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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
PERFORMA 09. "Reparations & Retardations," November 16, 2009, New York City, NY
LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World, "Memory Island," October 30, 2009, Berlin, DE
Arco '09 Madrid-Feria, Internacional De Arte Contemporaneo. "Flesh for LuLu: Taking the High Road to Sexual Failure," as part of the 7th International Contemporary Art Expertos Forum, February 14, 2009, Madrid, ES
Berlinale: 59th Internationale Filmfestspiele. "Berlin Babylonia Gorgon-Babbling on with Gossip, Song and Dance," Forum Expanded, February, 2009, Berlin, DE
Hebbel am Ufer. "Fornication No! Theocracy Yes! Conjuring Voice in the Spirit," Politics of Ecstasy Festival, January 27, 2009, Berlin, DE
KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Wilhelm Hein's "You Killed The Underground, or the Real Meaning of Kunst Bleibt, Bleibt (Expanded Cinema Version)," January 25, 2009, Berlin, DE
Kino Arsenal. "Rising Stars, Falling Stars." Monthly performative film presentation, focusing on silent films from the 1920s. 2007-present, Berlin, DE
Le Palais de Tokyo. "Porno Adorno" F*ck Like the F*cking Blacks." April 9, 2008 Paris, FR
Berlinale: 58th Internationale Filmfestspiele, "The CHEAP Uber Alles Outsider Art Awards," CHEAP Gossip Studio Installation, Forum Expanded, February, 2008, Berlin, DE
= City of Women Festival, Galerie Kapelica/Aksioma, Institute of Contemporary Art. "VD as VB Erdgeist, Earthspirit #27-29 10827," Alcatraz Galerie. "The Madonna of Laibachdorf," City of Women Festival, June 18-21, 2007, Ljubljana, SI
New York University, Festival of Subcultural Performances. "Where Art & Life Collide." May, 2006, New York City, NY
Swarthmore College, Sager Symposium. "Beware the Holy Retarded Whore." April 4, 2006, Swarthmore, PA
Courtauld Art Institute. "Orifice Descending." February 20, 2005, London, UK
New Moves Festival/National Review of Live Art. "Orifice Descending." February 5-10, 2005, Glasgow, UK


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest. RE:akt! | reconstruction, re-enactment, re-reporting, "VD as VB Erdgeist, Earth Spirit, #27-29, 10827," "The Madonna of Laibachdorf." January-March, 2009. Also at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, May-June 2009
Yerba Buena Museum & Art Center. The Way That We Rhyme, Women, Art & Politics, "Present Penicative." March-June, 2008, San Francisco, CA
Deitch Projects. Womanizer, "Present Penicative." January, 2007 New York City, NY
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Fade (1990-2003) A Survey of African American Artists working in Los Angeles, "I WANT TO BUY YOUR FACE," paintings. 2004, Los Angeles, CA


SELECTED ESSAYS
"Glossar-Beischlafen," Herbst-Theorie Zur Praxis, Steirischer Herbst Festival, 2008
"VD as VB Black and White Women and Men Together Again Forever," Performa-New Visual Art Performance, Roselee Goldberg, ed., Performa, 2007
"Papi Diaspora-The Beauty of Franko b," Blinded By Love, Dominic Johnson, ed., Damiani, 2006
"Aber Sicher Will Ich Sex Biatch!" Gelitin, Chinese Synthese Leberkase, Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2006
"Es tut uns leid-aber wir haben keine Zimmer fue Auslander," Zugewinn Gemeinschaft, ed. Florian Zeyfang. Werkleitz Biennale, 2002


SELECTED FICTION
"The Everlasting Secret First Family of F*ck: An Expose," The Best American Erotica 2003, Susie Bright, ed., Simon & Schuster, 2003
"Myself Sexual," Discontent - New Queer Writers, Dennis Cooper, ed., Amethyst Press, 1992


AWARDS
2009 Ethyl Eichelberger Award, Performance Space 122