Book Launch and Artist Talk | Spätschicht x Volksbühne
Vaginal Davis: On Dangerous Ground
The proto-Marxist, post-political pop-punque art band Ruth Fischer, Re-Education, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2008, photo: Jameel Khaja
In the second book of the series The Practice, which we are launching that night, Vaginal Davis offers insights into her collaborative practice of making music in art-punk bands in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Vaginal Davis certainly moves on dangerous ground with her transgressive shuffling of gender and genre boundaries. She co-founded several art-punk bands in her expansive 40-year-plus career, namely Afro Sisters, ¡Cholita!, Pedro, Muriel & Esther (PME), black fag and Tenderloin. As a writer and “Whoracle et Delphi”, Ms. Davis turns her quirky hairy eyeball to the collective practice of making music in the saucy underground scenes of Los Angeles and Berlin. The book launch will feature music and guest appearances by friends of Ms. Davis, raving about joint performances and rehearsals as well as divulging sacred secrets and rifts.
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