Date Sept. 12 at 6:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $0-$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 90 min Capacity 500 Co-presented with Adams and Ollman and PNCA MFA Visual Studies
SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS & INDIGO— BLACK IMAGES AND THE (E)MOTIVE NOTION OF FREAKINESS Vaginal Davis (Germany)
VAGINAL DAVIS 2018
Davis’ performances are giddy, satirical stabs at the old-world order, levelling criticism at white privilege and the patriarchy with nuanced wit and game-show-style camp. The Vaginal Davis persona is a complex mixture of queercore punk antics and MGM studio glamour, reflecting Davis’ socially engaged and aesthetically consistent interests. — art21magazine
VAGINAL DAVIS 2018
VAGINAL DAVIS 2018
VAGINAL DAVIS 2018
VAGINAL DAVIS 2018
Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo—Black Screen Images and the (e)motive Notion of Freakiness is a lecture performance by Vaginal Davis, the internationally-revered, intersexed doyenne of intermedia arts and sciences. She takes public discourse to Dementia 13 levels as she spells out the queer and blatino experience in her own inimitable fashion, creating new words out of thin air and crashing, bull-in-a-Madame-Mau-china-shop style, over notions of propriety and reality. In short, her work can be described as disheveled, humorous, and rebellious. This lecture is held on the occasion of Vaginal Davis’s solo exhibition An Invitation to the Dance at Adams and Ollman Gallery on view through October 20, 2018. Vaginal Davis also has work in BETWEEN.. Please see page 060 for more information.
Ms. Davis hosted and curated Rising Stars, Falling Stars for over ten years and is now overseeing the regular performative film event Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome at Arsenal. She has taught her spiky brand of performance art as a guest professor at Lund UniversityMalmo Art Academy, Sweden, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Harvard, and NYU. Originally from Los Angeles, California, where she never learned to drive a car, she has been living in 036 stylish exile in Berlin since 2005.
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Photos: Nebojša Tabački
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