurotic). So, I actually hoped that it would come across as more of a pro-gay comic rather than making fun of anyone.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
creating our own culture
I'm going to be running a discussion group at this year's LONDON ZINE SYMPOSIUM (Sat 29th May) with Patrick, Debi, and Em. It's on: 'Creating Our Own Culture'
Creating our own culture
A discussion group with zinesters Melanie (Colouring Outside The Lines), Patrick (Ricochet! Ricochet!), Em (The World’s A Mess & You’re My Only Cure), and Debi (Self-Publishing and Empowerment) talking about taking the DIY ethos of zine-making and applying it to becoming creative producers and creative consumers.
They will discuss:
- Organising gig and spoken word tours
- Setting up independent gallery spaces
- Forming bands
- Launching own publishing houses
- DIY Book publishing
- Exhibiting art communally
Come and hear how and why they are creating their own cultural environments/cultures/worlds, and discuss how you could too. Feel free to bring examples of what you’re up to, and/or ideas, plans, and projects that you’d like to put out in to the world
Creating our own culture
A discussion group with zinesters Melanie (Colouring Outside The Lines), Patrick (Ricochet! Ricochet!), Em (The World’s A Mess & You’re My Only Cure), and Debi (Self-Publishing and Empowerment) talking about taking the DIY ethos of zine-making and applying it to becoming creative producers and creative consumers.
They will discuss:
- Organising gig and spoken word tours
- Setting up independent gallery spaces
- Forming bands
- Launching own publishing houses
- DIY Book publishing
- Exhibiting art communally
Come and hear how and why they are creating their own cultural environments/cultures/worlds, and discuss how you could too. Feel free to bring examples of what you’re up to, and/or ideas, plans, and projects that you’d like to put out in to the world
Monday, 3 May 2010
aorta #3
Aorta Magazine #3 is back from the printers. Order your copy online at Aorta's website
Issue 3 features my interview with the wonderful Marci Washington amongst lots of other equally rad things!
Friday, 30 April 2010
Thursday, 29 April 2010
it's true...
... I'm a bona fide contributor to Pikaland
Head over there now to see a big picture of my face on the site. Haha!!
I'm going to be doing oodles of interviews with artists that make my heart go boom! I already have a wish-list of interviewees long enough to make me feel faint!!
First up on the Pikaland site though will be an interview I did this week with the lovely Jill Bliss who was sooooooo nice to me & whose interview responses sent my brain into wild backflips of inspiration :)
Head over there now to see a big picture of my face on the site. Haha!!
I'm going to be doing oodles of interviews with artists that make my heart go boom! I already have a wish-list of interviewees long enough to make me feel faint!!
First up on the Pikaland site though will be an interview I did this week with the lovely Jill Bliss who was sooooooo nice to me & whose interview responses sent my brain into wild backflips of inspiration :)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
zine exhibition - and - london college of communication zine library
From my inbox...
(from www.toandfor.co.uk)
TOandFOR gallery is looking for zine-makers to contribute their publications, for the first of an exciting new programme of exhibitions taking place from the end of May.
Titled ‘Paper Exchange’ the exhibition aims to demonstrate the versatility of paper as it forms the medium for the dissemination of our ideas. Alongside book arts and paper sculpture we want to celebrate the self-publisher and pay homage to the paper pages!
TOandFOR is now looking for zine-makers to contribute their publications to the show. We would like to build up a collection of zines to be displayed and be available for perusal during the exhibition. The bigger the selection we get, the better the impression we can give of the sheer wonder and diversity of the zines! At the end of the show we would like to donate the zines to the London College of Communication Library who are building a zine collection.
As well as creating an extended period of zine appreciation for those of us well versed of the zine scene, TOandFOR also aims to bring a new audience into contact with the beautiful simplicity of the medium, and hopefully encourage some more self publishers in the making!
If you would like to contribute to the show in any way shape or form please get in touch!
info@toandfor.co.uk (please put ‘paper exchange’ in the subject line)
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(from www.toandfor.co.uk)
TOandFOR gallery is looking for zine-makers to contribute their publications, for the first of an exciting new programme of exhibitions taking place from the end of May.
Titled ‘Paper Exchange’ the exhibition aims to demonstrate the versatility of paper as it forms the medium for the dissemination of our ideas. Alongside book arts and paper sculpture we want to celebrate the self-publisher and pay homage to the paper pages!
TOandFOR is now looking for zine-makers to contribute their publications to the show. We would like to build up a collection of zines to be displayed and be available for perusal during the exhibition. The bigger the selection we get, the better the impression we can give of the sheer wonder and diversity of the zines! At the end of the show we would like to donate the zines to the London College of Communication Library who are building a zine collection.
As well as creating an extended period of zine appreciation for those of us well versed of the zine scene, TOandFOR also aims to bring a new audience into contact with the beautiful simplicity of the medium, and hopefully encourage some more self publishers in the making!
If you would like to contribute to the show in any way shape or form please get in touch!
info@toandfor.co.uk (please put ‘paper exchange’ in the subject line)
* * * * *
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
relationship of art to politics today
Totally fascinating blog post asking questions like 'can art really have a stake in making political change? If so, has contemporary art been at all successful in doing so? How must art’s relationship to politics be understood, and what must be rethought in light of our present?'
Upcoming panel discussion event looking at these questions of art, autonmoy, and resistance open to those interested in critical cultural production to be held in New York.
Upcoming panel discussion event looking at these questions of art, autonmoy, and resistance open to those interested in critical cultural production to be held in New York.
roll on my trip to bristol in august!
Seriously, the idea of seeing the work of natalia fabia, camille rose garcia, elizabeth mcgrath, brandi milne, marion peck, gretchen ryan and mark ryden all in the same space makes me feel a little dizzy and giddy-sick!
COREY HELFORD GALLERY in collaboration with BRISTOL’S CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY present:
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD
A Big Brash Exhibition of the New American Art Scene
Saturday, May 1 – Sunday, August 22, 2010
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Free entry. Open daily 10am-5pm
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD
For the first time, a world-class collection of works from some of the finest emerging and noted living U.S. Urban and Contemporary artists from the new American art scene is being unveiled internationally in a museum exhibition for British and European audiences. Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is collaborating with Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery to present a diverse range of 45 artists, spanning the spectrum from pop surreal and neo-figurative to street art in the exhibition, ART FROM THE NEW WORLD. Virtually all of the works have been specifically created for the show and will infiltrate not only the exhibition gallery, but most of the ground floor of the museum.
Highlights include:
• A fifteen-foot tall “ice cream cone” balloon sculpture created by, and topped with the characters of well-known street artist Buff Monster (who is featured in Banksy’s new film, Exit Through the Gift Shop). The artist will also be on-site creating a “live painting” of murals on select museum walls during the days immediately leading up to the exhibition.
• On opening day, paintings by world-renowned artist Gary Baseman will come to life as a special collection of his costumed characters makes a rare appearance to interact with museum guests.
• The Todd Schorr painting “An Ape Allegory”, featured in San Jose Museum’s Todd Schorr retrospective and on loan from the Corey Helford private collection will be on display in the main rotunda.
• Artist Mike Stilkey will transform a wall of 2,000 books into a ten-foot “canvas” for his work. The unique sculptural installation will greet visitors as they enter the museum.
Presenting and curating the exhibition in collaboration with Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery is Jan Corey Helford, owner and curator of the noted Corey Helford Gallery, located in Los Angeles, California. Corey Helford has presented a wide range of artists from the new fine art movement, such as Gary Baseman, Ron English, Josh Agle (SHAG), Buff Monster, COOP, Natalia Fabia, Korin Faught, Sylvia Ji, Eric Joyner and Lucie-award winning photographer Chris Anthony. Helford’s husband, and partner in the gallery, is American television writer and producer, Bruce Helford (Roseanne, The Drew Carey Show, The Oblongs).
In a statement released by the gallery, Jan Corey Helford explains the significance of the exhibit, ART FROM THE NEW WORLD. “Like the Arts Decoratif of Paris in 1925, or the bright, poppy England of the 1960’s, America is gushing forth a new wave of taste and style born of Pop Iconic culture, expanding American diversity, resistance to the mainstream art world and a need to communicate to an art audience looking for relevance in America’s Age of Uncertainty. The selected artists are part of an exciting new art movement that encompasses all forms of media and art – painting, sculpture, printing, stencil, photography, digital art. Their work defies traditional paths and has been embraced by a new generation of collectors and enthusiasts who crowd the exhibitions of a growing circuit of alternative galleries spreading throughout the United States. This is an exciting opportunity to raise the profile of this movement to new audiences.”
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD will open to the public in Bristol, England on Saturday, May 1, 2010 and will be on view through August 22nd.
Participating Artists:
JOSH AGLE (SHAG), JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER, CHRIS ANTHONY, VAN ARNO, GARY BASEMAN, RAY CAESAR, COLIN CHRISTIAN, SAS CHRISTIAN, LUKE CHUEH, COOP, DAVE COOPER, RON ENGLISH, NATALIA FABIA, KORIN FAUGHT, SARAH FOLKMAN, MELISSA FORMAN, AJ FOSIK, CAMILLE ROSE GARCIA, MERCEDES HELNWEIN, DAVID HOCHBAUM, SYLVIA JI, ERIC JOYNER, DAVE KINSEY, KUKULA, JOE LEDBETTER, HENRY LEWIS, LOLA, TRAVIS LOUIE, MICHAEL MARARIAN, ELIZABETH MCGRATH, MIA, BRANDI MILNE, BUFF MONSTER, MICHAEL PAGE, MARION PECK, JOSHUA PETKER, CARLOS RAMOS, JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ (KMNDZ), GRETCHEN RYAN, MARK RYDEN, TODD SCHORR, KATHY STAICO SCHORR, MIKE STILKEY, GREG SIMKINS (CRAOLA), JOE SORREN, DAVID STOUPAKIS, ADAM WALLACAVAGE, MARTIN WITTFOOTH, KENT WILLIAMS
Juxtapoz coverage
BBC coverage
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery
Queen’s Road
Bristol, UK BS8 1RL
T: 0117 922 3571
www.bristol.gov.uk/museums
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COREY HELFORD GALLERY in collaboration with BRISTOL’S CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY present:
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD
A Big Brash Exhibition of the New American Art Scene
Saturday, May 1 – Sunday, August 22, 2010
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Free entry. Open daily 10am-5pm
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD
For the first time, a world-class collection of works from some of the finest emerging and noted living U.S. Urban and Contemporary artists from the new American art scene is being unveiled internationally in a museum exhibition for British and European audiences. Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is collaborating with Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery to present a diverse range of 45 artists, spanning the spectrum from pop surreal and neo-figurative to street art in the exhibition, ART FROM THE NEW WORLD. Virtually all of the works have been specifically created for the show and will infiltrate not only the exhibition gallery, but most of the ground floor of the museum.
Highlights include:
• A fifteen-foot tall “ice cream cone” balloon sculpture created by, and topped with the characters of well-known street artist Buff Monster (who is featured in Banksy’s new film, Exit Through the Gift Shop). The artist will also be on-site creating a “live painting” of murals on select museum walls during the days immediately leading up to the exhibition.
• On opening day, paintings by world-renowned artist Gary Baseman will come to life as a special collection of his costumed characters makes a rare appearance to interact with museum guests.
• The Todd Schorr painting “An Ape Allegory”, featured in San Jose Museum’s Todd Schorr retrospective and on loan from the Corey Helford private collection will be on display in the main rotunda.
• Artist Mike Stilkey will transform a wall of 2,000 books into a ten-foot “canvas” for his work. The unique sculptural installation will greet visitors as they enter the museum.
Presenting and curating the exhibition in collaboration with Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery is Jan Corey Helford, owner and curator of the noted Corey Helford Gallery, located in Los Angeles, California. Corey Helford has presented a wide range of artists from the new fine art movement, such as Gary Baseman, Ron English, Josh Agle (SHAG), Buff Monster, COOP, Natalia Fabia, Korin Faught, Sylvia Ji, Eric Joyner and Lucie-award winning photographer Chris Anthony. Helford’s husband, and partner in the gallery, is American television writer and producer, Bruce Helford (Roseanne, The Drew Carey Show, The Oblongs).
In a statement released by the gallery, Jan Corey Helford explains the significance of the exhibit, ART FROM THE NEW WORLD. “Like the Arts Decoratif of Paris in 1925, or the bright, poppy England of the 1960’s, America is gushing forth a new wave of taste and style born of Pop Iconic culture, expanding American diversity, resistance to the mainstream art world and a need to communicate to an art audience looking for relevance in America’s Age of Uncertainty. The selected artists are part of an exciting new art movement that encompasses all forms of media and art – painting, sculpture, printing, stencil, photography, digital art. Their work defies traditional paths and has been embraced by a new generation of collectors and enthusiasts who crowd the exhibitions of a growing circuit of alternative galleries spreading throughout the United States. This is an exciting opportunity to raise the profile of this movement to new audiences.”
ART FROM THE NEW WORLD will open to the public in Bristol, England on Saturday, May 1, 2010 and will be on view through August 22nd.
Participating Artists:
JOSH AGLE (SHAG), JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER, CHRIS ANTHONY, VAN ARNO, GARY BASEMAN, RAY CAESAR, COLIN CHRISTIAN, SAS CHRISTIAN, LUKE CHUEH, COOP, DAVE COOPER, RON ENGLISH, NATALIA FABIA, KORIN FAUGHT, SARAH FOLKMAN, MELISSA FORMAN, AJ FOSIK, CAMILLE ROSE GARCIA, MERCEDES HELNWEIN, DAVID HOCHBAUM, SYLVIA JI, ERIC JOYNER, DAVE KINSEY, KUKULA, JOE LEDBETTER, HENRY LEWIS, LOLA, TRAVIS LOUIE, MICHAEL MARARIAN, ELIZABETH MCGRATH, MIA, BRANDI MILNE, BUFF MONSTER, MICHAEL PAGE, MARION PECK, JOSHUA PETKER, CARLOS RAMOS, JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ (KMNDZ), GRETCHEN RYAN, MARK RYDEN, TODD SCHORR, KATHY STAICO SCHORR, MIKE STILKEY, GREG SIMKINS (CRAOLA), JOE SORREN, DAVID STOUPAKIS, ADAM WALLACAVAGE, MARTIN WITTFOOTH, KENT WILLIAMS
Juxtapoz coverage
BBC coverage
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery
Queen’s Road
Bristol, UK BS8 1RL
T: 0117 922 3571
www.bristol.gov.uk/museums
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amy, audrey, lesley, and stella hit london - yay
Rad looking exhibition hitting London this summer:
‘The Next Generation: A New Chapter In Contemporary Art’ – curated by Thinkspace
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
London Miles Gallery
242 Acklam Road, Studio 303
London, W10 5JJ, United Kingdom
(44) 020 317 08618
www.londonmiles.com
salford zine library
Salford Zine Library, based at Islington Mill, Salford is looking for artzine submissions:
Salford Zine Library is a new venture which aims to create a Library of self published work from around the world. The library is based at Islington Mill home to over 50 artist studios.
Please send contributions to:
48 Landos Court
Gunson St
Manchester
M40 7WT
U.K
Salford Zine Library is a new venture which aims to create a Library of self published work from around the world. The library is based at Islington Mill home to over 50 artist studios.
Please send contributions to:
48 Landos Court
Gunson St
Manchester
M40 7WT
U.K
the latest from aorta
Aorta Magazine (formerly known as ArtXX Magazine) is proud to announce Cardiac Unrest, the hottest reading and release party in MAY, 2010! Come see the biggest heartthrobs of the San Francisco literary scene reading some of the hottest most radical poetry and prose. Dance the night away with hard pumping beats courtesy of DJ Puppet. Buy some yummy swag and look at some fantastic art from our very new ISSUE 3 of Aorta Magazine.
Saturday May 8, 2010
Doors @ 7, Show @ 8
$5 - 10 sliding scale
@ Million Fishes Arts Collective
2501 Bryant St, SF CA
You don't want to miss radical readings from:
Dusty Horn
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Meliza Bañales
Charles Vasquez
Rose Sims
Delicious visuals from:
Judith Page
Nikki Nefarious
Umayyah Cable
Musical temptations by:
Linda Moody (of Bay Area band Excuses for Skipping)
Zoe Boekbinder (storyteller, songwriter, loop pedal master)
Bass-thumping rhythms by DJ Puppet!!!
And, for further delights, expect to treat yourself to food, libations, and raffle prizes.
Come get your ears teased by words and rhythms and work yourself into a state of Cardiac Unrest!
www.aortamagazine.com
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and cultural worker whose life’s work is telling queer of color, radical South Asian, high femme and survivor stories. As a spoken word artist she has performed widely in the United States, Canada and Sri Lanka. She has featured at Bar 13, Michelle Tea's RADAR Reading Series, The Loft, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, as well as at universities including Yale, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, Swarthmore and the University of Southern California. Her first one woman show, Grown Woman Show, debuted at Toronto's Alchemy Theatre in August 2007.
Dusty Horn is a Show Business Impresario, urban cowboy cyclist, part-time hippie, loud fast and loose drummer, face-melting wah rhythmn guitarist, social worker, porn performer, and practitioner of professional BDSM. Her culture writing has been published in McSweeney’s The Believer, Maximum RnR, and Kitchen Sink, and she pens, publishes, and distributes a nominal sex worker memoir/critical theory zine.
Meliza Bañales, aka Missy Fuego, writes books, sews clothes, and makes movies. She has one book of poems, Say It With Your Whole Mouth and has work in several anthologies. Whether creative, spiritual, or activist, Meliza's work aims to give more complex awareness around issues of queerness, race, gender, and class using humor, sharp wit, and a lot of spandex.
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Issue #3 is hot off the presses!
Aorta is proud to announce the release of Issue #3! Once again, we're delivering a magazine crammed full of the talents of women, queer and trans artists. Issue #3, printed in an edition of 250, features an array of visual, performative, musical, and literary artists, including: Daphne Gottlieb, Jennie Ottinger, Marci Washington, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Nikki Nefarious, Larisa Escobedo, Still Black, Dusty Horn, Maryclare Brzytwa, Mangos with Chili, Imogen Binnie, W.A.G.E., Amy Casey, Ill Nippashi, Cristy C Road, Rose Sims, Judith Page, and more!
www.aortamagazine.com
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Aorta is a self-produced, collectively-created, bi-annual publication that features a diversity of emerging and established female, queer and transgender artists.
Aorta Magazine is a 501(c)3 sponsored project of the NY Foundation for the Arts and is supported in part by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure grant program.
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Snap from inside issue two:
Monday, 26 April 2010
oompa indeed!
“All fizz and finger-poppin’ talent. Such fun!”
- Diane DiMassa, creator of Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
“ ‘Oompa!’ will give you eargasms!”
-Annie Sprinkle, Artist/sexecologist
What would you do after editing a Lambda nominated anthology with bell hooks, Nan Goldin and Kate Bornstein? Well, if you’re Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of “Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction”, you shorten your name to Sabrina Chap and hit the road with your hot brand of vaudevillian and ragtime stomp.
After ditching her role as ‘feminist editor,’ Sabrina Chap turned back to her first love- songwriting and performing, and it’s a good thing too! She’s got the ballad lyrics of Tom Waits, the onstage antics of Phyllis Diller and the voice of a whiskey angel. After performing what has been called ‘The Dirtiest Song Ever’ in a performance the New Yorker called, “Rousing!”, she’s proved that she’s also got moxie.
[NB. I've just searched high and low for videos of the performance, and the New Yorker review to link to, and it appears it was all so dirty that it's all been taken down from the web!! -Melanie]
Released for the first time in her debut studio album, ‘Oompa!’, her songs are a ragtime stompin' good time, full of laughs, heartbreaks, and just plain good songwriting.
A classical pianist from the age of 5, Sabrina has performed in nine Ladyfests throughout the US and Europe, anchored two European tours and hit every small bar and club in New York and Chicago.
The album title, ‘Oompa!’ stems from the typical left-hand stride that is found in ragtime, where the left hand is incessantly playing, “oompa, oom-pa”. A majority of the songs on the album originally contained this rhythm, and soon the album became an exploration on how to riff off of this basic musical theme. In one track, a Dixieland band is added, in another a trio of strings. Fellow feminist editor,
Melody Berger (the F-Word zine, “We Don’t Need another Wave”) brings her bluegrass fiddle to the track, ‘Carolina’.
All in all, ‘Oompa!’ is a musical feast of Americana’s favorite styles that’ll keep your toes a tappin and your finger’s snappin’.
A dynamic performer, Sabrina has found that it is the burlesque scene where she is finding her strongest supporters. In February she brought her bawdy vaudeville numbers and razor-sharp wit to the burlesque joints and sideshows of East Coast. Currently, she is playing solo shows in the New York area, while planning a travelling circus sideshow tour this summer, The show will feature a fire-eater,
burlesque performer, magician and herself as a one woman band performing the songs from ‘Oompa’. Hilarious and fearless, Sabrina is gearing up to become one of the hottest voicest in ragtime revivalor as an interview in the Queerist recently put it, “Wildly articulate, witty and passionate, Sabrina Chap is an artist to look out for.”
Head over to Sabrina's Myspace to hear songs from the album (my fave, for the record, is Boat Song)
- Diane DiMassa, creator of Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
“ ‘Oompa!’ will give you eargasms!”
-Annie Sprinkle, Artist/sexecologist
What would you do after editing a Lambda nominated anthology with bell hooks, Nan Goldin and Kate Bornstein? Well, if you’re Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of “Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction”, you shorten your name to Sabrina Chap and hit the road with your hot brand of vaudevillian and ragtime stomp.
After ditching her role as ‘feminist editor,’ Sabrina Chap turned back to her first love- songwriting and performing, and it’s a good thing too! She’s got the ballad lyrics of Tom Waits, the onstage antics of Phyllis Diller and the voice of a whiskey angel. After performing what has been called ‘The Dirtiest Song Ever’ in a performance the New Yorker called, “Rousing!”, she’s proved that she’s also got moxie.
[NB. I've just searched high and low for videos of the performance, and the New Yorker review to link to, and it appears it was all so dirty that it's all been taken down from the web!! -Melanie]
Released for the first time in her debut studio album, ‘Oompa!’, her songs are a ragtime stompin' good time, full of laughs, heartbreaks, and just plain good songwriting.
A classical pianist from the age of 5, Sabrina has performed in nine Ladyfests throughout the US and Europe, anchored two European tours and hit every small bar and club in New York and Chicago.
The album title, ‘Oompa!’ stems from the typical left-hand stride that is found in ragtime, where the left hand is incessantly playing, “oompa, oom-pa”. A majority of the songs on the album originally contained this rhythm, and soon the album became an exploration on how to riff off of this basic musical theme. In one track, a Dixieland band is added, in another a trio of strings. Fellow feminist editor,
Melody Berger (the F-Word zine, “We Don’t Need another Wave”) brings her bluegrass fiddle to the track, ‘Carolina’.
All in all, ‘Oompa!’ is a musical feast of Americana’s favorite styles that’ll keep your toes a tappin and your finger’s snappin’.
A dynamic performer, Sabrina has found that it is the burlesque scene where she is finding her strongest supporters. In February she brought her bawdy vaudeville numbers and razor-sharp wit to the burlesque joints and sideshows of East Coast. Currently, she is playing solo shows in the New York area, while planning a travelling circus sideshow tour this summer, The show will feature a fire-eater,
burlesque performer, magician and herself as a one woman band performing the songs from ‘Oompa’. Hilarious and fearless, Sabrina is gearing up to become one of the hottest voicest in ragtime revivalor as an interview in the Queerist recently put it, “Wildly articulate, witty and passionate, Sabrina Chap is an artist to look out for.”
Head over to Sabrina's Myspace to hear songs from the album (my fave, for the record, is Boat Song)
sometimes i get overhwelmed by the rad things my friends are doing/organising (Pt. #804)
Jane Arden Project: An active research project, culminating in an exhibition and limited edition artist bookwork, that invites women artists and writers to contribute responses to the work of Jane Arden.
and...
Raising Hell: This half hour documentary profiles the experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents in the UK aged 12 to 35, exploring themes of School, Gender, Sexuality, Prejudice and what the word Family means. Set alongside an examination of the rich history of Lesbian and Gay parents from the late 1960s to the present day this film at once normalises and elaborates on the unshared and unheard experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents
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and...
Raising Hell: This half hour documentary profiles the experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents in the UK aged 12 to 35, exploring themes of School, Gender, Sexuality, Prejudice and what the word Family means. Set alongside an examination of the rich history of Lesbian and Gay parents from the late 1960s to the present day this film at once normalises and elaborates on the unshared and unheard experiences of the children of Lesbian and Gay parents
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bonfire madigan in LA every sunday in may
New Music Residency Showcase 2010
Composer, Singing-Cellist Bonfire Madigan curates and performs a unique concert every Sunday in May at the Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles
May 2nd, 9pm Bonfire Madigan performs pieces from her Kill Rock Stars catalog and selections frm her forthcoming full length stud...io album. 8pm Cate La Bon from Europe
May 9th, 9pm Bonfire Madigan plays songs by mom's (a special Mother's Day show - bring a mom!) 8pm surprise guests
May 16th, 9pm BMad w/ a tribute to American composer Moondog 8pm Rachael Cantu
May 23rd, 9pm BMad plays w/ the work of composer, singing cellist Arthur Russell 8pm DUBUS frm Tijuana
May 30th, 9pm BMad debuts selections frm her original score to the theatrical event Elektra opening Sept at the Getty Villa, starring Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis 8pm Emily Jane White frm San Francisco
only $8 in advance $10 at the door
http://foldsilverlake.com
http://bonfiremadigan.com
Composer, Singing-Cellist Bonfire Madigan curates and performs a unique concert every Sunday in May at the Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles
May 2nd, 9pm Bonfire Madigan performs pieces from her Kill Rock Stars catalog and selections frm her forthcoming full length stud...io album. 8pm Cate La Bon from Europe
May 9th, 9pm Bonfire Madigan plays songs by mom's (a special Mother's Day show - bring a mom!) 8pm surprise guests
May 16th, 9pm BMad w/ a tribute to American composer Moondog 8pm Rachael Cantu
May 23rd, 9pm BMad plays w/ the work of composer, singing cellist Arthur Russell 8pm DUBUS frm Tijuana
May 30th, 9pm BMad debuts selections frm her original score to the theatrical event Elektra opening Sept at the Getty Villa, starring Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis 8pm Emily Jane White frm San Francisco
only $8 in advance $10 at the door
http://foldsilverlake.com
http://bonfiremadigan.com
Friday, 16 April 2010
discuss...
Why Can’t I Be Making Love Cause I’m In It? Or, The Phair/Cuomo Conundrum
Neat article from the looking-all-kinds-of-rad LADYPALOOZA week at Tiger Beatdown blog.
Neat article from the looking-all-kinds-of-rad LADYPALOOZA week at Tiger Beatdown blog.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
gives good interview
Sabrina Chap sure gives good interview...
http://blog.thequeerist.com/2010/03/interview-with-sabrina-chap
CG: You seem to have many different creative outlets. How do you juggle being such a jack of all trades?
SC: I don’t. I’m a mess. In fact, I’m crying right now.
Totally love Sabrina :)
[p.s. I interviewed Sabrina years ago too. You can read here]
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http://blog.thequeerist.com/2010/03/interview-with-sabrina-chap
CG: You seem to have many different creative outlets. How do you juggle being such a jack of all trades?
SC: I don’t. I’m a mess. In fact, I’m crying right now.
Totally love Sabrina :)
[p.s. I interviewed Sabrina years ago too. You can read here]
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crazy ass 'democracy'
Okay, so once again I'm behind with the news, but this sucks
Iraqi artists denied entry to Britain for their own exhibition. Visas refused on grounds that applicants could not provide bank statements
As the article says, Proof of financial stability and a bank account in the applicant's home country is a bureaucratic requirement for British visa authorities, but it is also, according to Iraqi experts, a very tall order in an occupied country with no banking infrastructure.
"Since 2003, Iraqis have been promised democracy but Britain and America have not managed to do what they promised. We tried to use art to rebuild some of that trust. This incident loses that trust ... The artists have been refused visas for not having bank statements; many Iraqis do not have bank accounts. It's an unstable country, usually its citizens are paid in cash"
The artists denied entry include Shaho Abdul Rahman, 36, a designer and painter, Azar Othman Mahmud, 22, an installation artist, Sarwar Mohamed, 37, a filmmaker, all from Sulaymaniyah; Falah Shakarchi, 45, a painter from Baghdad and Julie Adnan, 24, a photojournalist from Kirkuk.
Iraqi artists denied entry to Britain for their own exhibition. Visas refused on grounds that applicants could not provide bank statements
As the article says, Proof of financial stability and a bank account in the applicant's home country is a bureaucratic requirement for British visa authorities, but it is also, according to Iraqi experts, a very tall order in an occupied country with no banking infrastructure.
"Since 2003, Iraqis have been promised democracy but Britain and America have not managed to do what they promised. We tried to use art to rebuild some of that trust. This incident loses that trust ... The artists have been refused visas for not having bank statements; many Iraqis do not have bank accounts. It's an unstable country, usually its citizens are paid in cash"
The artists denied entry include Shaho Abdul Rahman, 36, a designer and painter, Azar Othman Mahmud, 22, an installation artist, Sarwar Mohamed, 37, a filmmaker, all from Sulaymaniyah; Falah Shakarchi, 45, a painter from Baghdad and Julie Adnan, 24, a photojournalist from Kirkuk.
Friday, 2 April 2010
the diary of a teenage girl
OK, so I don't really 'do' theatre, and there's probably little to no chance of it coming over to the UK so I don't know what I'm getting so excited about, but Phoebe Gloeckner's amazing graphic novel 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' has been adapted in to a stage play in the US. Wowzer!
The basic premise: 'It’s San Francisco in the 1970s. Fifteen-year-old Minnie has just started an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. Shit.'
Oh, and I love this touch: C. Andrew Bauer’s video designs cleverly incorporate Ms. Gloeckner’s drawings. A small exhibition of Gloeckner originals in the lobby pays further tribute to the unblinking honesty that inspired this heartfelt production.
"When you enter the building, you're treated to an unexpected exhibition of original art by Phoebe Gloeckner -- and I promise you, this alone is worth the price of admission. The selections draw heavily from the comics and illustrations found in Diary, including some of its most memorable pieces -- a dalliance between Minnie's best friend Kimmie and her ersatz boyfriend Monroe on the beach literally made my jaw drop, while I laughed aloud at seeing the book's memorable rear-view portrait of Monroe and Kimmie arguing in the buff. But one of "Minnie"/Phoebe's comics from her teenage years was also on display, as were several of her astonishing illustrations from J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, including that infamous fellatio cross-section. Throughout, it's almost awe-inspiring to see how much more frequently white-out is used to erase lettering mistakes or alter word-balloon placement rather than fix the art itself; Gloeckner's line appears to flow fully formed from her brain to the page. I was hard pressed to pull myself away from them to enter the venue proper, or to leave and catch my subway at the end of the night." (from: this rad review)
How I wish I was in New York to see this :(
The basic premise: 'It’s San Francisco in the 1970s. Fifteen-year-old Minnie has just started an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. Shit.'
Oh, and I love this touch: C. Andrew Bauer’s video designs cleverly incorporate Ms. Gloeckner’s drawings. A small exhibition of Gloeckner originals in the lobby pays further tribute to the unblinking honesty that inspired this heartfelt production.
"When you enter the building, you're treated to an unexpected exhibition of original art by Phoebe Gloeckner -- and I promise you, this alone is worth the price of admission. The selections draw heavily from the comics and illustrations found in Diary, including some of its most memorable pieces -- a dalliance between Minnie's best friend Kimmie and her ersatz boyfriend Monroe on the beach literally made my jaw drop, while I laughed aloud at seeing the book's memorable rear-view portrait of Monroe and Kimmie arguing in the buff. But one of "Minnie"/Phoebe's comics from her teenage years was also on display, as were several of her astonishing illustrations from J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition, including that infamous fellatio cross-section. Throughout, it's almost awe-inspiring to see how much more frequently white-out is used to erase lettering mistakes or alter word-balloon placement rather than fix the art itself; Gloeckner's line appears to flow fully formed from her brain to the page. I was hard pressed to pull myself away from them to enter the venue proper, or to leave and catch my subway at the end of the night." (from: this rad review)
How I wish I was in New York to see this :(
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