The Church of the Late Night Sinners presents
HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA
MIX Festival, New York City. Saturday 17th November. 8pm
A collection of artists & filmmakers which have an affiliation to the “Generation Hex” era, blending old school and new school: many of these participants are connected and collaborate with each other. This program/line-up deals with the occult and esoteric each individual has his/her own unique interpretation of this theme. Jason Louv, in his introduction to Generation Hex (2006), states that the book is a snapshot of those “who are not only delving into this art [of magick] and science of the future, but who are coming to magical consciousness at a time when it has never been easier to find and link up with people of like minds and experience.” This is a video survey of such people. As Scott Treleaven, in the final issue of This is the Salivation Army (1999), said: “We are the new circus. And we are the envy of the fucking World.” — Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt, curators
Venue: 72 Greene St. (between Spring & Broome) New York, NY 10012
For more information please visit: www.mixnyc.org THIS SCREENING HAS NOW SOLD OUT
Re-Visions of Excess - Closing Party for Fierce Festival 2007. Sunday 3rd June. 7pm - 1am
Fierce! Festival’s tenth anniversary celebrations reached their climax with Revisions Of Excess. A reappraisal of the acclaimed Visions Of Excess event in 2003 Revisions Of Excess was co-curated by Ron Athey and myself. Taking place at the Pink Flamingo lap dancing club, Revisions Of Excess took the form of a series of works from a selecton of international artists inspired by the nihilistic writings of Jean Genet and George Bataille. Hosted by the inimitable David Hoyle, the line up of performers included, Kira O’Reilly, Veenus Vortex, Empress Stah, Valentina Violette of The Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Dominic Johnson, Ashley Ryder, Lazlo Pearlaman, Mouse & many more. Music by David TG (Torture Garden) & Kaos DJ’s Dr Mu & Bradley Kaos plus visuals from Black Sun Productions, Suka Off & VJ Oskur.
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Encounters My recent collaboration with Photographer Manuel Vason and Empress Stah is included in the book Encounters published by Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol on Saturday 8th June. This new collection has emerged from a series of collaborations between Vason and a range of international artists working in performance; either a re-staging or unique performance for his camera. His vividly constructed images explore the physical body in its diversity, in the physical environment and the relationship between the live event and the captured image
Other featured artists include Ron Athey, Stuart Brisley, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Steven Cohen and Franko B amongst many others
Initiation at Body Probe. Friday 18th May 2007. 11.30pm - 12.15am THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT
I was joined by the legendary father of the Modern Primitives Fakir Musafer on stage for Initiation - a ritual suspension performance also featuring Cleo Dubois, TJ Burleigh, Elwood, Justin Allen and Kamelyan
Initiation has never before been performed in the UK. It was presented as part of Fakir’s UK tour. Body Probe was part of the Torture Garden Birthday Weekend and also featured performances by Suka Off, Uniform and Satomi + screenings by Channel 83 and visuals by Espira
In Advance of a Broken Arm at Festival Cinemarges, Bordeaux. Monday 30th April 2007. 10.15pm My short film In Advance of a Broken Arm was screened as part of the Corpus Queer programme of the Soiree de Cloture, part of the Festival Cinemarges, 27th - 30th April
Tickets: 5 euros
Venue: Espace 29. 29 rue Fernand Marin, Bordeaux
For more information please visit: www.cinemarges.net
In Advance of a Broken Arm at the 2nd Festival de Cinema Queer, Paris. Tuesday 20th March 2007
(part of the ‘Freaks' double-bill with Ulrike Ottinger's 'Freak Orlando' at 6pm)
The Festival which runs from 16th - 23rd March also featured seminal works by Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, Hans Scheirl, Del LaGrace Volcano, Oreet Ashery and Steven Cohen
Cinema l'Entrepot
7/9 rue Francis de Pressense
75014 Paris
Metro Pernety - ligne 13
Tarifs: 5€ / seance ou 40€ Pass Festival
ReservationPass@lepeuplequimanque.org
The full programme is available as a pdf from:
Western European Stages Dominic Johnson has reviewed my performance installation The Language of Flowers and Ron Athey’s Solar Anus as part of a journal article on current performance art practices in the UK. The article also features performances by David Hoyle, Marisa Carnesky and Hancock & Kelly Live
Individual copies can be ordered from:
Western European Stages
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10019 USA
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/journals/WES/index.htm
Undercover Surrealism - Picasso, Miró, Masson and the vision of Georges Bataille
The live art event The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth at the Hayward Gallery, that I curated with Ron Athey, has been reviewed by Kate Random Love for the Total Theatre Magazine. to subscribe please visit www.totaltheatre.org.uk
Photographs from this event can be found on the ‘Monster’ page of this website
The Live Art Development Agency have recently added documentation from Iconostasis, The Mark of Cain and Porca Miseria to their Study Room DVD archive
Documentation from the Bindu Point collaboration with digital media artist Martin Franklin, performed last year at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast has been published in Volume 05 of the Body, Space, Technology Journal
