A Fire in Our Belly

A performance art intervention at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
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/…

I went to the National Portrait Gallery and for half an hour held space for the missing video with a live intervention. January 24, 2011
photos: Phil Darnowsky

Transitimate II

More dissolution of the barriers between public and private space, an intimacy intervention. Mutual Flossing with Lula Mae Day on San Francisco’s BART system. December 4, 2010.
photos: Roman Kofman.

32 actions: Crosstraining for Teaching Myself to Love

On my 32nd birthday I intervened at the Kotbusser Tor U-bahn station in Berlin, Germany with a ritual performance and lesson for myself in love. I began with 32 minutes of sitting, silently letting myself fill with love and beaming it towards everyone that passed, especially if they were receptive to it. Then I wrote 32 gratitude notes on pink post-its and posted them on the wall. I created a private space in public with my soft parasol column and invited passer-by in for a moment of silent connection, intimacy and affection; hand-feeding them a homemade treat at the end. I stayed inviting people non-verbally until 32 people came to share a moment with me, and in the end more than 32 participated. One man felt compelled to create a spin-off piece, he bought more post-its with money people had left around my ‘altar’ and encouraged passer-bys to write their own gratitude notes and post them on the informational case next to me. Friends and strangers left flowers, money, chocolates, an installation of leaves. The piece took about 4.5 hours, and I was silent the whole time.
November 11, 2010
photos: Q-rious

Biological Clock: Come to Mama

A fertility ritual performance with my two wifeys specifically for the sake of inviting and welcoming the spirit of my baby into my body and asking it to pull the sperm that will create it towards my life.
The Fab Lab, Berlin, September 19, 2010
photos: Metzgerei and Anton Blume

Fantasy Series: Queer Haircut

Another of the fantasy series of performances. I began with handing out scissors and battery-powered clippers to the audience, then dancing and headbang stripping to “Cut Your Hair” by Pavement, and then sitting and combing my hair. I told the audience that I’d never had a queer haircut and asked them to help me as my community to work together and make my image. I blindfolded myself and then commented via the mic as the unknown audience swarmed my head. I’m so impressed with what they did!
Kuma Gallerie Anniversary, Marx Cafe, Berlin, July 7, 2010
photos: Metzgerei

Transitimate 1

An interventionist performance collaboration by Sadie Lune, Mad Kate and Syd Blakovich. An exploration into anonymity and uses of bodies in public space, intimate acts on public transportation and experimental public ritual. A guerrilla performance in the 48 Stunden Neukolln Arts Festival.
U-Bahn, Line 7, Berlin, June 27, 2010
photos: Metzgerei

31 actions: Crosstraining for Teaching myself to love

On my 31st birthday I did a 5.5 hr long performance above the BART station at 16th and Mission in San Francisco. A few weeks in advance, I asked my community to send me, via email or text, actions that took less than 20 mins to complete based on the concept of "Teaching Myself to Love". I performed/interpreted 31 of the suggestions for actions I received in the order in which I received them, starting at 11:11 am on 11-11-09.
Photos by Mabel Jiminez and Jenny Kroftova

Dream Net

Dream Net with Suki Tawdry for Pow!Pow! Action Performance Art Festival, at the Climate Theater September 2009

Ecstatic Cerulean Bearded Seamales

A mermaid performance ritual collaboration with Lian Amaris. Our gift to Annie and Beth as they married the sea at the Society of Fear Pavillion at the Venice
Bienalle. Photos by Gigi Gatewood, Mark J. Snyder, and Graham Bell

Bait/Hitch

with Lula Mae Day for Art of Restraint at Femina Potens, May 2009.
Bait/Hitch was an interactive mutating ambient performance art piece performed by Sadie Lune with Lula Mae Day. The piece explored issues of consent, unspoken social boundaries, trust, marriage, sexual secrets and intimacy. “Bait/Hitch” was performed at Art of Restraint, an Erotic Rope Bondage Art Salon at Femina Potens Gallery in San Francisco.

Liberation

collaboration with Bast for Art of Restraint at Femina Potens, February 2009
photos: Gretchen Robinette, 2009

Cervical Show and Tell

The Cider House, Balitmore
January 2009
An homage to Annie Sprinkle’s "Public Cervix Announcement", I’ve been performing my "Cervical Show and Tell" internationally for 8 years. This performance marked the first to include souvenir photo ops with the audience, including Pee-wee Herman and newly inaugurated President Obama, of course.

White Whore’s Milk Bath

designed by Sadie Lune, part of the Final Performance of La Pocha Nostra’s International Performance Intensive Workshop, January 17, 2009, Tucson, AZ

La Pocha Nostra’s International Performance Intensive Workshop is a two week intensive for artist to learn the methodology of La Pocha Nostra and practice deep investigations into trust, imagery, and collaboration.

In January 2009, I attended the intensive held in Tucson, AZ, and these photos are from our final collaborative performance which was open to the public. Interactivity was encouraged.

The piece I designed was entitled “White Whore’s Milk Bath” and engaged spectators by offering them cups of milk laced with rosewater and cinnamon from the tub in which I was bathing which sat amidst an installation of items associated with domesticity and femininity: rose petals, wire hangers, silver ladles, tampons, mirrors, etc. Collaborators:, Megan Cox, Sarah Smith, and Lula Mae Day, acted on various points of a power structure- being ritually disrobed and bathed with flowers, serving the spectators milk from silver trays, dousing each other forcibly…In the end the “audience” was stuck with me, frantically scrubbing my increasingly disheveled body and then ladling milk into cups and holding them out to be taken, frozen with a extensive eye contact in a nonverbal plea. If someone took a cup I would appear grateful to be relieved of the burden but immediately hurry back into the ritual of scrubbing and ladling. If no one took the cup from me I remained frozen and eye-begging until they did.

I WANT YOU

September 11, 2008
SFMOMA
photos: Aimee Friberg
“Tony Labat’s I WANT YOU auditions resulted in 33 selected participants, who performed and competed in the Phyllis Wattis Theater on September 11, for a shot at having their image and their slogan chosen I WANT YOU posters Tony will plaster around town between now and the November 4 elections. The Audience Voted, scantron style! and five winners were chosen …. Veronica Klaus and her boom boom boys kept the magic going; poet, activist, and Youth Speaks program director Jason Mateo emceed.”

My piece promoted rights and compassion for sex workers as well as Prop K, a ballot initiative to decriminalize prostitution in San Francisco. blog.sfmoma.org/2008/10/i-want-you-sadie -lune/

Green Kink

@ Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkles’ Green Wedding
May 17, 2008
The Green Wedding was the fourth wedding for Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, part of a 7 year performance art project wherein they are wed at least once a year with a theme and color that corresponds to one of the majoy chakras. The Green Wedding was their ‘coming out’ as Ecosexuals- they married not only each other but the earth. I performed Green Kink, a comedic piece about the earth as Dominatrix with Lady Monster and Jess Young.
www.loveartlab.org

“Madame Moustache” in Sex on Wheels, Historic Sex Workers of San Francisco Bike Tour

July 27, 2007
SEX ON WHEELS: A cultural history bike tour of San Francisco’s sex industry
by Jennifer Worley, presented in conjunction with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and in the San Francisco Sex Worker Festival 2007

The bike ride won’t kick your ass, but the docents might! Sex on Wheels invites you to encounter a cast of radical activists, gender-bending hustlers, red-hot call-girls, and other colorful (or *corrupt*) real-life characters, on this special public bike tour of SF’s legendary Barbary Coast. Find out which SF streets are named for gold-rush era madams; which radical feminist (and would-be assassin) once hooked and hustled in the Tenderloin; and which world-famous prostitutes’ rights activist rode a bike to work — all the while, joining in the spectacle of public life, and staking a claim to public space.