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.

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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Biological Clock
by Sadie Lune
A multimedia exploration of relationships with time, queer fertility, and community conception

August 5-31
@ The Fab Lab, Muskauer Strasse 49
U 12, Gorlitzer Bhf

Vernissage:
Friday, August 5, 2011
19:00-22:00

Saturday, August 6, 2011
19:00-20:30
Why would I try to make a baby in front of 70 people and call it art?
Come with your questions for a brief presentation on this 2 year project and the final public conception ritual which happened in April in San Francisco

www.sadielune.com/projects/biological-clock
www.thefablab.blogspot.com/

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

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

a photo exhibition by Goodyn Green
with
a performance by Sadie Lune
tartes by Ohlala!
dj-set by Kaltès

free entry
20.oo – 00.oo

more info: www.bendovermagazine.com
Start Date: 2010-11-07
Start Time: 20:00
End Date: 2010-11-08
End Time: 00:00

Melissa Steckbauer – I, the hunter

Opening 29. Mai 2010 at 6 p.m.

After Show Party: DJ Stefan Havoc – 80s electro pop

Gallery Ulf Saupe presents the first solo exhibition in Berlin of the young American artist Melissa Steckbauer. The exhibition “I, the Hunter” showcases a new series of paintings on small paper formats and large canvases. Her paintings touch on intimate, sexually charged moments and fantasies. The opening takes place on the 29th of May 2010 at 6 p.m. in Ulf Saupe Gallery on Torstrasse 75.

Fable characters, people of daily life and exaggerated caricatures find their way into her works. The artist dramatizes and disarms the situations at the same moment. Through the infantilization of the main characters and through the tenderness in her paintings Steckbauer engages the human need for closeness.

Galerie Ulf Saupe
Torstrasse 75
D- 10119 Berlin
Tel : +49 (0)30 443 19 331
Tuesday – Friday : 12 pm – 7 pm / Saturday : 1 pm – 5 pm
Web: galeriesaupe.com
Mail: info@galeriesaupe.com

www.melissatheredpainter.com

I will be available to travel around Europe for bookings at art events and festivals, Pride, queer, and sex events.

I would love to exhibit/perform at art spaces/galleries/museums, speak on panels relating to art, sex, sex work, and porn, and present at universities or colloquia.

I am currently working on a cutting edge new performance series: Biological Clock, a part of Teaching Myself to Love that deals with issues of queer perspectives on time and fertility and the intersection of sexuality and parenthood. If you are interested in collaboration, let me know- particularly if you are an artist/sex worker/queer with sperm.

Contact me at sadielune (@) gmail.com if you would like to book me for your event!

Stay tuned for new visual art, writing, and performance archives related to Teaching Myself to Love.

The event, to be held at the Film Forum on Saturday, March 20, will include a program of short films, a panel discussion and reception with special guests.

Seattle, WA—Northwest Film Forum and the Bird Cage Collective are pleased to present LET’S DO IT! – A Night of Sex Worker Made Media on Saturday, March 20 at 8pm. LET’S DO IT! will include a program of experimental and documentary short films dedicated to human rights and advocacy for sex workers across the globe. The evening will examine the unique challenges and joys of being a sex worker. Following the screening will be a panel discussion and reception at Northwest Film Forum.

From the Sangli district in the rural south of India to the life of a New York City callboy, sex workers have reached out through the medium of film to share their myriad of experiences. To combat the misrepresentations in the mainstream media of those who trade erotic labor, sex workers and sex worker activists aim to reduce stigmatization by becoming their own authors, reporters and organizers. LET’S DO IT! includes films from Seattle filmmakers Kinsey Bell (Manicured) and Basil Shadid and billie rain (Humor Me), as well the performance film I Want You, with multimedia artist Sadie Lune, experimental work by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Gina Carducci (All That Sheltering Emptiness) and the documentary shorts In Our Own Image and Taking the Pledge, among others. The evening’s program will highlight some of the artistic and political achievements of sex workers, and explore the complicated challenges unique to those in the sex industry.

Following the screening will be a panel discussion with local starlight Miss Indigo Blue (Academy of Burlesque), local writer and sex worker Sophia J. Russel and billie rain (dual power infamy), out of town guest Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author of So Many Ways To Sleep Badly) and other special guests. The public is encouraged to join this discussion that will examine individual experiences with advocacy, work and empowerment

The evening’s event is a benefit to raise funds for a local resource guide by and for sex workers. The night’s frivolities will include food, beverages, music and a raffle.

LET’S DO IT! is sponsored by the Central Coop.

LET’S DO IT! – a night of sex worker made media at Northwest Film Forum

Saturday, March 20th

8:00 pm

Northwest Film Forum

1515 12th Ave. E. Seattle

Tickets cost $6 for Film Forum members, $6.50 for seniors and $9 for general admission. Tickets are available at www.nwfilmforum.org or by calling 1 800 838 3006.

Interview and image requests should be directed individually to panelist or to the bird cage collective at (birdcagecollective@gmail.com)

A plethora of videos from artists across California, FREE after the LA Art Walk. Curated by Marci Pinna.
Party with VJs and DJs, live musical scoring, Breakcore, IDM, Ambient/Noise until 2 am.
Featuring my short film, Yum.
I’d love to see you there!