Title: Jealousy Catch and Release Performance @ Barbie Deinhoff’s
Location: Barbie Deinhoff’s, Schlesische strasse 16, Berlin
Link out: Click here
Description: Dj Cindy Wonderful
and my interactive community jealousy catch and release performance
Start Time: 22:30
Date: 2011-09-15
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/
On May 11, 2011 (11 days after the ritual) I had an interview with writer Anna Pulley. She attended and then wrote this article about the Biological Clock performance ritual for therumpus.com:
I’ve posted the interview in full on the Biological Clock project page.
After some time the WhoreLover anthology project has been revived, with the help of new co-editor Pau Crego!
Please distribute far and wide especially places that might reach whorelovers and writers.! Send to all your friends, lovers and exes!
*Call for Submissions for
WhoreLover: Lovers and Partners of Sex Workers Speak
Call for Submissions: WhoreLover
Deadline: July 15th, 2011
Compiled/Edited by Sadie Lune and Pau Crego
An anthology of non-fiction essays written by the non-paying partners of sex workers about their experiences and feelings regarding their unique position in the marketplace of love.
From casual dates, to great long term relationships, to going down in flames, WhoreLover will explore the personal narratives of people attracted to, intimate and in love with those who work in the sex industry. Present and former lovers and partners of sex workers are encouraged to submit. WhoreLover is looking to represent the stories of a multiplicity of people: people of color, trans, queer, gay/lesbian, straight, different dis/abilities, of all nationalities, immigration statuses and ages. Partners of workers in all areas of the sex industry will be featured.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
*Day to day negotiations
*The many joys and perks of loving a sex worker
*My partner and I turned each other out
*I was a trick and then became a lover
*Loving a Sex Work Celebrity
*My partner’s job turns me on
*My partner’s work inspired me to be client of sex workers
*I’m a sex worker and I only date other sex workers
*How I deal with family and friends around my partner’s work
*How I’ve dealt (or not) with my own ego around my partner’s sex work
*My partner switched jobs within the industry and how that worked for us
*My partner’s sex work is a secret from everyone (including me?)
*I broke up with my partner because of sex work
We are looking for submissions from people who have dated/loved/slept with/married all variety of sex workers, including: porn actors, strippers, FBSM/sensual massage providers, street-based workers, tantra providers, erotic body workers, sexual surrogates, escorts, fetish workers, phone-sex workers, pro-Dominants and pro-submissives.
A limited number of interviews are possible to those who are interested in having their voices heard but feel more comfortable talking than writing. No poetry, please.
Submissions should be in English or Spanish, the book will be English language. We would love submissions from folks around the world for whom English is not a first language but can only translate from Spanish; however we encourage people with multi-lingual skills to collaborate in translation and send us submissions with the translator credited.
Pseudonyms or anonymous submissions are fine and will be honored.
Pieces should be between 1000-5000 words, please specify word count in the body of your email.
Please submit via email attachment (pdf or doc file) to: partnersanthology@gmail.com
and check WhoreLover out on Facebook: www.facebook.com/partnersanthology
Title: Sex on Wheels Film Screening
Location: The Roxie Cinema, 16th St. @ Valencia
Link out: Click here
Description: by Jennifer Worley
San Francisco is known for having a fierce sex worker movement, but not many people realize how integral the business of sex was and is to the history and shaping of the City. From a business-savvy expat French jade, to strippers who hold the picket line like Teamsters, meet revolutionary San Francisco whores past and present in this film of a great street theater (and cardio) event! Some featured personages: famous madame Ah Toy and her parlor of sing-song girls; former slave turned sex entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, the proceeds of whose house of ill-repute went to the Underground Railroad; Sally Stanford, whore, madame, and mayor of Sausalito; JP Marat, charismatic hustler and gay/trans youth activist; and the inimitable Valerie Solanis teaching on her “SCUM Manifesto.” (38:25 min-San Francisco, 2011)
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2011-05-27
I feel this love from afar, a gift that called my tears down.
Thank you for your piece of the ritual.
Michelle O’connor Gallery
2111 Mission St and 3265 17th st, 4th floor
San Francisco
Friday, April 22 2011
7-10pm
Free
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
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.
Title: Girl Talk: a cis and trans woman dialogue
Link out: Click here
Description:
Girl Talk: A Cis and Trans Woman Dialogue
Queer cisgender (i.e., nontransgender) women and queer transgender
women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to
each other. We are interested in putting on a show about relationships
of all kinds – sexual and/or romantic, chosen and blood family,
friendships, support networks, activist alliances — between
transgender queer women and cisgender queer women. These relationships
and activist alliances are close to both of our hearts, and integral
to our feminist and queer politics. We are both deeply invested in
fostering artistic and activist alliances between cis and trans women.
(We’ve also both been impressed with the work about the intersections
between cis queer men’s and trans men’s communities that we’ve seen
Kirk Read curate, for example — “Ding Dong,” “The New Brotherhood.”
The queer women’s equivalent is long overdue!)
Date: 2011-03-24
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
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Two days after I had tentacle dreams.
The good kind.
— Selena Raven , San Francisco
You love like its a verb.
— Annie Danger, Dangercorp, ltd.
