Vaginal Davis
On Dangerous Ground

paperback
12 cm x 16 cm
128 pages

English

with texts and works by: Vaginal Davis, Bibbe Hansen, Felix Knoke

edited by Jenny Schlenzka and Julia Grosse

design: Stoodio Santiago da Silva

released in connection with the exhibition Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt

This is the second title in the new book series The Practice – What Moves Artists by Gropius Bau, that invites artists to showcase a practice that they pursue, that has influenced them or that has been with them for a long time.

ISBN 978-3-948546-33-5

Eine deutsche Ausgabe ist hier erhältlich.

The artist Vaginal Davis certainly moves on dangerous ground with her transgressive shuffling of gender and genre boundaries. The self-described “sexual repulsive” 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. In their contributions, longtime comrades and collaborators Bibbe Hansen (artist and Warhol Silver Factory habitué) and Felix Knoke (guest performer for The Hidden Cameras and band member of Tenderloin) rave about joint performances and rehearsals, divulging sacred secrets and rifts. Bruce “Judy” LaBruce, Glen Meadmore and Lisa “Suckdog” Carver make surprise guest appearances, along with images from live performance spectacles The White to Be Angry, Trust Fund, Interracial Dating Game, We’re Taking Over, Afro De Sade and Camp/Anti-Camp: A Queer Guide to Everyday Life.