Tag Archives: performance art

Unmarried Until Gay Marriage

About a dozen married straight couples were “umarried until gay marriage” yesterday in a Central Park protest staged by performance artist Reverend Billy. More photos here.

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UnMarriage Until Gay Marriage

Popular performance artist Rev. Billy and his Church of Life After Shopping will stage a mass un-wedding in Central Park this Sunday. Straight, married supporters of same sex marriage will un-marry in a mass ritual at New York City’s Bethesda Angel this Valentine’s Day weekend, sending a strong message to New York State’s leadership for the for the second year …

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BRITAIN: Performance Artist & Author Sebastian Horsley Dies Of Overdose

Notorious performance artist, model, and author Sebastian Horsley has been found dead of a heroin overdose in his London home. Sebastian Horsley, the dandy, writer and artist who found fame by being nailed to a cross in the Philippines, has died at the age of 47. The colourful self-publicist was found dead at his flat in central London this morning, …

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Philip Huang – Rentboy

San Francisco performance artist Philip Huang gives us his take on the Dr. George Rekers scandal. I love it.

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VIDEO: Utah’s Final Solution Presser

Here’s yesterday’s press conference by hoaxers Patriots For A Moral Utah. It actually comes across better on video. The spokeswoman totally nails the type. “We don’t hate homosexuals, we just don’t want them to cram their members down our throat.” HAH. And they’ve just put up a website. BTW, I don’t think the protesters are in on it.

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Philip Huang Vs. Prop 8 Church

San Francisco performance artist Philip Huang interviews passersby about the design of the Christ The Light church in Oakland, home to Bishop Salvadore Cordileone, the man credited as the architect of Prop 8. Language NSFW.

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UnMarriage Until Gay Marriage

Popular performance artist and one-time NYC mayoral candidate Rev. Billy will stage a group unmarriage ceremony in Central Park tomorrow in which participants will vow not to get married until everybody can. Join hundreds of couples at The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park this Valentine’s Day for a mass ritual in support of the rights of ALL people to marry …

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Meet Brian Feldman’s Spousal Options

We already know who he picked, but here’s a clip of the women who showed up at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando on Monday to apply to randomly marry performance artist Brian Feldman.

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Orlando Man To Marry Total Stranger In Protest Of Anti-Gay Marriage Laws

As a Valentine’s protest against anti-gay marriage laws, heterosexual Orlando performance artist Brian Feldman announced that he would randomly marry any woman who happened to show up at the Orange County Courthouse this past Monday. Three women appeared! Therefore, having filed the paperwork and paid the license fee, Feldman will marry one Hannah Miller on this Friday. From the Facebook …

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Heartbroken In NYC? Call The Death Bear

If you’re suffering through a painful breakup, a NYC performance artist called the Death Bear will come to your home and remove all evidence of your former love. We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that …

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80’s Flashback

Paula Sheppard, Me And My Rhythm Box, 1983. From Liquid Sky, one of my favorite bad movies ever, in which microscopic aliens land in the East Village to harvest the chemicals in human brains created at the moment of orgasm, which kills the human. The acting is spectacularly bad, especially from Anna Carlisle, who plays the male and female leads. …

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Thousand-Hand Guan Yin

Andrew Sullivan posted this yesterday and I can’t stop watching it. All the performers are deaf, making their synchronization to the music even more stunning.

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Twist And Shout

Performance artist Mini Karimi wants help: On September 6th, I am staging a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. I am recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the movie as my Ferris float approaches. In …

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Laurie Anderson At Lincoln Center

Last night Aaron and I attended the first night of legendary multi-media performance artist Laurie Anderson’s five night stand at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater at the Time-Warner Center, where she presented a remarkably low-tech version of her latest show, Homeland. Four acoustic musicians, two backup singers, and Anderson’s keyboard with its loops and beats. No video, no lasers, nothing. And …

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Tonight: Karen Finley At Rapture

Tonight at Rapture Cafe & Book’s closing party: a rare opportunity to see legendary performance artist Karen Finley. 8PM, 200 Avenue A. Free admission! Karen Finley performs a work-in-progress: Impulse To Suck. Rapture celebrates its final “transition” tonight beginning with a performance of a work-in-progress by the highly acclaimed and controversial performance artist Karen Finley. One of the legendary NEA …

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Black Party 2008 Recap

Once again I failed to delay my arrival at the Black Party to an hour more amenable to sustaining my energy until the close of the event, an accomplishment I have only made four or five times in fifteen attendances, of which this year’s was my eleventh consecutive. Boo me. But as I had many out of town friends visiting, …

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LUSTRE at P.S. 122

Last night Little David and I attended Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest at P.S. 122, starring Tony nominee Justin Bond. I wasn’t sure what to expect, having seen Bond in many strangely diverse venues (on Broadway, at The Cock, etc). The show turned out to be an interesting melange of spoken word, performance art, dance, and cabaret as Bond and a …

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