Man as Object was a show of visual and video art by women and transgender artists using men and masculinity as their subjects, at SOMArts gallery in San Francisco, November 2011.

Title: World Premiere of short film “Egg” @ Berlin Porn Film Festival ‘Fetish Shorts’ Program
Location: Moviemento Kino, Kottbusser Damm 22 Berlin
Link out: Click here
Description: egg
by Sadie Lune and Kay Garnellen
A sexy, funny, romantic and dirty visual poem. An exhibitionistic exploration of a peculiar deepening fascination as well as an intimate collection of erotic moments between two lovers. Food, penetration, hungry cunts (trans and miscellaneous), expulsion, surprises, joy, orgasms and love.

Thursday 27, 11:45
Saturday 29, 14:15
Start Date: 2011-10-27
Start Time: 11:45
End Date: 2011-10-29

On sunday before the closing film, the winner of the audience award will be announced. to vote for the audience award people can drop coins in the box of their favourite piece of art, the one that has the most coins (the number counts not euros) is the winner and gets all the coins

Vernissage: Weds, 27th 7pm
Painting develops from weds 27th-sun 30th
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Title: Cherche la Schwanz performance with Kay Garnellen
Location: Barbie Deinhoff’s, Schlesische strasse 16, Berlin
Link out: Click here
Description: a gender roleplay burlesque based on our true life adventures!
Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2011-10-20

Gallery Hours are noon-5pm
Monday 4/25- Friday 4/29 and noon-4 Saturday 4/30
the Gallery is in the same building as Thrift Town and Discount Fabrics, buzz for the Blue Studio

The spring Artgasm show including the installation of Biological Clock along with other art around birth and rebirth will be opening on Friday the 22.

Between April 17th and April 30th Femina Potens will be presenting exhibits & groundbreaking performance art focused around Birth, Conception, the Womb, & Motherhood. Exhibits for our April ArtGasm include Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock, An ongoing piece about time and fertility, which will peak in a queer fertility insemination ritual performance at the gallery. Collaborators for this piece include Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Madison Young will be opening her exhibit of Becoming MILF, which addresses her journey through pregnancy and birth while continuing her work in the adult industry. Ms Young will be doing a live performance piece in the gallery in which she pumps breast milk and hands out breast milk ice cream to the gallery goers. Other exhibits include pieces from Amelia D’Entrone’s photography series After Birth, which explores the emotional and physical adjustments experienced during post-partum. ArtGasm will be taking place at the Michelle Oconnor Gallery located on Mission St at 17th St. Gallery Openings, gallery hours and performance times will be posted shortly.

The installation features work by artists:
Dr. Hal Robins, Annie Sprinkle, Dirt Star, Star St. Germain, Mike Ritch, Jed Bell, Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen, Annie Danger, Drew Dazzle, Apaulo Hart, Rachel Znerold

www.feminapotens.org

http://www.thebluestudio.org/TheMichelleOConnorGallery.htm

Or send $ via paypal to maestrasadie@gmail.com

This is my shameless plea for funding. It’s been brought to my attention that people love videos:

For over a year and a half I’ve worked on Biological Clock, the project that will hopefully turn out to be my piece of life-changing art with the most long-term and fulfilling effects; initiating the new life of my child and delving more deeply into teaching myself to love than I’ve ever known.

My work is mostly self-funded, and this project involves many artists I would love to pay and materials I would love to afford. Not to mention the desired outcome: my child-to-be, and what a statement that in America if you aren’t rich, mentions of love or learning aren’t amongst the first responses when you say you are planning to have a baby, but “babies are expensive” is repeated over and over.

Please help me live my dreams in life and art by donating a little summin’ summin’ to the Biological Clock project. This is a chance to give some $ towards risky earnest art made with intention an passion, to scream a big yes to practicing intimacy and connection as an antidote to virtuality, to offset the imbalances of wages for queers, sex workers, women and artists, and to support and promote efforts towards love, faith and hope in a time and place where cynicism and suffering are much easier to sell.

I am so grateful for the beautiful absurd life that I get to live with a lot of help from some very generous people, and I would love to get a chance to be grateful to you for your help realizing this dream. Thanks.

Take the Queer Fertility Survey!
Each survey takes 5-10 minutes, and is an interactive input part of the Biological Clock project, inspired by the kinds of questions I’ve been asked or asked myself since the beginning of the project around time and fertility, my desire to get some anecdotal data, and an atmospheric sense of some of the current general feelings around issues of time and queer fertility, especially from people who identify as queer.

I think taking surveys is fun, I’m interested in using surveying as an artistic media to gather impressions from the wider world and to also inspire further thought and conversation around topics I’m curious about. I also think that it is an inherently biased tool, and as an artist I’m interested in acknowledging and working with the bias, grasping a momentary impression or conceptual trend in a likely insular population, as opposed to fighting it in the interest of objectivity.

This is also a way of working through the barrage of questions and interrogations around my means, intentions, abilities, motivations etc. that I am frequently subjected to when I let people know that I (a queer, single, sex-working, low-income, weirdo, artist) want to have a baby.
I ‘d love to hear your responses! Much thanks to my wifey Irene who co-developed the survey with me.

Queer Fertility Survey #1: Click here to take survey

Queer Fertility Survey #2:Click here to take survey
 

So I’m posting it here in case people would like to read it:
Hello sweet peas,
Did you know sweet peas, as in the multi-colored flowering plant are actually poisonous? But that’s not how I feel about you, though I know we all have our shadow side. (Scroll down to the purple for important stuff…)

Happy March 4th! My 8 year anniversary of living in SF, I can’t believe it. I remember someone saying “oh you’ve only been here 4 years…?” but that was 4 years ago! And happy International Sex Workers Rights day, one day late…

Here’s another did you know: did you know you can use up all the space on your gmail account if you try
really hard? Or, conversely, by not trying at all but just being a picture-slinging, dubiously organized horader-type?
It’s true.
I’m finding out the hard way, every morning for several months. Feel free to mock, I’m pretty astounded myself.

So if you ever want to send me pictures or large attachments, email me first and I’ll give you another place to send them. Also, its possible with the occasionally saucy subject lines I employ in these announcements that googles vigilant spam-bot, just trying to protect you from drowning under blue mountains of via**a and ci*lis and amateur, bar*ly-leg*l p*********y, is inadvertently whisking me away to the purgatory of the inbox. Of course you won’t know to check spam if you aren’t seeing this, but if for some reason you notice I’m not blah blah blahing as much as usual and for some reason you wish that I was, check out spam.

Ok, instead of the normal chronological progression of events, I’m going to talk about my BIG PROJECT first, and then all the upcoming stuff after. (Also, did I happen to lend you some hats? Two of my favorite hats, one a black newsboy cap and one a red cloche with black velvet trip have eluded me since my return from Europe. If you have a clue, let me know, and thank you for letting that little twitching part of my brain in charge of corralling lost things get a moment’s peace.)

***BIG PROJECT: Biological Clock***
Please save the dates! Between April 29-May1 I will be creating a public performance ritual, exploring themes of time, the body as a public/private site for sexualization/creation and queer fertility.
This is the most exciting and potential consequential project of my live so far, and is both a very personal life project and a public art project. You can learn more about it here: http://sadielune.com/projects/biological-clock/

Be a part of interactive art! Take the Bio Clock Queer Fertility Survey #1!:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C56ZXN7
The queer fertility survey #2 will be coming out in about a week.

If you already know you couldn’t bear to miss it, you can RSVP now at: bioclockproject@gmail.com.
You will get a response to confirm that we got your email and then a more personal response within a few weeks.

The timing and dates are still tentative, but the most likely scenario as of now is that there will be three rituals on three sequential days, maybe 2 nighttimes and one daytime, each with an audience/participant load of no more than 50. This is subject to mid-grade drasticness in change, as the whole project depends on the exact timing of my ovulation as well as who and how many sperms end up involved. But teh 29-1 part seems clear, and hey, at least my ovaries have the good sense to wait for a weekend.

Photographers/Videographers: I may have a couple of spots left for documentarians. Would you love to come and respectfully shoot this ritual in beautiful stills or video? Do you have experience filming events where not everyone can be photographed? Please let me know!

And there are other ways to help/be involved…Do you have sperm, 50 matching tea cups, access to lots of (fowl) eggs, mexican candles in glass, money, time, a vehicle, carpentry skills, potted plants, willing co-parents, an excellent camera, emotional support, etc. that you want to contribute, loan, trade or sell to the project or me and my potential spawn? Email me at bioclockproject@gmail.com and let’s talk about it!
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*upcoming stuff
Bay Area:

*Sex Worker Shop Talk
www.sexworkshoptalk.com
March 8, 15, 22 -Sex Work Shop Talk –
Center for Sex & Culture – 1349 www.sexandculture.org
Mission, SF -7PM -$3-10 notaflof
March 8 – Funniest work experiences storytelling &chocolate cupcakes *plus
meet your local resources*
March 15 – Profiles of 5 inspiring sexworkers and chocolate truffles
March 22 – Makeup techniques for all genders clothing, hair and makeup
product and toy swap and chocolate treats
*Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
7:00pm – 10:00pm
San Francisco LGBT Community Center – Ceremonial Room
1800 Market Street between Octavia & Laguna
Tickets: $12-$20 (no one turned away!)
(Link to BrownPaperTickets site will be provided soon. I strongly recommend that you get tix in advance — we sold out very fast last year.)

Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other every day — from activism that includes everything from Take Back the Night to Camp Trans; to supporting each other in having “othered” bodies in a world that is obsessed with idealized body types; to loving, having sex, and building family with each other in a world that wants us to disappear.

Girl Talk is a spoken word show fostering and promoting dialogue about these relationships. Trans and cis women will read about their relationships of all kinds – sexual and romantic, chosen and blood family, friendships, support networks, activist alliances. Join us for a night of stories about sex, bodies, feminism, activism, challenging exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces, dating and breaking up, finding each other, and finding love and family.

FEATURING:
Mira Bellwether
Gina de Vries
Tara Hardy
Tobi Hill-Meyer
Marlene Hoeber
Sadie Lune
Elena Rose, aka little light
Ray Rubin
***Curated & hosted by Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, & Julia Serano.***

*Squart goes to the Marin Headlands for 24 hours of consecutive art-making!!!!!
March 26-27

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177682992276514

woah.

International:
*Open Your Golden Gates
Hamburg- bildwechsel at Glizzer Bar, feb. 23
Berlin- Silver Future, March 6
Montreal-http://www.givideo.org/ , March 16th

Have you ever been to San Francisco? Did you leave your heart there? Are you curious about the world’s gay paradise?

Coral Short is back to deliver you the Bay Area’s finest queer videomakers’ work. From Oakland back across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, the raw creativity of the world’s gay epicentre is on display. Shining forth from the projector this work will delight, move and astonish you. Ranging from tough to tender, from dreamlike to wild, new queer stars are born. So crawl out of that winter hibernation cave, bundle up, come out, and be entertained by these hot Californians.

Bay Area Video Artists:

Terry Berlier
Lukas Black
David Castro
Yvette Choy
Joey Cupcake
Jason Fritz
Samara Halperin
Loretta Hintz
Jody Jock
Gregory Kaplowitz
Justin Kelly
Mev Luna
Sadie Lune
Ilyse Magy
Julian Shendelman
Liz Singer
Chris Vargas

*Lesbian Shorts Screening from the Berlin Porn Film Fest ’10
Berlin- MovieMento Kino
March 16th
Yum will be screening in the oldest running cinema in Berlin

*Recent Past stuff

*I had some paitings in the XXXhibition @ Million Fishes Gallery, celebrating International Sex Workers’ Rights Day. The show will be up through this weekend. www.millionfishes.com

*I dirty dirty, hard, and wet things on and off my knees in Plumbing, a site-specific performance installation about water usage and queer space created by Qilo Matzen and Maren Abromowitz in the latrine at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts http://www.headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=928
Choreography by Qilo Matzen, in collaboration with a host of amazing performers: Annie Danger, Seeley Quest, Emmett Ramstad, Shawna Scroggins, and more! Sound score by Maren Abromowitz.

*No, You’re Weird contest.
Thanks to the art direction of one Jess Young, I was one of the ‘honorable mentions’ in the recent Fluevog “No You’re Weird Contest”. check it out: http://www.fluevog.com/files_2/contest_weird_winners.html

Amazing that in 2011, censorship in National museums is a current issue. After being displayed for a month in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibit: Hide/Seek, Difference and Desire about queer desire in art; David Wajnarowicz’s video piece, A Fire in My Belly was pulled after complaints from the religious right. You can read more about it here: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/…

You can see the documentation on the Performance page.
I went to the National Portrait Gallery and for half an hour held space for the missing video with a live intervention.