ArtGasm is a series of exhibits, live art making, performance art, and multi media art installations presented by Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, on a quarterly basis. April 2010: ArtGasm: Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock
Category: Performance
Artist statement by Jess Dobkin: I approach performance art as an inherently subversive practice. My performances challenge the status quo, transgress boundaries and envision alternate realities. …
Purple Wedding to the Moon performance by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens is on. The Purple wedding team has won the right to continue with their plans. Today they have announced that the LA Parks and Rec Department has withdrawn its cancellation of Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens wedding performance in LA, USA.
On Friday Oct 8th, well known performance artist Annie Sprinkle received a call from LA County Parks & Recreation Deputy Director, Kathleen Ritner, informing her that her rental contract for her wedding at the Farnsworth Amphitheatre in Altadena had been canceled due to “unsafe conditions” created by the public announcement of the wedding inviting people to witness their “eco-sexual” wedding.
Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens say: ‘We have committed our lives to engaging environmental issues by changing the metaphor of Earth as mother, to Earth as LOVER, and to making environmentalism more sexy and fun through ART.’ And they invite you to be one of their collaborators or patrons of their wedding art performance on October 23, 2010.
From the documentational videos of the “Intervene! Interrupt!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice” conference and festival at University of California Santa Cruz – May 15-17, 2008, (published may 2010 at YouTube) I have selected the videos of about by Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle.
Artist Statement by Jewlia Eisenberg. Photo: AnMarie Rodgers
Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) – Du Tier! (Ich Mensch) is a thematic group exhibition spanning, between two art spaces lying in proximity of each other – Perla-Mode and Dienstgebäude in Zurich, Austria, – a bridge between two worlds: the animal and the human world. “The participating artists demonstrate a special…
Laura Lilja is a queer multimedia artist based in Finland. She earned her Master of Arts from University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland in 2004. On March 10, 2010 at 19:30 hrs Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark, will be screening Laura’s art videos ‘Res publica’.
Kate Borstein graduated Brown University, USA in 1969. She is a Jewish-American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist, who teaches at universities around the world. Kate is a transexual dyke. Here (in the video above) she talks about what Brown taught her and encourages us to continue the spirit of the 1960’ies
Start 2010 with the SEXECOLOGICAL WALKING TOUR with Annie Sprinkle, multi-media artist and performer & Elizabeth Stephens, interdisciplinary artist.
Femina Potens Gallery, California, is delighted to be welcoming artist couple Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle as they aim to make the environmental movement sexier! On view in the gallery will be their vegan and bio-degradable wedding costumes.
Video: MetroLES” by Toxic Lesbians, 2008, Spain.
Video: Toxic Lesbian is a group of lesbian activists and artists. The group was founded in Madrid in 2005.
The Aarhus Festival has invited performer Ursula Martinez to Denmark. She will play ‘My Stories Your Emails’ at the annual festival in the beginning of September. All tickets are sold out months in advance.
Video. ‘In Love’ is a short artist talk where American artist Patty Chang talks about her performances.
Amber Hawk Swanson reveals details from her unique, loving and complicated lesbian relationship with Amber Doll on her webpage and video stream. In 2007 Amber Hawk Swanson produced a life size doll in her own image for their collaborative art project. In the feminist art project “To Have, To Hold…
“BustED: art about breast health” is a group show of art celebrating the lovely and erotic nature of the bosom, while reminding everyone of the way breast cancer affects our lives. Transplant (Step 1) and (Step 2) – Talia Greene The group show includes works of art by Annie Sprinkle,…
Chicago artist Amber Hawk Swanson explores a relationship with a life-size doll made in her own image. See the video and hear Amber talk about her feminist art project “To Have, To Hold and To Violate”.
Amber Hawk Swanson recently spent a month at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami shooting new photography and video work for the exhibition, “To Have, To Hold, and To Violate: Amber and Doll” opening May 10, 7-11pm at Locust Projects in conjunction with the Wynwood Art District Second Saturday gallery walk and…