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Archive: Activism
1 + 1 = 1: A Tribute To Bryer P-Orridge
Friday, March 5, 2010
Genesis Bryer P-Orridge and her wife Lady Jaye were one of the few pandrogynist couples in the world, actually they are sort of the inventor of what is called Pandrogeny. As a (male) singer and musician of the British band Throbbing Gristle as well as the founder of Psychic TV Genesis has always been interested in the transformations of the body and the possibilities these transformations can open up in terms of rethinking gender identity and finding new concepts of what love means. Genesis and Lady Jaye perceived their love as so strong that the both of them were just parts of one shared entity, a “pandrogynist” person called “Bryer P-Orridge”. This is why through several surgeries they started to change their bodies in a way that they would more and more resemble each other. Sadly Lady Jay Bryer P-Orridge died of a heart failure in 2007, but recently several film projects have been released that in different ways deal with the couple’s relationship – one of them is Jake’s Yuzna’s awesome film “Open” that won a special Teddy award at this year’s Berlinale (click here for the Berlinale info sheet), another second one is a documentary called “The Ballade Of Lady Jay” by filmmaker Marie Losier (trailer below) who also shot the brilliant great video to “Have Mercy” by Psychic TV. More about Genesis P-Orridge and the concept of Pandrogeny on her website. Jake Yuzna will soon be part II of the CATCH FIRE interviews series – as soon as I have completely transcripted the interview. I also posted a clip of another documentary about the couple produced by Metropolis Web TV.
Thierry Schaffauser: Time For Porn Stars To Self-Organise
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
“I wish us porn actors were able to organise ourselves collectively and produce our own films. We could not only film each other, but have control over our own images and improve the quality of our work, because we could spend more and better time doing it. We would be more interested in creating a beautiful and arousing film, rather than just earning money. The workers could share the revenues between ourselves and perhaps porn could be recognised at last as what it should be – an art.” Thierry Schaffauser, president of the GMB/IUSW on working conditions and unsafe sexual practice in gay porn. His complete comment on guardian.co.uk. Thanks, Tim.
Out Now: Post / Porn / Politics
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
P/P/P is based on a symposium that took place at Volksbühne Berlin in October 2008, which brought together different queer/feminist movie makers, percformance artists, activists and film scientists which presented their work on the subject of porn. The main approach of the whole event was on the one hand to take porn seriously not only as a genre, but also as a media that most of the time contains and transports ideas of what “right sex” in Western societies is supposed to be. On the other hand it tried to show new ways and strategies to produce “better” porn beyond the mainstream as well as to critically analyze the present and the history of the genre. The reader (which is edited by Tim Stüttgen aka Timi Mei Monigatti who also organized the symposium) combines contributions of a whole bunch of people that are into these kinds of questions such as Beatrice Preciado, Annie Sprinkle, Bruce La Bruce, Terre Thaemlitz and Cosey Fanni Tutti. You find more information about it on the website of b_books where you can also order it. For more information about the contributors check out the website of the symposium.
A Tribute To Homohop: Pick Up The Mic
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Pick Up The Mic is a documentary about the queer hip hop scene and its roots. It premiered at The Toronto Film Festival in 2005 and is available on DVD since last year. The movie brings together nearly all important protagonists of the so called homohop-movement such as Deadlee, Johnny Dangerous, Katastrophe, Soce or Scream Club and can be ordered. on the movie’s webpage. On the blog of the Amoe music stores (where the DVD release was officially celebrated last year) you also find a nice interview with Juba Kalamka, who talks about the film and the way queer hip hop has delevolped until today. Kalamka is a founding member of the legendary gay hip hop act Deep Dickollective and has released a solo album called “oogabooga under fascism” in 2007.
Iran: Some Good And A Lot Of Bad News
Sunday, January 3, 2010
In a very detailed report published by the Gay City News on December 19th an American Journalist called Doug Ireland draws attention to the situation of ten young Iranian men, eight of them teenagers, that are currently awaiting execution for sodomy, and two others that are being re-tried on the same capital charge. A lot of Ireland’s information has been delivered by an organisation called CHRR (Comitee Of Human Rights Reporters), which has become one of the most important sources of information about human rights violations in Iran. It’s also the first Iranian human rights organization that has established it’s own Queer Committee to officially recognize the fight of sexual minorities for equal rights as part of a fight for human rights. In the article the existence of this commitee is confirmend by one of its members, a 21-year-old student who was courageous enough to give Ireland an interview under his real name although many members of the CHRR have recently been arrested. Read more here. Via rhizom, thanks Christian for posting this.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
This video shows pictures of Iranien men wearing female clothes. They are a reaction to pictures made public by the Iranian TV which show a student who was arrested during the ongoing protests. On the pictures the guy is wearing headscarves and the whole thing looks like they made him wear them to make him look ridiculous.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
“Cruising” by William Friedkin from 1980 surely is one of the controversial movies about gay culture and subculture ever and I agree with the gay activists of that time like William A. Percy that the way the movie shows homosexuality as a “destructive force” makes it pretty problematic. On the other hand the movie has got it’s really strong moments when the camera follows a disturbed and at the same time facinated Al Pachino (who plays a cop in search of a serial killer) into the clubs and darkrooms of the New York leather and SM scene – places Friedkin himself visited for three months to get an impression of what’s going on there and asked the people there to take part in the movie. As scholars like D.A. Miller point out in these moments the movie works like a field study and especially gay sex in a way it has never been shown in a Hollywood movie before and after it. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. Here’s the trailer:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This is an event I’m organizing with some friends at the moment. It’s going to take place at different cosy venues in Berlin. More about it soon. Or join the newsletter: queervillanz@yahoo.de!
