26
Apr

Fancy Pants Slow Dance Inaugural Ball

Posted by Sadie at 07:23pm

Tonight! Monday April 26
Fancy Pants Slow Dance Inaugural Ball
a Teaching Myself to Love social art intervention
Lexington St, between 21st and 20th
8:30-9:30 pm, free!

In honor of the first spin of the season of the Lexington Street Disco Ball which shines and sparkles right into our hearts, Lula Mae Day and I invite you to take a spin on the flower laden dancefloor that is the block of Lexington Street between 21st and 20th streets. Dress up in prom/formal/fancy pants/superbeauty/glamatron style and come slow dance with us under the disco ball and the stars. This is the Coda to our performance/experiment: ProveYou’re Not a Robot, and all about the magic of the love and beauty always available close at hand. Bring other slow dancers and dress pretty. Pass it On!

Turns out we’re not the only lovers: http://www.sfbg.com/specials/2010/01/04/best-bay-2009-arts-and-nightlife

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23
Apr

Center for Sex and Culture Talk Show Tonight! Carol Queen interviews me

Posted by Sadie at 11:58am

First-ever CSC TALK SHOW! with Carol Queen and Sadie Lune
Friday, 4/23, 8pm door
At CSC, 1519 Mission
$7-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds
www.sexandculture.org

Carol interviews the inimitable pleasure activist and performance artist Sadie Lune before your very eyes! This personal, political, fun and irreverent live conversation will range over art, sex, artful sex and sexy art, sexwork and sexworker culture, what she’s doing on her summer vacation (hint: it’s happening in Berlin, whatever it is), and more! DON’T MISS IT! (PS — do you have an awesome idea for a name for our monthly talk show? Let’s hear it!! WIN FREE ADMISSION TO ALL THE TALK SHOWS THIS YEAR!)

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23
Apr

Prove You’re Not a Robot Photo Slideshow in SF Weekly

Posted by Sadie at 11:14am

PYNAR Slideshow
Featuring: Sadie Lune, Lula Mae Day, Tove Pils and Hannah Cairns
Thank you Hanna Quevedo!

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17
Apr

Siren Stroll @ Pedestrian Service Exquisite, Transmodern Festival in Baltimore

Posted by Sadie at 07:21pm

http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2010/?cat=16

Sunday, April 18 2010
Fell’s Point: Thames and Broadway
SirenStroll- In Memory of Heels Clacking Cobblestone
costume designed by Rachel Znerold

SirenStroll will conjure the ghost’s of the sex workers of Baltimore’s distant and recent past in an interactive ritual streetwalk. The procession-of-one will explore the mythologies vs. realities of prostitution, while honoring the history of Baltimore’s sex workers and bringing visibility to continuing violence against sex workers. While tourists pay to hear about the ghosts of prostitutes that haunt Fell’s Point from days of yore, women and other workers are still dying trying to make a living in Baltimore; in 2008, five women who worked as prostitutes were brutally killed.

As sex workers are often depicted as sirens, calling men to their doom, as well as people who live between worlds of legality, class, and desire/repulsion, I will personify a ghostlike mermaid appointed with items symbolic of the power, skills, and vulnerability of sex workers. Using repetitive actions and verbalizations, I will actively solicit donations for my roving altar to the dead sex workers of Baltimore, especially those fallen in the line of duty. I will transverse the entire region of Thames street, back and forth along Fell’s Point, building an altar on wheels as I go, adorned with objects obtained from the exchange with tourists, locals and other artists.

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12
Apr

PYNAR and Teaching Myself to Love

Posted by Sadie at 11:13pm

Part of Teaching Myself to Love is investigating the love made out of cherishing what surrounds me everyday. Sewing buttons onto old great coats, noticing the green on green painted house that looks like Kermit down the block, and meeting neighbors to ask if we can borrow their beloved disco ball, all meet at the intersection of availabilsm and loving to me. I’m compelled by hard use, maintenance, transformation and revisioning of the ideas and artifacts and bodies that collect around a lifetime from the lovely business of living. I think about the ethics of art and art making, and it feels most right and most accessible to work with sharing pre-existing forces. In America artists are expected to live on air, to work with dirt, to thrive and succeed through mythical logic. I dedicate this show to honoring my personal motley reality. There is a special joy in incorporating into art objects borrowed from places and people I love, the songs that remind me of my childhood and lovers and mother, the things that have lived with me through many seasons. This art is made out of the real relationships, inanimate and human, from my real life. It feels like the best manifestation of family to invite houseguests into collaboration and collaborators into co-habitation, to map the neighborhood and the city and the years through moments of joy connected to things and people I see regularly, to find a best use for something I don’t know why I haven’t been able to let go. I like and respect fantasy, but this tack of loving and acting is like fantasy inverted, instead of reaching out beyond to see the unseeable, it is delving into the well-known to really see and really know and really find the love that’s been nestled there all along.

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12
Apr

Living the Dream/Leaps of Faith

Posted by Sadie at 11:07pm

In one month I’ll be flapping hard over the Atlantic, en route to another big step of Living the Dream. Ever since I was wee did I want to spend some time living outside of the U.S. So my first foray into International habitation will be this 6.5 month jaunt in Berlin. People keep asking what I’m going to do there, so here is the short list: live my dreams, art projects, chill out, continue my Teaching Myself to Love project, collaborate, travel, learn, enjoy. I have a semi-secret big performance piece in mind, more info will be slowly leaked upon further cromulation and some percentage of realification. I’ll be living in Neukoln. I’ll be thinking of you.

March has been such a revelation in a certain kind of energetic 0 to a certain kind of energetic 3000. In preparation for my trip, I’m sure, somehow a flock of beautiful queer Europeans have landed all around my life. I was listed in a Swedish newspaper as one of the recently naked performances to hit the stage in Malmo. I wrote a piece for a Dutch feminist magazine, Lover, about sex worker performance artists. The day-to-day decisions of my life: how I spend my time, what I eat, where I sleep, etc. suddenly turned into community processes as I welcomed my collaborator, Lula Mae Day into my home and life, along with a succession of ebullient houseguests and an overflowing nest of other allegiances.

I’m working with this new set of intentions and impetuses, and I’m loving them. Its this program I call “Living the Dream/Leaps of Faith”. It’s all about discarding practical logic in favor of bold steps towards living my dream, but implementing practicality and logic around the little stuff to keep me grounded and semi-cromulent. There is a lot of what feels like putting the cart before the horse involved in this program, and it gets quite scary at times. I feel like a fast fast car loaded up for a cross-country move, with every precious belonging strapped to the roof. And things keep flying off to be lost on the side of the highway, but I just keep rolling on towards the beautiful goal, and it is actually all ok. Better than ok, its really happening.

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04
Apr

Prove You’re Not a Robot: interactive experiments in Fear-Art-Love

Posted by Sadie at 03:12am


Prove You’re Not a Robot: interactive experiments in Fear-Art-Love
(Thurs and Fri, April 8&9)
by Sadie Lune
and Lula Mae Day
8pm & 9:15 pm, limit of 23 people for each showing
The Garage, 975 Howard St.@ 6th (red door)
www.975howard.com
$10-$20 sliding scale
Tickets Available @ www.brownpapertickets.com

An ‘availabilist’ performance art installation investigating intimacy, shame and the blessed beast of huge love.
A sequence of interactive games, symbiotic rituals and swell treats traveling through the theater space.
This show is the completion of an AIRspace Residency
part of the ongoing project Teaching Myself to Love
(unfortunately not wheelchair accessible)

Prove You’re Not a Robot is a lo-tech performance art installation collaborative conspiracy between Sadie Lune and Lula Mae Day. An investigation into mutual and consensual revelation; we’ll share an evolving succession of explicit playground games, expository interviews, improvisational trances and of course, treats.
Using the ‘availabilist’ aesthetic of found objects from everyday life, the whole rigmarole will snake through the physical space of the Garage theater as it progressively delves deeper into the artists’ manifestations of curiosity, vulnerability, neurosis, transcendence, and ultimately the blessed beast of huge love.

Take a trip with us through five layers of mutating dynamics between artist and audience, from spectacle to choose your own adventure. Wander through the dissonance of exterior perceptions and interior landscapes. Hold our hands while we pull the covers off of shame, sexuality, and faith. Roll up your sleeves while we grapple with depression, hypocrisy, and intimacy. Prepare for a catch and release while we try to get a handle on time, boundaries, and compassion.


For weeks before the public performance the artists will engage in multifaceted symbiotic ritual focusing on practices of commitment including cohabitation, sober altered states, physical attachment and co-dependent sensory deprivation, you know, the works.

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26
Mar

Heads or Tails- public performance ritual on Saturday March 27

Posted by Sadie at 02:17pm

http://www.standagainstsitlie.org/
2:30-4pm, corner of Mission St @ 19th, San Francisco
3-27-10, free

Sadie Lune and Lula Mae Day will present Heads or Tails, a performance ritual as a response to the classism and community negligence of the proposed Sit/Lie law, as well as issues of intimacy in public space.
We’ll use one penny for every 10 homeless people in San Francisco to create a silhouette of the space a lying body inhabits.

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25
Mar

Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts in the Queer X Show : Screening @ Femina Potens

Posted by Sadie at 12:44pm

Friday March 26
8:00pm
$10
Femina Potens Gallery- 2199 Market St. @ Sanchez

From Femina Potens:
Join us this March as we welcome the Queer X Show to Femina Potens. On Saturday, March 26 at 8pm we will do a sneak preview screening of the Queer X Show: Too Much Pussy, Feminist Sluts. Get a peak behind the scenes in this sex-positive road-movie by Emilie Jouvet. It is an explicit documentary about the wild adventures of 7 women on a performance art tour, who traveled in a van around Europe during the summer of 2009, treaded the stages of nightclubs and theaters in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm… The film documents the tour, the life-changing experiences that the 7 girls go through, the intersections in their shows and in their lives between pornography and art, performance and reality, personal and political. Emilie Jouvet, Wendy Delorme, Judy Minx, Madison Young, Sadie Lune, Mad Kate and DJ Metzgerei bring you this sex-positive feminist manifesto.

Come talk with Madison Young and Sadie Lune about their great European adventure at the Artists Panel as the discuss the film after the screening.

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15
Mar

Northwest Film Forum and the Bird Cage Collective in Seatte present: LET’S DO IT! A Night of Sex Worker Made Media

Posted by Sadie at 12:07am

From Ccrimson Cclover:

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)

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