Porno Adorno - F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks
A Performative Workshop
with Vaginal Davis, Prinzessin Von Ho! henzollern

21st Oct, 20:00, Kant-Kino 5, Ticket 6 Euro, Language of Lecture: English

I think as I please and this gives me pleasure my conscience decrees this right I must treasure my thoughts will not cater To duke or dictator, No man can deny-Die Gedanken sind frei

General Course Description:

This coursework by the gifted, international teacher Vaginal Davis is designed specifically for cosmopolitan whites looking to explore and bring out their inner dinge. And for assimilationist blacks ready to re-connect with their Mandingo/Mandinga jungle realness.

*Dinge literally means dirty, dark soiled or black, but it is also an olde school derogatory gay term for black people. It refers to whites who are only sexually excited by blacks, and nothing else will provide them sexual solace.
Whites who only desire blacks are called Dinge Queens.

We will review relevant films like Mandingo(Richard Fleischer, 1975) experimental classics like Sweet Sweetback(Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)comedic Blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore and his Dolemite, 1975 and Peter Wheats traw, 1977 fare, to Fassbinders Whitey(1970) the Quebecois failure, Comment faire l'amour avec un négre sans se fatiguer [How To Make Love to a Negro and Not Get Tired] (Jacques W. Benoit, 1989)and the gonzo black porn of Hyphy studkin Brian Pumper, plus concentrate on the newest urban Hip-Hop subculture phenomena of Hyphy as it relates to black sensuality and a plethora of interactive activities and aktionist niggeradarie under the headings of Dialectica of Enlightenmentos, Hyphosophy of Moderna Muzica, Authoritarian Personalitikus, and Minimata.

Your Moralityus, Not Mine Sweetie.

Glossary of Terms:

Hyphy-youthful rebellion regional pride/politikal empowerment and hustler ambition, drug abuse and boogie down bliss in sexual stance. Hyphy unites all young people of various races and creeds as "one nation under a groove". Hyphy comes from hyperactive and fly another slang honorific that means coolest of the cool sideshows- an impromptu, illegal block party/car rally that is the cornerstones of hyphy culture hyphy drugs- ecstacy, industrial strenght marijuana and codeine laced cough syrup,swigging bottles of Cognac The Hyphy movement leaders: pimp MC Too Short of Oakland and, e40's hypnotic bass heavy sound "Tell Me When to Go" East Bay legend Tupac Shakur turf dancing-frenetic street.

Kabuki something like punk rock moshing with break dancing and martial arts moves mixed in.

Ghost riding the whip - the automotive equivalent of running with the bulls in Pamplona. dangerous maneuver in which a driver hops outside a car while it is inching forward in traffic to dance or walk alongside, feigning the appearance that the vehicle is driving itself.

Breezey - an attractive woman, flambostulatin-acting out in an ostentatious way gas, break, dip(alt.yoking) a lurching vehicular form of break dancing in which the driver alternately accelerates and slams on the brake, making the car dip and shake getting dumb(alt going dumb) losing oneself in the moment through ecstatic, highly athletic movement-usually dancing or driving, indusing sexual euphoria.

Getting stewie-synonym for "getting dumb" derived from Stewie Griffin, the infant protagonist on the animated American TV series "Family Guy" Getting Stewie is a peak of being.

Purp - a potent strain of marijuana know for its purplish color.

Riding the Yellow School Bus: Synonym for "getting dumb" derived from the bus service for children with special needs.

Scraper - a dilapidated car outfitted with a loud stereo system, flashy hubcaps and oversized tires that scrape against the wheel cowls

Stunna shades (alt. Crooners or tycooner shades) cartoonishly oversized glasses

Thizz - The club drug X

Thizz Face - an unattractive grimace caused by taking too much X

town - abbreviation for oakland derived from its mid 80s nickname Oaktown the city of dope

Yadadamean: do you know what I mean?

* Films and blue movies shown will depend on availability

We are all lost; only when we confess this do we find ourselves and really live - Ortega y Gasset

Registration please at org@pornfilmfestivalberlin.de

Vaginal Davis is an originator of the homo-core punk movement and a gender-queer art-music icon. Her concept bands - including Pedro Muriel and Esther, Cholita! The Female Menudo, black fag, and the Afro Sisters - have left an indelible mark on the development of underground music. Like Ron Athey, Ms Davis made her name in LA's club performance scene, and has earned herself a similar notoriety as a cultural antagonist and erotic provocateur. Set apart from gallery-centered art, and Hollywood movies, and from those systems' necessities of high-polish, low-substance production, Vaginal Davis's low-budget - often no-budget - performance, experimental film and video practice has critiqued exclusionary conceits from the outside. Davis has been a prolific producer of club performance, video and Xerox-produced Zines, and other forms of antagonistic low-cost, high-impact work. Such as in her drag reconstruction of Vanessa Beecroft's Navy SEALs performance, Ms Davis derails collector-friendly raciness in spectacles of femininity, queerness and blackness. She critiques both the gallery system and the larger cultural trend that it mirrors, with tongue-in-cheek self-exploitation and rude provocations of racial and gender confusion.
Vaginal Davis is the key proponent of the disruptive performance aesthetic known as terrorist drag. Disrupting the cultural assimilation of gay-oriented and corporate-friendly drag, she positions herself at an uncomfortable tangent to the conservative politics of gay culture, mining its contradictory impulses to interrupt the entrenchment of its assimilatory strategies. A self-labeled "sexual repulsive," Ms Davis consistently refuses to ease conservative tactics within gay and black politics, employing punk music, invented biography, insults, self-mockery, and repeated incitements to group sexual revolt - all to hilarious and devastating effect. Her body a car-crash of excessive significations, Vaginal Davis stages a clash of identifications within and against both heterosexual and queer cultures, and Black and Hispanic identities. From bubblegum songstress Graziela Grejalva to aging deviant John Dean Egg III, Davis's personas reject the internal counter-cultural mandate to refuse self-criticism, instead problematising the functions and assumptions of normative trends within the margins. By renewing uncertainties within alternative cultures and identities, Vaginal Davis opens up spaces for their continual struggle towards renewed and greater challenges, over and against these practices' timid appeasement and appropriation by the mainstream.
(Dominic Johnson, Frieze Magazine)

Vaginal Davis Filmography of Features and Shorts

The White To Be Angry
Vaginal Davis' movie "The White To Be Angry" screened at The Directors Guild Theater as part of Outfest 99 along with the premiere of Bruce La Bruce's latest transgressive epic Skin Flicks aka: Gang of Four Skins. "The White To Be Angry" had its premier at "SEXUAL REPULSIVES - A NIGHT OF STICKY ICKY FILMS" at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza.

Forget about American History X, The White To Be Angry is Davis' definitive declaration on race and class in the US of A. Helping Davis along are her mainstream admirers Woody Allen and Clive Barker. Plus Davis' crony Bruce La Bruce in a remake of his classic "No Skin Off My Ass" and Warhol's youngest superstar and pop darling Beck's mom - Bibbi Hansen - makes her comeback in The White To Be Angry. All this with a soundtrack by homosexy legends PME recorded in Chicago by legendary noisemeister Steve Albini(Nirvana, PJ Harvey)

www.vaginaldavis.com