#dita von teese parody

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

Living Dead Dolls Ella Von Terra, a cabaret dancer wearing an alluring veil over her stitched bloody mouth, and very loosely referencing Dita Von Teese. Read my full review of Ella here--but brief warning that the character's backstory involves being murdered but framed as her ending herself, a scene which a couple of my photos stage.

[taynbowswift]

In Bejeweled music video, Pat McGrath is the Queen and judges the contest.

Pat McGrath is Taylor’s make-up artist. Thus: The Queen of Make-Up, or…the Queen of Make Believe.

She picks the performer with the best make-believe story as the winner of the contest!

Taylor learns her winning performance with Dita Von Teese - the Queen of Burlesque.

Burlesque definition: an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.

Hmmm…An absurdly or comically exaggerated imitation of something 🤔 Such as the Taylor Travis spectacle, maybe?

[fpinterviews]

Liz Goldwyn

FP: I think of you as an art chameleon; you've had many connected interests in art and fashion and obviously, you're from a film family dynasty-- from my own experience, I'm not keen on categorizing multi-talented artists, however I'm wondering what is the biggest muse for you at the moment?

LG: I don't have a specific muse- I quite like that I cannot be labeled  into a tidy box- I feel most kindred to artists of the Renaissance period, who didn't always fit into specific categories, but experimented with various media depending on what subject matter they were exploring.

I am always interested in history, sexuality, science and of course clothing/ textile- so my " muses" can come from anything I am thinking about, looking at, scoring at a vintage store or dreaming of...

FP: I was recently reminded of your filmmaking upon seeing your billboards around Los Angeles. The images are probably the first set of images I've seen in those digital billboards that really feel like they work there. The "Underwater Ballet" imagery is particularly striking. What led you to the Phantom Camera (captures action at 1000 frames per second--normal frame rate is 24 frames per second)? It is amazing to think that yours is the first film to experiment with this technique. How did you come up with the concept for the film? And have you ever considered using the digital billboards themselves as a medium for your art? I have yet to see that done.

LG: My recent short film   Underwater Ballet came to me in a dream, in fact, and is closely linked to ideas I was exploring in my  personal life. The feeling of alone-ness, floating  in the universe, at the same time being connected to all the matter and stars which surround... Finding your place in the ballet of the galaxy...

For me it is a mournful, meditative piece- a closure to one chapter and a moment of restlessness, the unknown that awaits...

I wanted to use the phantom camera because I liked the challenge of using such high tech equipment in combination with "low brow" old school vfx technique- the "stars" in the sky are in fact, Alka Seltzer in tanks!-  

Also, when I am told something is not possible, technically or otherwise, I cannot stay away! I love to constantly push my learning curve ...

Yes the collaboration with clear channel for the billboards in LA - and also the spectacolor board in Times Square was in fact, public art.

I had been offered a gallery show of the work but I feel strongly about bringing art to the streets/ public  in general and I felt it was a better avenue to beautify my city in a small way.... I am not interested in making things only a select few can enjoy- I am very happy to be able to reach people that may not have access to or feel comfortable going to a gallery or museum-

Art is for the people!  **Press Release for Times Square attached to email

FP: I noticed in your Diary on your site, http://www.lgoldwynfilms.com you have an entry in regards to the merging of humans with machines. I am wondering if you have ever heard of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, on the feminist principal of the same idea. Are you interested in the ideas of future technology and the artist?

LG: I don't know that manifesto. I am always interested in developments in technology,  science and virtual reality. A teacher in high school gave me the William Gibson novel Neuromancer to read which helped foster this obsession- I was struck by how a punk poet like Gibson could conceptualize virtual reality without having a computer...  

Perhaps it shows that anything is possible! There are no limits to the human imagination!

FP: I first became a fan of your work with the documentary "Pretty Things"--a documentary on the last generation of American 'Burlesque Queens.' It has often been said that unfortunately burlesque is a lost art in a time of instant gratification and celebrity. Although there is a retro homage with artists like Dita von Teese, what do you consider to be our modern equivalent of the burlesque?

LG: Dita is a great friend of mine and I think she does an incredible job of holding the burlesque torch- and with her costumes and stage shows, brings a new level of sophistication to the medium-  I also like the work of Trixie Minx, Ava Garter, Immodesty Blaise, Narcissister, the 90s incarnation of the Velvet Hammer- gosh- so many-  

But remember, the true root of the word burlesque has nothing to do with striptease- the Latin "burlare" implies satire, and so a modern burlesque could  quite open to interpretation- from Saturday Night Live to youtube parody...

FP: You have mentioned that your interest in burlesque began when you discovered vintage burlesque costumes in NY...and your work has a sensitivity to fashion and costume. Can you talk a bit about this and whether or not you have ever considered designing clothes?

LG: I make jewelry but I love clothes and admire the craft too much to want to design myself! I have done some limited edition t shirts for charity. Am currently working on one for LENY icons www.leny-icons.com. The net proceeds from the sales of the Fashion Icon products will be forwarded to Al Gore's The Climate Project.

I would really like to have my own lingerie line though! Bras, stockings, panties, bedroom slippers, gowns and robes- the works!

FP: Who are your greatest influences?

LG: my family my friends my dreams conversations with interesting people keeping an open mind and continuing to learn whatever I can- life is constantly influencing!

FP: What are you currently working on?

LG:  a huge multi-media installation in Paris which opens in August-  Oct 2009!

** Le Bon Marche Press release attached to email

FP: Thank you so much! I can't wait to see what you do next!

[imperiumtenebrarum]

My Eurovision Top 30 - No. 18

Cleo & Donatan - “My Słowianie” (We’re Slavic) - Poland - 2014 - 14th place

We have it, what no one else has We appreciate the natural shape Vodka is better than whiskey and gin We have the best, whatever you want

To my knowledge, this was the first time in roughly 60 years of ESC history that we’ve seen butter being churned on stage... but, surprisingly, Poland’s entry for the 2014 contest in Copenhagen isn’t a tribute to homemade dairy products, but a parody of Polish stereotypes in the guise of a catchy, appropriately staged hip-hop tune with folksy elements. Unfortunately, many ESC jurors didn’t really get the message: One of the five “music industry insiders” on the British jury panel (which placed “My Słowianie” dead last in their combined rankings, by the way) referred to the Polish entry as “soft porn” that should have no place on a “family show” like Eurovision. In fact, there’ve been lots of raunchy ESC performances in the last 20 years (Germany even had Dita von Teese on stage in 2009!) and only few of them were as tongue-in-cheek as “My Słowianie”...

[projectxnoise]

Contextualising Practice

Lecture notes  (2 March, 2020)

building 12, floor 13, room 2

Context

artistic reference points

locating yourself in a specific time and place

location, framework, situation

Method (how you make)

methodology (your approach to making)

Practice

art object and surrounding parts of practice

working with others/public spaces, social environment, values/beliefs

find new ways of doing by thinking/writing about art/practices

rly important for honours and masters!

Assessment tasks

Critical response to a specialised text

1500 words

due Tuesday April 23rd

Essay

due 1st june

2-2.5k words

one area of your art practice

specific concepts in the works.how you make

Dr Tassia (Tass) Joannides

Lecturer (and general legend, love u Tass)

Corset series, liquid bodies, lady V

instillation and sculptural based practice

works are largely informed by the female body and how they are controlled/stereotyped

sexuality and the media

undo or disrupt gender stereotyping

relationship between materials and gender/sexual stereotyping (Madonna, Dita Von Teese)

fabric/sculptural works initially operating in a binary lens (cisgendered)

explores concepts of male gaze

male gaze has come to = cultural gaze

gender performance

internalised heteronormative culture

work practicecte turned to sculpture, without including the body

textile sculptures

Lady V (uses material symbolism, language, lighting and parody)

‘Material Bodies and the Complications of Desire’, PhD exhibition 2017

Clare McCracken

site specific art (visual/theatre)

‘The Becalmed Heart’

Imperialist ships got trapped in same area as modern pacific garbage patch

Environmentally motivated work

5/6 artists work collaboratives

Work was housed in long thin warehouse, lighting/sound/visual design

Instillation. almost theatre based work

experience creates conversation

‘The tale of  Tortoise About the Square’

Concept of the Flaneuse

city walking

narratives of occupying space within a capitalist society

Tutorial notes

Room 6 level 2 room 2

Angela

sculpture/instillation work revolving around rituals and votive objects

found materials/environment and industrialisation

workshop task

define the framework/theory

offer a reading of the object through the lens of the theory

present the theory to the group

Post colonialism framework

cultural legacy and human consequences of colonialism and how the effects are seen in countries experiencing human exploitation

migration influx from greek to empty in the mid 1950-70s

trading between Singapore to Egypt as well as diplomatic relationships

in that period a port opened that linked Europe and Asia’s trading routes

there was a revolution that tried to disrupt the regime “Egyptian revolution of 1952”