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PUSSY FAGGOT! 4-Year Anniversary | Guest Co-Curator: Quito Ziegler

Thursday, May 16, 2013
8:00 pm – 4:00 am
The Delancey
168 Delancey Street
New York, NY
Admission $10 / $6 with RSVP

Guest Co-Curator:
+ QUITO ZIEGLER (Forest of the Future)

Guest Host/Emcee:
+ WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*

8:00 pm FUTURE FEMINIST TEA PARTY (Rooftop Garden)
Hosted by NATH ANN CARRERA and DAMIEN LUXE
~ witchy tea blends
~ readings of treasured feminist texts
~ an explosion of vegan cakes baked with love
~ beautiful flowers grown respectfully at the Little Flower Farm, Vermont

9:00 pm MORE PUSSY LESS FAGGOT!! with
CRISTY ROAD UNPLUGGED | SHOMI NOISE | TIN VULVA

9:30 pm HOLLY WOODLAWN and JOEY ARIAS in Conversation.

Confirmed Performers:

+ DOUBLE DUCHESS (SF)
+ PURPLE CRUSH (NY/LA)
+ LAS REINAS CHULAS & TAREKE ORTIZ (Mexico City) **
+ MERRIE CHERRY
+ SEQUINETTE
+ KHAELA MARICICH (of The Blow)

Disco Light + Sound Installation by HOLOTROPIK (Jade Payne, Dominika Ksel, Angel Favorite)

Late Nite Pop-Up Piano Bar with Ms. ELIZABETH TAYLOR (JUSTIN SAYRE)

Door by LA CHINA LOCA

** See LAS REINAS CHULAS in “Nightmare in Tenochtitlan Street” at La Mama, May 10 – 19. Tix & details:

http://lamama.org/uncategorized/nightmare-in-tenochtitlan-street/-Y

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April 26th-28th, 2013 Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm Sunday @ 6:00pm Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income ENCOURAGER is a new solo performance by Max Steele. Fictive secular spiritual guru Billy Cheer leads a Courage Workshop, leading the audience through new emotional … Continue reading →

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Dirty Looks: Have you ever seen a transsexual before? Videos by Chris E. Vargas

Tuesday, February 26, 2013
9:00 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avene (at 2nd Street)
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $10.00
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CHRIS E. VARGAS In Attendance!

Dirty Looks returns from their West Coast roadshow, screening the first-ever retrospective program of work by Bay Area artist, Chris E. Vargas!!

Perhaps best known as one half of the web series “Falling in Love … with Chris and Greg,” a sitcom about a queer odd couple — one liberal, one radical; one transgender, one not — Vargas has produced a body of work that is politically subversive, culturally acute and utterly hysterical. From post-apocalyptic LA bikers to “the first pregnant man,” Liberace to Bronski Beat, these works challenge the homonormative, queering pop culture and rewriting GLBTQ histories.

PROGRAM:
Road Rash, Super8 on video, 6min., 2003
Homotopia (with Eric Stanley), digital video, 26min., 2006
Falling in Love… With Chris and Greg: Work of Art! Reality TV Special, digital video, 23min., 2008
Extraordinary Pregnancies, digital video, 10min., 2010
Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before?, digital video, 4 min., 2010
Liberaceón, digital video, 16min., 2011
ONE for all…, digital video, 7min., 2012
CRY BOY CRY, digital video, 5min., 2012

Beginning with Vargas’s first Super8 film, this program will explore the artist’s penchant for humorous impersonations and socio-political reinterpretations. Homotopia finds Vargas collaborating with Eric Stanley on a narrative short, in which radical queers crash the hypocritical wedding ceremony of a recent tearoom trick. Extraordinary Pregnancies explores the transphobic discourses parlayed through the media firestorm that surrounded the world’s first pregnant man, Thomas Beatie. In the video from which this program takes its title, Vargas enlightens various American landmarks with his trans body, begging of them the question, “Have You Ever Seen a Transsexual Before?” In both ONE for all... and Liberaceón, the artist portrays historically queer public figures (philanthropist Reed Erickson and mister showmanship, Liberace), rearticulating (rather comically) these icons relationships to queer politics and philosophical standpoints within their respective epochs. And, in the recent episode of “Falling in Love... with Chris and Greg”: Season Two, Chris and Greg compete against fellow artists to create the perfect work of queer failure, inserting themselves in Bravo’s reality TV show, “Work of Art.” Hint, it does not end well.

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Dirty Looks Curator’s Talk at ICI (Independent Curators International)

Bradford NordeenWednesday Dec. 12
Independent Curators International Curatorial Hub
401 Broadway Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
6:30PM
FREE w/RSVP

The core creative team behind Dirty Looks (Bradford Nordeen, David Everitt Howe, and Karl McCool) will discuss the curatorial initiatives behind the screening series, its monthly publications, and special project, Dirty Looks: On Location. This event is free and open to the public, though seating is limited.

RSVP to rsvp (at) curatorsintl (dot) org with Dirty Looks in the subject field.

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PUSSY FAGGOT! at Public Assembly | Friday, February 8

Friday, February 8, 2013
8:00 pm – 4:00 am
Public Assembly
60 N. 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Admission $10 / $6 with RSVP

The first PUSSY FAGGOT! of the year takes place back in Williamsburg at Public Assembly – both rooms!  Resident host Penny Arcade is back from a Christmas run of Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! in London and a month in Thailand writing her memoir… Scissor Sisters tour DJ Sammy Jo pops his PF cherry with a late night set in the back room… and legendary composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Phoebe Legere makes a special appearance.

The evening kicks off at 8:00 pm with an encore presentation of La MaMa’s SQUIRTS curated by Dan Fishback.  This special PUSSY FAGGOT! edition features Becky Eklund, Stephen Ira, Shane Shane, Buzz Slutzky, Michael Tikili, Santiago Venegas and Yana Walton.

From 9:00 – 9:30 pm enjoy an open vodka bar, and at 10:00 pm the event goes full throttle with performances on two stages featuring an eclectic line up featuring a bevy of new and veteran performers sure to make this another jam-packed night of performance, dancing and general mayhem!

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Long Table Discussion: “What Does Queer Performance Want?”

December 4, 2012
7:00 pm
Hemispheric Institute
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY
FREE

Performance artist and playwright Dan Fishback hosts this free-flowing conversation that will explore the macro-mechanics of DIY, community-based queer performance. The conversation will be kicked off by Erin Markey, Earl Dax, Carmelita Tropicana, Marya Warshaw, Taylor Mac, and Nicholas Gorham.

Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. His major works include: The Material World (2012), thirtynothing (2011) and You Will Experience Silence (2009), all directed by Stephen Brackett at Dixon Place. Fishback has received grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund (2010) and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists (2007-2009). He is a resident artist at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics at NYU (2012) and at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2013).

For more information visit hemisphericinstitute.org.

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Mama Said Sparkle

Wednesday, November 28, 2012
8:00 pm
The Spectrum
59 Montrose Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Admission $5

This month’s edition of the Spectrum’s monthly performance salon celebrates “the bombshell in all of us.”

Performers include bombshells of all genders that will make you want to smoke cigars and take over a movie studio. Confirmed artists include: Claire Moore, Charlotte Miller, Caroline Contillo, Nicholas Gorham and More!

* All proceeds go to sustaining The Spectrum as a queer community and performance space.

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She is King

Wednesday, December 5, 2012
7:30pm
Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
(Between Rivington & Delancey)
New York, NY
(212)219-0736
Tickets

Conceived and performed by Laryssa Husiak with two guest performers.
Directed by Katherine Brook

About the show

Celebrating the (near) 40th anniversary of the historic “Battle of the Sexes”, She is King is a live performance that uses archival footage to recreate pivotal moments in the public life of tennis legend Billie Jean King. The piece centers on a 1973 interview with King shortly after her victory in the “Battle of the Sexes.” The first question posed by the male interviewer is, “Are you an angry woman?” With a knowing smile, King tracks her journey to world championship in the context of women’s liberation. Through careful observation, Laryssa Husiak captures the legend’s big personality and subtle maneuvers as King navigates the pressure of her successes and a forceful exit from the closet. She is King presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who is a champion not only in tennis, but of a generation.

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Dirty Looks Selects: The First 25 Years of MIX NYC

Part One: Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm
Part Two: Friday, November 16, 6:00 pm

Next week, Dirty Looks will collaborate with MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, in celebration of their 25th anniversary. Dirty Looks Selects: The First 25 Years of MIX NYC culls from a quarter century of MIX programming to present two evenings of cutting-edge queer experimental film and video.

Part One: Fertile Feelings presents MIX high points from 1987 to 1999, featuring work by Glenn Belverio, Carl Michael George, Barbara Hammer, K8 Hardy, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jim Hubbard, Tom Kalin, Charles Lofton, John “Quasi” O’Shea and Vaginal Davis, Candy Pauker and Bruce La Bruce, Jill Reiter, Jerry Tartaglia, Phil Zwickler and David Wojnarowicz.

Part Two: Living Trough Oblivion takes us through the 21st century, with film and video from Nao Bustamante and Matt Johnstone, Gina Carducci and Matilda Bernstein Sycamore, Tom Chomont, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, Cody Critcheloe, Cecilia Dougherty, Glen Fogel, Samara Halperin, William E. Jones, Jonesy, and Matt Wolf.

For more information visit dirtylooksnyc.org.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves

Deadline: Friday, November 16, 2012
Open to queer artists of all kinds.

Darin Klein & Friends Present With Suzanne Wright:
21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #4

21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves is an ongoing ‘zine project by and about queer artists from around the world living and working in the 21st Century. A resource for sharing information and educating ourselves and our peers. A guide to identifying, contacting and inspiring each other. Not a visual artist? Queer artists work in many ways, and all are welcome – we’re sure you can think of a way to contribute! Writers, bakers, dancers/choreographers, publishers, intuitives, gallerists, etc. – ALL WELCOME!
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