community + cultural info

New Millennium 
Post-Gay Photography (with Fangs)
May 30th - June 13th @ Garfield Artworks | 7pm-10pm
4931 Penn Avenue [Garfield | Friendship]
more info: www.garfieldartworks.com  |  www.elementfive.info


guest curator: Edgar Um Bucholtz

artists: Bruce LaBruce (Toronto), Slava Mogutin (Russia/New York),
asianpunkboy (New York), Conrad Ventur (New York), Richard Orjis (New
Zealand/New York), Timothy Dowling (New York), Terry Lewis (New York),
Terry Young (Pittsburgh) and j. fox (New York)

Friday May 30th 6pm-9pm: (subdued) Opening Reception. Free. [In conjunction with the opening and immediately following, there will be a punk rock music show a few doors down at Modernformations Gallery featuring punk-disco rage ensemble The Ssion (from Kentucky) and locals Ludus Lovestyle and Cachexia. show starts at 8pm. tickets: $5. www.ssion.com http://cachexia.unpunk.com ]

Saturday June 7th 7pm-10pm: ARTISTS RECEPTION/PERFORMANCE EVENT. Many of the artists will be present. A few of the artists will be doing performances--some related to their photographic works. Artist Timothy Dowling with be instigating a "Mean As Hell Arm Wrestling Throwdown." Artist Conrad Ventur (MOGUL ELECTRO RECORDS NYC/BERLINIAMSBURG co-founder and resident DJ) and Akil Harris (of Pittsburgh) will be DJing. This event is free.

[In conjunction with this show, Bruce LaBruce and Slava Mogtuin will be speaking and performing at the warhol museum on Friday June 6th. For more info: www.warhol.org or 412 237 8300.]

Below are some related links and bios. Attached is the flyer.


Garfield Artworks
4931 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-361-2262

Hours (other than during receptions and events) by appointment only.
Phone 412 361 2262.

www.garfieldartworks.com

www.brucelabruce.com
www.asianpunkboy.com
http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/slava_mogutin.shtml
http://www.galerialuisadelantado.com/comunes/artistas/richard_orjis/richard_orjis.htm

Slava Mogutin (b. 1974, Siberia) is an accomplished Russian writer, photographer, and performance artist. He is the author of 6 books in Russian, including the autobiographical America in My Pants (1999), the best-selling collection 30 Interviews (2001), and SS: Superhuman Supertexts (2000), his most experimental book to date, which was banned for sale in all the emigre book stores in America, but won prestigious Andrei Bely Prize, the oldest unofficial literary award in Russia. Soon after he began to publish his first articles, at the age 18 Slava became the target of a criminal prosecution for his outspoken writing and for being the first openly gay personality in the Russian media. He was charged with ”open and deliberate contempt for the generally accepted moral norms; malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence; corruption of public morals, propaganda of sexual perversions, psychic pathology, brutal violence; using profane language; inflaming national, social and religious division…” The political and legal harassment increased in 1994 after his widely publicized attempt to officially register the first same-sex marriage in Russia with his American partner. In 1995, he was forced to leave Russia and was granted political asylum in the US, with the support from Amnesty International, American PEN, and other human rights groups. Mogutin’s poetry, fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies in English, German, Italian, Japanese, and other languages. He is the star of Bruce LaBruce’s skinhead art/porn movie Skin Flick (under the alias Tom International) and Laura Colella’s independent feature Stay Until Tomorrow (not released yet). Branching into the visual arts, in the past few years Slava has been showing his photography and installations internationally. In April 2003 he had his first solo exhibition in New York.

Bruce LaBruce is a Toronto based film-maker, writer, and photographer. He began his career in the mid-eighties making a series of short experimental super 8 films and co-editing a punk fanzine called J.D.s, which begat the queercore movement. He has directed and starred in three feature length movies, "No Skin Off My Ass" (1991), "Super 8 1/2" (1994), and "Hustler White" (1996). He also wrote the premature memoir “The Reluctant Pornographer”, from Gutter Press, which will be followed by a sequel, “Porno for Retards”. A book on LaBruce’s work, “Ride Queer Ride”, was published in 1998 by the Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada. LaBruce is a contributing editor and frequent writer and photographer for Index magazine and a regular columnist for Eye Weekly and Exclaim magazines. He is also a regular contributor for Index magazine, Dutch, Vice, and the National Post, and a frequent photographer for the US porn mags Honcho and Playguy. His last film project and first “legitimate” porno movie, entitled "Skin Flick", was released in 1999 in both soft and hardcore versions. Index magazine will be publishing LaBruce’s first book of photographs. LaBruce had his first show of photographs presented by the Alleged Gallery in New York in
December, 1999. He has had subsequent exhibits of his photographs at the Pitt  Gallery in Vancouver and MC MAGMA in Milano, Italy. His most recent photography shows were presented in Toronto at Bailey Fine Arts Gallery in  September, 2001, and at peres-projects in San Francisco in October, 2002. Upcoming shows in 2003 are scheduled at John Connely Presents... in New York and the new peres-projects gallery in Los Angeles. LaBruce has also made a  number of popular music videos, two of which won him MuchMusic video awards. His latest porn movie, “The Raspberry Reich”, will be released in the  Spring of 2003.