exhibition

The 1st PornfilmfestivalBerlin and Gallery Tristesse deluxe present the exhibition "Achtung FSK 18" October 1st to October 31st.
Eleven Artists will exhibit their photographic work or installations.
The exhibition is accompanied by events presenting performances, music, literature and lectures.

Following artists participate:

Andreas Fux, Berlin; Bruce LaBruce, Toronto; Richard Kern, New York; Maria Cyber, Athen; Anja Weber, Berlin; Emilie Jouvet, Paris; Christina Wons, Berlin; Nan Goldin, New York; Charles Gatewood, San Francisco; Henning von Berg, Berlin/L.A.; Isabelle McEwen, Hamburg

The Galery is open Wednesday-Sunday 12am-8pm

Events taking place during the exhibition:

October 1st, 2006 Opening, 8 pm, No fee
Performance BriPi by Bridge Markland, Berlin
Performance Das Bild by Mileva, Zürich
Music will be catered by DJ Angie Reed and DJ Conny Opper.

October 4th, 2006, 9 pm, 4 Euro Fee
Otto von Schirach, Miami - Pukology Gangbang Orgy
Take Electro Bass Noise, Gore Grind, IDM Glitch, Calliope, Breakcore Gabber Jungle, Gangsta Rap, mix them all together with toilet brush, speaker fistings, fuck noises and what you get? Otto Von Schirach's Puke Orgy of course!
Otto Von Schirach (half Cuban / half German) was born in 1978 in the swamp infested refugee world of Little Havana Miami. As a child his grandmother practiced Santeria and White Magic, which opened his eyes to the strange and bizarre world. Costume changes, ear punishing dance gangbang. what else do you want? Otto is a Gang Banger. A true slave to the sound wave, he will always make love to speakers and you.

October 11th, 2006, 9pm, 4 Euro Fee (Discussion in German)
Buchstäblich Porno - Hat Pornoliteratur eine Chance gegen die Übermacht der Bilder?
Discussion with Jim Baker, Berlin; Peter Hofmann, Berlin; Peter Rehberg, Berlin

October 20th, 2006, 4pm, No fee, (Panel in English)
How Porn Did Me
Art and revolution in times of alt porn
Panel with Katrien Jacobs, Hong Kong, Matteo Pasquinelli, Barcelona, Marije Janssen, Amsterdam
In this panel we would like to discuss and criticize the development of alt porn online as a revolution for the consumer in his personal sexual experience and identity. Alt porn has become a broad genre where all kinds of sexual preferences and gender types can create and consume the porn they feel is satisfactory. This individual approach has created a completely new interpretation of what porn is and has profoundly effected the creation of commercial porn, like the gonzo genre or the movies by Eon McKai.
Because we all come from different backgrounds (as you can read in the bio's) we think it would be interesting to approach this subject each from our own perspectives and answer a series of questions and discuss this with the audience and ask them about their online alt porn experiences. With these answers we can create a "dirty notebook" that we can present as a result of the panel discussion.
Katrien Jacobs is a scholar, curator and artist and works as assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. She was born in Belgium and received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals in 1960s/1970s body art and performance media. She has lectured widely and co-organized several conferences and events, such as the Institute of Network Cultures' "Art and Politics of Netporn." http://networkcultures.org/netporn. She recently finished a book entitled Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art. (2005, Maska Publications) www.libidot.org. Her new book 'The Sexual Chemistry of Internet Pornography" analyzes the boom of indie porn sex on the Internet is forthcoming with Rowman and Littlefield, USA.
Matteo Pasquinelli has been based in Bologna, Italy, for a long time. After dealing with several media activism projects (from Luther Blissett to Telestreet), he is now a London-based free lance curator and critic, focusing on media philosophy. He is the author of *Media Activism* (Derive Approdi, Rome 2002) and editor of Rekombinant (www.rekombinant.org), an influential italian-speaking webzine and forum about media activism, culture jamming, and radical philosophy.
Marije Janssen earned her MA title in January 2006 with her thesis about cyberfeminist perspectives on the representation of the female sexual identity in on-line communities. She has worked as a research assistant with the Institute of Network Cultures for the 'Art & Politcs of Netporn' conference which was held in October 2005. Currently she is working as a producer/researcher on the follow-up of the conference, as well as a publication that will be presented at the next edition of 'Art & Politics of Netporn' in Amsterdam.

October 21st, 2006, 4pm, 4 Euro Fee, (Lecture in German)
Manuela Kay Lesben Pornos - schön gesehen, gut gekommen und leicht gemacht!??
Pornoexpertin Manuela Kay zeigt Ausschnitte aus lesbischen Porno-Videos aus dem Home-Entertainment-Bereich und plaudert darüber, wie man solche produziert und genüsslich anschaut. Anhand vieler Filmausschnitte aus europäischen und nordamerikanischen Pornos wird gezeigt, worauf es ankommt: Authentizität, Schauspielkunst, Humor und nicht zuletzt den Scharfmach-Faktor. Um als geneigtes Publikum dabei zu sein, braucht man keine persönlichen Erfahrungen in der Porno-Industrie zu haben. Es reicht, wenn man die Filme genießen kann, ohne dabei zu erröten. Alle Fragen dürfen gestellt werden!
Manuela Kay was born April 1964 in West-Berlin and is still living and working there.
Free lance journalist and author.
From 1996 until 2005 chief-editor of Berlins queer magazine SIEGESSÄULE.
Since 2003 chief-editor of the German-wide lesbian lifestyle magazine L-MAG.
Focus in her work: film, sexuality, lesbian lifestyle.

October 22nd, 2006, 4pm, 4 Euro Fee, (Lecture in German)
Laura Méritt - PorYes - feminist porn?
What is a female porn and what do women really want and is it feministic? One wing of womens lib has always been prosexual and joyactivist, but did not get the medial negative attention. In this lecture there will be an overview of the poryes-movement and its influences to the presence.Filmbites and discussion with sexpert Laura Méritt, Sexclusiviaeten in Berlin.

October 25 th, 2006, 9pm, 4 Euro Fee
Ela Troyano und Tessa Hughes-Freeland, New York - Performance: "Elegy & Perversion"
Tessa Hughes Freeland and Ela Troyano have worked as a band, presenting live film and video performances since the early 80's, from international musems to seedy bars such as Limbo Lounge, 8BC, The Pyramid, Collective for Living Cinema, The Whitney Museum of Art, etc. Their collaboration with composer John Zorn has been longstanding; he asked them to present a live film performance "Elegy, for Jean Genet" for his 40th birthday celebration, which was then booked on a Tzadik tour through Europe. They will be working for the first time with an excerpt from The Radiolarian Ooze by Manorexia, an entity of J.G. Thirwell whose others include many variations of Foetus throughout the 80's & 90's.

October 31st, 2006, 8pm, 4 Euro Fee
DJ KHAN ORAL, Berlin presents Sexy Bunnies
NYC-based experimental electro producer Can Oral is the man behind an array of pseudonyms. Recording most often as 4E and Khan, he is one of only a handful of European producers to move to the U.S. in order to jumpstart the dozing underground. Oral includes NY's Temple Records (the store he opened under Manhattan's Liquid Sky Clothing), as well as record labels Temple and Liquid Sky among his ongoing commitments. The brother of Air Liquide's Cem Oral, Can was an active contributor to early Structure labels such as Blue and DJ Ungle Fever, the center of the German acid/techno explosion during the '90s heyday of experimental acid and techno. Can began recording as 4E after moving to New York (the name was the address of his first flat, which doubled as his studio), and has since released a number of EPs and full-lengths as both 4E and Khan, most notably on Force Inc./Mille Plateaux and his own fast-expanding Liquid Sky, Home Entertainment, and Temple labels. Stylistically, Oral treads closest to experimental hip-hop and electro, fusing gritty 303 chirps and smooth electronic atmospheres with kicking, mid-tempo breaks constructed from familiar drum sounds and patterns. His 1996 debut for Liquid Sky sister label Home Entertainment, Blue Note, is ambient electro in the vein of B12, Jonah Sharp, and Autechre/Gescom, with none of the more caustic resonances that defined his earlier, more dancefloor-friendly work in evidence. Oral also operated and played at the weekly club, Killer, and worked on material with noted experimental/ambient composer Tetsu Inoue. Released in 1997, Silent Movie, Silver Screen was his first album for noted New York label Caipirinha. Two years later though, he signed a contract with the indie-rock imprint Matador and released 1-900-Get-Khan.Passport followed in early 2000, and No Comprendo was issued the next spring on Matador. (Sean Cooper, All Music Guide)

Tristesse Deluxe Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, Berlin- Friedrichshain
www.galerietristesse.org

Tristesse Deluxe is an interdisciplinary discourse platform, which was brought by the artist Nelja Stump into being. Tristesse Deluxe Berlin is occupied in particular with social and urbane structures. In 2002 the concept was developed and implemented 2003 as a project space.

The project Tristesse Deluxe offers a location to the nomadic Art community of Europe. So it develops an interactive dialogue between the local culture and the travelling artists.
In contrast to the " classical galleries" signified in presenting established artists, fixed art styles and a more long-term planning of exhibitions Tristesse Deluxe is an open platform. It consists of an atmospheric room and three fundamental aspects: to connect interactive sections, to offer a flexible temporary possibility for exhibitions and an artistically and cultural political exchange on local and national basis. So it gives travelling artists an spontaneous and temporary place to experiment and exhibit their works in order to test in short time new projects and structures in touch with the public." Tristesse Berlin " is like a crossroad where cultural, social and political ideas are coming together, exchanging, continuing to carry on and getting free on the next place - compare it to an intercultural relay race.

Tristesse Deluxe does not only stimulate an artistically and cultural political exchange on local and national level between public institutions of art and universities but it also offers participants an international discussing platform and a crossboarding network.

Tristesse Deluxe is supposed to be the meeting point for different interdisciplined directions. There meet fine art, film, theatre, literature, popculture and streetart. The network serves as distributor, which spins a web between different local and international positions. Our aim is the direct contact to the audience.

Concept: Crossboarding - Exhibition in Progress - Lobby

Tristesse Deluxe experiments with crossboarding art, young artists and their subculture. Together with our cooperationpartners we develop a curatoral programme that gives non established artist's space and enables them to release crossboarding projects.

Crossboarding is realised together with galleries, universities and other organisations (musiclabels, magazines, and film productions). It sets a location and a contentional focal point - the crossboarding. For that reason artists will be invited who think that art is a complex and interdisciplined matter. These actions will be written and/or photographically documented and archived.

Exhibition in progress gives not established artists a public room. The missing of fixed structures enables a spontaneous and flexible acting. Here they have the possibility to be in contact with the public to present their art. The gallery room can be used as stage for performances and other urban interventions.

Lobby is constructed as a location for communication, networking and for the local artists to start a discourse with each other. Lobby serves as an open meeting point, which is structured by regular open lectures, readings, film performances and discussions. This connection to the local discourse is the foundation for crossboarding projects. The main subject would be the relationship between public space, the interaction between Individual and Urbanity or the differences between local and global culture.

Initiators:

Nelja Stump - fine art artist and film-creative

Born 1965 in Aktjubinsk/Kasachstan, lives and operates since 1986 in Berlin, from 1989 - 1992 she studied with andrje woron stage and costume design. After some theatre projects she worked on production - design within the area of feature films and advertisement - Die Unberührbare, Der alte Affe Angst, she did international advertising productions with Laszlo Kadar, Ralf Schmerberg and Christoph Roth. 2000 she did her master degree at the academy of modern art (Universität der Künste, Berlin), graduated in photography by Katharina Sieverding. 1992-2000 after finishing her studies she organised different teaching lessons at the UdK, Berlin, Genderstudy projects with Sabeth Buchmann, Katja Dieffenbach und Jutta Köther, organised the arttalk at the UdK, created the artgroup "between" which occupied empty buildings to avoid the galleries and to connect fine art and music. The aim is the direct contact to the audience and art should be available for everyone. Since 2002 she realised as an author and director several music videos and short films opening of the gallery tristesse in 2003, after some successful exhibition years in Berlin/Kreuzberg now a new location takes place. Gallery Tristesse becomes Gallery Tristesse deluxe, together with Ringo Kaufhold and Karin Kruse. The new space offers a high-quality exhibition place to present a mixture of fine art and subculture. Experimentation will continue with transnational art, the space serving as meeting place for interdisciplinary exchanges of fine art, photography, literature, popculture, streetart, music, film and theatre.

Biographies of the artists:

Andreas Fux, Berlin
Andreas Fux, born in Berlin, made his first photos in 1983. He worked free-lanced for the DEFA documentary department and for the publishing house Berliner Verlag. Since 1990 he is a free lance photographer. In 1993 he opened his own studio and worked on subjects dealing with nude photography, body worshipping and sexuality. Several exhibitions and books have been published. In 2005 his book "Die süße Haut" by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin.

Bruce LaBruce, Toronto
Bruce LaBruce is a writer, film-maker, and photographer stuck in the gulag otherwise known as Toronto, Canada. He started out as a child, then quickly moved on to the production of homo punk fanzines (J.D.s [with G.B.Jones], Dumb Bitch Deserves To Die [with Candy Parker]) and super 8 movies (Boy/Girl, I Know What It's Like To Be Dead, Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies [with Candy Parker], Slam!). These products helped to launch the so-called Homocore or Queercore movement which corrupted a whole new generation of homosexuals. In 1991 LaBruce released his first feature length film. No Skin Off My Ass - an exploration of the sordid relationship between a faggoty hairdresser (played by LaBruce himself) and a mute, handsome young skinhead - went on to become a world-wide cult hit. His follow-up feature Super 8 1/2 (1994) is a harrowing cautionary bio-pic about LaBruce's rocky rise to cult stardom. LaBruce may or may not be playing himself in this disturbing film, an aging porn star/director whose career is on the skids owing to his inability to cope with his emerging identification as a cineaste. Super 8 1\2 went on to become a film festival circuit favourite, earning slots in such high-profile fests as Sundance, London, Berlin, Dublin, Thessaloniki, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco and Tokyo. LaBruce's Hustler White, made in collaboration with L.A.-based photog Rick Castro, was released in 1996. Co-starring supermodel Tony Ward and LaBruce himself, Hustler premiered at Sundance and similarly went on to become a film festival and cult favourite. LaBruce plays Jurgen Anger, a foreign faggot who visits Los Angeles to check out the Santa Monica Boulevard hustler scene, strictly for anthropological reasons. It's love at first sight when Jurgen spots Montgomery Ward (Tony Ward) plying his wares at Plummer Park. Hustler White went on to win the grand prize at the International Trash Film Festival. In late August 1998 LaBruce flew to London, England to shoot his first legitimate porn movie. Skin Flick, produced by Berlin's Cazzo Films, concerns a gang of adorable neo-nazi skinheads which breaks into the home of an annoying, mixed-race, salt-and-pepper, bourgeois gay couple and sexually terrorizes them. The film stars such exiting new stars as Tom International and high fashion model and actress Nikki Uberti, as well as a cast of rising porn stars. Thankfully, LaBruce only has a cameo in Skin Flick, playing a gay-bashing statistic. In 1998, LaBruce expanded into several new areas - as a photographer and columnist for such magazines as Honcho and Inches, and as a photographer, writer, and interviewer for New York's Index Magazine, to which he was recently named a contributing editor. For many years LaBruce wrote regular columns for Toronto's Eye Magazine and Exclaim, an alternative music monthly. As a writer and/or photographer, LaBruce has contributed to the National Post, the UK Guardian, Vice, Dutch, Butt, Strut, Dazed and Confused, Loyal, Doingbird, The Breeder, Bon, and K48. He has also produced two books, The Reluctant Pornographer, his premature memoirs, from Gutter Press, and Ride, Queer, Ride, a survey of his work from Plug-In Books.

Richard Kern, New York
Richard Kern (born: North Carolina, 1954) has lived and worked in New York City since 1979. In the eighties, he produced a series of short films that now are recognized as the central works of the movement now known as the Cinema of Transgression. In the 90's he switched to photography full time and occasionally directed music videos for bands like Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson. Kern has published nine books and is a regular contributor to a variety of international publications.

Henning von Berg, Berlin/L.A.
Henning von Berg's photographs became known worldwide in just three years. Several unique eye-catching images elevated HvB photography into a recognizable label with an international reputation. After 13 years of working as an engineer, in 1997 at age 35, he changed his career and made his former hobby of photography into his new profession. Von Berg gained attention by producing unusual group shoots. Outdoors sessions with natural sunlight are his specialty. He prefers to work with amateurs (male and female); his oldest model is a 108 y/o Lady. Meanwhile, the self-taught photographer can look back on two hundred and thirty publications on five continents. After presentations as well as many exhibitions in galleries and museums, his works are also sold at fine art photography auctions. After presentations as well as many exhibitionism galleries and museums, his works are also sold at fine art photography auctions. The Tom Of Finland Foundation has invited him to be a co-curator for exhibitions in selected European museums. In addition, Henning von Berg has been asked to be a judge for several national and international competition. Today HvB is dividing his time between Berlin, Amsterdam and Hollywood. (Text: Bob Dallmeyer and Ron Anderegg, Los Angeles)

Emilie Jouvet, Paris
After studying at the Artschool, Emilie Jouvet went to the French National School of Photography. Photographer and filmaker, committed artist, she is working in Paris as a freelance photographer for severals magazines such as La Dixième Muse, Tetu , Del'air, Enville, Muteen. Her personal and political work showing her friends and lovers in their intimacy, far away from the frozen clichés of the standart female homosexual representations. Her models, travel between genders, assuming troubled and confusing identities. One of her pictures, inspired a collection of lesbian shortstories entitled "Immersion totale". She wrote the preface. Her shifted and provocative videos are shown in international LGBTQ festivals (Paris,Brussels, Berlin, San Francisco, Mexico..) and were screened recently on the TV channels Arte, Canal + and Pink TV. She also Co-foundator of the artistic association for the promoting of artists "Très Très Méchantes Filles" (" very very bad girls ") and organizes parties, to develops a queer and feminist artistic space . Actually she present her first feature film DIY "One Night Stand" a romantic queer porn, made by and for lesbians and transboys.

Isabelle McEwen, Hamburg
Isabelle McEwen was born in Montréal, Canada. Since 1989 she lives as a director and visual artist in Hamburg. She staged contemporary music theatre, worked on space installations and realised several art and performance projects dealing with sexuality. One of her projects is the theatre performance HURE, which was premiered at the end of 2005.

Maria Cyber, Athen
Maria Cyber is one of the first lesbian activists of the Greek Gay & Lesbian scene. She is an active member of Greek Homosexual Community, Lesbian Group of Athens and many other LGBT groups in Greece since 1986. She has published many of her interviews and articles concerning the lesbian and gay culture. She has studied photography, graphic and web design and film studies. Her photo work has always been concerned with lesbian images and themes from different perspectives and she has presented her work through exhibitions and magazines. She has also writen and directed her own trilogy of Queer Comedy in Athens. (James Bond was a lesbian - St.Claus is Gay - St.Valentine is non monogamous). She is also the owner and creator of Proud LGBT Promotions (www.proud.gr) and one of the biggest Greek Lesbian Portal www.lesbian.gr, sending newsletters and informing weekly over 5000 members concerning the gay and lesbian international and topic news. For the last 4 years she was running and presenting the First and only weekly Greek Gay and Lesbian Radio Show in Athens. She organizes gay and lesbian parties and culture events since 1995 through "Cyberdykes" group, which she has created.

Anja Weber, Berlin
Anja Weber, 37, studied photography in Dortmund/Germany and Exeter/UK. In 1996, she received the renowned Fulbright Scholarship which allowed her to continue post-graduate education in the U.S. at the International Center of Photography and New York University. Independent from her work as an editorial photographer, she pursues her own personal projects. Through her photography Anja Weber contributes to temporary gender discussions. Aportraitist of her time she has photographed Drag Kings, queer bands and performance artists such as Bridge Markland and most recently, Larry Peacock.
In addition, Anja Weber is engaged in an ongoing project that reflects on the relationship of man to his/her environment. In 2004, she and her teampartner, architect Saskia Hebert, produced a body of work on the dismembered East German city, Halle-Neustadt. Their project Die Weite des Blickslead them to become finalists in the German Federal Cultural Foundation's competition, 'Shrinking Cities.' Anja Weber makes her home today in Berlin, Germany.

Christine Wons, Berlin
Christina Wons was born in Essen. She studied medicine with majors in psycho therapy. After finishing she worked with Dipl. Psych. László Németh. Since 1995 she organises female ejaculation workshops. Her experiences are useful for her work as an multi media artist. In 1996 she gave as a donation one of her "Ejacrylate" paintings to the German AIDS Foundation.

Nan Goldin, New York
Nan Goldin is an example of an artist who works at the most intimate level: her life is her work and her work, her life. It is nearly impossible to discuss Goldin's photographs without referring to their subjects by name, as though the people pictured were one's own family and friends. It is this intimate and raw style for which Goldin has become internationally renowned. Her "snapshot"-esque images of her friends -- drag queens, drug addicts, lovers and family -- are intense, searing portraits that, together, make a document of Goldin's life. Goldin herself has commented on her photographic style and philosophy, saying, "My work originally came from the snapshot aesthetic . . . Snapshots are taken out of love and to remember people, places, and shared times. They're about creating a history by recording a history."

Charles Gatewood, San Francisco
Charles Gatewood began photographing the American "underground" in the mid-1960's, after having received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Missouri. He was considered by many to be an obsessed eccentric whose concerns were extremely marginal. Today however, as public nudity, blatant exhibitionism, full body tattooing and piercing, extreme fetish practices and various forms of sadomasochistic excess have entered mainstream culture, Gatewood's photographs appear not only artistically and historically significant, but also uncannily prophetic. Wherever there's been a congregation of body modification enthusiasts or oddities of the underbelly of society, Gatewood was there photographing their practices, rituals and documenting aspects of culture that would otherwise never have been seen by a mainstream audience. This is evidenced throughout his large 10-book publishing history. They run the gamut from the New Orleans Mardi Gras, to the most controversial followers of blood-play in San Francisco, to women into naked body food fights.